Weight Management
Weight Management is an on going challenge. Billions are spent on diets, slimming clubs, medication, books, fitness regimes, gym membership. All these have their place. They can work depending on dietary information, the individual, their motivation and levels of commitment and support. Hypnotherapy can help weight management in its own right or in combination with the other mentioned strategies.
All too often, though, using the traditional weight loss strategies our motivation wains and we return back to our original weight. Worse still we put weight on.
The Hypnotherapy approach.
Hypnotherapy has recognised for a long time, that its is not about our weight but about our life style. We live a lifestyle of heavy demands, stress and anxiety. Overwhelmed we reach out for snacks, ready meals (pizzas), a piece of cake, a glass of wine, going for the easier option. We snack on fatty and tasty processed food full of calories. We know its is not right! There are even words for it “comfort eating” and “convenience food”, “takeaways”.
Now the above is quite understandable, when we are overwhelmed, we often do not have the capacity to do anything different.
The GOOD news is that the path to appropriate eating habits is well understood.
It is about putting you back in CONTROL. Not just around food but in control in your life in general. When you are in control you make decisions based on a proper assessment of your situation and generally the decisions are positive!
How can hypnotherapy help weight management?
Hypnotherapy can help you regain control of your eating habits and other things by:
- Explaining the causes behind our eating habits , i.e. stress , anxiety , poor sleep patterns. All of these can keep us in the survival mindset of having to take food on the run.
- Explaining the role our primitive responses to feast and famine can play in how we respond to food.
- Explaining how eating excessive quantities of food has an impact on how our body regulates when we are full. Eating excessive amounts can affect our full (sated) response so we eat more and more before we get that full signal.
- Helping you increase your serotonin levels. Serotonin is the wellbeing chemical. When we have a sense of wellbeing we are more likely to make good and proper choices in life as well as around food.
- Plus lots more strategies such as hypnosis, relaxation, challenging negative thoughts, positive thinking etc.
Call to ACTion
So if you recognise the above and would like help with weight control, contact ACT hypnotherapy.
Book your FREE consultation. Where you will learn how the brain works, and how the habit of over eating is a primitive mind response to times when we are overwhelmed. It is a fight, flight, freeze response. But more importantly you will learn what to do about it!
Remember: Slow and steady wins the race!
Accreditation: National Council of Hypnotherapy (NCH), Association of Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH), Association of Neuro-linguistic Programmers (ANLP)