Hypnotherapy Weight Loss Secrets
Research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has proven that all of the popular diets are effective when you stick to them. Atkins – low carb; The Zone – low glycemic index; Ornish – low fat; Weight Watchers – low calorie.
But medical researchers have also proven beyond a doubt that almost no one can stick to any diet because of their appetite.
So to be successful with a diet, you must suppress your appetite.
The Dictionary defines “Appetite” as: “The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion.” So “appetite” is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.
Many people confuse hunger with appetite. Hunger is defined as “The body’s call for nourishment.” In other words, when the body needs food, that’s when you feel true on hunger. By that definition, it is not possible for anyone to “be hungry” if they are overweight.
However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as “hunger.” And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings.
When you were a baby and you got upset, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to pacify you. You would get distracted, become mellow, and often fall asleep. That scenario was repeated hundreds of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it.
Now that you are a grownup, if you feel anxious or tense, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure – food!
People Also Get Urges and Cravings Because Of Classic Conditioning.
When you link eating with any other activity, the other action will trigger cravings for food and a feeling of urgency to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you drive your car, you will automatically get an urge to eat each time you drive your car.
What About Compulsive Overeaters Who Eat Because Of Emotional Reasons?
A compulsion is defined as an “irresistible impulse.” One of the presuppositions of NLP is: There is a positive intention behind all behaviors. In other words, our unconscious mind only motivates behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. In NLP terms, we say that being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome or intention.
You may be wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat are. The list of probabilities is as long as the list of people who are overweight. But I’ll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to become overweight to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart.
A big secret to eliminating your appetite is reframing. With Neuro-Linguistic Programming Reframing, we respect the fact that the mind is compelling us to consume food for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also.
In a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Reframe, we bargain with our subconscious mind. In the case of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our unconscious to assume the responsibility for making us automatically substitute alternate behaviors. The new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more consciously acceptable to us. When the unconscious is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require – we lose our appetite on this score.
If you are a compulsive overeater, we do an additional reframe. We ask your unconscious to accept responsibility for making us substitute new behaviors in place of being fat. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same benefits and protections. But they must be actions that are more consciously acceptable to you. When your unconscious is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same benefits that you require, you lose the urges to overeat.
As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various hypnotic and NLP techniques that erase or “extinguish” those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the cravings and urges.
As soon as your appetite has been eliminated, and any compulsion to overeat has been dealt with, you can easily stick to any diet that you chose on an indefinite basis so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change.
