Does Hypnosis Work for Weight Loss?

In short yes it does but often not in the way that our clients expect. For the average person calling us for hypnotherapy to lose weight they are expecting a one session Harry Potter session of magic where we change a life time of eating patterns in one hour. Whilst hypnosis can be fast and life changing we usually need a little bit more time. Typically our weight loss hypnosis is completed in programs usually lasting from three to five sessions. Now that is still fast but it is certainly no one session wonder.

So what do we do in our sessions that can make such a difference to our clients weight.

No Diets

First of all none of our programs put you on a conventional diet. Why? Because we know they don't work and most of our clients will have tried one after another to lose weight and they often end up back worse than where they started. Our job is to take that pressure away from your mind. That means no cutting out food groups, drinking shakes, surviving on salads or counting points. Through hypnosis we work with you to rediscover your natural eating patterns which have been ignored for years.

Self Hypnosis for Weight Loss

This uses similar techniques to those of elite athletes. Positive visualisation and suggestions to boost your willpower, motivation so that you can see success. When these techniques are used repeatedly the messages enter into the subconscious and start to create new patterns of behaviour. We have a full range of self hypnosis for weight loss audios available in our online shop which can be used for everything from portion control to helping food cravings.

Patience

We are not the right people to come and see if you want to lose two stone super fast for that wedding you are going to. Yes of course if you starve yourself you will lose weight but then it will all go back on again. Weight loss takes time and we never want to rush it. Let nature do its job and stop trying to create artificial results that won't last. We work slowly and steadily with you allowing natural weight loss to take place.

Motivation

Lost your mojo? Procrastinating and sitting on the sofa instead of heading out for some exercise? Believe it or not weight loss hypnosis can help to boost your motivation and willpower and discover and unconscious reasons why you have decided to not make positive changes. When we uncover those reasons therapy allows us to overcome these tired thought patterns so that you move forward again.

Support

If you want to pass your driving test you hire a driving instructor. If you want to learn how to dance you go to a dance school. In almost all cases you don't do things alone. This is why it makes total sense to get support from an expert to discuss the problems that are holding you back so that you can both find a way to overcome your problems.

Changing Behaviour Patterns

In cases of emotional eating your mind is making you eat for a good reason. You might not understand that that may be but your subconscious does. Hypnosis is a way of communicating with your subconscious to find out what the problem is. So are you eating because you are upset, anxious, guilty, angry or even happy? Weight loss hypnotherapy can help you to find the connections and alter the way that you think.

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Do you want more information about hypnosis and how it can help you to make positive change? Call us today for more information on how we use weight loss hypnosis to help our clients shed the pounds on 01636 650 521

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Weight Loss Hypnosis in Nottingham - How To Choose a Great Practitioner

If you are looking for weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham and the surrounding areas it can be difficult knowing where to start looking for a hypnotherapist who can help you. Generally looking up the term on Google will bring you up a large list of hypnotherapy websites but it can be difficult to work out which practices really have the experience and knowledge to assist you on your weight loss journey. Therefore we thought we would create this handy guide to help you choose the best weight loss therapist in your area.

What Questions Do Your Ask Your Weight Loss Hypnotherapist?

As experts in hypnosis for weight loss we know that experience counts when it comes to helping our clients. These are the crucial elements you need to consider before booking your appointment.

1) Groupon - For the general public Groupon can seem like a cheap way to get a product or a service that you want but for the person selling the service the benefits are not so great. When you offer your services via cheap sites such as these the person selling the service is making no money. This is because at least half the fee that you are paying goes to Groupon. This means that the only therapists who sell their services this way are the incredibly new therapists with no experience or referral lists or the desperate because they have no clients. Any great weight loss hypnotherapist wouldn't be seen dead advertising their skilled treatments as bargain basement deals. When it comes to seeing a therapist pay for the very best that you can afford. Good therapists are not dirt cheap!

2) Are they Part Time? - Many people are totally unaware that the vast majority of hypnotherapists are part timers. They may see only one or two people a week as a supplement to their day job. This is either because they don't want to commit to hypnosis full time or have been unable to make a practice work for them. A busy hypnotherapist is likely to be seeing anywhere from 15 to 30 clients per week. Generally the more clients you see then the more skilled you become at helping to remedy your clients problems. When you are part time you are simply not accumulating the vast experience needed to deal with complex issues such as weight loss. Before booking your weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham it makes sense to choose a full time practitioner. The exception to this rule would be a partially retired practitioner who may have been in practice for years.

3) How Long Have They Been in Practice? - Generally when you are a new hypnotherapist you need to work under supervision for the first two years. That is providing you are a member of a reputable professional body. You are of course qualified to work with the general public but again you may be lacking in experience in many areas. Choosing a senior qualified hypnotherapist helps as it means that you are benefiting from their years of experience and wisdom.

4) Do They have a Specialism? - Although most hypnotherapists are generalists there are many who specialise in a certain area. Our clinic for example specialises in weight loss hypnotherapy, gastric band hypnosis and all forms of eating disorders. Seeing a therapist who works in one particular area means you will benefit from their increased knowledge in that area.

5) Were they Trained Online? - Believe it or not it is possible to call yourself a hypnotherapist if you have received a certificate from an online company. In fact you don't even need a certificate at all to practice hypnosis. Studying online is fine but if it is not backed up with practice working with actual clients then you have a totally inexperienced practitioner for dealing with one to one work. Where possible choose therapists who have studied at a college or practice where they needed to interact with other hypnotherapists.

6) Are They a Member of a Professional Body? - It is perfectly possible to practice without being a member of a professional body but this means that the practice is unlikely to have a code of ethics or complaints procedure that they abide by. Try and choose a specialist who belongs to one of the major reputable professional bodies in the UK such as the General Hypnotherapy Register which we are a member of.

Weight Loss Hypnosis In Nottingham Experts

Having run a successful weight loss hypnotherapy clinic in Harley Street London we have seen thousands of clients over the years who needed our help to shed the pounds. We offer all our potential clients a free telephone consultation before we book them in for sessions so they can fully understand the therapeutic work that we do. If you would like more information about our weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham simply call us today on 01636 650 521 for more details.

Portion Control and Weight Loss Hypnosis

One of the very first sessions that we usually conduct with our clients involves portion control. We know that so many dieters believe that they know what to eat but in most cases they are simply eating way too much of the problem foods that are causing them to put on weight. With hypnotherapy we are helping our clients reconnect to the feelings of hunger or fullness rather than eating out of habit, boredrom or emotional eating. In order to do this our weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham tends to use mindful eating to help make changes to portion sizes.

Lose Weight with Mindful Eating

Take a moment and think about your last few meals. That could mean your breakfast, lunch, evening meal or even snacks. Now think about how much time you took over your meal and what were you doing at the same time as eating. I bet when you really think about it you will find that in many cases you were either eating in a rush or multi tasking and doing something else at the same time. One of the biggest issues we have noted is that hardly anyone sits down properly to eat and enjoy their food anymore. Instead they will be eating at their desk whilst their mind is on their work or they will eat their dinner in the evening in front of the television whilst they switch off in front of the television.

Switching off is the term to note here. When you sit in front of the TV and concentrate on a film or programme how much time are you spending listening to you body? When you are engrossed in your emails whilst you are eating your sandwich at work how do you recognise whether you are hungry or full?  In both of these cases your mind has a focus on everything but the food that you are eating. That means that you are finding it impossible to pick up the signals as to whether you are hungry or full. Put a takeaway in front of you whilst you are watching Saturday night television and you will eat significantly more than if you were to eat that food whilst you were alone and concentrating on every mouthful.

Our programs for weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham concentrate on reconnecting you to you body and taking you away from the day to day distractions that are stopping you understanding what your stomach is trying to tell you. Now that you are paying attention to what is going on in your body start to think about a hunger scale of 1 to 10. 1 means that you are not really hungry at all whilst 10 means that you are starving. From now on you want to be eating at level 6 or 7 and that is usually when your stomach starts to growl indicating that it needs some food. How many times in the past month have you eaten when you were only a level 2 or a 3? In fact for many people they will never have experienced a point where their stomach growls anymore because they will have kept on filling it long before it got to that point. Mindful eating helps you to focus on when your stomach is giving you the signal to eat.

Weight Loss Hypnotherapy and Food Quality

The great thing about hypnosis is that through the use of positive suggestion, reinforcement and visualisation it is possible to amplify feelings which can help you to focus on your portion sizes so that you eat less. For example making you think about the quality off the food that you are eating. This might mean helping you to imagine eating only small portions of really good quality food instead of mounds of horrible cheap highly processed meals. We know that our clients are worth more than a bad takeaway and cheap chocolate.

Aversion hypnosis can also help your mind to react to certain foods so that they begin to repel you. Lets say that you love to eat too many crisps. Then your hypnotherapist may start to suggest to you that from now on you are only going to concentrate on the oil that is contained within the crisps. That this fatty oil which is in your mouth is now coating your tongue and gullet and oozing and spreading down into your stomach. Part of this oil is going to harden and solidify in your body into yellow lumps of fat. Many people who experience this form of hypnosis will now look at crips in an entirely different way and actually have no desire to eat them any more. These suggestions can be compounded with audios that we give to our clients between each session. Our Kill Food Cravings mp3 for example is great at helping our clients to resist the temptation of foods that they know they don't need.

Thinking about the last time you were really full under hypnosis can also help to trigger feelings of fullness much quicker. We have all had times where we have eaten so much that we felt like we could burst. Perhaps after a celebration dinner or when we have eaten something rich. If under hypnosis we get you to think about this moment those same bloated sick feelings start to reappear. Now if we tell you that you are much more conscious of what you are eating that you will experience this feeling quicker than before your subconscious will help you to avoid the same horrible feelings. This means it can help to stop eating much sooner when you are eating so that you end up leaving food on your plate.

Our weight loss hypnosis in Nottingham uses these techniques and many more as part of our programs to help our clients regain control of their eating patterns. If you read about our Gastric Band Hypnotherapy sessions this form of hypnosis is just a small example of the techniques and strategies we use to help our clients. We are always happy to give our clients as much detail as they need to help them decide whether this form of hypnosis will be useful to them. Simply give us a call and we will be happy to answer your questions.

Gastric Band Hypnosis in Nottingham

At Balance Hypnosis we offer all the latest cutting edge hypnotherapy techniques to help our clients lose weight. Our Gastric Band Hypnosis in Nottingham is a method we have used successfully with many of our clients to help them eat less and feel full more quickly. We caution that unlike many therapists who might suggest this is a magic wand that is far from the case. The title of the program does not detail the complex therapy involved which also requires the clients participation in the process for success to be achieved.

Many diet programs advocate strict calorie control or liquid diets and excessive exercise. In many cases these diets will work in the short term but over a long period of time they inevitably fail. Yet time and time again these people will try the next fad and the next in order to try and shed the pounds. When they inevitably go back on again the person feels a failure. The reality is strict calorie restriction of fad diets are not a solution to weight loss. This is because the person who is using them will feel deprived of the foods that they love. Take something away from a person and they will want it more!

What about Actual Gastric Band Surgery?

Many of my clients feel so desperate about their weight that they will actually have gone to a private clinic and had a gastric band,  bypass or sleeve. They wanted the miracle cure and thought that by throwing money at the problem it would go away. Of course in many cases this is not enough as no lifestyle or psychological change has taken place. This means that despite the physical restriction in their stomach they don't lose significant amounts of weight as they originally thought. So what is causing the problem?

Emotional Eating Help

Our Gastric Band Hypnosis in Nottingham is aimed at giving our clients help for their emotional eating. That means we work with them to help them understand the reasons why they may be turning to food. Once we have a greater awareness of these triggers then we help them to try and resolve the underlying issues rather than just place them on a diet. There are numerous reasons why food may have become a problem and here are just some of the reasons that we see:

• Lack of Understanding of Portion Control
• Inability to Control Food Cravings
• Dealing with Stress by Eating
• Unresolved Emotional Problems relating to: Sadness, Guilt, Anger or Anxiety
• Binge Eating related to Perfectionism
• Eating Mindlessly to Dissociate from Problems
• Feelings of being Unloved or Alone

As long as these emotional issues are unresolved the client with the problem is likely to eat to comfort themselves for the problem. Our aim is to be help them identify what is the issue at the heart of their eating so that this can be tackled with therapy.

The Nottingham Hypno-Band Program

Our Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis involves everything from suggestion hypnosis to mindful eating to CBT techniques as well as coaching. We do everything we can to help our clients make positive changes to alter their lifestyle and the way that they use food. The virtual operation is a form of suggestion hypnosis to compound these suggestions but is only used when we have done the therapeutic work first. In additon to the work completed in the sessions all our clients are expected to do homework outside of the sessions which includes keeping a food diary and listening to our weight loss downloads.

For More Information

To get more information about our Gastric Band Hypnosis in Nottingham or any of our other hypnotherapy programs simply call us on 01636 650 521 for more details.

Six Ways Our Weight Loss Hypnotherapy in Nottingham Can Help You To Shape Up

Many people think of weight loss hypnotherapy as some form of magic bullet that will help them instantly shed the pounds after one session. Now whilst hypnosis can create amazing results it is more complex than people think. Generally one session is nowhere near enough to solve a life long problem with food. However when weight loss sessions are tailored into a program they can really help a person to understand why they are overeating and find strategies for change. Just some examples of the ways hypnosis can help include.

1) Using Positive Visualisation - Every Olympic athlete now uses this tool in preparation for their events and even whilst they are competing. Athletes understand that having a positive mental attitude can make the difference between success and failure. Now if it is good enough for them then it is good enough to be used in the therapy room. At our clinics we bombard our clients with positive messages from the start. We use them in our sessions and in the audios we give our clients. If we discover that our clients have entered into a pattern of negative thining then we show them ways to change. Believing that you can create a lifestyle change is half the battle.

2) Taste and Smell - When a client enters a certain depth of hypnosis we are able to enhance their senses. People in trance are able to visualise food as if it is in front of them. They are able to small the food and see the texture. Now if there is a food stuff that they do not like we can play on these senses to associate that food with foods that they normally crave. Today I had a client who hated liver. One of the things we did in todays session was get her to think about overeating and associating the taste of liver with that sensation. This should help her to switch off the cravings really quickly when she comes across temptation.

3) Mindfulness - Our lives now are very different to years ago. We no longer take our time over our meals and when we eat we are usually distracted by other things. How many times have you eaten your meals in front of the tv or whilst browsing on a tablet. When we run our weight loss hypnotherapy Nottingham sessions we go back to basics and teach our clients to eat without distraction and to pay attention to their food. One of my clients did this for one week and lost six and a half pounds!

4) Managing Emotions - Food is used by many as a comforter or a soother. If they are feeling upset, angry, frustrated or anxious food is often the thing they turn to in order to make themselves feel better. Of course the food does not deal with the underlying emotion and the problem remains! We help our clients to recognise emotional eating and find alternative strategies for dealing with the problem.

5) Portion Control - Understanding when you are hungry and when you are full is a real problem for many people. So many clients come in to our clinic and tell us that they never feel full. The truth of the matter is that they all know when they are full they just choose to eat past that point. Under hypnosis the subconscious can signal exactly where that point is and what made the person continue overeating. With practice this unconscious awareness can enter the consciousness and change eating patterns. We even give our clients a portion control download so they can practice this self hypnosis a at home.

6) Cravings Control - The mind is like a muscle and with practice is can be taught to manage cravings. Just as Pavlov's dogs salivated when a bell rang humans have build the same associations. Perhaps the signal for us is associating a cup of tea and biscuits or a cafe with eating cake. Now we only have to see the cup of tea and instantly we crave the biscuits as we believe they go hand in hand. Hypnosis can help to break these associations.

For more details about our weight loss hypnotherapy in Nottingham visit our website or call us today for a free telephone consultation.