Men – you can lose weight with hypnotherapy!

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

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197 Dane Road Sale M33 2NA

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