Hypnosis for Weight Control

You Can Succeed

Take heart! Hypnosis will help you with what sometimes can seem the impossible challenge of weight loss. Here you will learn how you can use Hypnosis to finally lose the weight you want and to keep it off permanently.

First, it is helpful to first understand why so many people have succeeded using hypnosis for weight loss when everything else has failed them. As noted, I speak from personal experience being comfortably four waist sizes off my largest for several years and someone who exercises at least five times a week now thanks to hypnosis.

Why Hypnosis Works

We all know how to lose weight right? Eat less and exercise more! This may be factually correct but why do we have so much trouble doing it?

As rational beings all we should have to do is make the decision in our Conscious Mind to eat less and exercise more and all would be well. Of course we also all know that it is not quite so straight forward as that. There is a lot more going on in our minds when it comes to weight loss than just what we are consciously aware of.

The "what else" that is going on is the negative programming stored in our Subconscious Mind that works against our conscious efforts to lose the weight and keep it off. (Learn more about negative mind programming here).

The Emotional Trap

Most people who are naturally slim see food only as fuel for the body, which in essence is all it is. Most overweight people react to food differently. They almost all eat for reasons other than in response to hunger sensations.

Many have an “emotional response” to food. This can be experienced in two ways:

• Using food to cope with emotional problems

• Forming an emotional attachment to food

These are two key reasons as we shall see, why hypnosis is so powerful when it comes to weight loss.

Food as a coping mechanism

Sometimes we can find ourselves doing "too much" of something e.g. too much work, shopping, smoking, gambling, or eating, etc. When this this happens it's a good bet that it 's an attempt to distract ourselves from an emotional feeling we have but don't want to think about.

What might these emotional feelings be? We could be feeling bored, angry, sad, stressed, or frustrated for example. We typically might not even be consciously aware of the feeling that we're distracting ourselves from or know what to do about it if we are

Never-the-less, for many, eating is a common way of temporarily distracting ourselves from something we may be feeling.

Only Temporary

The word "temporarily" is emphasized, because of course the only feeling that eating can really satisfy is that of physical hunger. It will not, can not, permanently take away any other feeling that we may be experiencing. Once the over-eating is finished, you are still left with the emotional feeling that your were distracting yourself from before you started eating.

You can go on all the fad diets you like, but if you are using eating as a way to distract yourself from your emotions, you will never achieve and maintain your ideal body weight. You will be condemned to experiencing your relationship to food as a perpetual struggle. A struggle that you are doomed to loose armed only with the will power of your Conscious Mind.
 

How Do You Know?

How might you know if you are using food as an emotional coping mechanism? Well, as noted, eating can remove only one feeling – the physical awareness of hunger. How do you know when you are truly hungry? As strange as it may sound, most people reading this in N. America or Europe will typically not often have known real hunger sensations.

Take this test next time you start to think you are feeling hungry. Ask yourself where the hunger sensation is coming from in your body? Most people will point to the area around their tummy button or lower if asked this question.

The feeling of hunger comes of course from our stomach. However, this is located much higher up in our body than most people realize; under the lower left rib cage. If the feeling is not from there then it is not hunger that you are really feeling. Using Hypnosis for weight loss allows us to start responding only to real hunger signals, not the false ones.

A Practical Solution

Don't get worried when reading this section. Be assured that there are a number of practical things you can do to solve this situation. And they do not include lengthy and expensive psychotherapy sessions! Thousands of us have now used Hypnosis for weight loss to become independent forever of using food as something to distract ourselves from our emotions.
 

Emotional attachment to food

There is another aspect of our emotional life that can cause us to overeat and wreck any long term result of going on a diet. This is when we form an emotional attachment to food.

A simple but all too common example of this is the person who, as a child, was always urged to “clean her plate” to please Mom. You do not have to have a Ph.D. in Psychology to see how a child’s mind soon links cleaning her plate to the pleasing feeling of gaining Mom’s love and approval.

And so in this case the child is conditioned to eat to gain a feeling of love and/or approval and not because she or he is hungry. As an adult this plays out as a mis-programmed Subconscious Mind driving us to eat to experience the feeling of being loved and approved off, not to satisfy hunger.

Of course, we know that eating can not really satisfy any other need than hunger. Thus, when we have finished eating - the need we were trying to satisfy, say the need for love, is still there loud and strong. Guess what our response is? You've got it - start eating again!

Other Emotional Attachments

Common attachments that Hypnotherapists often see their weight loss clients associating with food include the need for a reward, love or company. In our culture we typically celebrate a success by going out to dinner, express love by giving a box of chocolates, meet our need for company by having people over to dinner etc.

I am not suggesting any of this is wrong – I love cooking and having family and friends over! But rewarding ourselves on a daily basis (or more often) with food treats, or trips to the refrigerator when we feel lonely or unloved only leads to real trouble at the scales.

The mis-programmed emotional attachments we may have made with food are created and stored in our Subconscious Mind. Hypnosis is the most effective tool we have to re-program our Subconscious Mind. It can address the emotional attachment problem in an effective and quick way.
 

If you are interested in discovering more about how you can benefit from Hypnosis, download the free e-Book Improve Your Health and Achieve Success with Hypnosis.