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Weight control with hypnosis in West London Hillingdon, Uxbridge and Ealing. Featuring hypnotic gastric band therapy.
The first question we get asked is "Does it actually work?" So please have a look at our testimonials.
Most of us exercise less as we get older, which leads to a rise in cholesterol levels, but whatever your age, you can make lifestyle changes to help with weight control. The weight loss will be easier to acheive with hypnotherapy training and support. Hypnosis can actually help you to lose weight in your sleep. The techniques we use will convince your subconscious mind that you have had a physical workout overnight, and respond accordingly.
Matthew uses cutting edge models, in Thought Field Therapy, NLP and Hypnotherapy, to provide you with the tools to lose weight, and keep it off. Changes take place not only on a mental level, but also at a far deeper cellular level, creating physical body change. Our minds are very happy to accept positive suggestions, and we use hypnosis to create positive suggestions and alter thoughts feelings and behaviours. By altering these we can create positive habits. - to change lifestyle.
Gastric band hypnosis
It is possible to convince the subconscious mind that a gastric band has been fitted, we can help you to develop a hypnotic gastric band - so that you can control your weight without surgery. The Daily Mail reprted, in May 2009, that a woman had lost four stones with hypno gastric band treatment. In April 2010, the mail reported that a woman had lost 6 stones with this method. In July 2010 The Daily Mail reported on a woman who had lost 5 stones with hypnotic gastric band therapy, shrinking from dress size 18 to size 8.
Evidence has been reported, in the 2010 conference for Metabolic and Bariatic Surgery, suggesting that the surgery leads to other physical problems. John Morgan, of the Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders, suggests that psychological problems may arise too - swapping one problem for another in addictive behaviour. You can have weight loss without the pain of surgery - phone
The struggle;
To keep ourselves trim and fit, to make ourselves attactive, to feel good about ourselves, to feel more energetic, to feel more confident - might seem a continous struggle to many. We all want to be healthy, feel and look good, and hypnosis can help here.
Research at the Laiko hospital in Athens shows that wolfing down food stops the brain knowing when you're full up through stopping the hormone that tells us to stop, so 'eating on the go' is a major worry.
The most obvious answers are, of course, to eat less and exercise more. If you burn off more calories than you eat, you will lose weight.
If this doesn't work then many people will try a diet. Diets can be effective for some, but often fail because they are short term and do not change attitudes towards food. They place emphasis on food , when it is really attitudes towards food that need changing .They are a temporary response, when what we seek is a change in habits that is automatic - so that we don't even have to think about it.
Another method that is often tried is slimming suppliments. But the 2010 International Congress on Obesity in Stockholm produced evidence to suggest that these are no more effective than placebo. If we can change associations and relationship to food we may stop their sabotage of cravings.
Cravings
Cravings are often linked not with hunger, but with tiredness or emotions - such as stress, being bored or depression. There may be a reward system going on - "If I get through this I can have a cake" and hypnotherapy can help unearth the cause, tackle, and change it.
Crash diets may lead to some initial weight loss, but often are followed by putting it on again. What most diets do is produce some kind of magic, some made up theory that encourages you to eat less by restricting the type of food you eat. Inevitably you will lose weight.
The big problem is that if you don't follow that diet forever then you will put that weight back on. The key to long term healthy weight control lies in a permanent lifestyle change.
When people are motivated to become slim, healthy and attractive, then they can easily control their weight. Phone
Chocolate
Chocolate is claimed to have many benefits - it contains serotonin, phenylethylamine ( the so called love chemical) and endorphins - which can relieve pain, reduce stress, and reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer . Even thinking about chocolate can make us feel better. Also it is high in antioxidents.
But chocolate is definitely bad for us in quantity. It does contain high levels of theobromine, which is a great mood enhancer, a powerful stimulant of the central nervous system. But theobromine poisoning can cause heart failure, seizures, acute kidney damage. And chocolate can, of course, lead to weight gain.
Junk food
Research at the Weizmann Institute, in Israel, published a paper in May 2010, suggesting that the stress of modern living could be making us eat more sugary and fatty foods. The anxiety gene, when switched on , not only causes stress, but also pushes us towards comfort foods. But this means fat and bad cholesterol, blocked arteries and heart disease.
The National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence( NICE) suggested in June 2010 that as many as 40, 000 people are killed a year through junk food.
Hypnotherapy can help create an aversion to comfort foods, aswell as tackling stress and anxiety. Hypnosis will fill you with confidence so that there is no emotional void to fill with food.
Sleep
Getting less than six to eight hours sleep a night can increase levels of leptin, the hormone that tells you when you are full, and increase levels of cortisol, the fat storing hormone. This may lead to cravings for sweet carbohydrates that end up getting stored as fat.
Effective hypnosis can restore good sleeping patterns.
How can hypnosis help?
We can't promise to give you a perfect body, but you can acheive remarkable results through following a regular programme. This should probably be done alongside an exercise programme, which will compliment a change in eating habits. Hypnosis cannot "make" you change, but it can help with changing thoughts, actions and feelings that will help with behaviour and habit change.
Research on hyperpalatable foods - those we find hard to resist - suggests that it is like a drug. the neurotransmitter dopamine is released, which will take people to a bliss point. Hypnotherapy can help people to release internal endorphins, releasing the need for gorging on these.
Through hypnosis we contact the subconscious - that part of the mind that contains 90% of the brain's power. We can help people to think and eat like slim people by reprogramming the subconscious mind. This is not about mind control, because everything is done through agreement with the client. We can encourage people to believe that they have exercised in their sleep, and change their attitudes towards actual exercising.
Clients find that they can lose weight, and keep it off long term, because they change their whole relationship with food, both mentally and physically. It doesn't happen overnight, we like to work with people over a period of six weeks.
With daily recordings to listen to between sessions, as long as they stick to the programme, we always find that clients lose weight.
Hypnosis will help them to access the motivation to exercise too. Changing the way you think about yourself and how you use food is an effective way of acheiving the body and shape that you want .
NLP techniques are used to create an aversion to the fattening foods that you no longer want. There are some contraindications - such as medical conditions that keep weight up, so the results cannot be guaranteed here.
How does Thought Field Therapy help?
TFT is a meridian therapy - based on an ancient Chinese idea that there is a flow of energy running through the body, and that through manipulating energy points we can unblock anythjing that is stopping that flow - so that we can help to end the anxieties that cause comfort eating, and either eliminate or control cravings. TFT uses tapping sequences on the meridian points to remove blocks in the flow of energy throughout the body. Matthew will employ TFT before his hypnosis session, making the session far more powerful. As you will see in the testimonial below, Matthew can help you to end chocolate craving. Phone
Not just for nuts
Orlando Bloom gave up a childhood addiction to chocolate with hypnosis.
Smoking
If you smoke to control your weight, and fear that by stopping you will put on more, we can control this through our smoking programme, so that you won't swap one problem for another.
Matthew Hall promotes weight loss/control from clinics in Uxbridge, Ealing, and Hillingdon. Phone
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