Are you Sick and Tired of going on a diet, would you like to lose weight and still eat what you want?
Most people trying to lose weight have painfully tried everything, the latest diet and fashionable trend, only to lose weight and then put it back on again.
So many people feel unhappy with their weight, some simply want to get into their favourite outfit, others may be dreaming of getting into their Wedding dress on their big day, or feeling gorgeous in their bikini on the beach.
For others it may be for health reasons, but either way being “fat” and “overweight” is a thought that is often present in the mind of so many, which affects their overall confidence and self esteem in all areas of life.
Why is losing weight so difficult?
After all, there is a very, very simple equation involved: eat less and move more, if you take in fewer calories and expend more energy you will lose weight. Ah, if only it were that simple! A hugely important component in all of this is our mental approach.
Most of the people I work with tell me “I know what I should and shouldn’t be doing, but I can’t seem to be able to do it”
This is because most of the time we often neglect or over look our mindset, which consists of learnt behaviours patterns, beliefs, conditioning, habits, all the associations we have surrounding food, drinking, exercise, and our self image.
Intellectually, we can apply logic and determine what we should and should not be doing, but this alone often does little to make any permanent lasting change. Have you ever decided to go on a diet on Monday morning but by lunchtime, you have decided you will start again next week?
This is because your conscious mind wants to make a change but your subconscious wants to keep you as you are, so the two parts are in conflict. How hypnotherapy works is to help you re-educate and re-programme your subconscious mind where all of the thoughts, feelings, habits and behaviours are controlled. So the two parts of your mind are working together rather than against each other.
Unless you change the way you think about yourself, the food you eat, and your motivation to exercise more, you are unlikely to lose weight and keep it off. Using the natural power of your own mind you can change your relationship towards food, drink and exercise, allowing you to break old negative eating habits and overcome emotionally eating.
A large part of my work is de-hypnotizing people from the conditioning and learnt behaviours they have picked up throughout their life.
One of the keys to success is to learn the difference between real physical hunger, and emotional hunger. Whether the emotions are good, bad positive or negative no amount of food can satisfy emotional hunger because it’s not real.
Simply it’s about going back to basic and re-training your mind, to tune into your bodies natural signal’s that let you know when it’s time to re-fuel, and when it’s comfortably satisfied.
It’s really a matter of breaking down all past conditioning, habits and associations and see food for what it really is, nourishment and nutrition, fuel for your body. This is where the techniques and strategies utilised by professional Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner and Lifestyle Coach can help you re-programme your mind to help you achieve this – by re-programming the mind to focus on when food is actually necessary, rather than just habit or for comfort.
Over the next few posts I’m going to share my 5 Big Weight Loss Mistakes and how you can avoid them, to help you lose weight and feel great.
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