Using Hypnosis for Weight Loss

A recent show on Dateline did a follow-up on the diet challenge. They compared several different diet programs and then interviewed and weighed the people three months later. After the struggle and the attempts at discipline, one thing stands out. It is really hard to lose weight and be happy at the same time. Struggle, starve, exercise like a fool, give up every form of pleasure available and then realize you are now 3 pounds thinner and it will take you only a scant pizza slice to put it back on. You just need more discipline.

The contenders- Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, Atkins, Extreme exercise and calorie counting, a personal coach, and Hypnosis.

You could have saved a lot of time if you just asked a few hypnotists about the effectiveness of weight loss programs. But I guess that would not have been as interesting on TV. Hypnotists see people who are trying and failing at their weight loss plans, feeling horribly discouraged and hopeless. Hypnotherapists know how difficult it is to struggle every day being overweight and feeling out of control. Their clients moan and groan about it daily. By the time someone decides to use hypnosis they are thinking of it only as a last resort.

When you read the Dateline story, you will wonder why it is not the first resort! Us hypnotists wonder that all the time. We know that the first place to start making any change, not just weight loss, is by creating a motivation in your subconscious mind, stopping self sabotage, create internal discipline, etc.

Will power just does not work. How many times have you said TOMORROW I will start, and then about half way through tomorrow you remember - oh, yeah, I was going to start my diet today. Oops!

Well here is the short version of the results of the challenge.

Slim Fast
Three weeks into his Slim Fast diet, he admits he’s starving.
I am hungry. I am hungry most of the day.... I am still going to bed hungry and waking up hungry. After three months, it begins to pay off. Gio has dropped 10 pounds.

Exercise
With her marathon training in full swing and consuming 1,300 calories a day, Lynne’s not losing weight. Training hard for the marathon, she has almost lost the least — only 14 of her 35-pound goal

Coach
The author of “Eight Minutes in the Morning,” weight loss coach Jorge Cruise, will be her personal guide. And right on target at two pounds a week. After three months, Eleanor has lost exactly 24 pounds.

Hypnosis
Over at the Merlis household, someone’s happy with the hypnotist. Now, the man who couldn’t get motivated can not be held back. Marc’s got himself a fitness trainer, religiously listens to tapes made by the hypnotist, and all he wants is healthy food. After only three months under hypnosis, Droopy Drawers (because his pants are too big now) has lost the most so far, a staggering 40 pounds. (the first week he lost 13 pounds)

Weight Watchers
The first week Kathy kept herself at the minimum of 20 points, hoping for big results.
But she’s not happy. I lost 4.8 pounds, and I was disappointed because I starved all week.
After three months Kathy has lost 18 pounds.

Atkins
He has had some diet-related problems, including headaches and severe constipation.
I am just not getting enough vegetables and salad. After three months on Atkins, the former football tough guy has lost more than anyone — 50 pounds. (but I am sure enjoying the bacon and cheese and salami pizza without the crust.)

The most interesting part of the show was that the man who chose hypnosis was obviously the happiest. He said it was easy, he loved to get to the gym to work out (previously hated exercise) and just naturally wanted to eat healthy foods, felt full sooner.

Not having an incentive to lose weight, makes weight loss impossible.
"Thank you for calling the Weight Loss Hotline. If you'd like to lose a half pound right now, press 1 eighteen thousand times." ~ Randy Glasbergen
Hypnosis is a powerful weight-loss tool. Find out how hypnosis can help you lose weight!

TOP TEN things you can do to lose a pound a week (and never find it again!)

1 Drink lots of water, with lemon.

Why? Water increases your metabolism. Fresh lemon juice has enzymes that cleanse, and creates an alkaline condition in your body. Your cells release fat when they are in an alkaline state and bind fat when the are acidic. To bind is human, to release is divine.

2 Take calcium

Studies in rats on a diet show that the ones with adequate calcium lost 30% more weight. Poor skinny rats.

3 Eliminate

Yes, we are talking poop. All that protein and no fruit makes Jack a backed up boy. Drink Psyllium husk with water twice a day. You will be light and fluffy. Even Jack will be dancing like tinkerbell. MMMmmmMMMmmmm.

4 Omega 3 oils.

Eat fish every day if possible. Tuna is an excellent source of protein and omega 3s. If you can’t do that, take your fish oil.

5 Exercise before you eat

In the morning, do something to step up your metabolism. A short walk, jump up and down, run in circles, make love (while hanging from the trapeze for bonus points). Your body will burn fat, not food. DO NOT eat for at least an hour after you exercise. You will continue to burn fat rather than food. Your metabolism is increased for about 3 hours after morning exercise.
Get the Exercise CD. You will become crazy hot.

6 Raw veggies equal love

Eat em raw. Carrots, celery, broccoli, etc. Veggies are alkalinizing. And when you alkalinize, what happens?
That’s right, your fat falls off.
Raw veggies have enzymes that digest food better, give you energy, slowly digest and make you feel full.
And of course, make you poop much better. And we all love that, don’t we? Ooooh yeeeaaaa.

7 Do Squats

If you have no time to exercise, do this. Next time you are standing in front of the refrigerator visualizing ice cream (which is acidic by the way) do 10 deep SQUATS. After you are done you will no longer want food. You will want to sit down. Now would be a great time for a glass of water.
Squat when you brush your teeth, dry your hair, or watch TV. You are building some great muscle. And we know what that means? Fat falls off your body.

8 Drink Green Tea

No more coffee. It messes with your insulin levels, which causes cravings. Green tea on the other hand, increases your metabolism, is a powerful antioxidant, and for some reason makes you burn fat.
Hey, I have an idea. How about drinking the iced green tea with psyllium husk in it and the juice of one lemon while you are standing in front of the fridge doing squats. Perfect.

9 Stop the Sabotage

Find the positive intention behind your issues with food. If your inner mind has a powerful need to eat to fill an emotional need, have protection, or be fat due to identification issues, no amount of will power will help. The part of your mind that needs to eat in excess will get even more determined and you will be more backed up than you were before. Literally and figuratively. Clear the issue and make it easy.

10 The ONE thing ABOVE all else that will MAKE the fat fall off-

Three times a day, visualize the weight you will be when you step on the scale each day. Here is how we do it!

Get relaxed, close your eyes, imagine yourself stepping on the scale tomorrow, ONE POUND LESS.

VIsualize. Now, notice what day it is tomorrow. Feel your feet on the scale. See the number. Smile, breathe. Squat just for fun.

Imagine Tomorrow. Imagine it as real, the next day, the scale and one pound less. Make a note of what day it is.
Imagine the next day, same scale, new number. Fat is falling off all over the place.

Visualize SEVEN days at a time. IMPLANT the new weight and the day in your subconscious mind.

Do it in the morning when you first wake up.
Do it in the afternoon when you are dozing off at the office.
Do it at night before you sleep. You will be amazed.

As a result of doing this, your brain will become convinced after a day or two that fat is supposed to be falling off. Your body will start to make changes. Your energy level will increase, you will eat less, for some strange reason you will want to exercise. Crazy, huh?

And the best part is your body will follow the new belief that you have created and make subtle changes to accomplish the task that your subconscious mind believes is happening.
Your cravings will stop. You will want more water.
You may even poop a little more often.
It can be quite interesting to see the way your mind and body responds to your efforts in manifesting your new weight.

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Ever faithfully follow a diet, only to gain back all the weight plus more?

Why is this extra weight -- caused by dieting -- so dangerous? Because it leads to despair and increased danger to your health.

The main reasons diets fail is that they focus on loss and deprivation.

What's the first thing you think of when you lose something? You want to get it back, right?

And when the body is deprived of food it follows the ancient "famine or feast" syndrome: as soon as food becomes available again the body stocks up, storing more than it needs against the probability that you'll deprive [diet] it again soon.

Most diets require measuring, calculating or eliminating. Unless you have an obsessive personality, you'll likely rebel at having to measure or calculate every gram or calorie of what you eat. And if certain foods are forbidden on your diet, guess what you dream and daydream about, while the very thought of that delicacy causes your mouth to salivate?

Is it any wonder that that spoonful of forbidden chocolate cake leads to abandonment of your diet -and a gorging on chocolate cake?

Yet another reason for the failure of diets to achieve permanent weight reduction is that perhaps you don't really have excess weight to shed.

Maybe the size and weight you are is normal, natural and healthy for you. Perhaps you've succumbed to the barrage of publicity from the diet industry. Are you convinced you should be stick-thin, like the half-starved models on the runways of fashion?

Perhaps your problem is not fat, but conformity.

Focusing on weight can distract us from feelings of low self-esteem, or provide a ready excuse to distance ourselves from others.

Perhaps your problem is not fat, but fitness.

You could be large, but healthy. Or petite, and sick. Check with a physician about your unique body, and its level of fitness.

If your doctor says you do need to shed some excess weight or run the risk of serious health problems, why would you choose a diet as the solution? Before you even begin, you know it will likely lead to the well-known yo-yoing of weight loss and gain- So what makes diets so popular?

The number one reason is hypnotic techniques. The diet industry uses television -- one of the most mind-glazing hypnotic mediums ever invented -- not only to promote diet plans, books and substitute foods, but to play upon our need for food, our tendency to conform.

Repetition is one of the most effective hypnotic techniques used by the DI (Diet Industry). Along with filling your imagination with images of wealth, popularity, (Olin equals romance, for example) fashionableness and sparkling health, repetition drums the diet message into your subconscious as you gaze at the television screen.

The DI supplements the hypnotic power of television with a never-ending stream of diet-promoting articles and pictures in newspapers and magazines plus ads and interviews on radio.

At the same time, the Junk Food Industry [JFI] uses similar techniques to persuade you to consume unhealthy, artificial "foods".

The combination of dieting and consumption of junk food creates guilt and excess weight. Guilt and excess weight lead to more ingesting of junk and more dieting and the depressing spiral feeds on itself.

How do you combat this avalanche of propaganda?

By learning and practicing positive self-hypnosis techniques.

Let's say you do choose to release excess weight. [Note those terms:

"choose", "release", "excess weight"]. The first thing you do is understand that three things are necessary for you to achieve your goal:

1. Movement.

2. Long-term change in your eating habits.

3. Drink lots of water.

Realize that when you were overeating, or eating unhealthily, you probably were in a hypnotic state.

Ever experience munching and not being aware until later how much you had tucked away? You were in a hypnotic state.

Ever find yourself with a strong urge to eat fast food? You were likely responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion from the JFI.

So, the number one decision from now on is to remain out of hypnosis while eating.

Be conscious of what you are putting into your mouth.

Ironically, it is your deliberate use of hypnosis that makes this possible. Positive self-hypnosis gives you more self-control. Effortlessly.

• Movement bums off calories. We all know this. But when we call it exercise, many of us balk. Worry not. If you, like me, hate exercise", the solution is to find some activity you like that involves moving your body. Could be as simple as walking. Or gardening. The experts tell us that as little as 1/2 hour three times a week of such movement is enough to help our overall fitness -- and reduce excess weight.

• Long term change in eating habits. Never undertake a diet, which you know you won't keep to long-term. It just triggers the yo-yo response. To eat healthily requires moderation and the eating of a variety of foods. You can stop instantly or wean yourself from unhealthy food. But, unless a particular food poses a direct death threat (e.g. peanuts for people super allergic) allow yourself the freedom to eat whatever.

The paradox is that the freedom to choose enables you to refuse foods, which you know are going to add unnecessary fat to your body.

And the freedom to choose also enables you to consciously decide to eat smaller quantities.

Drink lots of water. This will energize you, enhance your skin, fill your belly, flush out toxins and generally help you be fitter and slimmer.

How does self-hypnosis come into this?

Self-hypnosis solves the one issue which prevents most people from changing their eating habits, moving about and drinking lots of water: lack of motivation.

Post-hypnotic suggestions, which you give yourself, enable you to release excess weight, stick to your movement program, eat healthily on a permanent basis, maintain your chosen weight -- and feel great.

This happens because, with the aid of hypnosis, you change the negative messages in your subconscious about your weight to positive messages. Your subconscious then motivates you to do all that is necessary for you to change your unhealthy habits to healthy ones.

Examples: instead of "There's no way I can change what I eat", you might incorporate the suggestion "I enjoy choosing a variety of healthy foods."

Instead of "I have to eat everything on my plate", you might substitute "I choose to enjoy smaller portions and find them as tasty and as filling as larger portions used to be."

Instead of "I hate exercise", you could re-program yourself to believe "I choose to enjoy [cycling, swimming, walking, gardening, etc.] on Mondays and Saturdays."

Nothing is more powerful than imagination harnessed to effort. Create that engine of profit by putting hypnosis to work.

[Medical data in this article checked by Neil Trister, M.D.]