Lose Weight
Lets start with the bad news. To lose weight is not an overnight job. But you knew that didn't you? After all, putting the weight on doesn't exactly happen overnight either! All health professionals will agree that weight loss that happens quickly is weight loss that can be easily regained, and we're in the business of enabling you to lose weight which will stay off.
The good news is that this is a highly successful method of achieving sustained weight loss, available in and near to Chester, Wrexham, Oswestry and Nantwich, and the sessions themselves are discreet (no public weigh ins) and wonderfully enjoyable, as people almost universally find hypnosis very pleasant indeed.
The method of weight loss therapy used by Positive Hypnotherapy is called Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and we consider weight gain to be an expression of some degree of depression. Nothing to rush off to the Doctor about, but somewhere down the line, an excess of anxiety has led to a depressed response, and food has brought comfort. It's common and happens sporadically to almost everybody.
We accept that you may well be thinking "I'm not unhappy or depressed" and/or "I don't eat for comfort", which is reasonable, until you examine what is actually meant by these terms. A person experiencing elements of 'depression' can seem or feel simply anxious, or maybe even just tense, especially at low levels, and most of us would not recognise these symptoms as 'depression', so the 'miserable' stereotypes aren't necessarily what you would have experienced, and you would have no recollection of necessarily having been anything more than 'fed up' or 'down in the dumps'.
As for 'comfort', in depressed people, the normal reward chemicals that motivate people in their day to day lives are found in lower quantities than usual, and all food, but especially fatty or sugary foods, can stimulate the production of those chemicals, making you feel good, which is where the so called 'comfort' comes from. So, really it's a satisfaction of a chemical need, and it doesn't represent weakness or laziness, just a factual chemical requirement.
In most of us, the feeling/s which lead to a spell of overeating will pass (the craving for chocolate, chips, crisps, etc. that is often felt by people of all weights, from time to time), but for some of us they don't pass, or we become too attached to the emotions (the rational term we use to describe how we experience the release of those reward chemicals) we can experience when we are overeating, and most likely a combination of both of these things is probably true in most cases of people being overweight. And so the day comes along where you want or need to lose weight.
In solution focused therapy we work with you to start enabling you to produce your reward chemicals without resorting to overeating. so that you don't experience the cravings for inappropriate foods when you do without them. The reward chemicals can be stimulated by successful behaviour, positive reactions from others, improved self esteem, and moderate exercise, to name but a few, and they are stimulated in the very early stages by your own initial weight loss, and sometimes in early light exercise, positive supportive remarks from friends and family, and our affirmations and other work, while you are with the Hypnotherapist, enabling you to gradually lose weight.
The beauty of these reward chemicals is that your brain will immediately set about looking for more of the same (in the negative way it currently does with food), causing you to repeat your successful behaviour, and once started you will create a culture of success that can go on reproducing itself, day by day, week by week, month by month, making your old eating habits seem like they had never existed....and we know that old neural pathways in the brain can fall into almost complete disuse, when new patterns of behaviour take over, and this can take place in just weeks with Hypnotherapy.
Most people who are really struggling to lose weight will come weekly, for 4 to 6 weeks, rarely longer, and then as success kicks in, the sessions will quickly spread out to fortnightly, 3 weekly and on to monthly, by the 4 to 6 month stage, or earlier sometimes, depending on weight loss. On average we would expect to see the very overweight (BMI c.30+) for a year, during which time we get to know each other well, and a solid, trusting therapeutic relationship is developed with your hypnotherapist, which gives you a degree of support that you simply would not find in most other weight loss programmes. It's like having a personal trainer for your mind!
At the end, if you want the reassurance (and the enjoyment of being hypnotised!) you may choose to maintain a 6 monthly visit for Hypnotherapy for a year or two, though you will have all the strategies you need to remain healthy without hypnotherapy by this time.
We've saved what can be the best bit until last. Solution Focussed Hypnotherapy is a process which works partly by stimulating problem solving mechanisms in your subconscious mind. Often we find people come for weight loss, and find that the control they exercise in losing weight leads to other areas of their life becoming better controlled and more enjoyable too, such as relationships with loved ones, work performance, the ability to concentrate, professional relationships, and their general outlook on life becomes calmer and more balanced. This is a real bonus, and for a few even becomes the major change, with weight loss almost becoming a secondary factor (but it still happens!). How many diet clubs can claim that?
If you're seriously want to lose weight for good, whether it's one stone, or ten stone, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy will put you on track in a progressive, supported, and above all enjoyable way, to sustainable healthy weight loss.
If you live in the Chester, Wrexham, Oswestry corridor, or Nantwich or South Wirral, why not come and see for yourself.
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