Hypnosis for Weight Loss - Does It Really Work?

People ask me all the time if this really works. I usually say something like “Of course it does …this is why I do what I do!” Then they ask me if I’ve had it myself and I say something like “Yes I have, and I eat what I want, when I want and I my weight stays the same”. A lot of my clients are often surprised when they learn I had a weight problem myself.

In the past, my weight used to go up and down all the time. I’d be on a diet, off a diet, on a new diet …and so on. I also ate fairly unhealthily as I didn’t really know what I ‘should’ eat. I ate the wrong foods for my body not really liking the way my body looked most of the time …all because other people were telling me what to do and what I could and couldn’t eat.

Hypnotherapy has taught me to respond to ‘my’ own body’s needs. So now, I no longer entertain the idea of dieting at all. I simply tune in and listen to what my body is telling me. I eat much less than I use to, I leave food if I’ve had enough and I also eat more nutritious foods now.

Being an overweight vegetarian, for years my staple diet was pasta, rice and potato based (starches and carbs); a way of eating I adopted following a diet advising me it was ok to ‘fill up’ on these foods if you didn’t eat meat. I also ate a lot of bread, with sandwiches and crisps being my favoured choice for lunch most days – a habit stemming from my childhood. However, it wasn’t until I began to listen to my body that I realised these were the very foods that were keeping me fat!

Using hypnotherapy to control your weight is empowering because it puts ‘you’ in control of your own eating habits. You realise you no longer need to be told what to eat and when – as you just know! You naturally find yourself selecting healthier more nutritious foods and enjoying the taste of new and different foods. Of course, it’s always good to seek guidance when it comes to healthy eating and I’m no expert, so I’m always looking out for inspiration when it comes to healthy eating; I often search online and check out new books/recipes for ideas.

If food and dieting has become an unhealthy obsession for you, this could be just what you need to break that old cycle. If you are committed and determined, then hypnotherapy could help you by making positive changes to your eating habits and your relationship with food and exercise so you can lose weight without the need for a diet.

Hypnotherapy can help you to change the way you eat and the way you behave around food; so it’s true …you can have the shape and size you want, and stay there – as long as you are committed to the process and determined to make the changes necessary.

…And it’s a wonderful feeling to be in control of your own eating habits!