If you have struggled with your weight all your life and been overweight as a child, it is difficult for you to accept yourself as a thin woman.  The little overweight girl is still in your head.  Choosing me as your hypnotherapist for weight loss, I can help you can access this little overweight girl and give her the encouragement and re-frame situations where you were humilitated (either intentionally or unintentionally) so that you can lose the emotional connections to these scenes which still cause you upset. 

You define your place your place in the world as being the fat one and when you lose weight, while initially you feel confident about your new shape, this can be short-lived.  Remember when you make a change in your life, it creates a ripple in your relationships.  Friends may change as they feel jealous of the new attention your are receiving, partner may feel threatened by your new figure.  This can lead you to a subconscious decision to re-gaining the weight as you have spent your life wanting acceptance and perhaps people pleasing and the status quo returns.  This is a cycle and with hypnotherapy you can break this cycle once and for all by reprogramming the events from your childhood or teenage years that made such a profound impact on a young mind from the name-calling to the behaviours of others.  We carry this upset with.

To achieve the body you want to achieve and maintain it, hypnotherapy works to help you at a subconscious level.

If this is an issue you wish to explore please contact me on 086 103899s. Offices in Dublin (Dawson Street), Limerick City Centre and Portlaoise.  Zita@zitastanley.com

There is a tension in your body and your mind forsees the anxiety with trying to eat, the fear of swallowing food, the choking fear  and it becomes a vicious circle.  Hypnosis is a relaxation and in this case, we are relaxing the throat, allowing you to believe that you can indeed swallow food.  The background to this needs to be looked at – was it a choking incident in public that has now made you phobic or did you have a discussion while eating that you couldn’t really swallow (mentally) the contents of it – like breaking up or indeed, stepping the relationship up.  Something has caused you to feel this inability to swallow foods, and only your subconscious mind knows why and only your subconscious can change the image in your head so we take the emotion away (because we cannot change the past only the way it is viewed).  To re-learn the ability to swallow and to let go of the triggering image in your head, call me on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com. Dublin City Centre, Portlaoise, Limerick.

What if I said this sugar monster can be re-assigned to increase desire to look after your body or indeed, be eliminated. 

With hypnosis, you can lose your desire for chocolate and the other starchy foods that have no nutritional value other than to pad fat on your body.   This is ideal for those who feel they could eat healthily only for that dreaded call for chocolate.   Take control of your sugar cravings and get over the “need” to have chocolate.

Call Zita on 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com.  Dawson Street, Dublin, Portlaoise and Limerick City.

Can you answer YES to the following:

• Are you a yo-yo dieter?

• Do you know how many calories everything has?

• Do you try every fad diet usually for two/three days and then give up?

• Are you tired of regaining more weight each time?

Then hypnosis could be the answer for you. So why is losing weight such a minefield when putting the weight on is so easy? Well, we have two sides to our brain – a right side and a left side. The left side loves to diet, it loves numbers, counting points, portion sizes, calories etc. UNFORTUNATELY, WE EAT WITH THE RIGHT SIDE OF OUR MIND! That’s the emotional size. For this reason, any permanent weight loss can only be achieved with behavioural changes. That is where hypnosis comes in. Hypnosis allows direct communication with the subconscious which is where habits are formed. Hypnosis itself is perfectly safe. Forget what you have seen on stage shows. It is a deep relaxation where your mind and body can relax totally. During this deep relaxation, your subconscious mind is extremely suggestible and that’s when I, as a hypnotherapist, give new positive suggestions.

So how does hypnosis work on weight loss?

What’s the first thing you read on most diets ” DO NOT EAT..” In order not to eat something, your mind has to picture it first in order to discard it unfortunately, when you picture the banned item, you more than likely want to eat it right now! This is the problem with diets.  Emotions and food are interconnected. Our relationships with food are complex.

Hypnosis gives you the opportunity to redefine your emotional ties to food and break them. Then new healthier suggestions are given. Women, in general, tend to scold themselves for being “bold” if they have a treat or are “good” if they miss a meal (which you should never do). Magazines are being blamed for young girls now having eating problems when in fact, they are just emulating their mothers who, without realizing it, are passing on their food issues to their impressionable daughters. 

Your mind is a powerful tool and you can use it to your advantage in the war against weight. 

Hypnosis is not a magic cure all. You will not have a session and suddenly all your weight is gone.  What hypnosis helps you do is: 

• establish a new relationship with food;

• feel better about yourself;

• become healthier and happy.

Remember, you must be realistic and I cannot stress that enough.  Using hypnosis in your weight loss changes your attitude towards food (unlike diets) so you are not going on or coming off a diet, it is your new way of living.  Hypnosis frees you from the emotional ties of food. Appointments:  15 Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 2.  Tel: 086 1038892 or email zita@zitastanley.com

The secret to permanent weight loss is not about jumping on the latest diet band wagon. It is about a lifestyle change. This lifestyle change does not have to be drastic. It doesn’t need to involve permanently starving yourself. Nor spending 5 hours a day in the gym.

All you have to do is subtly change your relationship with food. Many people eat because of an emotional attachment to food, rather than from the purely physical need to fuel your body.

What we need to do is to change your relationship with food from one which fulfils an emotional need to one that fills the practical need of fuelling your body. We do this at a deep subconscious level using hypnosis so that the changes you need to make in your life come to you automatically, almost as a second nature, and your fundamental relationship with food is changed for the better and changed for good.

You have to engage your mind when changing your body, if not, then you will sabotage yourself.  Diets do not work.  Your subconscious mind that when you say “I’ll start that diet tomorrow” – it knows by day 3, you will fall off that wagon.  So dieting has to stop.  It has to be a lifestyle change. 

Hypnosis can give the “stickability” that you need to make the change and even though there will be slip-ups, that’s okay, it doesn’t mean to have to overeat as a self punishment.  The self loathing and self punishment stop.  If you have a lot of weight to lose then consider therapy with hypnosis – hypnotherapy – to find out why you need food and re-establish a healthier relationship with food.  Hypnosis takes the emotion out of the equation so that food takes its rightful place as fuel for your body.  Call me on 086 1038892 or email me at zita@zitastanley.com to book an appointment to lose weight with hypnosis in Dublin 2, Limerick and Portlaoise.

To gain control of your mind and body with hypnosis, email zita@zitastanley.com or call 086 1038892.  Apppointments in Baggot Street, Dublin 2 only.