When to Choose Hypnosis for Weight Loss
Do you have uncontrollable food cravings?
Are you stressed most of the time or do you tend to eat when you are sad or stressed?
Have you tried diets, exercise and/or pills but did not get the results you wanted?
If your answer is ‘yes’, this means you have conditioned yourself to put on weight and hypnosis may be just the right therapy for you to lose weight and to maintain weight loss. So, choose hypnosis if you have tried other methods and they didn’t work.
Age and weight at the start of hypnotherapy are also important for the hypnosis for weight loss program to be successful. As Bolocofsky and colleagues noted in their study – ‘the less a person weighed at the start of the program the more likely he was to lose weight and maintain the reduction’. Another research by McCabe and colleagues indicated that younger women tended to drop out of weight loss programs relative to older women. Bolocofsky also found that weight loss programs with hypnosis were successful for subjects who were ‘higher in self control, weighed less at the start of the program, married and more expressive’.
Also, if you are opting for hypnotherapy, make sure you have a minimum of 8 weeks at your disposal since hypnosis must be practiced on a regular basis for a significant period of time. You need to consult your hypnotist on a weekly basis in addition to self hypnosis. Treatment of obesity with hypnosis is thus a time intensive program.
A big plus point for hypnotherapy is that it is safe.
It doesn’t have any side effects and you are in control of every moment of the hypnotic state. Whether or not hypnosis really helps you lose weight it is certain to give you stress relief and ‘phobia release’. This is because clinical hypnosis is like any other therapeutic modality. It may work for you or it may not, depending upon the extent of your motivation to lose weight.
