| Everyone knows
that a healthy diet and plenty of exercise is recommended
for a healthy lifestyle. However if you’ve tried every
diet available and have found they simply don’t work
for you, it may be because diets do not address the root cause
of why individuals overeat.
Research shows that over half of us have dieted
at some time in our lives and at any one time, as many as
three of us are on a diet. The truth is, however, for many
people dieting on its own doesn’t seem to work.
The human body has an amazing mechanism for
letting us know when we are hungry and when we are full. Those
who overeat often ignore the signs of being full and continue
to eat.
There are a number of reasons why individuals
may do this, such as eating so fast that the signals of being
full are missed, and a desire to clear the plate so food is
not wasted (this may have been taught at an early age by parents).
Other reasons people overeat may be because
they are bored, lonely, rewarding themselves or protecting
themselves. Many of these reasons can be traced back to an
emotional event that happened in an individuals past and has
remained locked in their subconscious mind (even if it’s
no longer in their conscious mind).
The need to eat often satisfies our mind rather
than the physical need to eat to survive. Changing the role
food plays in our lives can be the key to long-term weight
loss.
Signs of overeating:
* Eating so fast you do not really taste
the flavours in the food or notice your body signalling that
it is full
* Always eating everything on your plate even if you are full,
so not to waste food
* Eating when you are bored or lonely
* Eating when you are upset or miserable
* Eating to reward yourself
* Eating to protect yourself or to create a barrier
* Comfort eating to fulfil an emotional need
How can hypnotherapy help with weight
loss?
Hypnotherapy can help an individual to identify
the emotional event(s) that caused their attitude to food
to develop. Accessing the subconscious mind can lead to the
underlying root cause, and once this has been recognised it
can often be dealt with.
Hypnotherapy can help to create different
attitudes towards food and allow new eating habits to be developed.
Individuals can gain back control of how much they eat and
only eat until their body signals that they are full.
Hypnotherapy can help an individual
to:
* Learn to be more relaxed about how to manage
their weight
* Develop a new self image
* Begin to think positively about weight and diets
Analytical hypnotherapy is often more effective
than suggestion hypnotherapy for weight loss as it seeks to
find the root cause. However suggestion hypnotherapy can also
be used in mild cases.
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