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Using hypnosis to help with weight loss can be very effective in changing eating habits, building motivation, reducing nagging thoughts, ignoring the negative feelings your body experiences when using fat stores and revising the taste and experience of fattening foods downward and the taste and experience of healthy foods upward. Hypnosis -- hypnosis tapes or hypnosis via a competent professional -- will assist best in the context of a concerted, conscientious effort to change old habits and establish new. Check out Head-Cleaners Hypnosis Tapes for Weight Loss.
losing fat makes you feel like crap
Understand that the uncomfortable feelings you feel when dieting are the consequence of fat stores reduction. If you do feel uncomfortable, celebrate the feeling, don't run to the fridge to find relief.
make a decision to change your eating life style
Understand that hypnosis will assist best in the context of a concerted, conscientious effort to change old habits and establish new.
imagination has power
Take ten or twenty seconds several times a day to imagine yourself in the new shape you want to be in. Imagine the benefits. Imagine how well you will feel -- how proud of yourself for having made such positive changes and how much more attractive you will feel. Imagine how much more energy and positive feelings you will have.
change routines
Routine trigger feelings and habits. If you change routines, especially those associated with eating, you reduce the triggering of unconscious thoughts and motivation (e.g., if you always have a snack before bed while watching tv, keep the tv off and find something else to do like reading, listening to a hypnosis tape, sex).
get some exercise
Yes, we've all heard that it can take hours to exercise off the calories in a cookie. But that's a bit simplistic and not really accurate. Exercise is important to overall health and it increases the metabolism rate of the body as well as helping the body define which areas can stand to lose their stores and which cannot. On some diet programs, without exercise, the body can actually burn muscle as well as fat. Exercise insures that your body is maintaining muscle systems.
love yourself the way you are
Ironically, people who hate themselves and who have difficulty accepting themselves have a lot of trouble being nice enough to themselves to do healthy, practical things for themselves. It is a paradox but a manageable one -- love yourself the way you are and let yourself simply enjoy the idea of ongoing self-improvement. This makes optimal weight loss much easier to accomplish. I have worked with many people who say to me that they will not like themselves until they lose weight. The only ones I ever saw actually lose weight with that attitude managed it through very unhealthy strategies -- amphetamines, laxatives or purging -- and had far more emotional and self-control problems and vastly greater physical problems once they lost weight and had an even tougher time with self-esteem. Work on self-acceptance and self-esteem and you are more likely to handle your life in a self-controlled manner. This is not a minor issue.
focus on shape and health, not weight
One of the weird twists when people are worried about being overweight is that they tend to focus on weight and not on shape. One's weight really isn't the issue except for the very few people that are numbers oriented or unless your weight is better measured in tons. What difference does it make if you weigh 300 lbs if you're shaped like Marisa Tomei or built like Keanu Reeves? And what good is it if you weigh 100 lbs. but look like a hippo? Shape is the more meaningful goal. This is important to remember because as one diets AND exercises fat will go and muscle may be added -- and fat weighs much less than muscle -- thus as one achieves a much more shapely figure weight loss may be slower than expected or a few pounds are actually added on.
stop dieting and gain more weight than you lost
It is easier to control your weight by NOT dieting if you cannot count on your ability to either permanently change eating habits or at the very least very slowly ease off your diet over several weeks. This is because dieting via most diets causes your body to react to the loss of fat stores by working to reduce metabolism and become more watchful for the next opportunity to store fat with a resolve to store more than was lost. This is why some people diet and then diet and then diet and within months after each diet they're even heavier than before.
a suggestion for a dazzling dieting program
Use your own judgement and whim as to how to put together your own personalized dieting program, but try to be heavier on practical thinking than rationalized baloney. (And if you think that you're not one to engage in rationalizations and associated baloney when issues of self-discipline and your baser instincts and appetites are in play, you're probably already rationalizing and full of baloney.)
Here's a starter suggestion for a dieting program:
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First make sure you have resolved to begin dieting on or before the day you start listening to the tapes.
Make sure you have the types of foods at home that you need and NONE of the foods you should not eat and that usually sing songs of allurement to you.
If you cook for others, take a few days off and tell them to expect to be sent to McDonalds.
Resolve to just say "no" to invitations to go out to dinner the first three days (minimum).
If you were thinking about quitting smoking some day soon, add it to your program. (Quitting smoking is sometimes associated with wanting to eat more, so focusing on dieting at the same time will lessen the possibility that you'll put on a bunch of weight you might have just lost and it is a good start for living smokinglessness. Also, for smokers, a lot of eating and drinking behaviors trigger smoking urges in the mind and smoking can trigger certain eating and drinking urges.)
Then, when you have all those "ducks in a row," comes the possibility of hypnosis tapes. Hypnosis is help -- for some, very powerful help -- but not generally mandatory. With regard to head-cleaners hypnosis tapes, listen to either to diet down right (which focuses on skills and attitudes that foster adhering to a diet regime) or practical, optimal eating, too (which focuses on motivation and skills that foster better eating habits, interests attitudes). Listen to one and then the other, rotating them one per day for the first six days or so and as then whichever whenever the whim strikes. Other head-cleaners tapes can help, too -- listened to whenever the whim directs. healing tree 2 focuses on hope and a sense of resiliency and faith in yourself and in life. performance 2 focuses on doing the things you know how to do without a lot of distracting thinking going on. nightmares to nice dreams focuses on having dreams of empowerment (the nightmares are in the title, it's not about nightmares). two voices to imagine focuses on establishing a sense of control over physical and/or emotional "levels" -- control over inclinations, behaviors, emotions, tendencies, appetites, etc.
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