Bikini Body (that'll Still be there Next Year)

nThe bikini diet, the Atkins diet, the face diet, the reverse diet, on-line diets, diet clubs, it’s not a diet…it’s a new way of eating. If you have to follow rules and measure and weigh and swap food around on different days and count points and use inappropriate adjectives to describe food ………it’s a diet! n(Deliberately tripping up someone is 'naughty'; stabbing someone is 'sinful'. Chocolate cake is neither!) At any one time, 1 in 5 women in the UK is on a diet. Around 95 per cent of them end up just as fat, or even fatter. If any diet actually worked, then the obesity epidemic would have been cured long ago. Instead, obesity has grown by more than 400 per cent in the last 25 years. More than half of the UK's adult population is overweight or obese. This is because it is almost impossible to stick to a diet for any prolonged period of time. It is not a question of willpower, but one of evolution and the desire to seek out and consume food. When we cut calories, the body assumes there is a famine. Yo-yo dieting forces the body to into feast and famine mode making it impossible to lose weight permanently. Many people would still like help to lose weight. If, despite your good intentions, you are still over-eating, Brief psychotherapy with hypnosis can help you escape the vicious circle, leaving you slim and in control of your future eating. Imagine how you’ll feel when you start to feel slimmer, healthier and more energized! Hunger can stem from much more than just a desire to eat. ‘Hunger’ can be caused by factors like psychological baggage, habits, emotions, expectations and social conditions. We are creatures of habit. How many times have you started eating a biscuit only to realise a few minutes later that you've scoffed half the packet? Or eaten a huge bag of crisps in front of the TV? These are habits. You are consuming empty calories, often unconsciously, getting no pleasure from them after the first few mouthfuls, and all the while piling on the weight. Psychologists estimate that the average person spends around 85 per cent of their time acting out some kind of habit in a personalised Groundhog Day! It is possible to break habits, and if you break the habits that compel you to overeat, then you will naturally lose weight. Hypnosis is the most effective effortless way to break habits and form new helpful ones. Liz used to eat custard creams at work. Despite a healthy balanced lifestyle she could no longer do up her trousers. To escape from the ringing telephone at her desk she would go to the kitchen and eat 3 custard creams. She preferred to drink water on her trip to the kitchen. We easily changed the habit over in one session and soon her trouser zip was back up. Jon is amazed that he is still going in and out the newsagents without buying the chocolate and crisps. nn ‘Research shows that there is more scientific evidence for hypnotherapy than any other complementary therapy... by using hypnosis people can perform prodigious feats of willpower and self healing’ - Health Education AuthoritynnWill your mind be controlled? No more than when you're really enjoying a good film, or reading a great book. It's always your choice how much you become involved in a film or a book, and hypnosis is exactly the same. It’s a deeply relaxed, yet focused state of mind where you can reinforce changes at an instinctive level. This ensures that being the way you want to be feels increasingly easy, natural and automatic. At the beginning of my training, I had never seen therapeutic hypnosis performed. I refused an offer to be hypnotised for extra confidence. After I had watched the demonstration performed on another student, I realised I would have been in control and would not have done or said anything involuntarily. I was so annoyed that I’d missed out on the great boost he gave someone else! Research shows that using hypnosis increases weight loss even more in the long term; In a nine-week study of two weight management groups, the hypnosis group continued to get results in the two-year follow-up, while the non-hypnosis group showed no further results. In a study of 60 women separated into hypnosis versus non-hypnosis groups, the groups using hypnosis lost an average of 17 pounds, while the non-hypnosis group lost an average of only .5 poundsnnComparing the results of adding hypnosis to weight loss treatment across multiple studies showed that adding hypnosis increased weight loss by an average of 97% during treatment, and even more importantly increased the effectiveness POST TREATMENT by over 146%.