Zita Stanley

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.

Tags: Weight Loss, Women's Issues //