Trying to lose weight by squeezing out all our willpower doesn't seem to work. Most people who lose weight on a diet find that it just comes back on again, sometime with a few extra pounds too. So all that willpower focused on sticking to a diet could just be wasted misery.
Maybe a good alternative is to make frequent small changes to your eating pattern, adding good things and removing bad things bit by bit. This gives us the chance to embed each small change, making our new eating pattern automatic, and our new way of eating becomes normal.
"It is better to take many small steps in the right direction, than make a great leap forward only to stumble backward". (Chinese proverb)
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
How does hypnosis help with weight loss?
To lose weight, we need to change our eating habits. A crash diet might help in the short term, but we can't eat like that for months on end. Most of us know what our bad habits are. It might be chocolate or takeaways, or just eating till we are stuffed. Hypnosis helps you to identify the problem habits and then helps you introduce good habits to replace them.
Rather than be thinking about food all day in order to try to reduce the amount you eat, hypnosis embeds decisions about eating in your subconscious, so that new behaviours become automatic, with no effort. If you are trying to cut out chocolate, your subconscious alerts you to this helpful decision, and keeps you out of the shop and encourages you to say no. Little by little this becomes normal behaviour and eating chocolate is something you just don't think about any more.
It means you are not needing to use your willpower all day long - which would only result in a big binge anyway.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
http://www.carolinebrowntherapy.com/
Rather than be thinking about food all day in order to try to reduce the amount you eat, hypnosis embeds decisions about eating in your subconscious, so that new behaviours become automatic, with no effort. If you are trying to cut out chocolate, your subconscious alerts you to this helpful decision, and keeps you out of the shop and encourages you to say no. Little by little this becomes normal behaviour and eating chocolate is something you just don't think about any more.
It means you are not needing to use your willpower all day long - which would only result in a big binge anyway.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
http://www.carolinebrowntherapy.com/
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Body image
Even the stars don't match up to the ideals of beauty expounded in magazines and other advertising.
"Kate Winslet's famous curves have been trimmed for a front cover and Keira Knightley's bust enlarged for a film poster. Madonna's biceps have been reduced for a magazine portrait, while veteran model Twiggy's wrinkles vanished in an advertisement for anti-ageing cream.The technique of flattening tummies, shaping thighs, removing laughter lines and adding extra gloss to hair is now commonplace among photographers attempting to produce perfect images of the body beautiful". This text was from the Independent newspaper.
"Kate Winslet's famous curves have been trimmed for a front cover and Keira Knightley's bust enlarged for a film poster. Madonna's biceps have been reduced for a magazine portrait, while veteran model Twiggy's wrinkles vanished in an advertisement for anti-ageing cream.The technique of flattening tummies, shaping thighs, removing laughter lines and adding extra gloss to hair is now commonplace among photographers attempting to produce perfect images of the body beautiful". This text was from the Independent newspaper.
The French are trying to ban airbrushing. And now we have a report that explains the damage to children from being exposed to these unreal images of women.
A few years ago, Joan Collins said that maintaining her slim shape, lovely face and huge hair was her job, and she devoted most of the day to preparing herself for going out.
What is the moral. These images we see are not real people. Even the stars, who spend all day working on looking wonderful, need to be airbrushed to look this good. It is unachievable for the rest of us. We shouldn't waste our lives trying.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
Monday, 22 February 2010
Eating in front of the telly
Research suggests that sitting for hours in front of the telly will get you fat. Men who watch more than 3 hours of TV a day are twice as likely to become obese as those who watched less than one hour per day. Read it! This isn't a gender thing, just that the research was done on men.
In part, this is because you are sitting down doing nothing, so your metabolism slows down to be similar to sleeping. Even talking on the phone uses more calories than watching the box! Do something! Being active reduces your risk of low mood and depression too (a lot of eat more when we are depressed.)
We also tend to eat snacks while watching the TV. And at peak times (and in childrens tv time as well) we are watching adverts for chocolates and drinks, and a whole range of snack food. Advertising wouldn't be done if it didn't work. Recent research shows that from only half an hour of telly a day, the increased snacks triggered by advertising could lead to 10 pounds weight gain in a year.
If you are engrossed in the telly, then you are not fully mindful of the food you are eating. You could eat a whole meal's value of calories without even noticing.
So if you are concerned about your weight, here are some tips.
1. Watch less telly.
2. Measure out a portion of snack, so that you are more aware of how much you are eating. Research shows that if you eat from a large package, you will eat more than if you eat from a small package. Store the remainder out of easy reach, so that if you refill your portion, you are aware of what you are doing.
3. Work on being aware of what you are eating.
Try to make a few small changes every week. If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
In part, this is because you are sitting down doing nothing, so your metabolism slows down to be similar to sleeping. Even talking on the phone uses more calories than watching the box! Do something! Being active reduces your risk of low mood and depression too (a lot of eat more when we are depressed.)
We also tend to eat snacks while watching the TV. And at peak times (and in childrens tv time as well) we are watching adverts for chocolates and drinks, and a whole range of snack food. Advertising wouldn't be done if it didn't work. Recent research shows that from only half an hour of telly a day, the increased snacks triggered by advertising could lead to 10 pounds weight gain in a year.
If you are engrossed in the telly, then you are not fully mindful of the food you are eating. You could eat a whole meal's value of calories without even noticing.
So if you are concerned about your weight, here are some tips.
1. Watch less telly.
2. Measure out a portion of snack, so that you are more aware of how much you are eating. Research shows that if you eat from a large package, you will eat more than if you eat from a small package. Store the remainder out of easy reach, so that if you refill your portion, you are aware of what you are doing.
3. Work on being aware of what you are eating.
Try to make a few small changes every week. If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Eating without thinking
A lot of things we do automatically. Some like intuition just seem to happen, others like playing the piano or driving are learned automatic behaviours.
Eating can also become an automatic behaviour, so that we eat without really noticing that we are doing it.
The environment is filled with cues that encourage us to eat. These can include magazine articles, television programmes, adverts, the way a supermarket is laid out, and host of other little cues. We scarcely notice them, but they are there all the time and in huge quantities.We learn over time to respond to these cues which trigger eating in an automatic way, without it really passing through our consciousness.
On the whole we do things automatically when they are very important to us. For example, you don't need to think about running if you see a grizzly bear coming at you. There is no thinking needed, you just run. Eating is also essential for survival, so not surprisingly, eating is an automatic behaviour too. Look at the research about this. Understanding this helps you control your eating without having to use up your willpower.
The most automatic eating is where you eat with your hands. Usually, when you eat without cutlery, you tend not to notice how much you are eating. And this sort of eating is not associated with hunger. What do you eat without cutlery?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Eating can also become an automatic behaviour, so that we eat without really noticing that we are doing it.
The environment is filled with cues that encourage us to eat. These can include magazine articles, television programmes, adverts, the way a supermarket is laid out, and host of other little cues. We scarcely notice them, but they are there all the time and in huge quantities.We learn over time to respond to these cues which trigger eating in an automatic way, without it really passing through our consciousness.
On the whole we do things automatically when they are very important to us. For example, you don't need to think about running if you see a grizzly bear coming at you. There is no thinking needed, you just run. Eating is also essential for survival, so not surprisingly, eating is an automatic behaviour too. Look at the research about this. Understanding this helps you control your eating without having to use up your willpower.
The most automatic eating is where you eat with your hands. Usually, when you eat without cutlery, you tend not to notice how much you are eating. And this sort of eating is not associated with hunger. What do you eat without cutlery?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Thursday, 7 January 2010
How to gain 15 pounds year
One 12-ounce can of sugar-sweetened fizzy pop contains 150 calories and 40 to 50 grams of sugar. If these calories are added to a typical diet with no offsetting reduction in other caloric
sources, one can of fizzy pop per day can lead to a 15-pound weight gain in a year.
So says Caroline Apovian of the Nutrition and Weight Management Centre in Boston Medical Centre, USA. She also notes a clear link between drinking sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks and type 2 diabetes.
This is a comment from an American. Does it apply to Scotland too? Definitely. Scotland stands behind America as the second fattest nation and Scots drink lots of fizzy drinks.
Drinking fizzy pop doesn't even quench your thirst. Cutting out the cans is one of the easiest ways to control your weight. What could you drink instead?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
sources, one can of fizzy pop per day can lead to a 15-pound weight gain in a year.
So says Caroline Apovian of the Nutrition and Weight Management Centre in Boston Medical Centre, USA. She also notes a clear link between drinking sugar-sweetened fizzy drinks and type 2 diabetes.
This is a comment from an American. Does it apply to Scotland too? Definitely. Scotland stands behind America as the second fattest nation and Scots drink lots of fizzy drinks.
Drinking fizzy pop doesn't even quench your thirst. Cutting out the cans is one of the easiest ways to control your weight. What could you drink instead?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Monday, 4 January 2010
How to eat less with less effort
Most of us eat what is put in front of us, no matter what it tastes like. We all joke about airline food but we all eat it up.
Knowing this can help you reduce your eating and when the goal is to lose weight, there is really no option other than eating less. Most of us know that we are eating too much. Like it or not, the answer is to eat less. But we don't want to have to think about it. The goal is to find a way of eating less with as little effort as possible.
So to help you to eat less, without having to think about it, use smaller plates and bowls. Our brains respond to the amount of the plate covered by food. When the plate looks full, we feel positive. When the plate looks a bit empty, we think it is a bit stingy. Take a look at this website for more information about this useful illusion.
Does this seem too obvious? If so, then perhaps you should give it a try! Making a number of small changes, little and often, is the easiest way to change your eating behaviour for the long-term. And to lose weight, you need to change your eating behaviour.
This is where you will find hypnosis helps. It embeds these changes into your subconscious, making it easier and easier. If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
http://www.carolinebrowntherapy.com/
Knowing this can help you reduce your eating and when the goal is to lose weight, there is really no option other than eating less. Most of us know that we are eating too much. Like it or not, the answer is to eat less. But we don't want to have to think about it. The goal is to find a way of eating less with as little effort as possible.
So to help you to eat less, without having to think about it, use smaller plates and bowls. Our brains respond to the amount of the plate covered by food. When the plate looks full, we feel positive. When the plate looks a bit empty, we think it is a bit stingy. Take a look at this website for more information about this useful illusion.
Does this seem too obvious? If so, then perhaps you should give it a try! Making a number of small changes, little and often, is the easiest way to change your eating behaviour for the long-term. And to lose weight, you need to change your eating behaviour.
This is where you will find hypnosis helps. It embeds these changes into your subconscious, making it easier and easier. If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
http://www.carolinebrowntherapy.com/
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Yoga can help you lose weight
One of my clients told me she found yoga helpful. As a result, I have been keeping an eye out for research into yoga and weight loss.
A study funded by the United States National Cancer Institute shows that regular yoga practice can help control middle-age spread, maintaining the weight of normal-weight middle-aged people, and possibly contributing to weight loss among the overweight middle-aged. They published a follow-up in August 2009.
“In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesised that mindfulness — a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga — could affect eating behaviour,”
This supports a great deal of the research which you will find on my blog. Eating in front of the telly, in the car, or any time when you are really doing something else, means you eat more. This sort of eating stops your digestive system from telling the brain that you have had enough to eat. Stretch receptors take about 20 minutes to notice that we are full, and if we miss the signals, we will overeat. His research shows the Mindfulness that comes from practising yoga keeps you in control when faced with delicious food when you are not hungry.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
A study funded by the United States National Cancer Institute shows that regular yoga practice can help control middle-age spread, maintaining the weight of normal-weight middle-aged people, and possibly contributing to weight loss among the overweight middle-aged. They published a follow-up in August 2009.
“In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesised that mindfulness — a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga — could affect eating behaviour,”
This supports a great deal of the research which you will find on my blog. Eating in front of the telly, in the car, or any time when you are really doing something else, means you eat more. This sort of eating stops your digestive system from telling the brain that you have had enough to eat. Stretch receptors take about 20 minutes to notice that we are full, and if we miss the signals, we will overeat. His research shows the Mindfulness that comes from practising yoga keeps you in control when faced with delicious food when you are not hungry.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Monday, 24 August 2009
Why do we stuff ourselves at Eat All You Can Buffets
When we are trying to lose weight, we should avoid going to places where we are inclined to overeat. It just puts pressure on our limited supply of willpower. If you had a friend with a gambling problem, would you meet him in the bookies, or suggest somewhere safer? It is the same when you are wanting to reduce the amount you eat. Don't make it harder than it needs to be.
And one of the places to avoid is the Eat All You Can Buffet. Pretty much everyone stuffs themselves. Are we just wanting our money's worth? That might be part of it, but there is something else going on....
We rely on cues and rules of thumb to help us control our eating, so that we don't have to be constantly counting calories or measuring things out. For example, most of us will pour half a bowl of cereal. This is our rule of thumb quantity control. It doesn't matter if the bowl is small or large. A serving is half a bowl. So trick yourself with small bowls.
When there is lots of variety, we eat more. There is lots of research on this. Served a bowl of mixed colour sweets, people eat more than if they are all the same colour. It seems that when items are all the same, our brains recognise the items as a single whole, and can estimate the quantity. We lose this ability to estimate when there is variety. Effectively we see less when there is variety.
At buffets, the variety is the thing, and this is what gets us eating more than we should. At buffets, limit yourself to 2 different things on the plate at any one time.
American researchers state that "Both people and animals will eat more food when a meal or diet contains a greater variety of food, which can eventually cause weight gain". Variety seems to slow down the feelings of fullness and satisfaction. Eating the same sorts of food every day on the other hand limits the amount that you eat. Meals where the foods are similar in shape, texture or colour, can help reduce overeating.
So in our food-saturated society, where you can buy whatever food you want, variety is always there. And this is a risk for over-eating. Reducing variety when you are out shopping will help. If you must buy snacks, buy just one sort, only one flavour. If you must buy desserts, buy just one type.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
And one of the places to avoid is the Eat All You Can Buffet. Pretty much everyone stuffs themselves. Are we just wanting our money's worth? That might be part of it, but there is something else going on....
We rely on cues and rules of thumb to help us control our eating, so that we don't have to be constantly counting calories or measuring things out. For example, most of us will pour half a bowl of cereal. This is our rule of thumb quantity control. It doesn't matter if the bowl is small or large. A serving is half a bowl. So trick yourself with small bowls.
When there is lots of variety, we eat more. There is lots of research on this. Served a bowl of mixed colour sweets, people eat more than if they are all the same colour. It seems that when items are all the same, our brains recognise the items as a single whole, and can estimate the quantity. We lose this ability to estimate when there is variety. Effectively we see less when there is variety.
At buffets, the variety is the thing, and this is what gets us eating more than we should. At buffets, limit yourself to 2 different things on the plate at any one time.
American researchers state that "Both people and animals will eat more food when a meal or diet contains a greater variety of food, which can eventually cause weight gain". Variety seems to slow down the feelings of fullness and satisfaction. Eating the same sorts of food every day on the other hand limits the amount that you eat. Meals where the foods are similar in shape, texture or colour, can help reduce overeating.
So in our food-saturated society, where you can buy whatever food you want, variety is always there. And this is a risk for over-eating. Reducing variety when you are out shopping will help. If you must buy snacks, buy just one sort, only one flavour. If you must buy desserts, buy just one type.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Diet soft drinks makes you put on weight - so what is that all about then?
To try to control your weight, you've moved onto diet soft or fizzy drinks. But scientific studies are showing that for each can of diet drink, your risk of being overweight goes up by a belt-busting 41%.
Well, diet drinks don't themselves make you put on weight. So what could be going on?
It could be that your body is complaining at being tricked. In comes all this lovely sweetness and your body is expecting calories. They don't come, so your body sends you the munchies by way of complaint. There is some evidence that soft drinks stimulate appetite.
It could be that part of you thinks that no-cal drinks constitute a diet, giving you permission to eat a bit more than you otherwise might.
So, if you are drinking diet pops, have a think about whether you are making up for it by eating more of something else.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Well, diet drinks don't themselves make you put on weight. So what could be going on?
It could be that your body is complaining at being tricked. In comes all this lovely sweetness and your body is expecting calories. They don't come, so your body sends you the munchies by way of complaint. There is some evidence that soft drinks stimulate appetite.
It could be that part of you thinks that no-cal drinks constitute a diet, giving you permission to eat a bit more than you otherwise might.
So, if you are drinking diet pops, have a think about whether you are making up for it by eating more of something else.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
The conspiracy of fat and sugar
Andrew Drenowski is an American scientist studying why we are all getting so much fatter than we were just 30 years ago.
He shows that it is the wicked conspiracy of fat and sugar that is the culprit - the blame swithering between the two from decade to decade. His work shows that energy-rich foods, food with lots of calories to the ounce, have become cheap, convenient and good-tasting (developed by other clever scientists in the food industry). Energy dense foods cost less per calorie than do nutrient dense foods. It is this low cost of high calorie, great-tasting manufactured food that is causing the overall increase in weight of the population as a whole, and individuals too.
You might have seen the film "Supersize me". The star complained that he felt the burgers he was eating gave him an initial shot of intense pleasure, but didn't make him feel full or satisfied, but rather made him want more.Fatty, sugary foods trigger the pleasure receptors in our brains, in a similar way to recreational drugs.
It is not just the burger chains though. I once read the ingredients on boned leg of lamb for sale from a famous upmarket UK store. It read 84% meat. What was the other 16% for goodness' sake?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
He shows that it is the wicked conspiracy of fat and sugar that is the culprit - the blame swithering between the two from decade to decade. His work shows that energy-rich foods, food with lots of calories to the ounce, have become cheap, convenient and good-tasting (developed by other clever scientists in the food industry). Energy dense foods cost less per calorie than do nutrient dense foods. It is this low cost of high calorie, great-tasting manufactured food that is causing the overall increase in weight of the population as a whole, and individuals too.
You might have seen the film "Supersize me". The star complained that he felt the burgers he was eating gave him an initial shot of intense pleasure, but didn't make him feel full or satisfied, but rather made him want more.Fatty, sugary foods trigger the pleasure receptors in our brains, in a similar way to recreational drugs.
It is not just the burger chains though. I once read the ingredients on boned leg of lamb for sale from a famous upmarket UK store. It read 84% meat. What was the other 16% for goodness' sake?
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
What makes us start eating, and then again, what makes us stop?
There are lots of cues that triggering eating, and hunger is seldom one of them. Most of us don't ever really feel hunger, and when we do, we can satisfy it straight away, no waiting at all. Knowing what triggers your eating, and also what causes you to stop eating is crucial to controlling your weight. After all, your weight is the result of what you eat - when calories in are more than calories used up, we gain weight. We all know that.
The eating cues that we respond to include the people we are with. If you are with a companion who eats like a sparrow, it is harder to ladle out a second or third helping. Sometimes we associate things with food - like watching a film with a bucket of popcorn or driving home eating a chocolate bar. When we know what the eating cues are, we can work out ways to avoid them.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
The eating cues that we respond to include the people we are with. If you are with a companion who eats like a sparrow, it is harder to ladle out a second or third helping. Sometimes we associate things with food - like watching a film with a bucket of popcorn or driving home eating a chocolate bar. When we know what the eating cues are, we can work out ways to avoid them.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
More about mindless eating
Mindless eating is when we just chomp away for want of something better to do. So we might be eating popcorn in the cinema (out of a bucket!), munching on a chocolate bar in the underground or bus. Or maybe we are at the football, eating a pie. Or in front of the telly, with a bag of crisps (some bags so huge now they would be better called sacks).
When we are concentrating on doing something else, then we are not concentrating on what we are eating. The calories go in, and we don't even get that nice feeling of a full tummy. This sort of eating is relatively easy to give up.
Reducing weight means eating less, so it is important that we really enjoy our food. Concentrating on what we are eating allows us to enjoy it more, but also gives time for the stretch receptors in our stomach to notice when we are getting full.
Take the Mindless Eating Challenge! This website is run from Cornell University, and is really helpful in making those frequent small changes to eating behaviour. Give it a try.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
When we are concentrating on doing something else, then we are not concentrating on what we are eating. The calories go in, and we don't even get that nice feeling of a full tummy. This sort of eating is relatively easy to give up.
Reducing weight means eating less, so it is important that we really enjoy our food. Concentrating on what we are eating allows us to enjoy it more, but also gives time for the stretch receptors in our stomach to notice when we are getting full.
Take the Mindless Eating Challenge! This website is run from Cornell University, and is really helpful in making those frequent small changes to eating behaviour. Give it a try.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Should I be counting calories?
Counting calories is very difficult to do over the long term, but we do need to have a good idea of the amount we can eat without putting on weight. Click here for a good website. It tells you how many calories you are consuming to maintain your present weight. Then if you enter the weight you would like to be, then it tells you your goal calories too.
For the moment, lets say that women need 2,000 calories a day, and men need 2,500. This is plenty for 3 satisfying meals. Research shows that over the last 30 years or so, the calorie value of each meal has made no significant change.
So why are we on average 10 pounds heavier?
The difference is the 4th meal. We munch away on chocolates, crisps and biscuits to the value of a complete meal.
Don't forget, if you buy them, you will eat them. In the hand is in the mouth!
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
For the moment, lets say that women need 2,000 calories a day, and men need 2,500. This is plenty for 3 satisfying meals. Research shows that over the last 30 years or so, the calorie value of each meal has made no significant change.
So why are we on average 10 pounds heavier?
The difference is the 4th meal. We munch away on chocolates, crisps and biscuits to the value of a complete meal.
Don't forget, if you buy them, you will eat them. In the hand is in the mouth!
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
How does hypnosis help weight loss
Following a discussion of your concerns, the therapist will check out with you a series of immediate goals. This might be to eat at a table rather than in front of the telly, to use smaller plates, or to cook more at home. Once these goals are clear, the hypnosis begins. In a deep state of hypnosis, these goals will be proposed to you as suggestions.
The hypnotic state (which is very pleasant!) makes you very suggestible. While you retain full control and awareness of what is going on, you are highly sensitive to positive suggestions. Away from the therapy room, you will find yourself reminded of these goals and before picking up the phone to order a takeaway, you will stop and think. That gives you enough time to reconsider your order, or decide to go ahead anyway. That little voice remains with you though - always at the back of your mind.
As a hypnotherapist I have so often given the suggestion "You can leave food on the plate" that I can now do it. I was brought up to clean my plate and breaking out of this habit has taken time. Hypnosis made it easier, and now after many years of being a good girl and cleaning my plate, I can now leave a plate half-eaten. It means I can enjoy the taste of the occasional cooked breakfast, without the guilt of eating too much fatty food.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
The hypnotic state (which is very pleasant!) makes you very suggestible. While you retain full control and awareness of what is going on, you are highly sensitive to positive suggestions. Away from the therapy room, you will find yourself reminded of these goals and before picking up the phone to order a takeaway, you will stop and think. That gives you enough time to reconsider your order, or decide to go ahead anyway. That little voice remains with you though - always at the back of your mind.
As a hypnotherapist I have so often given the suggestion "You can leave food on the plate" that I can now do it. I was brought up to clean my plate and breaking out of this habit has taken time. Hypnosis made it easier, and now after many years of being a good girl and cleaning my plate, I can now leave a plate half-eaten. It means I can enjoy the taste of the occasional cooked breakfast, without the guilt of eating too much fatty food.
If you are in or near Glasgow and want to lose weight, try to make a few small changes every week. To help you, try hypnotherapy with me.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
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