Hypnosis can be used for weight management – to control weight and what might be described as ‘losing weight’.
However, when we talk about losing weight, what is often meant is slimming down – becoming thinner, and wanting to lose weight around the hips, thighs, belly, and arms and have lean body mass. and body figure. The odd thing about slimming down is that it doesn’t always mean losing actual weight off the scales. Someone may not be losing weight, but they can see a difference in their body shape. Instead, lack of weight loss maybe due to the building of muscle mass and water retention as a conterbalance.
Losing weight such as through diets can mean losing fat, water retention and muscle. Water loss can lead to dehydration and unpleasant side effects like constipation, headache, muscle cramps, and low energy. Water is stored in tissues and joints, ensuring that it supports and maintains body balance. It’s important to preserve healthy muscle mass to maintain muscle function for body strength and movement. The best approach is to maintain muscle mass and water weight while losing fat.
Focusing on fat loss is much more important than focusing on weight. When you lose body fat, you’re making permanent changes in your body, shifting your body composition, and body composition is liberating, to be the size and shape you want to be and feel happy about the way you look, giving something to focus on in a good way.
Knowing the difference between losing weight and losing body fat can change how you see yourself and your progress to be the shape and size you want to be.
Why hypnotherapy?
The use of hypnosis for weight management is about understanding and addressing lifestyle, and eating issues and the root cause of eating issues, such as overeating, by changing, through the building, forming and setting of new thinking patterns, habits and emotional connections that interfere with the ability to modify lifestyle, diet and eating behaviour effectively, and raising the probability of long-term success, so the desired body shape and size, and a healthy body, as well as optimism, self-esteem and confidence can be attained.
Hypnotherapy can help with lifestyle and environmental issues and creating ideal conditions, which can include issues relating to, being more sedentary than physically active, increased stress levels, tiredness and sleep issues, drinking alcohol and smoking, and family influences which can be a factor with these issues, such as parental influences being developed from childhood, e.g. modelling parental behaviour.
Hypnotherapy can help change the relationship and attitude toward food and have control over what is eaten. It is not about dieting. Unlike diets that are goal-driven one of the benefits of hypnosis treatments people can still eat what they like and lose weight.
Hypnotherapy triggers the desire to reform the relationship with food. It helps facilitate changes in habits and mindset to help change unwanted thoughts, behaviours, or emotions that may be impacting what and how someone eats. It acts as an instant stress relief where someone can relax and uncover their story with food. It helps break down the attachments formed with food since birth. It breaks down the ‘control’ that people create with food which can lead to unhealthy and disordered eating, to overcome moments of temptation and challenge unhealthy or unhelpful thought processes.
Using hypnotherapy for weight loss is more successful alongside not just an eating plan but also a physical activity or exercise plan. Practical and realistic ideas can be incorporated in hypnosis for including more physical activity and exercise throughout the day — as well as finding a plan that works for you.
Hypnotherapy for weight management can be from a one to a four-week program of sessions depending on needs, with additional sessions as required.
Needs can be discussed and questions asked at a free consultation, and together a personalised program can be tailored for your weight management journey.