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November 3, 2009

The difference between Physicial and Emotional Hunger

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:21 am

Have you ever wondered the difference between the two? If you are looking to lose weight or shed those extra pounds then this will be helpful. if you have constant cravings then this is a must read.

According to US research, there are five main differences between emotional and physical hunger:

1). Emotional hunger is a sudden feeling whereas physical hunger comes on gradually.

2). Physical hunger is felt in the stomach – emotional hunger is felt in the head e.g. a sudden craving for a particular type of food like chocolate or something sweet or sugar dense etc.

3). When you feel desperate to eat a particular type of food, it is an emotional need. If you are really hungry, then you are open to a wider choice of food options.

4). Emotional hunger wants to be satisfied immediately whereas physical hunger can wait.

5). Emotional hunger leaves you feeling guilty – physical hunger leaves you pleasantly full

Does this ring any bells for you?

Let me know if you would like more  information about tacking this issue or something else on your mind.

Howard the Hypnotherapist

November 2, 2009

Quick Note on Emotional Eating

Filed under: Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:52 am

If you are looking to lose weight then this information will be useful to you and it is around emotional eating.

The human body has an automatic biochemical mechanism that has the ability to tell us when we are hungry and when we are full. The problem with emotional eaters is that they have trained their bodies and mind to override those signals.

Imagine it is nearing lunchtime and you are feeling the hunger signals being generated within the body. So you decide to get something to eat and a drink. As you eat and drink these the stomach begins to fill up, signals are sent informing you that you are being satisfied.  Once a level of satisfaction is reached naturally you should stop eating. That’s what is supposed to happen and irrespective of the amount left on your plate you will feel pleasantly satisfied leaving whatver is left. that is what typically people who are naturally slim do.

In the case of an emotional eater, the ‘stop signal’ is completely ignored and they carry on eating for a psychological reason rather than a physiological one. They go way beyond the point where they should really stop and feel bloated, lethargic and guilty. In fact if you are eating for psychological reasons then no amount of food is going to satify you. if you are an emotional eater you will probably be familiar with this process.

if you drive a car and the oil light comes on would the oil light go out if you topped up your fuel tank with petrol or diesel? Of course not so why do we continue to do this with food?

Why would a person want to do that?

The answer lies in ‘conditioning’ – we are taught when young that food can bring comfort. We are trained right from the time of being toddlers that food is a reward, a prize a comfort. “be good and you can have a sweet” “there there have a piece of chocolate to make your knee better” when you may have tripped.

Advanced Hypnotherpay and NLP are used in our easy weight loss sessions to deal with this in a completely different way. to find out more contact us now and find out how emotional eating and other elements come togeather with our Easy Weight Loss Sessions.

November 1, 2009

Weight Loss Hypnotherapy Studies

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:00 am

Here’s some interesting studies that have been carried out on the success of Hypnotherapy as appossed to normal weight loss systems diets etc.

they are from the USA and if anyone has any more recent independant research from teh US or UK i would be gretful if you could let me know.

One of the things that you will ntice is the dates in the research and i am glad to say that things have improved dramatically in terms of process, tools and success rates.

Bolocofsky, David N.; Spinler, Dwayne; Coulthard-Morris, Linda (1985).

Effectiveness of hypnosis as an adjunct to behavioral weight management.

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41 (1), 35-41

109 17-67 year olds completed a behavioral treatment for weight management either with or without the addition of hypnosis. Results show that, at the end of the 9-week program, both interventions resulted in significant weight reduction. However, at 8-month and 2-year follow-ups, the hypnosis subjects showed significant additional weight loss, while those in the behavioral-treatment-only group exhibited little further change. More subjects who used hypnosis also achieved and maintained their personal weight goals.

Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J., (1986) Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Volume: 54 489-492

Investigated the effects of hypnosis in weight loss for 60 females, at least 20% overweight and not involved in other treatment….hypnosis was more effective than a control group (17 vs. .5 pounds on follow-up).

Kirsch, Irving (1996).

Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments–Another meta-reanalysis.

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64 (3), 517-519.

Averaged across post treatment and follow-up assessment periods, the mean weight loss was 6.00 lbs. (2.72 kg) without hypnosis and 11.83 lbs. (5.37 kg) with hypnosis….At the last assessment period, the mean weight loss was 6.03 lbs. (2.74 kg) without hypnosis and 14.88 lbs. (6.75 kg) with hypnosis… Correlational analyses indicated that the benefits of hypnosis increased substantially over time

Should you have any comments of questions please feel free to let me know.

Thanks and keep well

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 30, 2009

Hypnotherapy For Easy Weight Loss

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:54 am

People often ask me Why is the  Easy Weight Loss System so successful?

The simple answer is because it is completely unique to each individual client.

You know people are different even identical twins have some differences. so if this is the case how can a standard system work on everyone?

We use a fully flexible and unique methodology that combines Hypnotherapy and NLP among a number of other tools to make every session suit the person.

Different people have different weight problems, and equally those weight problems have various causes we treat everyone as an individual.

Some overeat emotionally, some make bad choices as to what to eat, some need to exercise, some picked up bad eating habits from childhood or the diet industry, some have body image problems…

We work with you and your issues.

on the basis you agree with that then let look at some common reasons why we are successful at what we do.

1) We will not try and sell you supplements and diet products.

The diet industry is continually looking to sell you product after product with new improved this and less fat, calories etc. We fundamentally disagree with this principle. Slim people don’t use those products so why should you.

2) We work out the main themes as to why you are overweight.

When you make an appointment we send you a questionnaire that starts to details your relationship with food, and the potential causes of you being over weight.  Over the years we have honed this to be really insightful and accurate. it tells us how you respond to differing situations.

This questionnaire gives us clues as to what we will be dealing with when we meet for the first and probably only time. Yes it’s all done in one session.

3) Is it a Emotional vs physiological eating pattern

Some people have never discovered he subtle difference between an emotional urge or need to eat and a physiological reason.  i have covered this element in more detail elsewhere in this blog, if you need anymore information feel free to contact me.
4) Specific advice based on your questionnaire and our discussion.

We ensure that together you and i come up with the strategies and hypnosis suggestions that are going to work for you. So for instance you have an urge to eat chocolate every evening we deal with that. if you find that you have to eat everything on your plate so that it’s clean then that’s what we deal with. and if you eat because you are bored or unhappy then we deal with that to.

5) we have to challenge our natural instincts

years ago food was scarce and only available in season. our ancestors didn’t know where the next meal was coming from and had to eat everything in  front of them as there was no certainity where or when the next meal would be available.

Today that’s just not the case. as i write this from my office in Central Milton Keynes i have within a 5 minute walk at least 15 food outlets and that’s counting all the vending machines. The supermarkets around me are open 24/7 and we can buy strawberries in January to December.

Today we don’t have to deal with the potential unavailability of food it’s quite the opposite. Lets not even get into the calorie rich foods that get churned out of the international corporations with the fancy packaging etc.

Anyway you get the picture everyone has their own reasons why they are overweight and i believe has to be treated in an individual way, in a nutshell that’s why we are successful at what we do.

Hope that helps answer some of your questions

Let em know if you need more information

Thanks

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 27, 2009

Emotional Eating

Filed under: Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:30 am

What is an emotional eater?

Under normal circumstances, a few minutes after birth, we are held by our mothers, feeling warmth, love, comfort and security. As we are being fed and gently rocked, our subconscious minds take this all in as a very nice situation to be in.

When you were young, it’s quite possible that you were rewarded with food for being good. If you hurt yourself or were upset, perhaps you were given some chocolate to ‘make you feel better’ or to “take your mind away from the trauma”.

These are all very pleasant feelings and the emotional eater attempts to recreate them as an adult by eating.

Most diets don’t deal with this issue and so people continue to eat when they are not hungry.

Most diets concentrate all their and your energy on “how much” you can or can’t eat, leaving the person feeling deprived.

A key to consistent and permanent weight loss is to ensure that you deal with your emotional eating and advanced hypnotherapy can help with this issue quickly.

If you are looking to lose weight quickly and easily in  very natural way without diets and meal plans or gunky shakes or pills off the Internet contact us today.

Was this useful?

Let me know and take care

Howard the Hypnotherapist.

October 26, 2009

What is this drug called Champix (Varenicline)?

Filed under: Stop Smoking, Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:10 am

What is this drug called Champix (Varenicline)?

Champix is a non nicotine drug that has been developed specifically for stopping smoking or smoking cessation and is only available on prescription from your GP. It is designed to block the rewards from, and reduce craving from cigarette smoking. Thats the theory anyway. Its a 12 week course begins while you are still smoking with a two week starter pack. Before you start your course of treatment you should decide on a date in the second week – usually between day 8 and day 14 when you will stop smoking. it’s a bit like Zyban and in fact i am not qualifed to state the difference, but my views on Zyban have been stated before so just search or just ask and i will let you have them.

Please research the drug before you take it and DO NOT buy it online it really is not safe to do so.

Take care

Howard The Hypnotherapist

October 25, 2009

What is this drug called Zyban?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:03 am

What is this drug called Zyban (Bupropion)?

This is a non-nicotine stop-smoking aid that works by reducing the urge to smoke and is only available on prescription from you GP. Your GP will be able to assess whether you have any conditions, or are taking any other medication, which could make it an unsuitable treatment option for you. side effects are rather numerous and include death which for me is a side effect too far.

Zyban is an eight week course that comes in tablet form and treatment begins while you are still smoking. You set a stop smoking date that falls within the second week of taking the tablets – usually around Day 11 and stop smoking completely on that day. By this time, the drug should have built up to the required levels and decreasing your desire to smoke.

Quite what happens when you stop smoking i don’t know as you will have stopped taking the drug as well.

if you are being offered this drug please please look up the data and the history of it. of course stopping smoking is great for your health but is taking a mind altering drug they only way to do it.

I will have to let you decide.

If you would like to discuss stopping smoking in a better way please feel free to conact us you know where we are…

Howard The Hypnotherapist

October 24, 2009

Easy Weight Loss using Advanced Hypnotherapy

Filed under: General Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss — Tags: , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 9:20 am

Weight loss/Slim Naturally

Using our Advanced Hypnotherapy is a very effective weight loss tool and can transform your approach to food, exercise and health.

It will allow you to stop dieting and encourage you to begin to take care of yourself in a more positive way by eating smaller potions of your favorite foods.

You will begin to enjoy exercise.

It will help you to stop obsessing about food

It allows you to leave all those feelings of failure and guilt.

It will enable you to deal with food cravings from chocolate, sweets pastries, etc.

It will enable you to start to believe that you can do it – that you too can become slim, confident and energised.

And it’s all done in just one session.

Find out more by contacting us now to find out how you can start losing weight the easy way.

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 23, 2009

Smoking and the Effects on Pets.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Howard the Hypnotherapist @ 12:49 am

Passive Smoking and Pets

As pet owners, we spend a lot of time trying to keep our pets fit and healthy. However, although we constantly worry about the food we are giving our pets or the amount of exercise they are getting, how often do we consider that they may suffer from a fatal disease by our own hand, if it contains a cigarette.
There have been very few studies on the effects of passive smoking on animals. However this month, Dr Anthony Moore from Tufts University in Massachusetts has revealed that living in a house with smokers considerably increases a cat or dog’s risk of getting feline or canine lymphoma. Mr Moore hopes new research linking second-hand smoke exposure to the most common kind of cancer in pets, will encourage some people to kick the habit. ”I think there are a lot of people who might not quit smoking for themselves or their family. But they might for their cats and dogs,” he adds hopefully.
Although there is scepticism about the research, it makes sense that if your pet is subjected to smoke fumes in the house, their respiratory system could feel the repercussions. Some vets have suggested that smoke becomes quite concentrated at a lower level and have highlighted these figures when arguing for the plight of our pets. Only 15 per cent of cigarette smoke is actually inhaled by the smoker. The rest is dispersed into the atmosphere exposing pets to over 400 toxins. This smoke includes over 40 known cancer-causing substances, as well as carbon monoxide.
One dog owner, who thought about the long-term effects on her pet, was Shirley Beardsworth, owner of Crufts Lifetime Member, Cocker Spaniel Meg Beardsworth. After deciding to give up smoking she realised that, not only was she putting herself at risk, her dog was at risk too. “My dog, Meg, used to sneeze and run out of the room whenever I lit up a cigarette,” she recalls, “but since I have given up smoking she is extremely fit. She’s still winning dog championships and even beating dogs younger than herself.”
Recent research has also demonstrated that cigarette smoke is related to other health-related illnesses in pets, such as asthma. Studies have found that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is also linked to nasal and sinus cancer in pet dogs. Constant exposure to cigarette smoke is certainly not going to make your pet fitter, healthier or happier. In a perfect environment, an animal should not come into contact with any cigarette smoke, so why not go outside to have a cigarette. Better still, for the sake of you and your pet’s health, give up smoking altogether!

October 22, 2009

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Finally a weight management programme will change your life!

Using the very latest in mind/body psychology I  help clients learn how to bring more balance into their lives, creating a purpose and direction for them to move towards… Be prepared for amazing changes in your life!

I have developed this successful programme  over the  past 6 years (2003) and have helped many hundreds of people lose weight effortlessly.

Many people look at overweight people and think they are greedy have no willpower, or that their appearance is due to lack of knowledge or ignorance. Being overweight, at least significantly so, is almost never just a matter of not knowing better; it’s far more complicated than that. and in my experience people who are overweight know a lot about what they should be eating.

There are often psychological problems associated with obesity – depression, lack of confidence, low self esteem etc. Most psychological problems are resolved naturally once the weight has been lost. Often the anxiety and frustrations that cause people to over eat stem from being over weight… it’s a vicious circle.

Dieting in the UK and worldwide is a multi billion pound business. There are literally  thousands of diet books, videos, food substitutes, weight loss drugs and weight loss clubs.

The trouble is all these treatments rely on willpower, which is why they usually fail! If you have had enough of all those diets that have found that they just don’t work for you in the long term…call us now for a revolution that will change your mind…and change your behaviour so that you too will become slimmer, have greater confidence and have many more choice in what you want to do and wear etc.

A common misconception surrounding weight loss is that you need a lot of willpower to succeed. Willpower however doesn’t really exist, behaviour that gives the appearance that a person has willpower, is simply behaviour allowed by the unconscious mind because it agrees with the conscious desire.

Generally if someone succeeds in losing weight using willpower alone, as soon as the weight is lost, they resume back to their old eating patterns and re-gain all the lost weight. Another common problem when using willpower alone is that as soon as other things occupy your mind, or the main goal is removed i.e. losing weight for a special occasion or slimming for a holiday, or an crisis arises, people have a tendency to slip back into their old habits. This compounds the problem because of the added disillusionment and discouragement. Something more efficient and permanent than willpower is needed to enable clients to stick to their new healthy eating regime.

So How does Hypnosis for weight loss help?

Hypnosis bypasses willpower and changes the way the unconscious mind thinks. This allows eating healthily and smaller portion sizes becomes effortless.

This works by utilising the same psychological principles you employ when mastering a new skill. If you are not able to imagine that you are going to be successful, then you are defeated before you begin. This is what happens when people undertake diets having previously failed many times before. No amount of willpower can surmount this feeling of negative history of failed diets.

Every successful person has had to be capable of visualising himself/herself as a success long before it becomes a reality. A doctor, for example, could not undertake many years of study unless he/she was first able to ’see him/herself as a doctor. Any successful person achieves their goals by overcoming handicaps, which defeated those people who were less motivated.

Unfortunately, all negative opinions – true or not – filter into your unconscious mind, which does not question or analyse the many impressions it receives. People become so convinced that they are incapable of the strength necessary to maintain a diet that they eventually stop mentally picturing a healthy/more attractive body. Using advanced hypnosis to create a positive self image is the key that open the door to a slimmer you. Once a proper self image is generated people find they have the conviction to easily stick to a healthy eating plan.

It is the role of the Hypnotherapist/coach to determine the most suitable treatment for each individual client but the following are examples of some of the benefits clients gain from hypnotherapy:

* Removes the desire to overeat
* Forms a positive self image
* Produces stronger feelings of strength and determination
* Improves self esteem, confidence and positive thinking
* Improves stress levels
* Occasionally weight gain is caused by a past event, uncovering this can help

Sometimes hypnotherapy uncovers secondary gains (reasons to remain overweight) and replacing weight gain with something more beneficial can help.

So with Advanced Hypnotherapy there are no diets, gunky shakes or pills off the Internet. No meal plans, potions to weight or calories to count.

You just get to eat the food that you want to eat but smaller portions, much much smaller potions.

Feel free to contact me if you truly want success…i can help get to where you want to get to easily.

Thanks for takingthe time to read this

Howard the Hypnotherapist

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