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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at http://thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt, Jill Fleming shares on weight loss results; how to achieve them and how to keep them.The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Jill Fleming, a certified nutritionist and author of Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates.Kevin: Why don’t you tell me about results? I love hearing results. I love hearing about results. Why don’t you tell me one or two success stories that people that you’ve basically helped them change their lives?Jill: When I teach 8 week weight loss classes, which I do in my local community, I continue to monitor people after they’ve completed the class and the time they started the class to completed the class and we did this with measuring tapes and weighing and then I continue to track them for two years after taking the classes.Kevin: Two years? Wow!Jill: Two years. Yes, because beyond two years people moved and it was hard to get hold of them and then they didn’t want to come in and we had 92% success rate, which is exciting, which is how I knew I needed to put the information into a book, because so many other people could benefit from this information. When I speak in settings with large audiences the funny thing is to me that I’m up there talking to them about how they can improve their health and lose weight and feel better and have more energy and usually about one or two just really intensely take the information to heart and I will get an e-mail a month later that will say I’m 56 years old — I just got this two days ago – - 56 years old and never thought I could lose weight and gave away all of my smaller sized clothes and now lost 25 pounds and I have more energy than I ever had. Everyone’s asking how I did it and it was all because I added breakfast. It was all because I added more fruits and vegetables and had a smoothie and a salad a day. All because and they took away one or two nuggets of what we were talking about where they were weak in their Wellness Triangle and improved it to reach their ultimate goals. They’d given up. They thought they couldn’t do it.
In my local community I had a guy that when through my weight loss class and then he took it again and he took it a third time. He lost 115 pounds and just e-mailed me probably a month ago and said that he’s maintained 105 but the other 10 came back on and he’s going to get that 10 back off again and the interesting thing is he’s within about 10 pounds of his ideal body weight. He was planning to go through gastric bypass. I talked him out of it, because he loves food. He loves to eat as much as I do and I said if you love to eat, you’re really going to be giving up that choice. You’re going to be so limited in the amount and the types of things you can eat that it won’t be an enjoyable lifestyle for you. He agreed. He loves to go out and barbeque. He just has a little bit less of the fattier foods and he really went to town on the vegetables.Kevin: Okay.Jill: Exercises everyday and has tons of energy and he is definitely a role model that I keep coming back to him and saying how did you do that again? What are you doing?Kevin: Yeah.Jill: Tell me how you did that again? What was the piece of information that stuck out for you? But the interesting thing is that it’s different for every person.Kevin: Yeah.Jill: So what Dennis had to do versus what I had to do versus what someone else who wants to lose weight has to do, you can take all the information and see which is going to most affect your life in the positive direction.Kevin: And how did you measure the 92% success rate? What were the criteria?Jill: They could not gain more than 2 pounds back of what their final weight was.Kevin: Wow.Jill: The majority of people went on to lose even more weight, because they only had them, well we did an 8 week class with a one month follow up, so we only had these people for three months, but the changes that they made in three months were changes that they’ve kept for a life time. They said they could never go back to their old way of eating because they had too much information one and number two, they felt too good.Kevin: WowJill: And that’s the big thing. It’s not just about looking great in your skinny jeans. It’s about the energy that you have. You don’t need to fill your body with caffeine and chemicals to stay awake and alert. You can do it naturally.Kevin: Yeah. In a world where the studies say that 98% of people who lose weight gain it back a 92% success rate is just absolutely incredible.Jill: I think the big part of the success we had with our classes was that I was able to individualize and help people see how they could fit their lives into the plan. Not just switch from their life to the plan, but incorporate little things from the thin choices routine into what they were already doing. If they weren’t eating breakfast that was an easy one and I didn’t give everything all at once. I said lets work on breakfast and water today. Those are the only things that you’re going to work on this week and then come back and we’ll see how that feels and then start adding something else. So I think I think that’s the big part. Looking at the person and seeing where is the stress in their life and if they’re a stress eater, they’re eating for reasons other than true hunger. You’ve got to help that person realize what they can do to get the stress either out of their life or to help relieve it. Maybe they just need to do some meditation or take a yoga class. Their stress comes back under control and they’re better able to make choices in the other areas of their life.Kevin: And it’s probably not just about — I don’t actually know this. It’s not about what kind of stress or what they’re doing. It’s just about them recognizing it. Correct?Jill: Yes. Yes and if you’re turning to food, because you’re depressed maybe we need to look at the depression. What is the reason? Is it you’re living in Wisconsin and you don’t have enough sunshine in the winter? Maybe you need a sun lamp as opposed to turning to the food. I went through that about two years ago. We had 25 days without sun and I was just depressed and I was just craving chocolate and I thought what is wrong with me. I gained about 7 pounds and I just couldn’t get out of it. Well, I realized that it was a lack of sun, so I went on a vacation. As soon as we got about the clouds in Minneapolis and the sun was shining in, I was just drawn to the window and I realized that sunshine is a big part of my health, so I needed it. So I regularly schedule vacations in the middle of winter to get out of out of the cold and that helps to keep my stress level down, because I turned to food when I was feeling depressed.Kevin: It’s amazing how the health clues kind of unveil themselves as you continue on.Jill: Yeah and it was so interesting to me that no one else was impacted by this lack of sun in my house. I was the only one, so I just thought that I was crazy. I thought do I need drugs? What do I need? Do I need more chocolate? All I could think was that I needed chocolate, because I couldn’t think clearly.Kevin: Right.Jill: But it’s amazing, that sun. I thought, okay. That’s what I needed and I’m learning and you learn more about yourself everyday I think. You just have to be open to it and listen to what your body’s telling you.Kevin: Yeah. That’s incredible advice. Why don’t you –Jill: It could just have been the vitamin D that I needed, but I’d rather lie on a beach and think about it.Kevin: Yeah. Get your 15 minutes in.Jill: Exactly.Kevin: Where can someone go to find some more information about you and what you – why don’t you tell them what you have to offer?Jill: Okay. I have a website called simplelifestylechoices.com. You can also get there through thinchoices.com and you can get the book, Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates, there and it doesn’t say this on the website, but anyone who ever orders a Thin People Don’t Clean Their Plates book, it’s been instructed that they will also get a Lifestyle Diary sent out with that.Kevin: Oh, cool.Jill: The Lifestyle Diary is so important and it’s just a small, probably 5 inches by 4 inch book that you can stick in your purse or carry in your back pocket and you just write down what you’re doing. For people who that just want to go to the website and get the free download, it will come out on a full size 8×11 paper but just start writing down what you’re doing, keeping track of it. Track it for a month. You’ll probably after three or four days of tracking see where you can make improvements and once you start doing that it will almost seem too easy and then please do e-mail me at jill@thinchoices.com, because I love the success stories. They just keep me motivated and that’s why I continue to do what I do.Kevin: Great. Well, Jill, thank you so much for that information. I know how valuable your time is and I want to thank you for sharing this information with us.Jill: You’re welcome. It’s very its fun. It’s always fun sharing your passion with others that it can help.Kevin: Yeah and I think what you’ve talked about really seems so easy and I think really it kind of is.Jill: It actually is so easy. I think we’ve made weight loss much more difficult than it needs to be. Stop dieting. Start listening to your body. It’s truly all about your choices.

Judy came to us to as a last resort; often hypnotherapy is the last resort. It should be the first choice, for its effectiveness and influence on our life but unfortunately it isn’t.
So Judy came to us to lose 25 pounds of extra weight, and to experience one of our weight loss hypnosis programs and asked if there is anything else that can make it even more successful.
Judy was very talkative, happy with her husband and three young children, the youngest one just five. But it became more and more obvious that her happiness was shaky. Judy was looking to lose excess weight and just wasn’t able to achieve her goal, especially since the youngest son was born. She tried various diets and exercise, but the routine house duties, and eventually the new account executive job busying her with frequent client lunches and dinners took over her wishful eating schedule. She always had a “sweet tooth” but now started a full-blown “obsession with sweets” as she called it. “One thing led to another,” and here she was.
To stimulate weight loss results we offered her a hypno-polarity program, integrating hypnosis and polarity therapy, and she open-mindedly accepted.
So what is hypnosis? As many know, but often forget, Hypnosis is a very natural state of mind. We are in hypnosis a lot of the time of our life. Any time we are concentrated on one particular thing: a book we are reading, a movie we are watching, work on the computer, physical exercise, we are concentrated with a by-pass of a conscious function, in other words to the exclusion of anything else. Hypnosis is a very easy state to develop. All you have to do is close your eyes and imagine, for example your living room. But don’t do it right now as you are reading the article, and I truly want you to finish reading it, as there is some very interesting bonus for you in the end.
So hypnosis is a focused state of mind and such state creates openness to suggestions (suggestibility). It is at this moment when your mind id relaxed and open, a hypnotist creates a series of post-hypnotic suggestions, which if accepted, improve your life when you go home.
Now, suggestions may be difficult to accept. For example, if you are given a suggestion you feel uneasy about, e.g. lose weight, you might not agree to accept this suggestion, even in hypnosis, so there we need to do more work.
Professional hypnotherapists know what to do in this case. So don’t worry, you will go home losing weight. Hypnosis authorities such as Milton Erickson and others developed various methods of integrating suggestions.
So, now let us explore what is Polarity and how can we integrate it with Hypnotherapy?
A Swiss doctor, a chiropractor, Dr. Randolph Stone, first described polarity Therapy in 1920s. He noticed certain parallels between health and energy imbalances in a human body over the years of his work and research with patients. The various relations he later discovered between the elements of nature (earth, water, fire, air and ether) and the human energies in parts of the body. The correlation between the psychological balance, proper nutrition, sensible exercise and a healthy body in Dr. Stone’s theory correspond with the known ancient principles of Mind, Body and Spirit being one and in balance with the universal spirit.
Polarity is a diverse energy based modality with an array of healing tools. At the base of the theory lies a principle that imbalances in the circulation and free flow of life energy lead to mental and emotional distress and physical illness. When our life energy is balanced the result is a healthy body and clarity in thought and emotion. Polarity practitioners work from the standpoint that healing comes from within. With proper nutrition, meditation and balance of the elements within one’s body one can achieve miraculous healing. This is why integrating hypnotherapy and Polarity makes for a session with nearly miraculous results.
The process integrating Polarity Therapy and Hypnosis (we call HypnoPolarity TM) working together in our Weight Loss Program has three basic successful features in our 3-step program – Awareness, Acknowledgement and Commitment.
The practitioner and the client work together to allow the client’s own inner healing response to emerge. The client sits in a chair or lays or a massage table, while practitioner gently guides her through with light touches on her body and softly spoken suggestions for relaxation of parts of her body, triggering the release of tension.
Often, the client may spontaneously express emotions related to developing awareness of balancing energy within body and mind. This often happens when tense, compressed muscle tissues begin to relax, as a consequence of a general unwinding of the body and the mind in a hypnotic state.
Awareness
I ask Judy to evaluate her own eating habits. Her main problem was not snacking: she does not snack at work, or eat late at night in bed while watching TV. It was overeating. She eats a lot, literally, a lot of food. Sitting in a comfortable recliner, she almost regretfully described how as part of her job she has to attend business lunches, socialize and go out with clients to dinners. She is successful with clients, but not with keeping track of the food she intakes. Naturally a happy person, she tries to put away feelings of weight gain and is now very often upset looking at herself in a mirror. She sought help through HypnoPolarity.
Acknowledgement
Acknowledging that she needs treatment and seeking professional help was what she needed as a next step. She was offered a series of evaluations of her old eating habits and a worksheet for creating new eating habits.
As part of the exercise she was asked to fill a daily food log and begin regular exercise while reducing the portion size and the amount of calorie intake by half, eating half-portions of her meals, compensating by eating slowly, mindfully, and using her positive anchors, keeping the image of her new slim figure in the mind’s eye.
As part of polarity integration with hypnosis we moved on to the light polarity touch bodywork incorporating positive hypnotic suggestions empowering her with benefits of future image recorded for her to take home as her reinforcement mp3 at the time of the bodywork.
The session continued on a straight massage table, client fully clothed.
Judy’s post-hypnotic suggestions included direct suggestions for weight loss and self-esteem enhancement, suggestions directed toward improved concentration and focus in life, as well as suggestions for accepting her new slim and fit image. Further, specialized guided imagery accompanied working on the various points in her body emanating the release of the energy needed balancing.
She began unconsciously exploring each current emotion, and in the next segment moves naturally to a release creating a deeper feeling of fulfillment and accomplishment, simultaneously experiencing feelings of warmth and weightlessness, ending in deep body and mind relaxation. Her body released great amounts of energy, the emotional rejuvenation.
It was suggested to Judy that in her imagination she collects all unwanted weight and puts it is a basket attaching a bunch of colorful balloons to the handle of it and releases it up in the air. تIt was also suggested that she imagines the weight melting down out of her body through and through.
Three weeks she reported 8 pounds of weight loss. 4 months later she reported 25 pounds of weight loss.تThe weight stayed off in the next year’s follow up.
Alex, 24, stopped smoking with hypnosis. He called two months later and said plainly: “I just wanted to tell you that your hypno-program works…”
Larissa, 16, could not stop biting her lips. This annoying habit was with her since she was little, and she was not able to display her lips without bloody cracks in them. She stopped biting her lips in one hypnosis session. Tanya, 39, was also able to conquer her obsession with food, and reported lost 11 pounds in 6 weeks. Bill, 67, lost 26 pounds. He stayed with the hypno-polarity program for 8 weeks contemplating the awakening of his body and mind.
While creating your own feeling of being well and emotional stability, you could, find a solution to your own pressing issue. We invite you to discover your own balance and let us know of your interest in hypnosis or polarity through finding more information at http://www.NewYorkAwareness.com.

Copyright (c) 2008 Mark Albertson

The escalation of obesity rates in this country has sparked a flurry of activity among both serious researchers and charlatans to discover the perfect weight loss method. A recent study of four diets revealed that the key to weight loss success isn’t the diet, but how closely you follow it. Investigators from Tufts-New England Medical Center (Journal of the American Medical Association, January 2005) have determined in a study of four popular diets that the key to successful weight loss is not the diet itself, but actually following the diet. In this one-year study of 160 overweight adults, the researchers split people into four diet groups:

· Weight Watchers (low calorie)

· The Zone Diet (low glycemic index)

· The Ornish Diet (low fat)

· The Atkins Diet (low carb)

The conclusion of the investigation was that all of these diets worked when the participants in the study followed them. The problem is that less than one in four were able to stay on their given diet for just this one year.

It should be noted that the hardest diet to follow was Atkins, followed by the Ornish Diet, but according to the authors of the study, “no single diet produced satisfactory adherence rates.” Hypnosis has been recognized as a both a method for helping people to adhere to their diets, and for re-training the mind to “think” like a lean person, in order to be able to give up dieting completely and to develop healthy eating habits that parallel the eating habits of lean people.

That being said, wild and exaggerated claims abound regarding hypnosis as it one of the more appealing methods dangled before the eyes of those who are hungry for a seemingly easy solution to a complex problem.

A careful review of the scientific literatures exposes many of the claims about weight loss through hypnosis on the internet as overly optimistic at best and openly fraudulent at worst.

Considerable controversy swirls around the mechanisms by which hypnosis actually contributes to weight loss. Leon (1976) suggested that hypnosis can help obese people team new healthier eating patterns and retain them. One author remarked that the hypnotic state is characterized by heightened concentration, suggestibility, and relaxation (Mott, 1982). Certain individuals are thought to be capable of achieving this state more readily than others. A so-called hypnotic “induction” whereby a hypnotist using certain procedures to bring an individual into the hypnotic state is not a prerequisite for achieving the state (Mott, 1982). Hypnosis, contrary to the claims of some intemet advertisers cannot magically reprogram people’s minds. In short, methods of hypnosis run the gamut from simple relaxation techniques to formal inductions administered by hypnotists, but should not be considered supernatural in its effects.

Studies showing weight loss as a result of hypnosis alone are few in number and suffer from methodological problems. Andersen (1985) reported that following 8 weekly treatment sessions and 12 weeks of practicing self-hypnosis subjects lost an average of 20.2 pounds. Cochrane and Friesen (1986) concluded that moderate weight loss was obtained by subjects using hypnosis. The experimental group, lost more weight than the controls and maintained the weight loss at a six month follow-up.

Mott (1982) stated that “although hypnosis is sometimes referred to as a method of treatment, it is more accurate to regard hypnosis as a facilitator of a number of different treatment methods.” The study concludes that the use of hypnosis for a moderate weight loss is effective using hypnotherapy. Hypnosis Plus Behavioral Weight Management A number of studies indicate that hypnosis combined with a behavioral weight management program contributes significantly to weight loss. Bolocofsky, Spinler, and Coulthard-Morris (1985) revealed that the addition of hypnosis to a behavioral program designed to alter eating patterns increased the amount of weight loss at 8-month and 2year follow-ups. Both the behavioral and hypnosis programs were tailored to each subject individually in the study. Bolocofsky et al. (1984) acknowledged that “the less a person weighed at the start of the program the more likely he was to lose weight and maintain the reduction”. Hypnosis combined with behavioral weight management seems to be more effective for small amounts of weight loss. Another study of 45 females found that supplementing a basic self-management program with hypnosis resulted in a slightly greater amount of weight loss at a 3-month follow-up (Barabasz and Spiegel, 1989). The group for which individualized hypnotic suggestions were developed lost more weight than those exposed only to a group procedure. Kirsch (1996) noted a weight loss of 6.00 pounds without hypnosis and 11.83 pounds with hypnosis based on a meta-analysis of six studies. Allison and Faith (1996), however, disagreed and maintained that hypnosis only enhances cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy slightly if at all. Long-term individualized hypnosis combined with a behavioral weight management program appears to contribute to modest weight loss and helps maintain it.

Hypnosis operates mainly as a way to increase participants’ attention to suggestions of behavioral programs as well as to reinforce their weight loss. Studies using behavioral treatments successfully “typically have developed incentive systems to bridge the gap between the short-term -reinforcers provided during treatment and long-term goal of weight reduction” (Bolocofsky et al., 1985). Hypnosis can fulfill this role by stepping in as a psychological reinforcer. Hypnosis may assist subjects in learning positive eating behaviors and creating healthy long-term patterns of food intake. Subjects are then more likely to incorporate the rules of a particular program into their behavioral regimes (Bolocofsky, 1985). Kroger (1970) points out the similarities between hypnosis and behavioral treatments which share an emphasis on visualization and imagination. The literature suggests that hypnosis is an ideal addition to behavioral weight management programs which tend to need supplementation to achieve long-term results.

The Hodgepodge Problem in Weight Loss Studies The use of subjects of varying ages and backgrounds represents one challenge that plagues studies of hypnosis as a useful treatment for weight loss. Andersen (1985) utilized subjects ranging in age from 21-56 years, a considerable spread. Subjects in another study ranged in age from 17 to 67 resulting in considerable potential differences between the control group and the hypnosis group (Bolocofsky et al., 1985). The fact that subjects were not matched with regard to age could exaggerate results of weight loss as a result of hypnosis that may more accurately be attributed to age differences. McCabe, Jupp, and Collins (I985) suggested a tendency for younger women to drop out of weight loss programs relative to older women leading to a possible masking of potential effects of age. Bolocofsky et al. (1984) indicated that successful hypnotic weight loss participants were higher in self-control, weighed less at the start of the study, married, and more expressive. A wide variety of factors influence whether a given subject will lose weight through a hypnotic weight loss program. Anderson (1985) cites the absence of matched subjects as a weakness in her experiment. More studies with subjects closely matched on various characteristics should be conducted to substantiate claims about the effectiveness of hypnosis for weight loss when combined with a behavioral program.

Most studies require weekly consultation with a hypnotist for 8 weeks or more in addition to self-hypnosis (Bolocofsky et al., 1984; Bolocofsky et al., 1985, Andersen, 1985; Cochrane & Friesen, 1986; McCabe et al., 1985). Internet advertisers who claim weight loss will occur following a single hypnotic session, especially a group hypnotic session, are frauds selling dreams to desperate customers. Allison and Faith (1996) underscore that “there is currently no panacea for the treatment of obesity and hypnosis is no exception”. Treatment using hypnosis then is not a quick and easy way out of weight troubles. In order to achieve any benefits from its use, hypnosis must be practiced on a regular basis for a significant period of time.

Conclusions and Limitations

Hypnosis has been shown to be an effective treatment for low to moderate amounts of weight loss. One qualification of this statement is that the hypnotic program should be tailored to each individual. Hypnosis is a process by which an individual enters a state of relaxation and heightened suggestibility, Transformation of the brain through some mysterious process defines only the hypnosis of pseudoscientists. Quick-fix hypnosis is probably much less effective than an 8 week program using both in-session hypnosis, at-home self-hypnosis, and behavioral weight management. The only people who claim hypnosis is easy, simple, and quick are those trying to sell people on their program. The largest obstacle in weight loss is its long-term retention, but follow-ups of hypnosis as a weight loss treatment have been conducted at the longest after two years. Weight loss tapes lack scientific evidence to support their success and should be purchased with this knowledge in mind. Weight loss through hypnosis has been largely ignored by scientists and more studies with control groups and large subject pools are required to understand its action and import.

For many people hypnosis conjures up the image of a man of stage making someone do something completely foolish but weight loss through hypnosis seems even sillier.
But there is solid evidence that a person can achieve quick and lasting weight loss results by using hypnosis.
But firstly let’s look at what hypnosis is?
According to Contemporary Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing hypnosis or as it is more commonly known hypnotherapy is “the therapeutic use of suggestion when a person is in an altered state of consciousness in order to effect positive changes in that person’s behavior and so treat a range of health conditions”. It has not only been used to decrease the pain a person is feeling but also for weight control.
In a publication (Warren 2003) there was a statement that “Hypnosis is a way to access the untapped power of the mind and alter brain functions. In this state of intense relaxation and concentration the mind is able to focus on positive suggestions which can be carried out at a future time. These subliminal messages are surprisingly powerful.”
Then at the 54th Annual Conference in November 2003 of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Dr David Spiegel (Stanford University researcher) said “that although we don’t fully understand how it works, there is significant evidence that hypnosis can be effective in helping people reach into their own unconscious resources to solve problems normally beyond their ability”.
This in fact shows that the scientific community believes that indeed it is possible for someone to achieve weight loss through hypnosis.
In the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1996 a report regarding meta-analysis (comparing multiple studies) showed that adding hypnosis increased weight loss by an average of 97% when people were being treated. But even more important this increased the effectiveness of post treatment by over 146%. So this has shown that hypnosis can work even better if used over longer periods of time.
Whilst in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1986 a study was carried out on 60 women and they were separated into hypnosis versus non-hypnosis groups. It was found that those women using hypnosis lost an average of 17lbs whilst those in the non-hypnosis group only lost an average 5lbs.
So as you can see weight loss through hypnosis is very effective and may be more people should look at trying it in the future.

Weight loss can be hard to achieve with all the demands modern life makes on people. No wonder men, women and even children are increasingly eating on the run. The standard western diet (known appropriately as S.A.D.) is high in sugar, fat, simple carbohydrates and of course chemical additives. This diet is making people fat and triggering an epidemic of diabetes and other related illnesses. On top of this, people are actually moving less. The average person is busy and stressed but is not physically exercising enough.
Stress is a significant factor in making poor lifestyle decisions and can lead to bad habits. Individuals who have gained weight know they have to change what they are doing, but motivation is hard to find when the pressure just keeps piling on. They probably wish that somebody else (with good diet and exercise habits) could live inside their body for a little while to help get things moving in the right direction. This is where hypnosis can help. That new person living inside their body can actually be them!
Hypnosis works at a subconscious level by directly giving suggestions to the subconscious mind. Positive suggestions that encourage weight loss work at a subconscious level to create new beliefs, values and habitual thinking so that the client is able to naturally make healthier decisions. Hypnosis encourages a healthy lifestyle change which leads to natural weight loss. This is why it is so effective. Diets have been shown to be ineffective in the long term whereas changing your diet and exercise habits permanently leads to positive weight loss results.
Hypnosis suggestions for weight loss usually include motivation encouragement and confidence building statements as well as specific directions to create a healthier lifestyle. Hypnosis sessions also usually use visualization guidance to help the client ’see’ themselves at their ideal weight and to ‘feel’ how great that feels. This sets them up for success. If a person can believe they can lose weight, they can. Unfortunately, many people have tried countless diets and failed and, as a result, they have lost confidence in themselves and in their ability to take the weight off and keep it off. Hypnosis for weight loss focuses on how individuals will feel when they lose the weight, their competency to do so, and on the process of creating a new healthy lifestyle that they will enjoy.
Hypnosis works differently with different people. Some people respond very quickly to the suggestions and make long lasting changes quickly, thereby obtaining faster weight loss results. Others, on the other hand, take longer and need more sessions to retrain the subconscious mind and change their beliefs about themselves, what they are capable of and what they really want to do. To effectively change their lifestyle, people have to really want to do it.
Individuals who use hypnosis in order to lose weight will find it offers a range of additional health benefits not directly related to weight loss. Hypnosis calms the mind, the nerves and the whole body. It alleviates anxiety and releases stress. The suggestions give confidence and build self esteem which will support every area of the client’s life. People who use hypnosis for a specific reason, often find a host of unexpected benefits. The gentleness of the process also makes it a safe, positive and easy way to help a child or teenager who is struggling with excess weight.
Hypnosis for weight loss is not magic but it can have some magical results. As a practicing hypnotherapist, I have helped a great many clients lose weight and keep it off. If you have tried to lose weight and failed and genuinely want powerful help to achieve your goals, I recommend you seek the services of a qualified hypnotherapist who is convenient to your location.

It is important to understand that hypnosis is a separate, altered state of consciousness. You are not awake. A trance is a state of mind in which a hypnotized client is able to free his or her mind from the constraints of their five senses and preconceptions. Typically the sensation is described as relaxing, blissful, dreamy or “I just felt different”.

You gain control during hypnosis by easily making the changes that you want through hypnotherapy. A hypnotherapist or hypnotism cannot make you violate your moral/ethical code.Just about anyone can be benefit from hypnosis. The only question is the ease with which you will achieve an effective state of hypnosis. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not contests of wills.

The successes achieved through hypnosis can be startling. We suggest you consider multiple sessions to assure that you enter a deep, fully effective state of hypnosis and to reinforce and modify treatment according to what your day-to-day experience is between sessions.

As you may know, the biggest enemy in long-term weight loss for most people is their mind. Loss of motivation is the single biggest factor in initial and sustained weight loss

Many people feel very defeated by diets that not only failed but caused a re-bound into even greater weight gain. Hypnotic support is the perfect way to maintain high motivation.

And this is not just an opinion. Three research studies reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology demonstrate this clearly.

A 9-week study was conducted of two weight loss groups. One group was given hypnotherapy for weight loss.

A follow-up two years later showed the people in the hypnosis continued to lose weight. 60 women who wanted to lose weight were divided into two groups. One received hypnosis.

The difference between the groups was dramatic. The groups using hypnosis lost an average of 17 pounds. The non-hypnosis group lost an average of only .5 pounds. (1986).

In 1996, a meta-analysis study was performed to investigate the results of adding hypnosis to weight loss treatment .  Its purpose was to determine the impact of hypnosis on weight loss.

The analysis confirmed that adding hypnosis to weight loss programs not only increases initial results, but also helps assure long-term success. The findings were startling. Hypnosis increased the long-term weight loss after treatment by over 146%.

You will  be hypnotically programmed to follow your program automatically. You can expect immediate weight loss as you change your mind about your body.

I do promise you that you will not feel deprived. Some people find  live sessions with hypnosis and coaching particularly helpful.

Typically, hypnotherapy is used to support a gradual change in lifestyle, not a quick fix diet. You just eat a little less and make better choices.