Trying to lose weight can be a challenging and long journey. If you have ever tried to lose weight, you certainly know how frustrating this journey can be – especially when you have low self-esteem and are feeling stressed, bored and sad. It is not unknown for people to get into a cycle of being on a diet, then overeating and feeling guilty about it and going back on diet again. This cycle is know as “yo-yo dieting” which is not only unhealthy, but it is also hard to maintain lost weight this way.
While nutrition plans and fad diets focus on what and how often you eat, hypnotherapy for weight loss changes how you feel about what you eat. By targeting your unconscious mind with powerful techniques, a professional hypnotherapist will help you build a positive relationship with exercise and food. The goal is to increase the confidence of your body, replace the negative thoughts about eating with positive ones and help you lose weight responsibly and healthily.
Hypnotherapy for weight loss is becoming more and more accepted. Still, many are skeptic about it mainly because of lack of knowledge. Contrary to popular belief, during hypnosis patients will not:
- be asleep
- be out of control
- have their memory erased
- be told to do anything they do not want to
- be forced to disclose their darkest and deepest secrets.
So how does hypnotherapy for weight loss work?
Hypnotherapist first leads you into a state of deep relaxation to be able to access your unconscious mind. He/She then carefully uses words to find the reasons for overeating and proposes new ways of thinking. Over certain period of time you’ll learn how to ditch your old negative eating habits with the positive ones. One of the most commonly asked questions is – Will hypnotherapy work for me? It is hard to know until you try it. While it does not work in the same way for every person, it will certainly help you be more aware when it comes to exercise and food.
While each case is different because every patient has different reasons, some suggestions for weight loss include:
- Imagining how you’ll feel with your new healthy look.
- Envision the level of health/fitness you wish to achieve or the body you want.
- See how much you’ll have enhanced from today.
- Imagining reaching that goal easily.
- Imagining how confident and energized you’ll feel.
- Understanding that the more you exercise, the more you’ll want to exercise and the easier it will become.
- Whenever you eat when you are not hungry or you eat something unhealthy, imagine not reaching your goal and think about how you’ll feel.
These and many other visualizations created to empower you so that you can take control of your choices. You will learn to enjoy the healthy food and stop craving fatty, sugary things. By tackling those feelings forming the basics of your eating habits, you can learn to accept a healthier lifestyle.
