Hypnosis for Weight Management

 

My approach with hypnosis for weight management has evolved  tremendously this last year and is continuing to evolve.  This evolution has taken place when looking at the specific barriers that each individual is facing in their quest to eat properly and to exercise more and as one barrier is broken down looking at the next one.  I will explain each menu item (similar to my Health Maintenance Menu)  as it evolved.  These are meant as a guideline but I mostly individualize it for your needs.

 

1. “The Original Wt Loss Hypnosis”-  This has been the main staple item I have used now since probably around 1986.  When I had checked and tracked success rate with this it was approximately 80%.  It involves forming an image of how you want to look and feel fit, and that image or that feeling will come up each time to encourage you to eat properly and to exercise.  It can come up at the same time each day to encourage you to exercise daily.  Then using positive reinforcement, when you eat healthy food it will taste great and be much more satisfying than that other food.  It will peak in flavor when you eat the proper amount of food and the taste will drop back to normal if you eat beyond that.  Then when you exercise the endorphins (your body’s own narcotic that gets elevated in extreme exercise such as marathons) will get amplified 100 times and just feel great when you exercise.

 

2. “The Most Filling Hypnosis” -  This beauty I developed after I had surgery and found for the first couple days I felt very full despite eating very little and I didn’t want any more food.  So for this one I have you first remember a time you were very full – such as thanksgiving- and recreate that feeling.  Then have that feeling come up in the middle of your meal or in the middle of snacking and you will stop eating.  This one has had great reviews !!  I first did this on myself and lost 20lb between October and December 2005.  I presented this as a sneak preview at the office in a free group hypnosis and despite the one man who was snoring (went to his comfortable place which was sleeping in his lazy boy chair), others in the group did very well.  One man who did not think he was hypnotized lost so much weight that his family was concerned that there was something wrong with him and had me look for cancer, etc.

 

3. “The Exercise Enhancement” or the “Natural Performance Enhancer”-  This is one I am most excited about lately.   I have to thank my medical student that rotated with me who is also a Personal Trainer.  He wanted to see what it was like to do hypnosis so I did this one with him to enhance his workout.  I had him use more muscle fibers, have more strength, increase the energy to his muscles, increase blood flow and delivery of oxygen to his muscles.  Then added that in between it will stretch appropriately and heal and build more muscle fiber and develop appropriately.   He told me that before we did the hypnosis he would be impressed if he could lift the same weight once since he already max’ed out his workout.  This was his comment- “It definitely worked!  too well, in fact.  i warmed up with 90# dumbells on flat bench (i ended with 95's this morning only doing 1 rep).  I then jumped up to 100's (5# more on each arm than i was able to do this morning), and I was able to get them TWICE!”  This will be evolving to make certain that nobody gets hurt.  I had done this myself and increased most of my weights by 40lb,, I kept myself in a light state of hypnosis while I was working out,,, and by accident I put the biceps up by 100lbs instead of 40 ,,, I was able to lift it for the 3 sets of 10 but my arm was sore afterward for part of the day.  I use a crossbow machine for this.  I also found that when I did the Nordic trak instead of a moderate pace, I went a racing pace and felt great and could go another 20min easy,, and increased the stepper from intermediate level 2, to expert level 3.  I am so impressed with it !!

 

4. “The Anti-Sabotage”  This one I recently did in two versions.  One for people that sabotage me (sales people who bring me food, my family who want to eat), and the other was specifically when I leave the office before I get home to want to exercise instead of raiding the pantry.  Each time I reject food I will get a surge of uplifting energy that feels great and it makes me smile and stronger so its easier to reject food.