The desire to lose weight can make you enter a vicious cycle. You will be incapable of loving yourself until you reach a certain weight loss goal. Once you achieve the goal, however, you may find yourself wishing to lose even more weight. This lack of self-confidence and acceptance can force you into excessive and dangerous dieting.
Changing your mentality and understanding the emotional reasons for your weight loss or weight gain can deliver sustainable and healthier results. Body image is incredibly important today and many people have a distorted perception of what beauty is. Through hypnosis, you can understand the cause of your issues and you can undertake healthy steps towards feeling better and being fit.
Health is More Important than Weight
Through weight loss hypnosis, you will be "taught the difference" between having a distorted body image and being healthy. It is very important to ask yourself whether you really need to lose weight. If so, you need to be doing it for the right reasons - being healthier and enjoying a higher quality of life.
Enjoying Healthy Food and Physical Activities
The guidance of an experienced hypnotherapist can help you develop new, healthy habits that you actually enjoy. Many people gain weight because they are emotional eaters. Instead of reaching for the cookies, however, you will get to enjoy carrot sticks or fruits. Physical activity can also be fun, if you have the right kind of motivation and a positive attitude. Both goals can be achieved through weight loss hypnotherapy.
It's All about What You Feel, Not What the Scale Tells You
Many people that have body image problems will weigh themselves numerous times on a daily basis.
Get off the scale and store it in a box under your bed. Take a good look at yourself in the mirror. Do you like what you see? Do you see the results of your weight loss efforts? Healthy weight loss is all about appreciating the changes and being happy with your appearance. It is not a number and there is no specific digit you should hit to be happy with the results.
Laugh and have Fun
A journey towards healthier body image should be fun. Laughter and having a good time will help you change your mentality and be more positive about the entire process. Your hypnotherapist will help you develop the mechanism to feel happier and to stay motivated.
Find the joy in everything that you do and laugh at the old coping mechanisms you used to rely on. Who needs comfort food? You can go out, have a walk in the park, meet your friends or make yourself a delicious fresh juice. Little experiences like that matter and they can lead to tremendous changes in your life.
Deciding you want to try Hypnotherapy to lose weight is just the first step. Identifying the harmful habits and thoughts of the past will help you learn what stands in the way of your success and happiness. The therapy will make it easier for you to replace these destructive patterns of behaviour with healthier alternatives. Changing your thinking and being optimistic about the future can easily result in noticeable and sustainable results.
David Samson is a regular advisor to BBC Radio London. His work
has been featured in The Times, The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on
Sunday and the Evening Standard. Using gentle & sympathetic
techniques developed over 10 years practicing effective weight loss
Hypnosis treatments.
