Hypnotherapy helps you to get back in touch with the instinct that you were born with: to eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re satisfied. This is nature’s way of ensuring that our energy and nutritional needs are met, while maintaining a healthy weight. However, many of us lose touch with that instinct during childhood when we were encouraged to ignore our body’s signals and eat everything on the plate, as well as being consoled or rewarded with food even though we aren’t hungry. Another sure fire way of creating a weight problem is by “going on a diet” which creates a negative pattern of deprivation thinking and then over-eating behaviour. Add into this mix the sugar rich snacks easily available to us, leading to sugar addiction and in addition the widely held but erroneous belief that we should be eating every few hours to avoid getting hungry, and then of course we will lose touch with the instincts that are natural to us and that are designed to ensure we are a healthy weight.

Here at The Hypnotherapy Practice we tailor each session to suit an individual’s requirements. With our hypnotherapy techniques you no longer require the calorie counting because you will be back in touch with the instinct that you were born with: to eat when you are hungry and to stop when you are satisfied. In other words you will only want to eat the amount of food that your body requires in order to be a healthy weight.

Being over-weight is a result of consuming more calories than your body needs in terms of the energy that it uses. In most cases, eating even though you are not hungry and continuing to eat even when you are already satisfied is the main cause of weight gain. In addition, eating too much of those foods that are calorie dense, such as food and drinks that are high in sugar also contribute to weight gain.

You are usually over-eating when:

• You don’t chew your food thoroughly and therefore eat quickly. As a result you don’t notice your body’s signals telling you that you have eaten enough food and the taste buds in your mouth have not been fully satisfied which leads to wanting “something nice” after finishing a meal
• You deliberately ignore the signal that you are satisfied and continue eating
• You eat when you are not truly hungry but bored or stressed or feel an “need” to eat; very often this means snack food between your meals

Your past experiences have created your current relationship with your body’s needs and the food that you consume. Here at The Hypnotherapy Practice we help the unconscious mind identify and resolve its reasons for the over- eating which has led to weight gain. The types of over-eating that we address include: emotional over-eating eating, boredom eating, habitual over-eating responses, over-eating because of low self-esteem and low self-confidence, food cravings and the negative psychological effects of dieting. As a result of our hypnotherapy techniques you will develop a much healthier relationship with your body’s needs and food. You will be in touch with the instincts that you were born with; to eat when you are truly hungry (and not just bored or stressed or craving a perceived “bad” food) and stop when you are satisfied. As a result you will lose weight naturally and easily until you find that ideal naturally healthy weight for you while still enjoying those foods you want to eat.

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