Weight Loss Hypnotherapy
Losing weight is not just about eating less food and doing more exercise. The relationship that people have with food can be quite complex. If losing weight was that simple then obesity would not be the issue that it is today in our society.
The conventional way to lose weight is through rigorous dieting. Most diets, if the rules are strictly followed, will help people lose weight. The problem with diets though is that once a person stops following the rules, all the behaviours regarding food that created the weight problem in the first place will tend to put the weight back on. This is the dreaded cycle of yo-yo dieting.
Therefore, in order to shed weight forever and not just for the period of time when a set of rules are being followed, it’s the behaviours which need to be dealt with and not just the levels of fat or numbers of calories.
For some people, food is linked to feelings love and comfort. The smells and tastes can remind us of our childhood when we were safe and looked after.
Others are trapped in eating habits learned as children. “Don’t leave food on your plate”, “eat what you are given”, are just two lessons parents often teach. When these behaviours are brought in to adult life, filled with abundance and choice, it can make it difficult to reduce food intake to a sensible level
Food can also be linked to self-indulgence. Many people spend much of their lives looking after other people, caring for them, putting their needs first. Food can represent something, maybe the only thing, we give ourselves, so that even though part of us wants to eat sensibly, another part craves that single indulgence.
The other difficulty with food is that we cannot eliminate it from our lives. It would be much simpler if we could just cut it out of our lives altogether, but we need to eat and therefore we need to learn to live with food in our lives.
The weight control program at Hypnocentric works by changing deep seated behaviours and attitudes toward food. This is done over a series of five sessions, which allows you to let go of old and unwanted habits, take control of impulses and focus on being fit and healthy. These changes help form new patterns and ways of behaving which are for life rather than being constantly caught up in the cycle of weight loss and gain.
To build a healthy relationship with food and give you control over your weight, call now on 01335 300798 or 07747 884163 to learn more and book an appointment.
Explore the treatments area of the site to learn how hypnotherapy can help you tackle other challenges or contact us for a confidential discussion.
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