Weight Control
If you've been on a diet, lost weight and then soon regained it, then please read on. If you cannot see yourself sticking to the regime of a diet so that you don't even start then please read on.
Need to lose weight?
Over half the adult population of the UK is now overweight or obese - and about one third of children have an unhealthy weight.
If you've been on a diet, lost weight and then soon regained it, then please read on.
If you cannot see yourself sticking to the regime of a diet so that you don't even start then please read on.
My aim is to help you find a long-term / permanent solution to your weight problem.
If you've been on a diet that work permanently for you, then you probably don't need to read any further or use my services as a hypnotherapist.
Are you overweight?
An accepted way of seeing if you are overweight is to calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI). This is a way of measuring your weight, taking in to account your height.
Click here to see how to calculate your BMI
Or if you prefer you can click here to go to a Height-Weight table
You now have an idea whether you are a 'Healthy Weight', 'Overweight' or 'Obese'.
Why is being overweight or obese a health issue?
Being overweight is a health risk. Problems vary from 'annoying' to life-threatening. Over-weight people can:
- have difficultly in breathing
- suffer from undue tiredness
- suffer discomfort
- feel 'left out' as they cannot join in some physical activities
- have pain in knee and hip joints
- have back pain
- suffer from depression / low self-esteem.
Overweight people have a greater risk of some serious health problems such as:
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- diabetes
- heart disease
- some cancers (colon, stomach).
Diets - do they work?
For some people Yes; for others No. There is no answer that fits everybody.
Many people who start a diet quickly regain any weight they've lost. If that includes you, then read on to understand why.
Why do diets not work? And how can hypnotherapy help?
Some diets aim to reduce weight rapidly. The person is in effect starved and the body defends against this starvation by storing as much fat as possible! Reducing weight is ideally a gradual process - about 1 - 2 lbs a week is ideal. To reach a healthy target weight can take several months.
Any loss of weight entails taking in less energy (from food and drink) than you expend. To do this over a prolonged period requires planning and determination. Many people find that their resolve weakens with time and the old, unhealthy habits come creeping back. This is where hypnotherapy can help.
The therapist will spend time to gain a thorough understanding of your eating habits and help you establish realistic targets for your weight reduction. Empowering you to eat at different times, eat different (smaller) sized portions, eliminate high-calorie foods and eat different (healthy) types of food can all be incorporated into the hypnotherapeutic sessions. However, this is only part of the process.
Many diets require a person to change their behaviour by a conscious act of will. This usually requires the person to decide to eat less food, eat different types of food and/or engage in some form of exercise.
However, many of the 'drivers' of our behaviour, including the 'drivers' to eat unhealthily, operate at an unconscious level. So we require techniques, such as hypnotherapy, that accesses the unconscious to change these 'drivers'. A decision made consciously may well fail for this reason.
Food and eating so often have strong emotions attached to them. People may eat when they are bored, lonely, stressed, happy, excited and so on.
These emotional attachments may have been acquired in childhood. You may have been told repeatedly as a child 'Finish everything on your plate.' or 'You must eat more if you're to grow up strong.' and so on. These messages are stored in our unconscious, remaining active but out-of-awareness.
Other non-verbal messages are conveyed to us: a frown from your mother if you didn't eat everything on your plate, a big approving smile if you did, all go to produce an unconscious drive to eat more than you need. Even though the original messages were well intentioned, they now form the basis of unconscious drives, leading you to eat unhealthily.
Others use food as a reward or comfort, or as a distraction to avoid something they don't want to face or acknowledge. These strong emotions/ motives act as unconscious drivers to eat. Your therapist will explore your emotional attachments associated with food and use this knowledge to determine a suitable hypnotherapeutic treatment.
By putting you in a trance, the therapist is able to effectively communicate with you at an unconscious, rather than a conscious, level. It is at this unconscious level that the 'drivers' operate. By accessing these unconscious drivers, the therapist is able to re-program them so that they encourage you to eat healthily. They will then be working for you, not against you.
Hypnotherapy can help if you wish to lose weight and keep off the weight that you've lost. As a result of losing weight you will be healthier and more energetic.
If you are currently seeing your GP and/or dietician regarding weight reduction, your therapist will work with them, so you have an integrated, consistent approach to reducing your weight.
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