How Hypnotherapy can help you make better nutritional choices
Our ability to control and lose weight is affected by the nutritional choices we make, our habits, attitudes towards food and the behaviours we developed as children and throughout adult life.
Hypnotherapy is, by no means, the first solution people think of when trying to lose weight. It’s more likely for people to look into a diet and because of this, they’re missing out on one of the most effective ways to control their nutritional choices. Read on to find out how hypnotherapy can help those wishing to make healthier nutritional choices.
Why you should consider hypnotherapy for healthy eating?
Having a healthy body comes down to eating the right foods and staying active, whatever your age or gender.
Worryingly, according to a 2017-18 Australian Bureau of Statistics National Health Survey:
67% of adults were overweight or obese - That is two thirds (67.0%) of Australian adults being overweight or obese (12.5 million people), an increase from 63.4% in 2014-15.
There was a large increase for those aged 18-24 years, with 46.0% overweight or obese in 2017-compared to 18. 38.9% in 2014-15.
In 2017-18, a greater proportion of men aged 18 years and over were overweight or obese than women (74.5% and 59.7% respectively).
Almost one quarter (24.9%) of children aged 5-17 years were overweight or obese in 2017-18 (17% overweight and 8.1% obese). The rates were similar for boys and girls and this has remained stable over the previous ten years.
Considering Australia has a population of approximately 25 million people the statistics show an alarming trend in this area of health.
It would also suggest that weight control could well become a larger issue for the majority of the Australian population – indicating that there is a genuine need for people to find sufficient solutions to this.
For people seeking a quick fix and a way to alter the look of their body with rapid results, dieting is usually seen as a method to achieve this, however, it rarely works in the long term because there needs to be a lifestyle change.
There are lots of reasons we consume unhealthy junk food or overeat. Commonly, people use food (and usually unhealthy choices) as a way to make themselves feel better or to reward themselves for achieving something. It gets to the point where eating becomes a coping mechanism and a way to make the person feel better as opposed to eating to stave off hunger.
A hypnotherapy session delves beneath the surface to identify the emotional triggers that cause people to use food as a comfort blanket, and tackles the problem head on.
67% of Adults are overweight or obese
That is two thirds of Australian adults
How hypnotherapy can help
Through hypnotherapy, I can help the individual to regain control over the unconscious mind and those unwanted behaviours towards food – mostly the habits that are causing them to eat the wrong things. It’s not simply about following a regime for your meals, as hypnotherapy for nutrition and aiding weight loss helps people to reset their eating habits on a deeper level.
Hypnosis helps the individual become more self-aware and empowered. There aren’t many therapies where the result is to build up a sustainable and healthy control over deeply ingrained habits and stresses that affect what people eat.
In fact, a study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology showed that hypnosis, in addition to a behavioural weight-management program, was more effective in helping patients lose weight over an eight-month period and again at a two-year mark, when compared to those who did not undergo hypnosis.
It also states that more of those who used hypnosis not only achieved their personal weight goals, but maintained them. It’s a secure way to have control over your weight for the long-run, and aim for a positive end goal.
Benefits for end user
Not only will individuals have gained more control over their attitudes to food and be able to command their eating habits, a course of hypnotherapy is a steady way for them to gain more self-esteem and create a more positive self-image.
With dieting comes a sense of guilt and stress when you’ve strayed from the path or have had a relapse but any self-criticism/guilt is eliminated with hypnotherapy because it’s about building a healthy relationship with food through reprograming the mind to make healthier choices – better for the mind and body.
At its core, hypnotherapy is about helping people who are struggling with a problem to identify old habits and establish new, healthier ways to tackle the issue.
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