Many individuals these days, male or female, young or old, are struggling with weight
management. Concerns with rising cases obesity are no longer based upon a Hollywood conception
of what is the appropriate body size. Instead of doctors wanting their patients to be
"thinner", they want them to be healthier. The patients, however, are not necessarily
discerning the difference.
What Has This Lead To?
Both women and men alike are becoming hooked on yo-yo diets. What is a yo-yo diet? Yo-yo
dieting describes the process of going on a diet, losing a few pounds and then going off the
diet. When the pounds come back, the dieter then begins another diet and the process continues.
Repetitive weight loss and gain is hard on the body, especially the heart and of course, it is
hard on the emotional state of the dieter as well.
In addition to this, many dieters are using unhealthy methods of losing weight. Many take
dieting pills which are often just glorified caffeine pills claiming to be the miracle cure for
obesity. Then, there are those who dive into the "fad diets". Whether it is the cabbage or
grapefruit diets, many of these do not give individuals the nutrition they need to live
healthily. In addition, low carb diets such as Atkins often create abnormally high levels of
protein in the body for the liver to digest. After all, man cannot live on meat and cheese
alone.
What To Do?
Sometimes, good old diet and exercise is just not enough. Maybe it's the genes. Maybe it is
behavioral choices that we make everyday without realizing how they are undermining our health.
So how do we change these behaviors? One method is through weight loss motivation hypnosis. You
may have visions of a creepy soul dangling a pocket watch in front of your face and your eyes
beginning to spin. However, this is not what hypnosis is.
The goal of hypnosis is to access the subconscious mind. Under normal circumstances, you
control your conscious level of thought while your subconscious takes care of the automatic
stuff, like tying your shoes or starting the dishwasher, things that do not require conscious
thought. Still, your subconscious is like the driving force that works with our conscious brain
to control our actions. Sleeping is the time when consciousness is put on the back burner and
the subconscious mind can take control.
Dieting Motivation Through Hypnosis
Hypnotism works on relaxing the conscious level of the mind. Although your conscious mind is
subdued and the subconscious mind is allowed the front seat, you are still knowledgeable about
what is going on. You and your hypnotist will work to "reprogram" the subconscious side of you.
If chocolate, for example, is your weakness, your hypnotist may associate chocolate with nausea
so that thinking of chocolate makes you feel nauseous.
