Thinking about weight loss injections? Before you spend your money, think about hypnotherapy for weight loss.  Or perhaps you have tried weight loss injections and found it too hard to cope with. You don’t need to lose hope of losing weight – hypnotherapy to lose weight is wholly painless, doesn’t affect your body’s natural processes and actually works after just a few sessions, so no need to go through the challenge of injecting yourself week after week.

I have seen clients recently that not only have tried every diet plan on the market, but have also been privately prescribed weight loss injections and really struggled with them, giving up due to side effects, both physical and mental. They genuinely felt that they had reached the end of the road on their weight loss journey and had nowhere else to go – then they found me.

I am neither for or against weight loss injections (though wouldn’t consider them myself) but I do believe that if there is a safe, non-invasive alternative that really works, this is the way to go – and hypnotherapy for weight loss is that alternative.

How do weight loss injections work?

When you eat, your gut releases hormones that do things like instruct the pancreas to release insulin (which helps lower blood sugar), slow how fast your stomach empties (so you feel full for longer), and send signals to your brain about hunger/fullness.

Two of those hormones are GLP-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1) and GIP (Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide).

Medications like those available in the UK semaglutide (found in Wegovy), liraglutide (in Saxenda), and tirzepatide (in Mounjaro) act to initiate production of one or both of those natural hormones. They trick your body into doing more of what GLP-1 or GIP do.

What are the side effects of weight loss injections?

Any drug that mimics hormones in the body when those hormones are already being produced will, of course, trigger side effects. Unsurprisingly, common mild to moderate side-effects include gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, constipation and stomach pain, tiredness or dizziness. More serious (and thankfully less frequent) risks include pancreatitis, gallbladder issues, hypoglycemia, and effects on contraception and HRT.

Finally, once your desired weight loss is achieved and you stop taking the injections you stop putting those extra hormones in your body and it reverts to the previous way of working – your physiological and psychological makeup hasn’t changed, it’s simply been overridden for a time. There is then, of course, the risk of rebound weight gain, as you haven’t addressed the habits and psychological issues that led to you gaining weight, and struggling to lose it, in the first place.

HYPNOTHERAPY FOR WEIGHT LOSS WORKS BECAUSE WE CHANGE YOUR MIND, NOT YOUR HORMONES

How does hypnotherapy for weight loss work?

The short answer is simple: I can help change the way your mind works, not the way your body works. Working together, we get to the root of poor eating habits and any psychological triggers that cause you to behave in ways you logically know to be damaging, but cannot overcome. Whether you comfort eat, have seemingly unbreakable habits or are simply stuck in a yoyo dieting rut, I can help change it.

How long does it take?

Most of my clients have between four and six sessions across two to three months, leaving you with the knowledge and the confidence you need to KNOW you will keep losing weight until you achieve your goals. Hypnotherapy for weight loss doesn’t work on a wish and a prayer, it’s not about hope or hormones, it’s about reworking your subconscious. It’s not even about willpower, it’s about changing your mindset so everything works naturally for you. 

Together we can resolve your diet and eating issues and discover the you who wants to change their life, permanently. After your therapy is complete, you will find a whole new you, ready and able to eat better, exercise more and live a more content way of life. We recode the old habits and intrusive thoughts and give you a whole new outlook on life.

No drugs. No hormones. No over-promising diets plans. Just you, becoming the person you want to be.

Take control of your eating habits, cravings and how you feel about yourself with hypnotherapy for weight loss. Call me now for a free 20 minute telephone consultation, on 0161 374 0227, or complete the form here.

Finding help couldn’t be easier, just follow the directions on the map, our full address is:

197 Dane Road Sale M33 2NA

My Hours of Operation are:

• Monday to Friday 9am-7pm
• Saturday 9am-4pm

Lose weight with hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is often a last port of call for people seeking to lose weight, but it is actually incredibly powerful, and unlike dieting, can be a permanent fix.

All too often I receive a phone call when people have pretty uch given up and are feeling really low, beaten down and helpless in the face of their weight gain. They have usually tried many diets and ‘healthy eating’ programmes, and while the weight may initially just fall off, they just don’t seem to be able to maintain their ideal weight once the crash diet or programme is complete.

“I’ve come a long way, losing more than three stone already” (Neil, from Manchester)

Why? You have heard, I’m sure, the term ‘yo-yo dieting’, it’s a simple term for somebody who sets a weight goal, diets hard and achieves their desired weight but then soon regains the weight they lost, and often puts on even more. People talk all the time about acheving the right mindset and advertise diets that address the psychology of weight loss as well as the nutritional aspects, but unless you take time to truly understand why YOU live what you know to be an unhealthy lifestyle for your needs, and work to rewire your brain to change your thoughts and behaviours, losing weight and getting healthy could remain distant dreams.

I have noticed two key difference between men and women who come to me for hypnotherapy for weight loss:

1. Men tend to start off more sceptical than women, but once they start seeing results, become extremely enthusiastic participants in the protocol

2. Men tend to struggle with weight for reason of bad habits, rather than anything more complex, which actually makes it a less complicated issue to resolve. This isn’t the case every sigle time, of course, but most certainly more often than not. 

I’d like to share something a recent client, Neil, from Manchester, has to say following his recent hypnotherapy sessions with me.

“I had tried all the options. I had long struggled with weight coming off and going back on, but made no meaningful changes. I thought hypnotherapy was a bit ‘out there’, but nothing else was working.”

Neil isn’t unusual. I have often heard my profession being described as ‘out there’ , or even ‘a bit woo woo’, but if it’s woo woo that works, which it does, I am not going to worry.

Neil goes on: “Hypnotherapy is not something I had ever believed in, but I opened my mind and I am so happy I did. Sally’s 45-minute sessions felt like ten minutes.”

Beating bad habits with hypnotherapy

Let’s look at that statement. Those 45-minute sessions were indeed the hypnotherapy aspect of my work with Neil. After a detailed conversation looking at Neil’s lifestyle and eating habits, we were able to agree on the most damaging of his usual behaviours – his love of (he says unbeatbale addiction for) a daily lunchtime kebab – and I used hypnotherapy to help him break this habit. No longer does Neil crave a kebab, not at lunchtime, not at the end of a night out, not ever. Instead, we have replaced this bad habit with a good one – making a healthy choice instead. When under hypnosis, 45 minutes really does feels like just ten. 

Neil goes on to say: “Sally helped me break it all down – all my thoughts and feelings and beliefs around food and health and how I feel about myself – and then rebuilt it, correcting my subconscious responses to triggers and helping me take control.”

While habits such as Neil’s are quite easy to banish, it is the case that for many of my clients their attitude to food, diet and exercise is the result of a trauma or events that happened in their past, usually forgotten or buried deep in their subconscious, sometimes remembered with fear and dismay, or even anger. By working to ‘rewire’ their subconscious, I can then put plans in place to help make permanent changes in the way they feel about themselves – and their relationship with food.

To do this I use BrainWorking Recursive Therapy, or BWRT. This is a short-term therapy developed by Terrance Watts to quickly and permanently change the way your brain reacts to certain stimuli – from stressful situations (such as preparing to give a speech, or visiting a dentist) to non-stressful but unhealthy situations,, such as always having a kebab at the end of the night, or always smoking a cigarette when with certain friends. By changing the way your brain responds to these stimuli, we can change your behaviours – break the habit, reduce the anxiety, quash the phobia or change your whole attitude to food and exercise.

Get yourself ready to lose weight with hypnotherapy

Neil is well aware that hypnotherapy is not a magic wand, that he has to put work in to get the results he wants, but what he has now is a new way of looking at his life, a new way of thinking about himself and a new impetus to continue to make the changes he wants to make.

“The work I have done with Sally has really helped me understand the root cause of my issues, and change the way I deal with life’s problems,” he says. “It’s effective because it gets to the heart of me, and my needs. It’s not a crash diet, or random fitness routine. It’s real life changes with tools to help me for the rest of my life. I’ve come a long way, losing more than three stone already, but it’s the ongoing lifestyle change that I can now maintain that will really make the difference.

“Sally was lovely to work with. She made it easy for me to open up and delve into my personal issues, things I would never have acknowledged or addressed without her support.

“Yes, at first it felt like a big financial commitment, but the sessions have proven invaluable, and what she has taught me is priceless.”

If you’re feeling as if you have reached the end of your tether and are close to giving up on ever losing weight, and keeping it off, call me. Or better still – don’t wait for that moment, call me and make the changes you need to make right now.

Call me on 0161 374 0227 or, if you prefer, email me at  sally@mindsolutions.co.uk

Finding help couldn’t be easier, just follow the directions on the map, our full address is:

197 Dane Road Sale M33 2NA

My Hours of Operation are:

• Monday to Friday 9am-7pm
• Saturday 9am-4pm

I’ve written before about the many clients I have seen over the years who have struggled with achieving their weight loss goals, who tell me about their years of yo-yo dieting, the many and varied diets they have tried and the emotional and physical impact of their seeming inability to keep their weight to a level that makes them happy.

One of my recent clients, the lovely Clare, fitted neatly into this all too familiar pattern, when she came to see me earlier this year, and together we have worked to help her achieve the lifestyle changes she wanted to make and lose the weight she wanted to lose. Through working with me, Clare has a new-found sense of self-belief, and she says, hasn’t once fallen away from the goals she set during our time together.

In her own words: “It was the easiest way I have ever lost weight. I’ve never lost weight and felt this way. It just feels like it comes naturally. It was a real step into the unknown, because you can read about a diet and you can think, ‘Well, that makes sense.’ But this was me putting myself in someone else’s hands completely. And it’s the best thing I have ever done.’

Here’s her story, in her own words.

Claire’s Story

I have struggled with my weight from being a child, probably from being about eight or nine years old. When I became an adult I tried everything you can think of – Slimming World, Weight Watchers, even Slim Pods, and I actually gained weight with that one.

One thing I I learned was that I would get to a certain weight, then self-sabotage and just regain it. I got to the point where I was fed up of losing it and putting it back on and yo-yoing all the time. Then I read something about hypnotherapy and thought I’d give it a go. I umm-ed and ahh-ed over it for about six months, then finally researched who offered hypnotherapy for weight loss in Manchester and found Sally. Everything I read on Sally’s site, from her own words to the reviews, made me feel really positive. So, after some more thinking, I told myself to just do it, and made the call.

In our initial phone call Sally made me feel really safe and reassured. We talked about what I wanted to achieve and arranged to meet. I filled in a questionnaire about myself, my experiences and my goals, and then in our first session we spent some time discussing this, which was really helpful as I got to know Sally and could see how committed she is. We talked about my sugar cravings, and sweet things being my usual ‘downfall’, and in this first hypnotherapy session Sally addressed this with me and, amazingly, I no longer feel the urge to eat sweet things. Previously, if someone brought in chocolates to work, I’d say, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t, but then eat them and immediately feel bad. Now, I have no interest; there’s a box of Ferrero Rocher and I haven’t had one!

I feel that all my adult life I have been the one doing things for everyone else. Working with Sally felt like being wrapped in a blanket, and somebody was actually looking after me for an hour and it was just very, very, relaxing.

During our sessions we talked a lot about why I self-sabotage, about my eating habits and how I feel about myself. I also lost my father quite recently, in an accident, so wasn’t able to say goodbye. We talked about this in one of the early sessions and it just felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I felt very light after that; I hadn’t realised how much it was affecting me. That was a difficult session, but it was a good session.

I learned that weight loss isn’t just about what you do physically, with diet and exercise, it’s also about how you feel about yourself. I hadn’t ever really thought about that, because when you’re trying to lose weight you’re trying to be more active, you try to be more mindful of your choices, but you never consider why it’s so hard.

I know the hypnotherapy is working, because I just don’t have the desire to do the stuff that I know was self sabotage before.

Before, when I was on a diet, whatever plan I was following, or even if I was just trying to be more mindful, it felt like I was being deprived. Now I feel I’m more in control of my eating and just eat what I need and I never feel like I am missing out. I used to get a feeling of being really, really hungry, and I just don’t feel like that anymore. It doesn’t feel like it’s a chore, or I have to really think about it. It just comes naturally. I don’t stress about eating a bit more one day, as I find it easy now to balance myself day to day – I’m just not putting pressure on myself any more.

I feel better in myself as well; a lot better in myself – not just physically, but my mental health, too. I feel more confident. I’m not stressed. I don’t feel anxious any more around food. And it’s spilled into other areas of my life. I’m more productive at work. I feel more engaged with life and just better all round. I no longer have the lethargy I used to have, I have the opposite – I am full of energy these days!

We had five sessions, with hypnotherapy on each occasion, and Sally helped me find the way to understand how my mental and emotional state impacted the way I lived. Now, I eat well and I exercise, and it’s not a chore. I do it because I want to, not because I think I should.

I have lost two stone since our first meeting and it’s still coming off. I am not setting dates or weight targets – it takes as long as it takes. For me, now, it’s about living life differently and thinking about my health, and just feeling better about myself. One thing I have noticed is that I don’t get the mood swings I used to – these were I think a mix being driven by what I ate and then how I felt about what I ate – feeling as if I had done something ‘naughty’. I just don’t get that anymore.

I feel like I have control over that kind of spiralling. And that feeling of control has spread to all aspects of my life, including exercise. It doesn’t feel like something I have to do for weight loss, any more. I see it as a choice to do it to feel fit and feel better. I don’t exercise so I can eat more, I exercise to maintain good health.

It’s been worth it in ways I hadn’t imagined. It was the step into the unknown and it’s a step I shall always be grateful I took.

Thank you Sally!

Finding help couldn’t be easier, just follow the directions on the map, our full address is:

197 Dane Road Sale M33 2NA

My Hours of Operation are:

• Monday to Friday 9am-7pm
• Saturday 9am-4pm