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Weight Loss

What is the most common reason of being overweight?
Excess weight and depression
Other reasons for weight problems
The yo-yo dieting cycle
The health risks of being overweight
Before I help you to loose weight
How hypnotherapy can help you to loose weight?
How many sessions will you need?
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What is the most common reason of being overweight?

Overweight people are usually simply genetically programmed to be larger than others. They receive strong "eat now" signals from their bodies and their sense of smell and taste is stronger developed. Overweight people were traditionally the merry, jolly types (see Father Christmas), who used to enjoy the good food and good times and not to bother with their padded shapes.

Most often, their bodies would just stay a little larger than average. However, in our society the padded shapes are not fashionable, the TV and the magazines are full of skinny models, and most of people expect to be the same shape. The bigger people must put up with a lot of criticism, ridicule and name calling, they are considered to be a lazy and weak minded.

Excess weight and depression

Sometimes the excess weight is a symptom of depression. Depressed people tend to eat too much or too little. When they eat too much and they became overweight, they become even more depressed because of their look. The vicious circle forms.

In this situation it is important to treat both depression and the underlying cause together with the weight loss program.

Other reasons of weight problems

Very often the reason for being overweight is called comfort eating or emotional eating. 

Sometimes people are fat because their subconscious mind made such a decision to protect them. There could be many reasons for such a decision. Here are some examples:

In the above situations hypnotherapy will help to find the other way to have the same protection, and when this is done, the weight can be managed.

The yo-yo dieting cycle

How many times have you successfully lost weight only to gain it back or add on even more?

Yo-yo dieting, in which a person repeatedly loses and regains weight over and over again is a common vicious circle which traps many overweight people. Some people struggle with this for most of their lives.

The cycle starts with a new brilliant diet, which promises to shed those unwanted kilos quickly. The diet is usually very low calories, often followed by an extensive exercise schedule. At first, the weight rapidly goes down, so it seems a great success, emotions are high. But soon the body adapts, and decides that energy must be conserved - so metabolism begins to slow down. The weight loss slows down too and at the same time the diet, which is usually very restrictive, becomes too difficult to follow. Results are not so great any more, so the mood drops, and the dieter starts to neglect the diet and exercise. This leads to the weight gain, and with the metabolism already slower the weight creeps up higher.

Each repeated cycle leads to strong negative emotions, which makes the weight loss more difficult. Quite often the person becomes obsessed with weight loss and dieting, which makes it difficult to maintain any healthy eating habits. The associated feelings are guilt, lack of control, very low self esteem and even depression. The circle seems to have no end.

Hypnotherapy is very effective with yo-yo dieting, because it deals with the feelings first, and once the negative feelings are resolved, a new approach to weight loss of healthy eating habits rather than dieting can be implemented.

The health risks of being overweight

There are life threatening illnesses that may result from obesity such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart conditions. This is particularly the case if you have the genes which make you more predisposed to these illnesses. If your close relatives had these conditions, than you need to keep you weight under control.

Before I help you to loose weight

How hypnotherapy can help you to loose weight?

The hypnotherapy will first find and solve the psychological reasons of being overweight, if any.

To loose weight you have to change you eating habits. Yes, I am sure you know it - you have to balance what you eat with what your body needs. Simple? Have you tried it? Hypnotherapy will make it much, much easier!

You will maintain your weight loss. The therapy will help you change your eating habits for life, not just to stick with some diet for some time. You will learn to enjoy your food more than ever before, and without guilt. You have the gift of well developed taste and smell, so you will learn to use your talents with pleasure and benefit your health and look.

How Many sessions will you need?

I recommend 5 to 6 sessions for the average weight loss program. Sometimes, when you are very overweight, it is good to have an additional session once a month or two.

In some cases 2 or 3 sessions will be enough.

The eating habits start changing after the first session. And usually after the first session clients can notice a significant change in their attitude towards the weight loss program, they feel more relaxed, more motivated and more confident.