Have you come to the conclusion that diets don’t work yet?

Diets, for most people, are doomed to fail. A diet is an eating plan usually dictated to you by someone else. They work for a while but, because you have not addressed the underlying reasons for your weight gain, as soon as something goes wrong in your life, or something goes right in your life, or you take your eye off the goal, you return to your own eating habits and the weight goes back on. You feel like a failure and the cycle starts all over again.

To successfully lose weight and maintain that weight loss the role that food plays in your life needs to change. You need to learn to respect food and recognise the role it should play in your life. Most of all you need to learn to respect your self.

Before logging on to this website you have probably been on a journey for some time. A journey through all the trendy diets, visits to the doctors, dieticians and slimming clubs and trips to the gym. Whatever you have tried your weight has probably yo-yo’d along with your emotions. But if you look honestly at all that you have tried can you say you have given yourself a real chance of success by dealing with the underlying problems that caused your weight gain in the first place. There are many reasons for weight gain:

• You may be using food as a reward, telling yourself ‘I’ve had a really good day so I’ll reward myself with
• You may be using food as a comfort saying ‘I’ve had a bad day so I’ll cheer myself up with
• You may have gained weight to form a barrier between yourself and others to (subconsciously) keep people way
• You may be comfort eating to compensate for something that is missing, to fulfil an emotional or psychological need
• Many reasons for weight gain are attached to past events, either emotional or traumatic, that give rise to feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness, the need for comfort and protection often mistakenly looked for in food

Whatever the reason, these experiences become embedded in the unconscious mind so, just as you feel you are gaining control, you find yourself sabotaging your success. How often have you stood on the scales and laid the blame for whatever they say at the feet of someone else rather than seeing that it is a part of yourself that is the cause.

How can hypnotherapy help you lose weight?

At the Bridge Hypnotherapy Clinic we know that a weight problem is about more than simply eating too much or being lazy.

We won’t judge you by how much you weigh. We don’t need to know.

We know that losing weight and then maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle is more to do with self belief and self worth than counting calories.

We can help you recognise your own triggers for weight gain, deal with them and move on.

A course of hypnotherapy will access the unconscious mind and allow you to negotiate with the part of you that holds the belief that you need to overeat or abuse your body by eating unhealthily. It will help you to hear and listen to your inner voice, the powerful unconscious that contains the knowledge and instincts that know you are worthwhile, the one that believes you have a right to well-being and happiness.

By opening these lines of communication, along with direct suggestion, you will be encouraged to see yourself in the future at a weight you want to be, leading the active life you want to lead.

Therapy will allow you:

• To enjoy the right kind of food
• To eat for the right reasons
• To eat at the right times
• To eat with enjoyment, savouring the sensual experience of nourishing your body
• To eat more slowly and stop when you are full

As you begin to achieve these aims you will begin to lose weight naturally, developing a new self-image and self-worth.

The healthiest way to lose weight is not necessarily the quickest. Dealing with the root causes of your weight problem is not necessarily the easiest. But ultimately this is the best road for long term success.

Be kind to yourself, live your dream not your nightmare. Contact us at the Bridge Hypnotherapy Clinic.