Since Hypnosis Weight Loss is a cooperative process, that means, you, and the practitioner of your choice, need to come up with an agreed upon plan.
This involves lots of discussions and a deep level of mutual understanding.
For examle, your Hypnosis Weight Loss expert/therapist may ask you questions such as, what kind of medications you are currently taking, or, how much time you can be dedicated in this Hypnosis Weight Loss effort, what your habits are concerning eating, what type of eating plan you have for reducing the excess weight, etc..
One thing though, keep this in mind that, you’d be honest and straightforard upfront. If, say, you are planning on a vegetarian lifestyle and your practitioner is giving hypnosis weight loss suggestions including having lean cuts of meat, it may be counterproductive. So be sure to let your therapist know about the lifestyle you are going to choose.
With all pertinent information in hand, your hypnotherapist now can design and implement a hypnosis weight loss program just for YOU, and guide you through in the entire process. All you need is practice, practice and practice. For the majority of people walking into Hypnosis Weight Loss clinic, while working closely with their therapists , the program works pretty well. But everybody’s situation is different so you need to talk upfront with your therapists, and the results could vary to some extent. But if you really wowrk towards it, you should see the improvements down the road.
I hope the above info can help you in achieving your weigh loss goal in a cost-effective way.
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How to Optimize Flavors in Healthy Eating
A great many factors influence how much humans eat—and overeat. Social, environmental, psychological, economic, and biological factors can all trigger our appetites to behave badly. Among those pressures, flavor ranks as the most important: we tend to eat more of that which tastes good to us.
In our struggle with our weight, we often find that willpower alone is not enough to overcome the addictiveness of the foods that surround—and tempt—us day in and day out. We may be able to put up with the tedium of a low fat, low carb diet for a day or two, or for several weeks even; over time, however, our willpower weakens, and we backslide into unhealthy eating habits again. We need a more powerful weapon that can sustain us in our fight against weight gain. Flavor is such a weapon.
We all know that foods high in volume, such as vegetables, fruits, soups and stews, fill one up with fewer calories. These wholesome foods are also generally rich in nutrients. Making them a regular part of a healthful diet, on the other hand, can be difficult because most people don’t like the taste of vegetables.
Is there a way to flavor up the veggies to make them more palatable? The answer is yes.
In my experience, we can arrive at a happy compromise between flavor and wholesomeness by mixing veggies with meats or stir-frying veggies in small amounts of oil.
Have you noticed that sweet foods taste even sweeter when they are made with oil? This is because fat can serve as a vehicle for flavors. Even though it may not add a specific flavor to food, it enhances the potency of other added flavors. In the case of sugared foods, the oil distributes the sweetness throughout the mouth. Similarly, when we add oil to veggies, it can bring out all the hidden flavors in them and make them more delicious.
We have two picky eaters at our house. Both abhor veggies and wouldn’t touch veggies regardless of my best efforts to persuade them to. One day, I tried a recipe I got from a friend of mine. When stewing pork spare ribs, I put in some carrot and turnip cubes. The dish turned out to be a big success. Both of my children asked for seconds—something that never happened before.
Another favorite dish of ours is sesame tofu. Tofu, as we all know, is rich in protein and calcium. A lot of people are aware of its nutritional value but shy away from it because of its drab and slightly bitter taste. The next time you eat tofu, try adding one drop of sesame oil and some soy sauce to taste. You will find that the whole thing tastes different.
Hypnosis and Weight Loss
Self-imposed restrictive diets that produce quick and dramatic results have a tendency to boomerang with a subsequent weight gain. Instead of merely a diet or exercise plan for a set number of weeks, permanent weight loss occurs only with long-term lifestyle changes. According to many people, hypnosis can help you make those changes, quickly and more easily than you ever imagined possible.
Hypnosis refers to a procedure that induces a sleep like state in which the subject acts only on external suggestions. The rationale behind hypnotherapy is that the mind and body are intimately interlinked and influencing one never fails to affect the other. If you suggest to the subconscious mind that the body is free of pain or disease, it will actually bring about that change. In a hypnotic state, you are awake and alert, but you tune out most of the stimuli around you and focus intently on the subject at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought.
Overeating often occurs because of the cravings and impulses we have about certain foods, on certain occasions. By reeducating the part of your brain responsible for creating cravings and impulses, hypnosis is believed to give you back choice in what you eat.
In a typical hypnotherapy weight loss session, you are first put into a relaxed state. You feel that tingly feeling like you are floating on air. It doesn’t feel heavy, and you feel like you can’t even move because you can’t even lift your finger all the way. This is also where you will start moving into the hypnotic trance progressively using imagery, non-verbal induction, or verbal induction, depending on which training the therapist actually has. Then you go through a deep breathing technique which allows you to go into a deeper level of trance. The next thing after that is what is known as the suggestion phase. That is where the therapist tunes into the food trap that gets in the way of your weight loss, be it sugar, comfort eating, boredom eating, or TV snacks (“Imagine your favorite apple pie covered with flies.”) The final step is awakening, where you will be brought out of hypnosis slowly.
Since hypnotism does not involve drugs, it is touted as natural and risk-free by many advertisers on the Internet. Critics argue, however, that many of the claims about weight loss through hypnosis are overly optimistic at best and openly deceptive at worst.
How to Cook for the Ideal Body Weight
Nowadays, even a kindergartener can tell you that healthy eating comes in the form of a pyramid.
source: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/
According to the Healthy Eating Pyramid, you should eat a variety of foods. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups. More importantly, the Pyramid shows that not all foods are created equal. You should eat more foods from the bottom part of the pyramid (vegetables, whole grains) than the top (red meat, refined grains).
In general, home-cooked meals are preferred over processed foods because with the former, you have more control over what’s put into your mouth. For many people trying to eat a healthy diet, this presents special challenges. How can you eat home-cooked meals when you don’t particularly enjoy cooking yourself? What options do you have rather than to hire someone to do the cooking for you?
I am not much of a cook myself. But over the years, I have found ways to make the cooking experience more pleasant. Cooking home-made meals doesn’t have to involve long hours of slaving away in the kitchen, as I found out.
First, you need to make sure you’re properly equipped. Three cooking utensils are indispensable to a kitchen and worth every penny you spend on them: a deep stainless pot that is sturdy enough for daily stir-frying, a slow cooker, and a pressure cooker.
Vegetables are probably the only food group in the pyramid that you can take in as much as you want. Many people know that vegetables are good for them, but they shy away from vegetables simply because they don’t like the taste. Nutritionists will tell you that the most healthy way to prepare veggies is to steam them, but those seldom taste very good. Is there a way to make veggies more appetizing and still relatively healthy to eat? The answer is yes. You can, for instance, stir-fry them with canola oil. At our house, we serve 2 kinds of stir-fried veggies at every meal.
By the way, eating veggies in the form of a salad isn’t necessarily the best practice for weight control, contrary to popular belief. Unless you prepare the salad dressing yourself, you have no control over what goes into your mouth.
A slow cooker is a big help to people running hectic lives. It is convenient in that you can just throw in the ingredients, set the timer, and walk way. You don’t need to watch it cook—it will cook on its own. Using a slow cooker, you can stew veggies with meats. When cooked this way, veggies will take on the flavor of the meats and appeal to the pickiest eater around.
A pressure cooker can also come in handy when you are into healthy eating and cooking. Foods such as beans and brown rice are excellent food choices, but the sheer amount of time it takes to cook them can turn people away. Do not worry. If you pre-soak them in advance, and cook them with a pressure cooker, you can whip up a meal in no time at all.
Losing Weight the Right Way
The Ideal Body Weight
There are many ways to determine one’s ideal body weight. Without going into complicated mathematics, the ideal weight can be calculated using the following method:
100 lbs (for the first 5 feet) + 5lbs for each additional inch for women
110 lbs (for the first 5 feet) + 5 lbs for each additional inch for men.
The ideal weight for a woman at 5 feet 5.5 inches, for example, would be
100 lbs + 5.5 * 5 lbs = 127.5 lbs.
Myths
When it comes to maintaining an ideal weight, myths abound. Many people believe in sweating their pants off in a gym, others starving themselves with purely low fat, low carb menus. Still others swear by fad diet plans. Maintaining an ideal weight isn’t about any of the above. It is about making relatively healthy choices in life, with the focus on relative. Often, the choices come at low or no cost to you.
You are what you eat. If you eat a lot of junk food, fat will creep up on you. There is no mistake about that. Does that mean, though, that you should strictly adhere to a low fat, low calorie, low carb diet and cut everything else out? Not necessarily.
Red meat, such as beef, has a high content of saturated fat, which is associated with cardiovascular diseases. Regular consumption of red meat can be unhealthy. However, those trying to eat a leaner diet should also keep in mind that red meat is a good source of complete protein and iron. Abstaining from it could cause serious conditions such as iron deficiency and anemia.
The trick then, is not to fight the “absolute” evil, but rather, to pick the relatively less evil option whenever you can.
Your weight is influenced by how active you are throughout the day. Generally, the more active you are, the less likely you are overweight. Finding an exercise routine that works for you—one you can stick to long term—is vital. Obviously, if you signed up for power work-outs in a gym but pushed yourself so hard that you got fed up with it and never went there again, gym membership is not going to do you any good. If you find it easier to commit to a brisk 20-minute walk in your neighborhood, by all means do just that. You may actually end up losing more weight if you can do it every day.
Again, there is no absolute right. You just pick whatever is the lesser evil, as long as it comes natural to you: when you can sit, do not lie; when you can stand, do not sit; when you can walk around, do not sit still; when you can take the stairs, do not use the escalator or elevator. The list goes on and on.
Thirdly, losing weight and/or maintaining a healthy diet does not have to be costly. You can, for instance, cut down on your food costs by making it a habit to never buy meat except when it’s on sale. Every grocery chain will have weekly meat sales to draw people into the store. Watch the ad circulars for sales. If sales info is not available, talk to the meat clerk and ask if he knows what cuts will be on sale the following week and what time they mark down the day’s meat. Stop by at that time. And finally, when you can get a good deal on lean cuts of meat, buy in bulk, and freeze what you won’t be using right away.
More tips on eating healthy later.
Do Weight Loss Drugs Really Work?
Each year, an increasing number of people around the world are becoming overweight, including school children according to recent studies. To cure this problem, some people have resorted to surgical measures whereas others have decided that adjustments to their food intake and an increase in physical activity is necessary. The problem is that many people are impatient and want instant results so they resort to taking weight loss drugs instead of living a healthy lifestyle. (see a clip on Weight Loss Pills)
Those kinds of drugs usually work buy informing the brain that it’s no longer hungry, stimulating metabolism to aid the shedding of excess fat. It was only after scientists discovered that these drugs had side effects and were related to heart valve disease that they were taken off the shelves. Hey, you know that kind of stories too well. Since then, newer drugs have been developed and doctors continue to prescribe them although they are still awaiting FDA certification.
Most probably, if you asked enough people, some of them would say they have used them and been happy with the results. This is obviously a very tempting prospect, to lose weight while eating the same diet. Many millions of dollars are spent each year in The United States alone while the drug manufacturers spend huge sums on further research into weight loss drugs.
An individual wishing to buy weight control pills can do so over-the-counter or have them prescribed by their doctor, however there are still health risks associated with their use. You must check the packet carefully before you decide to use them because some of the other side effects can be even more harmful, like the possibility of a heart attack or even a stroke, with hallucinations, tremors, breathing problems and convulsions all recorded as side effects for users of these drugs.
This can lower the possibility of some side effects occurring, although this may depend on the genetic makeup of the person using them. Problems like irritability, tiredness, vomiting, stomach pains and sleep problems are all common effects reported when someone stops taking these weight control pills.
Although these weight loss drugs do work, at least temporarily, an increase in beneficial effects occurs when regular exercise is undertaken along with a change in eating habits and other life styles. Despite all the bad publicity, weight loss drugs do work but they are more successful if they are used in conjunction with a low calorie diet and regular exercise, preferably using a properly worked out exercise regime.} A low calorie diet would consist of meals that contain vitamins, minerals and fibre which are all essential for good health; the best sources are fruit and vegetables.
As far as the exercise is concerned, this needs to be worked out in advance after a physical examination by your doctor. A regime of this kind would increase an individual’s metabolic rate.