Hypnotherapy for weight loss Leicester based Hypnotherpist explain why

Why Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy for weight loss solutions? You might be asking

Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis offer a long term solution which incorporates happiness. So says Alexia Elliott, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master practitioner of NLP &TLT at Empowerment Hypnotherapy Leicester: weight loss leicester


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When we think about dieting or weight loss, we think diets and gruelling fitness regimes, and of course both of these approaches will lead to weight loss if one is focused and determined and remains “good” the downside to this approach is you have to out your life on hold whilst you’re doing it.

Empowerment Hypnotherapy in Leicester, takes a different approach to weight loss; dieting solutions; we look at the underlying issues, which are causing the weight gain or the overeating. When you resolve the underlying issues, the process of changing your relationship with food becomes easy and effortless in fact quite liberating as you can do it without the battle and feeling deprived.

Why not take advantage of a free weight loss Consultation with a leading Clinical Hypnotherapist in Leicester Today?

Alexia Elliott is based in Leicester she is a Master Clinical Hypnotherapist Master Practitioner of NLP Master Practitioner of Timeline Therapy; she is also trained in Psychology, EFT and various spiritual techniques.

FREE consultations Contact Alexia Elliott on Tel:07966412209 or visit our website

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Want 2009 to be different, NLP can help set goals to maintain your focus

Find out how you can make that change using NLP and Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Alexia Elliott explains how: Alexia Elliott is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Lecturer and Master Practitioner of NLP. FREE consultations are available upon request.

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So how does NLP & Hypnosis help us, set clear goals in a way that will motivate us to feel compelled to complete them?

Putting it into words

Words and pictures are the building materials of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Words are the basis of our self-talk—the way we mentally speak to ourselves. The quality of your self-talk can influence your success. Positive, self-talk evokes positive emotions and motivation. By putting what you want into words, you are formulating an outcome—a statement of what you intend to accomplish. Words are the primary tools we use to program our emotions and behaviours, so it's important to select powerful, words when formulating an outcome.

Why is this important?

A poorly formed outcome directs your brain in the wrong direction and keeps you stuck. A well-formed outcome, on the other hand, boosts your motivation and focuses your mind towards real results and solutions.

In the popular best-seller The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Simon and Schuster, 1989), author Stephen Covey advised readers to "begin with the end

In mind." Any endeavour starts with a clearly stated objective. You won't get anywhere unless you know where you are going.

Here are seven guidelines for creating empowering outcomes that will strengthen your commitment to making the changes you desire

1. State Your Outcome in the Positive

Start with what you want, not what you don't want. Instead of, "I want to stop being anxious," say, "I want to feel calm." If you create outcomes around what you do not want, you continue to focus on the problem, rather than directing your thoughts toward the solution.

If you are thinking of what you don't want, your unconscious mind is creating an image of the very thing you want to avoid, and you will be unconsciously drawn toward it. For example, if someone says to you, "Do not think about a purple elephant," what is the first thing that comes to your mind? —A purple elephant, of course! Start directing your mind towards what you want.

Once you've formulated the outcome you choose, stop thinking about it as something you want. Instead, start thinking about it as something you have now or are creating now. The unconscious mind can be very literal. When you say "I want …" your subconscious mind hears "I lack …" To want something is to lack that thing. To create your outcome, speak of it as though you have it now, you choose to have it now, and you are creating it now.

2. State Your Outcome in the Present Tense

Your outcomes are about what you are doing now and into future, regardless of what has happened in the past. Although it makes perfect sense that outcomes are about now and the future, some people continue to dwell on the past when thinking about what they want. Statements like, "I wish I studied harder at school" or "I should have learned how to manage my finances by now" are not well-formed outcomes. You can't change the past, so put your attention and energies on what you can accomplish today, tomorrow, and from now on.

State your outcomes in the present tense, not the future tense. If you say "I will practice being calm" your subconscious mind hears "I will" and assumes the new behaviour will occur sometime later, in the future, rather than now. By putting your outcome in the present tense, you notify your subconscious mind that your outcomes and new behaviours are taking place NOW!

3. Create Your Goals around Your Own Behaviours and Feelings

Only you can create your future. No one else can do it for you. Make certain that your outcomes are about changing your own emotions and behaviours, not about what someone else wants you to do, or what you want someone else to do. Make your outcomes self-initiated and about you.

4. State Your Outcomes in Specific Terms

Our minds code outcomes as accomplishable when those outcomes are stated (and visualized) specifically. Specific outcomes are about observable, measurable behaviours and clearly defined emotional states. Make your outcomes specific by stating when, where, and how often you want them.

5. Make Your Outcomes Realistic and Achievable

Be careful about overblown or exaggerated outcomes. If they inspire you, that's fine. But if they lead to disappointment, procrastination, and frustration, then set your sights on something more realistic and achievable. Maybe it's better to channel your energies into simply reaching a realistic and achievable goal, learning about the process as you go along Give you sufficient time to make adjustments which let you integrate the learning at a deeper level making it habitual and effortless.

6. State Your Outcomes without Equivocation

Equivocation is a hedge—it says "I'm willing to fail" or "I Hope I can do it" these half-hearted statements are not motivating; a well-formed outcome is stated affirmatively.

7) Ecology: how does this impact on your wider system

An "ecological" outcome is safe and realistic for your situation, and doesn't conflict with your needs or values. If you choose an outcome that isn't ecological,

It won't feel right. You won't stick with it, or you'll engage in self-sabotage. Don't commit to any outcome until you've checked in with yourself—consulted your inner wisdom, so to speak—about whether you can truly commit to this course of action. If you feel vaguely uncomfortable about some outcome you've decided on, then there is probably some issue you need to resolve—or you may need to modify the outcome. Ask yourself, "Am I willing to do what it takes?" and "Is it worth it?" Every significant life choice carries a cost. Each new commitment you make means you will forfeit other choices and opportunities.

How big is your goal?

This is an important motivation factor in how you define an outcome. If you perceive that your outcome seems too large to undertake, too small to be significant or just right so that it seems doable and worthwhile. If your outcome is well-formed but seems daunting or overwhelming, you are thinking too big. Break your outcome down to doable steps.

What will you lose as a result of this
change?

Any worthwhile goal entails some difficulty, sustained effort, You might call these sacrifices, is really giving up a short-term satisfaction in favour of something else that is more valuable, enduring, and ultimately more fulfilling.

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Put It in Writing

Now that you've defined your outcomes, write them out

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Now close your eyes, step into each of these outcomes, and live it in your mind. Imagine doing it. Anticipate your thoughts and feelings. Imagine the satisfaction you feel as you fulfil each one. See the short-term and long-term rewards.

Put these outcomes on index cards and carry them with you during the day, so that you can read them and remind yourself where you are going. Place your outcomes around your home or workplace (if appropriate) so that you see them often and keep them in the forefront of your mind. Put them in your PDA or keep them handy on your computer desktop.

Next Steps

Now that you have well-formed outcomes, you can advance into the planning stages by asking additional questions:

• How am I going to do it?

What are the steps and the timetable for completion?

• What questions do I have?

Do I need more information? Where will I find it?

• What are my action steps?

How often will I engage in these actions?

• Who else will be involved, and what do I want them to do?

• How will I know I am making progress?

• Once I have the result I want, how do I maintain it, make it even better, or decide when it's time to go on to another outcome?

Do it

Now that you know how to create well-formed outcomes, go for it! Don't let negative, depressing, or pessimistic thoughts talk you out of it.

Decide that you are going to have your chosen outcome, don't take no for an answer, and commit to the outcome with passion, drive, and motivation. Think positively and optimistically. Be ready to meet challenges with courage and creativity, difficulties are opportunities for you to learn as you develop yourself.

Take advantage of a free Hypnotherapy Hypnosis, NLP, Consultation With Alexia Elliott in Leicester Leicestershire call Alexia Elliott today on Tel:07966412209 or visit this website www.leicestershirehypnotherapy.co.uk for further details

Newsflash
Dieting makes you fatRead this article now to discover why & how

Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis offer a long term solution which incorporates happiness. So says Alexia Elliott, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master practitioner of NLP &TLT at Empowerment Hypnotherapy Leicester: weight loss Leicester

The dieter’s dilemma

Chronic dieting for weight loss has been shown to.

• Teach your body how to retain more fat when you start eating again, in a form of biological compensation which helps the body store more energy or fat after dieting.

• Slow the rate of weight loss after each successive attempt to diet, this has been shown to be true in both rats and human studies.

• Decrease metabolism, (dieting triggers the body to become more efficient at utilising calories by lowering the bodies need for energy)

• Increase binges (research has shown that humans and rats overeat after a chronic food restriction, food restriction stimulates the brain to start a cascade of cravings, to eat more after a substantial weight loss, and studies have shown that rats prefer eating more fat when people have shown a preference to foods high in fat and sugar.)

• Causes your body shape to change from yo-yo dieting, the lost weight tends to regain weight in the abdominal area, and this fat storage increases the risk of heart disease.
  Willpower and diets

Forget will power!! Why? You might ask, a doctor would not ask you to use your willpower to reduce your blood pressure this appears to be a prevailing attitude, that all we need is willpower and self control. In the 1993 gallop poll, the most common obstacle to losing weight citied was, willpower or the lack of it.

The world of dieting crosses many personal boundaries, for example
What you should eat?
When you should eat?
How much will satisfy you?
How can a diet know what triggers of your hunger? Or what will please your palate?

These decisions should be about preference and choice with respect to an individual’s anatomy and body signals, good guidance is important and useful but ultimately you have to be responsible for when and how much you eat don’t you?

These well intended suggestions that “you should eat less”, or “you shouldn’t of eaten that ice-cream” (food police) can set of an inner food rebellion where you use food as a weapon, sometimes referred to as forget you eating or F**k you eating.

In physics resistance occurs as a reaction to force, this principle can be seen in society, riots for example, they erupt due to the force of authority, often the simple act of being told what to do, can trigger rebellion (even if it’s something we want to do)
Rebellion is a normal act of self preservation, it’s your space and your boundaries, if you were to consider a personal boundary as a large brick wall surrounding you with only one gate, only you can open the gate if you choose to – no one else is allowed inside, unless you invite them in, within the wall resides your feelings thoughts and biological signals. People often assume they know what you need and tell you what to do; in one sense they are attempting to pick the lock to your gate or invading your personal boundaries.

You may be wondering, so if dieting doesn’t work, if dieting makes you fat then what do I do? I ask people who are embarking on yet another diet if they can do it for the rest of their life? The most common response is no. if you want to lose weight, feel good and enjoy your life at the same time, you could experiment with being a conscious eater and make small changes which you can get really good at doing for life.

Some suggestionsStart with simple changes drinking water daily, start with three glasses a day.
Eat your meal at the table (not watching TV)
Before you eat take a few deep breathes and eat slowly incorporating all of your senses, so you can really enjoy and taste the food.
Eat when you’re hungry stop when you are full

Enjoying changing your relationship with food it is a liberating process I wish you well.

Alexia Elliott
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Leicester UK

Alexia Elliott is a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Leicester Leicestershire UK,, she is a leading specialist in weight loss and weight related issues, Alexia Elliott offers free Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy & NLP consultation in Leicester.
Call today to make an appointment.Tel:07966412209

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End the struggle with weight loss,

Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis offer a long term solution which incorporates happiness. So says Alexia Elliott,Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master practitioner of NLP &TLT at Empowerment Hypnotherapy Leicester: weight loss leicester


I would be rich, if I was given a pound for every client who walked into my office and said "I have tried every diet, I've seen every weightless expert, I know about dieting & weightless I know what to eat and what not to eat, but I just can't seem to lose weight, , Alexia you're my last hope."Have you considered why so many diets fail? Statistics show that 95% of diets don'twork and people don't lose weight; ironically we blame ourselves for the weight loss diet not working and not the process of dieting itself. Diets are a multi billion pound industry, I wonder if diets really were a successful weight loss technique if it would be such a lucrative market.

Diets are short term solutions to weight loss, there are based on deprivation, rules and regulations. Dieting is another word for short term starvation. Each time you eat something which isn't "good" you have broken one of the rules, which often gets interpreted into "I have no willpower" which can lead to every eating situation, every violation to the rules of the diet, you begin to feel more and more out of control, you may say to yourself "I'll try harder next time" "tomorrow I'll start again" for many people tomorrow is about self punishment for being bad, maybe it will be the latest fad diet that is endorsed by a airbrushed celebrity in one of the a glossy magazines, with the hope this will lead to successful weight loss.Weight loss isn't about willpower, despite many dieting companies fostering this lie. If your body has been starved you will be obsess about food.

The real issue here is that you are fighting Biology, your body needs nourishment.So if long term weight loss isn't, a symptom of dieting what is?- The feeling of knowing you are going on a diet can bring on urges and craving for "bad food"- At the end of a weight loss diet there is the celebratory "end of a diet binge" followed with large portions of guilt. A study showed the 49% of people who end a diet will binge.- Having little trust in self, weight loss dieting teaches us to not trust the body-Feeling you don't deserve to eat because your overweight- The last supper: every weigh loss diet is preceded by consuming the foods you won't be allowed to eat- Social withdrawal since it's hard to stay on a weight loss diet and go out for meals or to parties it's easier to just not go-

Sluggish metabolism: each weight loss diet teaches the body to adapt the next self imposed famine (another diet)How does Empowerment Hypnotherapy's weight loss system work?Empowerment Hypnotherapy's, philosophy on weight loss is about not only changing your relationship with food, but changing your relationship with yourself. What I have noticed consistently when working with past clients, is that despite them perusing endless weight loss diets they don't like themselves anyway.
I asked them has the self loathing helped?
Has dwelling on your imperfections made you slimmer?
Do you think it would easier to look and feel good if you actually liked yourself?

Focusing on your body in such a negative way isn't helpful. The worse you feel about yourself, the more the mental torture continues, ending this battle is a starting point Judith Rodin a body image expert points out " you don't need to lose weight first in order to take care of yourself, in fact the process actually happens quite in the reverse"Empowerment Hypnotherapy's approach is about making long term change, which in turn gives you a positive relationship with yourself and food, which creates a freedom within for you to enjoy and live your life and lose weight.

How does Hypnotherapy work?Hypnotherapy enables direct access to the unconscious mind, to enable a change to the old eating habits and to resolve any emotional reasons for over-eating. Hypnotherapy and NLP can allow you to have a change of attitude towards the food that you eat. So that you no longer want to snack on crisps or chocolates, or finish everything on your plate even if you are not hungry. This enables you to enjoy eating healthily and at the same time lose weight in a safe and natural way.

The four golden rules to changing your relationship with food- Eat when you are hungry- Eat consciously- Eat what you want- Stop when you feel you feel full. why not indulge yourself just for a day, each time before you begin to eat ask yourself "what does my body want?" it might be a glass of water a pear or a cake whatever it is enjoy it by being aware and conscious.

Of course if this feels good you might want to do it for more than a dayAlexia Elliott Empowerment HypnotherapyFor further details on Empowerment Hypnotherapy's weight loss system please visitAlexia Elliott Empowerment Hypnotherapy Leicester Hypnotherapy in Leicester with hypnotherapist Alexia Elliott. Free consultation session at Empowerment Hypnotherapy

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Part 2

food for thought

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I began to think about the idea of being consciously aware when you eat, I realised I wasn’t, I could eat a full meal and maybe I would taste the first few bites, the rest of the meal would disappear in a flash. I would stop when I had cleared the plate, the empty plate was the signal for me to finish eating.

Now I practise conscious eating, I take great delight in discreetly observing people eat in public places, what I observe consistently is people go into a trance like zombie state when they eat, they switch off. I recommend all of the fast food restaurants. Fast being the operative word as this does not just apply to the service.

The idea of being a conscious eater was a real starting point for me, I embarked on a journey of observation and self study, to develop awareness, of my relationship with food and to begin to make changes in my relationship with food. I realised a large portion of the times (pun intended) that I had been eating it wasn’t due to hunger, it was a response to a different need, feeling upset hurt or angry, or that it was 12 o’clock which meant it was lunchtime.

As a Hypnotherapist specialising in weight loss and weight/food related issues, I know this is an extremely common phenomena. My starting point was to keep a food diary, with the aim to raise my consciousness and awareness around food and eating but also to discover, the deeper issues which lead to my psychological eating.

The food dairy recorded what the time is
Where I was?
What a rating scale of hunger before eating
If there were any emotions present?
What I ate?
Hunger scale after eating

This was albeit a little annoying, having to analyse every thought about food, and every time I ate and recording it. It proved to be a crucial step in freeing myself from the trap of food obsession, This diary keeping provided me with an understanding that the times when in the past I would eat without thinking, or that I was eating due to emotions, I had to question if I really needed food or that if the food would resolve the underlying issue. This gave me greater control over my decisions.

What I began to notice was several of my eating patterns or the things which triggered cravings for food were not just driven by emotions but also by external forces, what I mean by this, is the time, what others say or do, I wasn’t always connected to my body when making choices related to food. "Its 6pm I have to cook a meal for us all," "we must eat", of course this is quite a good habit to have, cooking for one's family in the evening, but it’s not good if you had eaten a large meal earlier in the afternoon at 3pm and in truth if you’re not hungry, the feeling of having to carry out this rule was very powerful, I remember doing many meditations to overcome this illusion.

A good place to start changing this is by asking yourself “am I really hungry?” And if you’re not hungry ask yourself “what do I really want? Sometimes it might be a simple physiological need such as a drink or that you are tired or you need to rest, it might be something such as telling your colleague you won’t do their job anymore.

I will outline a simple exercise which you can follow to gain awareness consciousness and understanding which will lead to you developing a positive relationship with food which works for you at the end of this blog.

How do we develop negative relationships with food?
I revisted my past and considered Was I born with not having the knowledge of knowing what my body needed?

I meditated back to when my daughters were toddlers and I was feeding them, I remember having a bowl of food which I had prepared for them, I would present the food to my daughter mouth while making funny sounds and actions to encourage them to enjoy the process, they would gratefully take each spoonful that I offered them. At some point they would refuse the spoon of food, I would be disgruntled I thought they were being stubborn and not doing as mummy wanted “of course I knew best didn’t I?” was it at this point I was teaching my daughters that I knew more about how there body’s or the bowl of food being empty was the trigger for them to stop eating? it’s quite possible.


You could consider some of the other food rules, or associations we create throughout our lives, were you ever rewarded with food for being good? Or denied food for being bad? Celebratory meals, ordering a Chinese takeaway as you have had a bad week at work. When you start to peel the layers of associations and rules which govern our everyday behaviours, it can become quite fascinating and liberating.

Here is a simple exercise, you can practise to increase your awareness and consciousness to make changes to your relationship with food. What I mean by being consciously aware is being in a state of being awareness.

It is a process of observation and attention, in the flow of changing stimuli and perceptions. Mindfulness is ‘in the moment’, present, engaged awareness. An important characteristic of a mindful state is that it is free of judgment. Also, mindfulness is not a passive state; we apply intention when we are mindful. The intention of this exercise it to bring greater awareness to your experience and behaviours which is crucial in my view if you really want to gain understanding and make change




Exercise

Please only do this if you want to change

Spiritual traditions recommend that examining the feelings of cravings, so the next time you feel a craving for a some type of food see this as an opportunity to explore carefully and to identify what is beneath the craving. STOP whatever you are doing and explore the experience see if you can identify the underlying emotions and sensations in your body, thoughts, feelings and tensions, in and around you body. There may be a cluster of emotions they can often feel like they are burning or crushing you mind, it may feel like anxiety or fear if you don’t satisfy this cravings.

Your mind might become agitated at this point and some self destructive thoughts might kick in if you don’t eat this feeling won’t go” or “why stop this you will always be fat” these are only thoughts and they will only have power if you let them. We have millions of thoughts a day which we don’t respond to, I can think back to times when I have been really angry with one of my daughters and the thought of “I’ll kill them when I get hold of them” of course I didn’t carry it out, if you experience these self destructive thoughts, simply observe and experience the craving as this will help you to gain understanding of the structure and process and what is driving the craving. Recognise the cravings painful effects through awareness can leads to healing bringing awareness to a craving can begin to weaken it and examining a craving is an essential step in understanding healing.

Of course if you want a quick short term fix to weight loss, keep buying into the multi billion pound industry of dieting, but before you do, ask yourself, can I do this diet for the rest of my life? If you can’t, then why not try the above exercise, which might well lead you in the direction of liberation and freedom from diet mentality.

Love, Blessings & Respect
Alexia Elliott

Please contact me if you would like further information on weight loss weight control and how you can develop a heathly relationship with food

Alexia Elliott is a leading Hypnotherapist in leicester and a specialist in weight related issues.

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Food for thought..Weight loss leicester with Hypnotherapy

Food for thought
By Alexia Elliott
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Part one

Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis offer a long term solution which incorporates happiness. So says Alexia Elliott,Clinical Hypnotherapist, Master practitioner of NLP &TLT at Empowerment Hypnotherapy Leicester: weight loss leicester

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Until 2002, I had a destructive relationship with food, I felt controlled by it, I loved it and hated it at the same time. The compulsion to eat was incredibly powerful, the compulsion would usually win. I would try and ignore the compulsion and avoid eating, depriving my body of food.

Which more often than not lead to overeating later in the day a (binging) session, leaving me feeling over full, stuffed, and hateful towards myself. To get some release from these stuffed feelings I would make myself sick. As a little girl I was often sick for “no apparent reason”. With hindsight I know it was a maladaptive coping strategy, which would appear during times of high emotion or distress.

There was a general pattern,

· I would feel upset about something,
· I would have a feeling in my stomach, it felt like it was a bottomless pit, I would feel starving hungry. (This wasn’t always immediate to the above it might be a few days after the initial upset)
· I would feel intoxicating insatiable cravings and powerful desires to cram food into my mouth
· An inner voice would appear saying E.g. “go and eat something you’re fat anyway it will make you feel better”
· I would search for sweet stuff, chocolate or carbohydrates (white bread)
· I would eat so much could not get anything else into my body
· My Inner tyrant would appear in my mind saying “ stop it you idiot you have no self control”
· I would then feel terrible, bloated and fat
· And have to get rid of the food I have consumed.
· Make myself vomit
· Feel guilty and angry with myself at my lack of control.

This was a secretive process I didn’t share it with others, In many ways it was a secret from myself, as it took place at an unconscious level out of my conscious awareness, it happened in seconds. The cycle is often described as being similar to falling out of a tree as we’re falling through the branches, we don’t notice we’re getting cut and bruised. Its only when we hit the ground that we realize we are hurt.

Despite feeling guilty and angry, there was a part of me that felt cleansed and better for vomiting and it seemed to discharge some of those uncomfortable emotions which started the initial binge. Looking back I can see how and why this coping strategy ran for so long, it worked, it gave me the result of getting rid of the some of the horrible feelings. I didn’t know what they were, I just didn’t like them and needed to get rid of them, and food helped me do this.

I remember being on Hypnotherapy training we were discussing weight related issues and how powerful hypnotherapy is, in helping people lose weight or overcome weight & food related issues. Many people do not consider Hypnosis as an option for weight loss, like me, people think how can changing your thinking, change your body or make you lose weight? I remember feeling annoyed by the suggestion that it was something in my head, that made me feel and act so bad towards food and my body, I was screaming out “surely you have stop eating or go on a diet to lose weight or to be happy”

As the lecturer continued to talk, something began resonate with me, (maybe I woke up) I realised my thoughts did make a difference, if my thoughts were different, I would respond differently to food. I considered what makes me different to others who don’t have these issues? I realised it is their thoughts, a simple but profound realisation. Milton Erickson MD worked had great success with people who wanted to lose weight or change old and destructive patterns with food;

he gave his clients some very basic rules:
· Eat when you’re hungry
· Stop when you’re full, I prefer comfortably satisfied
· Eat like a gourmet (have you notice the majority of gourmets are slim? They are conscious eaters)
· Be conscious and aware when you eat, incorporate all of the sense this is vital for developing a healthy relationship with food.

Please read the following Blog for more on this article and how you can lose weight be healthy and happy without the pain of dieting.


Alexia Elliott is leading Hypnotherapist in the area of weight loss based in Leicester feel free to visit her website or to contact her for further information



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