Healthy Weight Loss
Posted by: Nancy Anderson on
Oct 31st, 2008
Healthy Weight Loss: Is Hypnosis Effective?
Each year millions of people attempt to find ways to achieve healthy weight loss. And each year many of these people fail to reach their goals. There are so many programs available that if you are not well informed you will be easily confused. This confusion leads to failure. Failure at losing weight can be very discouraging, even to the point of giving up totally on any future attempts to try and lose weight. Our self esteem is a very important in the battle to lose weight and to sustain that weight loss. This aspect can be overlooked, or not recognized, as people try to lose weight.
Self esteem is one of those personality characteristics that has a more powerful effect on our behavior than most people actually realize. There are so many “quick fix” weight loss programs that leave us feeling frustrated and depressed which affects our attitudes and our thought processes. A negative attitude can be self defeating. To overcome this problem some turn to hypnosis, which can often be the missing link that helps you to attain healthy weight loss more effectively.
Over the last couple of decades the use of hypnosis has grown in popularity to help people overcome various behavioral problems. Smoking, phobias and other problems have turned to this method of correcting problems. Can you actually achieve healthy weight loss by using hypnosis? Does hypnotism really works? What is hypnotism really like?
One thing about scientific research is that there are always varying opinions. Not everyone will agree on research and findings. This holds true for hypnosis as an effective healthy weight loss method. Hypnosis and weight loss can be effective if you give it the chance to retrain your mind. Mind control will help you to know when your stomach is full. Hypnosis and weight loss works through a process of positive messages and mantras that are repeated about your goals in life while you are in an almost sleep-like state. This encourages your mind to see things in a different way There is a school of thought that believes successful weight loss is a matter of a positive mind set. It is important to believe that you will lose weight and also to see yourself as slim so that you will eat like a slim person. If used in this way Hypnotherapy has shown to be an excellent aid to successful weight loss.
Who would ever think that people get addicted to food? However, it happens and is actually becoming a serious problem for many. Studies indicate that food addiction is as hard to break as a cocaine addiction, and is often caused by compulsive bingeing. Generally speaking people who overeat know they have a problem and that they need to do something about it. There is also evidence to show that people do better when treated on an individual basis, rather than through group therapy. If you choose to try hypnotherapy to help you achieve healthy weight loss then it may be advisable to book an individual session to see how you get on.
The weight loss industry has become a very lucrative sector in the business world. Researchers are constantly conducting different studies searching for answers. One recent study followed thousands of participants starting a healthy lifestyle plan. This study, spearheaded by Kaiser Permanente, a health guru, found that the group who kept track of everything that they ate lost twice as much weight as those who did not. Very often weight loss programs fail because the dieter is either disorganized or reluctant to be completely honest about what they have eaten. Writing down your daily intake of food helps to eliminate these two factors and keeps you focused on healthy weight loss.
The ability to lose weight is different for each individual that follows any type of weight loss program. We are all different and thus we will be affected in a different way. There are various factors that affect the rate at which we lose weight. Age affects our metabolism, slowing down about 5% every 10 years after age 40. Males typically burn more fat than females due to the fact that they possess a greater muscle mass (more muscle generally means a higher rate of metabolism). Hormone changes at the different stages of our lives can also affect our metabolisms and ultimately our ability to lose or gain weight. Although the end result is largely dependant on the food we eat, it is also important to remember that the actions of the mind can play a vital role in the over all success of healthy weight loss.
Janet Matthews
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