Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been successfully used for decades to help people overcome problems such as phobias, to stop smoking and to lose weight. Using Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss isn't new but there are some new advances in the field that make it one of the best and most permanent weight loss methods available today! To understand how hynosis helps people lose weight we need to first ask the question:

Why is weight loss so hard?

So just why is it hard to lose weight, to keep it off? Part of it comes down to believing it will be hard and anything we believe to be hard will seem hard. That which is expected tends to be realised.

We base our beliefs on:

• Past experience.
• Fact that it always seems easier to gain weight than to lose it.
• The amount of attention being given to the “obesity problem”

But it needn’t be hard. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy for weight loss takes the hard work out of weight loss by changing your attitude to unhelpful foods, by alleviating the underlying stress that causes comfort eating.

Another reason that people find it hard to keep focussed and lose weight or maintain weight is that they often don’t have a tangible reason to do so.

Just How do you relate that one piece of chocolate cake to getting fat? We have the general notion that it is fattening but you don’t instantly gain the pounds by eating that one piece of cake. So there is no direct link between eating the cake and the pain it causes us when we get on the scales and have gained several pounds. There is therefore no tangible benefit to not eating it! In fact the benefit of eating the cake, ie the taste and the hit we get from the sugar will always outweigh any long term goals. This is why it is hard to lose weight and keep it off. If we have stayed motivated enough to stick to the diet and lose some weight we can’t wait to get back to eating normally and not denying ourselves. Unfortunately our body has now learned to utilise it’s food more frugally and so returning to normal eating (which let's face it is what made you pile on the pounds in the first place) means that the weight all piles on again.

Weight loss that relies on diet alone can never be successful because we don’t have a permanent supply of willpower. Only by eliciting permanent behavioural changes is permanent weight control possible. That is how hypnosis works. It changes your mind for the better.

Hypnosis elicits behavioural changes at a sub conscious level by bypassing the rational thought processes that can often be unhelpful and work against us. If you have ever talked yourself into having something naughty when you have been on a diet then you will know exactly what I mean by unhelpful!

Hypnotherapy has an excellent reputation for helping people lose weight and with the addition of virtual gastric band hypnosis the mental state to lose significant amounts of weight can be acheived in as little as four sessions! You can easily lose weight using gastric band hypnosis. Book your free assesment today!

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