Hypnotherapy for weight / eating issues
Battling with a weight problem can feel like an uphill struggle. Whether you are desperate to lose weight, stop overeating, make more healthier food choices, exercise more, improve your self esteem, stop bingeing, or stop obsessing about food, making the decision to achieve these goals very rarely leads to success. In fact, the more you try to diet or lose weight, the harder it often seems to get, and when you fail you are likely to resort back to your old eating habits, causing further weight gain, low self esteem and self worth.
Problems around what we eat and how we eat have become commonplace. We live in a culture increasingly obsessed by healthy eating and diets, but the truth is that most people are failing in their attempt to gain control of their weight. Studies estimate that over 13 million people are trapped in a cycle of permanent dieting, and the depression and psychological problems that accompany it.
The fact is diets just don’t work for the majority. One third of people who diet actually end up putting on more weight rather than losing it, and only one in a hundred actually lose the weight they hoped to.
Compulsive overeating
A common difficulty people have with losing weight is due to overeating. You may believe you are addicted to food, being compelled to eat even when you’re not hungry. You may obsessively think about food, plan and fantasize about eating, or eat in secret which often leads to feelings of guilt. Compulsive overeating almost always leads to weight gain and makes dieting an unrealistic option.
Weight loss and self image
Do you lack confidence in yourself? Does your happiness depend on you losing weight? Do you feel you’d be a better, more popular, more contented person if you lost weight? For many people, feeling bad about the way they look has become part of normal life.
Studies show that 90% of women say they do not like their body, with over half going as far as to say that they hate it. Over a quarter say they worry about their body every day. 90% of teenage girls admit that they hate their body and want to lose a lot of weight – over half of them wishing they could drop over a stone, even though they are not overweight at all.
Eating problems and weight issues are not always just about food. For some, these issues often begin when they start to believe that their life would be different if they were thinner. Their weight, size and shape become a scapegoat for all that they struggle with in their life and self-hatred is not far behind.
How can you manage your weight / eating issues?
The simple answer is, not very well. Trying to stop obsessing about food, stop overeating, stop doing what comes naturally is like trying to stop blinking. You can try, but eventually the unthinking, subconscious part of the mind will override your attempts and your normal instinctive and emotional responses will take over automatically once again. Some people will try dieting and various healthy eating plans. Some attempt to exercise to lose weight. Others may use direct hypnosis suggestion to suppress the desire to overeat or curb their cravings. The chances are if you’re reading this then you will have already tried one or more of these and other methods. But unfortunately, none of these can resolve what caused your weight / eating issue in the first place, and so losing weight is a constant battle and you’ll often quickly put back the weight that you have previously lost.
Why, Why, Why?
The most effective way to cure your weight problem and lose the excess weight completely and permanently, is to resolve what’s causing it; if there is no longer any cause, there can be no effect.
So why can’t you lose weight? You have probably puzzled over this many times before. Looked for reasons, triggers behind it. Perhaps you know why; your mum, sister, or other family member has a weight problem too. Or maybe it was triggered by a traumatic or upsetting event. But knowing this doesn’t make the problem go away. Or maybe you can’t think of any reasons to explain it. But that doesn’t mean there is no cause, because for something to exist it has to have been created. It has to have come from somewhere. And there has to be something preventing you from losing the weight. Something driving you to overeat and lack the motivation to exercise. Something stopping you from making the healthy food choices that you know you should make. Why are other people able to lose weight and keep the weight off without all the hard work? What stops you?
Beneath all the triggers and confirmation there is a single, root cause stored away in the subconscious mind. It’s something you can’t think of. Something small, easily forgotten, easily overlooked. It’s like that bit of grit in your eye. Once you find it, it can be hard to believe that something so small could have caused so much trouble.
It can take years for our problems, conditions and symptoms to get a good hold over us. Something that starts out as a minor irritation gets worse and worse until it causes us so much suffering that we eventually seek help to put it right.
How can I cure my weight problem?
The only way to cure a weight problem is to find - and then correct - the cause
With Curative hypnotherapy, you can find freedom from the addictive cycles around food, weight and dieting. Curative hypnotherapy is distinguished from all other forms of hypnotherapy primarily by its use of logic. The therapist approaches each person without theories or preconceptions – except for one – that the answer to your weight / eating issue lies only within your own subconscious mind. With Curative Hypnotherapy there is no need to suppress or manage your weight problem or eating habits. By resolving and correcting the root cause, you will lose the weight naturally without any effort and all related symptoms will automatically fade away, until eventually your problem with weight and food is nothing but a vague and distant memory.
With curative hypnotherapy you will not be required to relive any traumatic or upsetting event. All you will feel is beautifully relaxed.