You Can Take The Weight Off Once And For All Using Hypnotherapy
By admin | June 13, 2009
Almost everyone with the desire to lose weight will consider dieting at some point. However, most dieters aren’t able to permanently keep weight off. This is because it is often difficult or impossible to commit to a diet and keep up with a weight loss program. Fortunately, there are many options for those who want to lose weight.
Unlike a diet, hypnotism for weight loss will help motivate you to naturally have a healthier diet and get more physical activity. Here, I will describe some of the diet plans you may have heard of, the keys to weight loss, and how you can achieve weight loss using hypnotherapy techniques.
The high numbers of searches for dieting tips and diet plans indicate just how many individuals are looking to lose weight. Some well-known weight loss plans are:
The Atkins diet, which is a well-known low carbohydrate diet, is centered on the limited consumption of “refined carb” foods such as sugar and white bread. By limiting carbohydrate consumption, this diet is supposed to make the body switch from burning carbohydrates for energy to burning fat (the state of ketosis).
The Ornish diet is an extremely low fat, vegetarian diet, is a totally vegetarian eating plan, and when followed correctly, a mere 10% of total calorie intake will come from fat. The Ornish diet also strongly encourages exercise and stress-management, and has been used successfully to help reverse heart disease in many individuals.
The Suddenly Slim diet program consists of taking diet pills and meal replacement shakes in hopes of increasing the body’s metabolism to burn more calories. The products include many ingredients typically found in diet pills. The Suddenly Slim program is supposed to work without more exercise or making other significant lifestyle changes, although exercise and healthier eating will increase results.
The Zone diet balances fat, carbohydrate, and protein intake, with 30% of calories coming from fat, 40% from carbohydrates, and 30% from protein. Like the Atkins diet, this diet is often considered to be “low carb.” The Zone diet pays close attention to calorie intake and physical exercise to deliver results.
The Cabbage soup diet is a component in many free online diet plans and is largely regarded as a fad diet. It consists of eating only cabbage soup for one week. Following this diet will typically lead to a few pounds of weight loss, but when you resume regular eating habits, the weight will usually come back. In addition, staying on this unbalanced free diet plan for more than one week may lead to inadequate nutrition and poor health.
There are hundreds if not thousands of diet programs all promising fast results, but what many of these popular diet plans claim is not what they really offer. They are based on meal plans that are irregular, unsustainable over a long-term period, or downright unhealthy. In fact, permanent weight loss is rarely achieved through a brief, one-time diet session.
Successful dieters will tell you that the keys to losing weight are not in fad diets or even expensive diet plans, but in portion control, selecting nutritious and filling foods, and exercising regularly. This sounds simple to do, but it can be hard to stay motivated to keep healthy habits and undo a lifetime of bad dietary habits.
We often lack the motivation to exercise and eat healthy. Hypnosis can be used to reverse our negative habits and lack of motivation. Hypnosis weight loss programs work by utilizing the power of your unconscious mind to motivate you to exercise and improve your physical health.
Even the best free diet plans fail if they are not followed through. Research shows that most diets fail because dieters simply can’t stick to them. After years of consuming oversized portions, many of us are driven to overeat and our appetites are out of control. This is where hypnotherapy for weight loss is especially effective. Hypnosis weight loss programs are excellent at helping to control food cravings and control the appetite.
For many of us, another component to weight loss is stress management. Many people overeat because of emotions. We eat in response to our feelings, such as when we are angry or sad. This emotional attachment to food can make it easy to gain weight. We can use hypnotherapy to develop better strategies for coping with stress and to quit associating food with our emotions.
It is easy to learn hypnosis by yourself with a good self-hypnosis program. There are weight loss hypnosis programs specifically developed to help you lose weight. With simple techniques from hypnotherapy CDs, you can stop fighting to lose weight and become naturally enabled to shed pounds.
Alan B. Densky, CH, a specialist since 1978, has invented a powerful tool called Neuro-VISION video lose weight NLP. Since everyone is different he offers several ways to suppress appetite and lose weight with hypnosis and NLP. Visit his Free hypnosis video repository.
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The Zone Lifestyle Weight Loss Diet And How It Works
By admin | June 12, 2009
The Zone diet is a weight loss program that pays close attention to calories and physical exercise to deliver results. It is a lifestyle plan to help people lose weight and become physically fit. The main part of this diet program is the food plan developed by the scientist, Dr. Barry Sears.
The scientific theory behind the diet focuses on the effect of carbohydrates on the body’s insulin levels. Eating too many carbs causes the body’s blood sugar levels to rise sharply, which prompts the body to release insulin, a hormone that lowers blood sugar levels by causing the sugar to be stored as fat. It is believed that by consuming the right foods, blood sugar levels may be regulated to keep insulin levels in “the zone,” a range where the body is thought to burn fat more efficiently and stop storing excessive fat.
The diet plan balances carbohydrate and protein consumption in a three to four ratio, meaning 40% of your calories will come from carbohydrates and 30% from protein (another 30% typically comes from fat). It is crucial to keep track of calories on the Zone program, with most meals not exceeding five hundred calories each and snacks no more than one hundred calories each.
Under the program, you eat five times a day (three meals and two snacks), never going more than five hours without having a snack or meal. If you sleep eight hours each night, this means having breakfast within one hour of waking, taking lunch within five hours after breakfast, a snack within five hours after your lunch, dinner within two to three hours of your snack, and a final snack just before going to sleep.
The majority of foods eaten on the Zone plan include lean cuts of meat, such as fish or chicken and other healthy sources of protein, lots of fruits and vegetables, and a limited amount of carbs. Rice, potatoes, cereals, breads, and sugar are the kinds of carb heavy foods that dieters are to avoid eating, but can enjoy once in awhile. Dieters must also stop eating pre-packaged foods and high sodium foods.
Exercise is another key aspect of the Zone diet. The program recommends moderate intensity physical exercise for thirty minutes every day, six days a week. Physical activity is supposed to raise the effectiveness of the Zone diet. Other things that are supposed to increase the effectiveness of the diet include taking vitamins and nutritional supplements.
The Zone program works well for many people trying to lose weight, but it requires a lot of dedication. The reason why this diet and most other diets fail is because many dieters give up before they are able to see improvement. Many people fight to stay on any type of diet program because of food cravings, uncontrollable appetites or eating habits, or a simple lack the motivation to lose weight. Hypnotherapy is perfect for overcoming these issues and supplying the motivation to stick to a diet such as the Zone diet plan.
Hypnosis is routinely used with dieting because it does a lot to increase the effectiveness and success rate of weight loss programs. Among the many things that hypnosis programs do is help promote positive thinking, especially to counter negative thoughts. Hypnosis is a powerful stress reducing tool as well, helping us cope with our stressful emotions and relieve tension. As a stress reducing tool, it calms the mind, helps you come up with strategies to cope with stress, and boosts your self-confidence to motivate you to lose weight.
Weight loss hypnotherapy can also be used to treat the mental obstacles that keep people from losing weight. Take for example dieters who can’t curb their cravings and appetite because they have a problem with “emotional eating.” People who are emotional eaters compulsively eat in response to their emotions, such as when they are bored or sad. Hypnosis can be used to break the associations in our unconscious minds between eating and our emotions. This way, people are freed of their compulsive eating habits and able to stay on complex diet plans such as the Zone diet program.
Motivational weight loss CDs have become a popular and successful weight loss aid to use with weight loss programs because motivation is essential to success for most people. A good hypnosis CD program works by tapping into the power of the unconscious mind to naturally train our thoughts on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These programs help people remember their reasons for wanting to lose weight and exercise so dieters naturally feel motivated to stay with their diet program.
Hypnosis is an effective motivational tool that will help you “stay in the zone,” stay active, and experience natural appetite suppression without drugs. Through using hypnosis, we can think more positively and focus on having better health.
Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including weight loss CD and hypnotism to lose weight DVD. Visit his hypnotherapy CD website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.
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Weight Loss Miracle - Hypnotherapy Plus The Ornish Diet
By admin | June 11, 2009
The Ornish Diet is a low-fat, all-vegetarian diet plan. Correct application of the eating plan, exercise, and stress-management techniques of this plan results in weight loss and noticeably improved health for most dieters. Although this diet takes more dedication than many other diets, and often requires crucial lifestyle changes for the dieter, research shows that it is effective for both weight loss and reversing heart disease. With its focus on stress-management and healthy food choices, this diet is also an ideal candidate for combined use with weight loss hypnosis.
The Ornish diet is available in two slightly different forms, a Preventative diet and a Reversal diet. The Preventative diet is perfect for people who wish to shed pounds and lower their risk for heart disease. It is also excellent for dieters trying to reduce their cholesterol levels. The Reversal diet is formulated for people already afflicted with heart disease who want to reverse the symptoms of the disease and reduce their risk for heart attacks.
Both types of the Ornish diet recommend a diet plan that is made up of 10% fat, 20% protein, and 70% complex carbohydrates. Under the plan, all meat, fish, and poultry are avoided. All seeds, nuts, oils, and fats are also not allowed. Refined carbohydrate foods such as white rice and white flour are also not allowed, but whole grain bread and pasta, beans, and legumes are permitted.
Foods allowed in restricted quantities include egg whites and nonfat dairy products such as lowfat yogurt, milk, and cheese. Most processed foods are not permitted, since any prepackaged foods with more than 2 grams of fat per serving are not allowed.
The diet lets you to eat whole grains, fruit, vegetables, and beans at every meal until you feel full. The benefit of this diet plan is that since you are allowed to consume as much as you want of allowed foods, you can feel full and satisfied all the time. This diet plan, unlike many others, is not based on unsafe “starvation” methods.
Along with the diet plan, another key aspect of the Ornish diet program is stress-management. There are many stress-relieving practices you can use, such as meditation, yoga, and hypnosis. Hypnosis is ideal for reducing anxiety and tension while promoting natural weight loss. Hypnosis works by helping your unconscious mind focus on having positive thoughts instead of negative thoughts when you begin to feel stressed. These techniques are quite effective in promoting relaxation.
While the Ornish plan is healthy and effective for most people, it can be difficult to follow because it involves many restrictions. This diet and others similar to it often fail because dieters cannot stay on them. Many people struggle with dieting because they suffer from an out-of-control appetite, irresistible cravings, compulsive overeating, or a simple lack of motivation to lose weight. These obstacles keep many hard-working dieters from maintaining their diet and achieving permanent weight loss. Hypnosis helps you overcome these obstacles, and is an effective complement to the Ornish diet approach because it offers motivation to stick to a weight loss plan.
Hypnosis works to regulate the appetite by “reprogramming” the unconscious mind to eliminate and replace bad habits with good ones. Years of unhealthy eating habits such as “emotional eating” can cause people to eat impulsively, even when they are not truly hungry. Hypnosis breaks unhealthy associations with food and our emotions to end this conditioned response and prevent emotional eating. Hypnosis can further influence dieting success by replacing the overeating response with another activity, such as exercise. This way, instead of having the urge to overeat, you will feel motivated to exercise for your health.
Hypnosis can also be used to quell the emotional anxieties that keep you from losing weight. For many people, being overweight provides a “secondary gain” in the form of a feeling of safety or emotional protection. For example, many people with low self-esteem are afraid of people not liking them, so they use their extra weight as a reason to believe that others will dislike them. Through hypnosis, we can have more positive thoughts and focus on improving our health instead of feeling overcome by such anxieties. We can use hypnotherapy to boost our self-esteem, placing value on ourselves and our own health.
Hypnotherapy offers a powerful, natural combination of stress-management, motivation, and behavior regulation to encourage weight loss and help you follow your preferred diet program. Using hypnosis with the Ornish plan is particularly effective, but hypnotherapy is great for helping people stay on any diet plan. Hypnosis promotes the success of diet plans along with natural weight loss so dieters can enjoy long-lasting results.
Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including diet CDs and hypnosis for losing weight DVD. Visit his hypnosis CDs website for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.
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Want To Lose Weight, Make Any Other Change? There Is A Secret Equation That Guarantees Success
By admin | June 10, 2009
For many folks, the path to personal transformation and self-improvement is a long and winding road filled with complicated barriers. Drug companies in particular have capitalized on and created gigantic fortunes because of the elusive search for the “Magic Pill” that will fix everything. As it turns out, there is a secret formula for success, and it begins in the human mind.
One of the rules of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is that “there is a positive intention behind all behaviors.” And based on that rule, when it comes to getting rid of negative behaviors, there is an equation that we must keep in mind. I’ll let you in on the secret formula in a minute. But first, I have a riddle for you to solve.
Riddle: A preacher made his child drink lye, which burned out the child’s voice box. What was the positive intention behind this action?
If you are like 99.9% of the clients who have visited my office since 1978, you’ll say something like: “There’s no positive intention behind that behavior.” But you would be completely incorrect. To answer this riddle, you must separate the behavior from the positive intention of the behavior.
The minister’s child was cursing. And the minister believes that if his child curses, his soul will be condemned to Hell. So the answer is that the minister was burning out his child’s vocal cords so that he couldn’t curse. By doing so, he was saving his child’s soul from being damned to Hell.
The secret equation for personal change uses NLP and works as follows:
We should always respect the positive intention that motivates every behavior. If we have an impulse to employ a behavior that we don’t like, we can quickly get rid of the impulse to use that behavior. All we need to do is to find a different behavior and substitute it in its place. To be successful, the new action must be as accessible and effective at accomplishing the same secondary gain, but be more consciously acceptable to you. This is called a REFRAME.
When clients come into my office, the first thing I do is to take a thorough case history. Let’s say that they come in and ask me to help them lose weight. Conventional wisdom tells us that the two main reasons that people eat excessively are: (1) to reduce stress; (2) because eating can be a conditioned response. Case in point, if a person eats while they are watching TV, they will develop a conditioned response, and thereafter, every time they sit down to watch TV, they’ll get cravings and an urge to eat.
However, the above answer only takes into consideration the possible secondary gain received from the behavior of eating. What if they also have another behavior that is involved in the equation? Case in point: What if being chubby is also a behavior for this person? I can hear your mind churning right now as you think, “Being heavy isn’t a behavior, what are you talking about?”
Sorry but you could be 100% incorrect. Here is a classic textbook example that will illustrate the fact that being heavy can be a behavior. It can be a behavior because it can accomplish positive outcomes.
Example: A woman is deeply in love. Her partner breaks up with her, and breaks her heart. Her unconscious wants to protect her emotionally and stop her from ever having her heart broken again. So it motivates her to get heavy to keep her out of relationships. Because if she isn’t in a relationship she won’t get her heart broken again.
Everyone is totally different. And sometimes there are hidden elements at work that cause uncontrollable behaviors. These are elements that are different for each person.
Here’s another case: A woman comes into my office complaining of an uncontrollable urge to overeat at mealtime. During my case history, the woman explains to me how she has never been able to please her dad.
During an age regression, we learned that one of her early memories was of having a meal with her family. And dad was insisting in a very loud voice that she clean her plate, even though she was bursting at the seams. So she finished the food left on her plate because of fear, and her dad praised her for finishing all of the food. It was one of the only times in her life that she could recall her father telling her that she had made him happy.
Shoot forward to the present. Dad’s been dead for many years, but the unconscious program he installed is still operational. She still has an urge to finish everything on her plate, even if she is feeling stuffed to the gills, because by cleaning the plate, in her subconscious mind she is getting dad’s approval, and eliminating her own fear!
So if you are having a problem making personal changes, please remember that there is a positive intention that causes all behaviors. And the formula for success is to alternate another behavior that will accomplish the same secondary gain, but in a way that is more consciously satisfactory to you, as an individual. The most effective way to get your unconscious to assume the responsibility for making this kind of alteration for you is through an NLP 6-Step Reframe.
Alan B. Densky, CH is an NLP Practitioner. He began his professional practice of NLP & hypnosis in 1978. He offers an interactive NLP Six-Step Reframing CD on his Neuro-VISION Hypnosis website. Also available are his Free NLP research library, hypnosis & NLP newsletters and MP3 downloads.
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Weight Control And Appetite Suppression Using Hypnotism CD’s
By admin | June 9, 2009
Weight loss is the decrease of fat, bodily fluids, adipose tissues and lean mass inducing a decrease of body weight. Appetite is an urge to eat and drink for pleasure. It significantly differs from hunger, because you only feel hungry if your body does not have enough reserves to sustain itself and hence signals its need for nourishment.
Appetite is often confused with hunger, but they are 2 different things with different factors. Hunger is a physical signal that your body is in need of nourishment and it would be unhealthy if you tried to fight it. Appetite, though, is mainly triggered by psychological factors and does not respond to any physical need.
Indeed, stimulation of the mouth is a source of comfort and pleasure, which is why some people enjoy chewing gum for instance. It is the same reason that might explain why people enjoy having a cigarette in their mouths, or why they can feel hungry without actually needing to eat.
This comfort and pleasure may be sought after unconsciously by the mind when experiencing a stressful situation, which is why stress and anxiety can often create the urge to eat. Our mind also frequently unconsciously creates associations between two actions, so that every time you perform any of these actions your brain creates the urge to perform the other simultaneously. Thus you can feel the urge to eat when around friends, sitting at a table or when watching television. Weight gain is also very often a side effect of many drugs.
Even a little appetite problem can be seriously disabling and a possible danger for your health. Not only can it make you more and more anxious about your physical appearance, but it may also threaten your health on the long term. Excessive appetite can be responsible for obesity, respiratory difficulties, musculoskeletal problems, high blood pressure, and cholesterol and potentially lethal diseases like diabetes, cancer and gallbladder disease.
Having control over your appetite would allow you to readily get significantly healthier and get back in shape. You wouldn
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