You Can Lose
Weight:
No Diet, No Changing Foods, No Will Power
“Let me explain our weight-reduction program,” the
hypnotist said to the inquiring perspective client.
“We don’t, in most cases use diet procedures.
We find that a problem with diets is that 
there is a major change of
eating patterns. When the client significantly changes her or his
eating patterns he/she spends the whole time looking forward to the
achieving the weight goal so that she/he can resume eating 'normal food'
again.
“Once the weight loss is achieved, the client celebrates
by enjoying a reward meal of the favorite tastes.
Then there often begins an upward weight trend, which can recover all the
lost weight and even add a few pounds more.
“Therefore our approach is that the client may eat steak and potatoes, or perhaps spaghetti and meat
balls or whatever is most desired. The
only difference is that, through the effects of hypnosis, a much smaller amount
of food will be desired and consumed.
“The advantage is that since no enjoyable foods are
denied, nothing is given up; there is no need or desire to return to foods that
have been forbidden. The client
simply continues to eat what has been enjoyed all along, except that the
quantities are greatly reduced and through hypnosis the appetite is fully
satisfied with modest portions of food.”
The above scenario and weight-reduction program is just one
of the many that use the powers and benefits of hypnosis to enable a client
to take off unwanted pounds and keep them off. In this program, the client need
not give up enjoying cocktails or hors d’oeuvres at a party.
The client will enjoy one of whatever is served, but on the completion of
this “taste” the client will be completely satisfied, neither desiring nor
accepting further offerings. The
hostess is satisfied that her efforts have been appreciated.
Everyone wins!
The above procedure is particularly effective with people
whose excess weight is from overeating, especially where the habit involves
taking multiple helpings at meals. There
are those whose excess weight is due to physiological causes.
Such cases may require medical intervention.
However, where undesirable weight is due to overeating,
metabolism is likely much less involved than the mind.
Changing thoughts and attitudes of the mind can lead to major changes in
life. It can be very helpful,
therefore, to determine what may be the causes of a tendency to overeat.
Sometimes this information is evident or well known. Other times it may be suppressed, buried in some incident or event of the past for which overeating provides a sense of compensation or relief from pressures or anxieties, wants in life, grief, anger or other emotions, sometimes dating back to childhood. Mental regression under hypnosis is often effective in ferreting out causes. Sometimes even the simple understanding of causes can result in elimination of the problem.
WHY PEOPLE OVEREAT
Overeating usually fills a need - or at least is viewed as
doing so. The possible needs, real
or imaginary, are many. Some people
overeat to compensate for an unpleasant experience. Others eat excessively to reward themselves, or possibly for
self-entertainment. Some want to be
noticed, and may use a large body to offset low self-esteem.
Eating is also use to compensate for the lack of love, to offset fear, to
overcome frustration, to deal with boredom, or sometimes even to avoid sex.
Helpful to the Consulting Hypnotist is information on WHEN overeating usually takes place -
what psychological or emotional
activity is associated with overeating, and when during the day or night it
usually occurs. WHERE the overeating is done
is important - home, at parties, in restaurants, while watching television, etc.
And WHY (for what purpose or to satisfy what need) is also a factor in
understanding the problem.
The consideration of the above-mentioned matters leads to the establishment of three goals: To achieve the desired weight loss, to maintain the desired weight once it is achieved, and to adopt permanently the new habit patterns that make the first two goals possible.
PROGRAMMING FOR SUCCESS
A hypnosis program for weight reduction will involve
several specific elements that are essential to the achievement of the
established objectives.
The client’s self-esteem and confidence will be evaluated
and fortified as necessary to achieve a positive outlook and the ability to
visualize mentally the perfect, desired body structure, at the appropriate
weight and with the physical modifications important to the client.
The client’s attitude toward food, overeating and related
satisfactions will be altered to reduce the conceived importance of food as it
relates to feelings of well-being.
The client’s food interests and tastes will be modified
to increase the desire for healthy foods with appropriate nutrition, and reduce
the desire for foods high in fats and other harmful elements.
Emphasis will be placed on such matters as quantity of consumption, special
tastes (sweet-tooth enjoyment) and negative calorie foods (wherein digestion
requires more calorie burn-up than the total calories in the food consumed).
Finally, programming will deal with such behavioral matters
as establishing times, places and patterns for future eating, elimination of
harmful habits, and positive reinforcement for relief of stress or anxiety
factors or other causal elements which
may require hypnotic desensitization.
It must be kept in mind that very slow reduction in weight is the safest
procedure. Weight will and should
come off very slowly - perhaps two pounds a week on average.
Much reinforcement of the programming can be accomplished through
learning and using self-hypnosis saving you time and money.
Wellness Hypno-Therapeutics, Green Bay/Oconto, WI
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