Weight Loss

Ask yourself these questions:
• Have you always struggled with your weight?
• Has your weight become a problem after having children?
• Do you find yourself comfort eating?
• Do you feel out of control where food is concerned?
• Is being over-weight affecting your self-confidence?
• Do you need help with your will power?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions then hypnotherapy can help you.

Hypnosis for Weight Loss
Change the way you think about food
Very few diets result in weight loss. Even the word “diet” indicates a temporary change to what you eat – even when you are successful in losing weight in the short term. Whether you over eat due to habit or for emotional reasons, hypnotherapy can help you lose weight. Hypnosis enables you to change your way of thinking about food and help you to develop a new healthier attitude. Hypnosis will help you to eat only when you are hungry, to stop when you are full, and to eat those foods which are beneficial to you, rather than harmful. This doesn’t mean that you will never enjoy chocolate or cake or a huge fry up again – but rather that you can enjoy in moderation those things you have a particular weakness for – food is an important part of celebration and of social and family life, and it really is ok to overdo it from time to time; it is only a problem when your eating habits interfere with your physical and mental well being.

Everyone’s eating patterns are different
For many people it is simply a case of bad habits preventing weight loss. Perhaps you over eat when you are bored, feeling under stress, or worried; perhaps you were taught always to clear your plate and to eat whatever is available, ignoring feelings of being full; maybe you use food as a reward, or are sometimes tempted into binge eating, or eat too quickly; or perhaps you prefer the “wrong” foods – those with little nutritional value but which are high in calories and fat. Many people find it hard to lose weight when they stop smoking and may even gain weight.

Stop the vicious circle of overeating!
Many people find themselves overeating when they are feeling sad, lonely or bored, or suffering from stress, in the belief that this will make them feel better – this is however a false belief and is a vicious circle of feeling bad, over eating or even binge eating to “compensate” for this, and then feeling bad because you have eaten too much; you are then back where you started from. It is a false belief because no amount of food will make you feel full when it is your mind which needs satisfying. This is eating for emotional reasons – you ignore the physiological signs which are telling you “STOP! You have eaten enough” because you are not in fact eating for physiological, but for psychological, reasons. Hypnosis for weight loss can incorporate hypnotherapy and counselling to discover the reasons for your overeating and weight gain, if you feel this would be useful to help you achieve your weight loss goals.