Weight management is handled by changing your relationship with food. Unlike smoking, weight control is actually more of a challenge to manage because with smoking, once you quit, you never have to smoke again. Eating is obviously something that you have to do on a regular basis.

Dieting is not the answer because the subtle suggestion is that one day you can go off of your diet and you can go back to your old ways. Unfortunately, your old ways are what got you here in the first place. Dieting also puts you into the role of being victimized because there is always forbidden fruit (no pun intended) out there just waiting to entice you. Obviously, there are foods that are more beneficial than others and choosing those foods make better sense for a healthy lifestyle.

We frequently are attracted to foods that do not serve us well because we often use food to fulfill emotional needs as well as for reward and punishment. We also have belief systems centered around food, such as the clean plate rule. Many of us eat unconsciously, while reading a book, watching TV, or when we are bored. Many of us also eat too fast. We wait too long between meals and then we are starving to get something, anything, into our mouths. We then shovel it in.

Food is biologically fuel for the body. You wouldn’t fill the gas tank in your car and then, because you wanted more gas, fill the trunk of your car as well. Yet, we do that, frequently, with our body. When we eat too fast, it doesn’t give our stomach time to register that it is full, then, the next thing you know, we are stuffed!

With hypnosis, suggestions are offered to the subconscious to help you change your eating habits. Fortunately, virtually everyone can be hypnotized. However, hypnosis cannot make you do anything. You have to want to make the change for yourself. What hypnosis can do, is assist in changing how you look at, and respond to food. This does mean that you have to be committed to succeed, and be ready, to change your relationship with food.   In order to do that, we need to identify your emotional connections with food, your food beliefs and values, your triggers for when it’s time to eat, your problem foods (such as chocolate or pasta), and your daily eating habits.

We then begin the process of changing these relationships so that you an truly look at food as nutrition or fuel for the body. Weight control is a combination of watching what you eat and exercise. You will not succeed without a combination of both. Also, do not expect to lose enormous amounts of weight in one or two weeks. It probably took years to put on the excess weight and it will take time to take it back off.