You’re probably tired of everyone telling you that losing weight is just about eating less food or consuming less calories. Sometimes it seems that our bodies have found a way to turn a plate of lettuce into a pound of fat! Most people who attempt weight loss discover sooner or later their efforts are complicated by metabolic programming that keeps weight on the body regardless of how you change your eating habits.

Hypnosis therapy can be very effective in helping us to alter our eating habits that may be stored in the subconscious mind.

If you’re presently overweight and you’d like to find out if metabolic programming is affecting weight loss efforts, take the following questionnaire:

• Do you find that no matter how much you starve yourself the weight just doesn’t fall off as quickly as it should?
• Do you find yourself eating less than your more slender friends and you still don’t lose weight?
• Do you find your food cravings going way up even as the pounds begin to fall off, as if you were starving instead of dieting?
• Do you become tired and lethargic when dieting?
• Do you gain back all the weight you’ve lost from a diet with alarming speed?

The good news is there are many ways to deal with this programming, including through hypnosis, so you don’t have to fight your body as well as your food cravings to lose weight!

The first step is to look at some likely causes. The metabolism of food is the intricate process by which nutrients from food are consumed and utilised by the body. It’s a complex process in which several factors are involved.

Why the thyroid is crucial?

One is as the function of the thyroid gland, the “master switch” which regulates the rate of cellular metabolism. Hypnotic imagery aims to increase the production of thyroxin, the primary metabolic hormone produced by the thyroid gland. More thyroxin means more fat burned more weight loss and more energy for you.

There can also be medical reasons for thyroid dysfunction, which is why we suggest a full physical examination and possible testing of your thyroid function.

Change your eating habits

Another key element to the body’s metabolic processes is the activity of two key pancreatic hormones: insulin and glucagons. These key metabolic hormones cause our body to store or burn fat. The types of food you eat directly affect the activities of these hormones.

How does hypnosis help you change your eating choices? All eating habits become rooted in the subconscious mind. The imagery of hypnosis targets these subconscious programmes and changes them.

Exercise more

Exercise is also a key component in the activation of the thyroid gland. Researchers have discovered that regular exercise, even as little as twenty minutes a day, speeds up metabolism not only during exercise but also for many hours after even when you are resting. Of course, many of us have a hard time with exercise. Enter again the power of hypnosis.

Hypnosis can be used to increase your motivation toward physical activity as well as increase strength and endurance. We know it takes much more than imaging to get more involved with exercise again.

One of the innovative processes we use can take you back to what you enjoyed doing physically as a child. You can pick one or two of these activities that you will again enjoy! We will use the power of hypnosis to bring back the excitement you experienced as a child at play.

Other issues at work

One of the more common sources of metabolic programming is genetic. Some human genetic lines preserve fat on their bodies more readily because these traits served our ancestors well for thousands of years. Changing these genetic codes within our DNA is impossible, but we can still increase the metabolism to help us let go of fat.

Sometimes our subconscious is afraid of losing weight, in order to avoid dealing with deep-rooted personal issues. This is best addressed by individual counselling or participation in personal growth programmes.

What recession? "For some people here, money is nothing, they come and they buy a car in one hour."

Getting lucky 101 Reckon you're a bit of a lothario? Pick-up lines occasionally work. Mostly, they don't.

Wax on; wax off Rebekah Kendal reckons that, with a mere six words, she can make grown men wince. Maybe cry.