Weight Loss Hypnosis Blog

When we think of weight loss and how to accomplish it, we usually believe it works by the formula of food in, energy out. This should create a comfortable weight maintenance program. Or using an equation:

X Calories - X Activity = 0 gain/loss of weight.

This simplistic version is what we use when we diet. There is more to weight loss and weight maintenance than this simple equation. Because we are complex and constantly adjusting organisms.  If we are used to a certain amount of food coming in, then when we shift gears quickly our body might not respond the way we expected.  In addition there is also the attitude we have toward food and how it controls us.

Let me first explain about how our constantly changing body can affect our weight loss plans.  You, like most every other organism placed on this planet are designed to live.  You are programmed to live long enough to reproduce and create the next generation.  In the grand scheme of things that is all we humans are really designed to do.   Just accomplish that simple task of living long enough to be able to replicate.

So there is no mechanism in place to be skinny.  The struggle to survive is supposed to help us maintain a healthy enough existence to survive long enough to reproduce.  And since we reach puberty around 13 years of age, we really only need to survive for 13 or 14 short years.  Probably a little longer, so we can care for our young until they can fend for themselves.

Here’s the problem.  The struggle for survival isn’t what it used to be.  So you don’t exert that much energy to survive as we used to.  That means you have to create activity so that you don’t become overweight.  There is also another factor that comes into play that has to do with your genetic survival toolkit.

If our body senses a drop in calories it will respond by slowing down our usage of food supplies.  Your food is stored as fat, so when I say food supplies I mean that your fat usage drops down.  You can rev up the exercise rate, but if food usage or metabolism drops, it will be hard to lose weight.  That’s your survival toolkit.

The way around that survival mode is to eat enough food to keep your metabolism at a normal or increased level.  You certainly don’t want your metabolism to drop.  So it’s important not to adopt a drastic drop in calories like some of the more restrictive diets require.  Depending upon your frame size, age and gender you probably want to maintain somewhere around 1500- 2000 calories of food a day.

This is not as difficult to maintain as you may think.  Because mostly you have been eating in response to emotions and not the need for calories it becomes a matter of changing your attitudes, and emotional responses that revolve around food.  Food does not satisfy emotions, so you can continue to eat without feeling “full”.  Because the “full” feeling you are looking for is to satisfy the emotion.  A correct response to food is to feel physically full and satisfied.

Depending on how much out of shape your stomach has become, you can take back control of this mechanism and be free to live your life while your body finds equilibrium.  This happens when you focus on what you are eating and in what amounts.  This also requires that you set boundaries as far as where and when you allow yourself to eat and not eat.

All of these things can be accomplished on your own or with the help of hypnosis for weight loss.  Using these advanced tools for coming to terms with emotional eating and being freed from that driving force that serves no positive function is a very liberating experience.

Boy this internet stuff is a real distraction or a boon to our knowledge base.  I just read an interesting article about hypnosis for weight loss.  It had a bunch of things that I liked about it.  You can check it out here:

http://www.69wan.cn/weight-loss-nutrition/weight-loss-hypnosis-in-new-york-the-answer-to-a-triumphant-weight-loss-hypnosis-program.html

I hope you get as much out of it as I did.

Setting boundaries with food is important of course.  You know what I mean, what foods are right to eat and what foods are wrong to eat.  Well I was just reminded about setting boundaries with people as well.  And this is very important when it comes to weight problems with emotional eaters.

Other people can set off a negative emotional response that could trigger an eating frenzie that can sabotage any weight loss plan or lifestyle change.  So it’s important to make sure to remember to set boundaries, and remember that it’s you who is in charge of your life, reponses, and emotions.

I just read a neat blog that reminded me of this whole boundary setting thing.  You can read the whole post here:

http://www.familylifemomblog.com/2009/05/the-nerve.html

How Does Weight Loss Hypnosis Work?

Using hypnosis to help people lose weight is not about creating a zombie that will blindly follow instructions without using any conscious thought whatsoever. I know that is what many people think and hope for. They don’t want to be responsible for their own weight loss, because it’s been hard to follow through in the past. So what is scary about hypnosis to many people is actually what they really want. In essence they want someone to program them to automatically respond in a specific way so they don’t get sidetracked in their efforts to lose weight, be thinner, be able to wear a bathing suit and look sexy and great this summer.

Well all of that is possible but it won’t be achieved without your decided effort and understanding that it can be easy for you to avoid certain foods, in fact it can be a natural response to eat a normal sized meal. And what I mean by normal sized, is a meal that is healthy for a thin and fit person. So let’s get started in giving you some examples of how this is done.

Hypnosis Can Be Used In A Number Of Ways To Help With Weight Loss.

The first way is to remove unnecessary stress from your everyday life. This is the worries and concerns and added stress that make us feel uncomfortable. this negative feeling is sometimes responsible for us looking for a comforting agent. Since that comforting agent is often an extra helping of food, then that feeling alone will add a significant amount of weight. You know how this works, something to take our minds off of the discomfort. Well imagine what happens when that discomfort is lifted. If the need for comfort is gone, then we can avoid eating too much, or at the wrong times, and we can start building habits more appropriate for removing weight. So this can be the first step to weight loss using hypnosis.

What Do You Do When The Stress Is Gone?

So now we got rid of the excess stress using self hypnosis, what do we focus on next?  Building the habits of a healthy and fit person would be my best response. So, if a healthy person looks at food as fuel for their body and not something to deal with negative thoughts and feelings, we should use self hypnosis to start building better associations. You know, associations of pleasure when we eat when properly hungry. We can use self hypnosis to train ourselves back to the responses we were born with. Eating when we are just a little bit hungry and stopping when we are just a little bit full. If you can think of our hunger as it would appear on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being starving and ready to eat anything that comes close to our idea of food, and 10 being so stuffed that we have difficulty moving, then our ideal place to eat would be around the number 4 and the ideal place to stop eating would be around 7.

In Summary

These are the preliminary steps to retraining our minds using self hypnosis. Practice makes perfect. The idea in change is to start with something that you can accomplish and then moving it to the next level. Stay on track and you will find it easier to add to your success.

And I invite you to learn to do self hypnosis for weight loss. There is a nice introductory course in the techniques to get you started at this self hypnosis for weight loss link.