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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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