Hypnosis therapy for weight loss is a widely adopted and successful method for reprogramming your mind for new sustainable healthy eating habits and an active lifestyle.  Hypnotherapy also treats various eating disorders like bulimia, binge eating, and stress eating. 

Hypnosis allows clients to increase their motivation to stick with a healthy diet in the long run.  Clients also  explore their subconscious minds and discover any mental barriers that may be preventing them from losing weight and achieving their ideal image.

As it is widely known, eating healthy and working out are vital components to losing weight. Yet, for many people, it is hard to start and stick with a new healthy eating regime that will create and sustain the weight loss they desire. Remember all the times you made a New Year’s resolution that you had to lose those extra pounds by summer? Only to find yourself back to where you started in a short time, having lost all your motivation, and returned to your old unhealthy eating habits.

One major reason why people are not able to lose weight is that their subconscious mind is in a state of homeostasis. Homeostasis is your state of mind that is comfortable with where you are. Homeostasis is also referred to as your “comfort zone”. It is the point that your body and mind consider safe and normal because it hasn’t been challenged to do better. The homeostasis stage can keep you stuck in your routine, negative habits and is the reason why you may lack the motivation to work out regularly and eat healthy if that’s not what you were used to. In hypnosis, the client learns to break their mind’s homeostasis stage and change their psychology so they can change their behaviors, thought patterns, and thrive. In that sense, hypnotherapy is very powerful to re-program your subconscious mind to start and sustain a new healthy eating habit until your desired weight loss is achieved.

On the other hand, for some people, eating has a deeper emotional cause linked to their internal worlds. For example, a woman who got divorced from her husband in a traumatic way may subconsciously think that she is unworthy of love and not desirable anymore. Having lost her hope for a better life, she may choose unhealthy foods as outer proof to her inner subconscious beliefs. In general, people who have emotional eating habits are not aware of the real reasons behind their eating habits. They realize they cannot stop eating unhealthy food and even though they want to start dieting and exercising, they cannot start.  Even if they do, they fall off the wagon pretty quickly.  

A person’s habits, major traumas, negative behaviors, or addictions (including food addictions) tend to be stored in the subconscious mind. Hypnosis allows you to directly access your subconscious and address the root of your problems. It digs deeper by exploring emotional factors that could be preventing you from losing weight.

In hypnotherapy, the client learns to recognize trigger behaviors and disable them. Examples of trigger behaviors are stress eating or binge eating. A person might feel triggered by something such as a rough day at work and turn to junk food for comfort. Feelings of loneliness and unworthiness can also trigger an individual to stress eat. In weight loss hypnotherapy, the client will learn how to release these feelings healthily while getting help with feeling healthy, in control, and strong.

Secondary Gains:

We behave in certain ways because we have something to gain from every behavior. Primary gains are obvious and easy to identify. Secondary gains are benefits the client may not even realize they are gaining from their behavior.

In relation to weight loss, secondary gains are the real reasons why a person is not able to lose weight. These might be more subtle, deeply-rooted psychological reasons. For example, an individual might have always been overweight or obese, so they are scared of losing their identity. Clients might also want to go unnoticed and are worried they might get too much attention from other people if they lose weight. In hypnosis, the client works with the therapist to identify their secondary gains and release them.

10 Ways how Hypnosis Can Help with Weight Loss:

1. Hypnosis alters your fundamental beliefs about food by helping you recognize trigger points and changes how you focus on food.

2. Hypnosis alters negative, old patterns of thinking and replaces them with a positive “I can do this” attitude.

3. You will automatically gravitate towards healthy food choices

4. You will feel good about eliminating junk food and eating smaller portion sizes.

5. You are less likely to binge eat or snack for no reason.

6. Losing weight becomes easier because your subconscious brain is being rewired.

7. You will be more motivated to work out regularly.

Truly, weight loss is a problem that many people struggle with daily. If you have tried everything possible and nothing seems to be working, call our office today to see if Hypnotherapy could help you lose weight and live your best