Five Ways Hypnotherapy Can Help You With Weight Loss …

Did you know that by using over-hyped exercise machines or following a fad diet, people actually end up gaining even more weight? Hypnotherapist SANDRA CABOT reveals some very helpful weight loss information ...

Unless you address the emotional reasons for putting on weight, you will not make any real impact on the weight you are carrying. Here's how you can do that:

1. Choose right food choices. Clinical Hypnotherapy techniques make it easy to do so. Recent clinical studies show that techniques used in Clinical Hypnotherapy increase the amount of weight you can lose by over 100%. Most importantly ... the results have long term results. Instead of relying on super-human feats of willpower.

2. Create motivation and the desire to exercise. It's not necessary to do a lot of exercise but it is beneficial to walk more or do some exercise that you love to do, such as playing tennis or swimming etc.

3. Eliminate cravings. People gain weight because of giving in to cravings. When you gain control of cravings, the extra weight melts away over time easily without feeling you are being deprived. This eliminates the brain messages telling you to eat things that may not be good for you.

4. Eliminate the feeling of being deprived. It's not about denying yourself, it's about not wanting what's bad for you in the first place.

5. Rewire your brain with the right messages for success. Often people think they have to rely on will-power but when they have removed Sabotage programming and install programming that assists them, they find they are drawn to eating well and enjoying the exercise they choose to take part in.
When you make the changes and implement new beliefs and behaviours, healthy eating and weight loss are so easy.

To enquire about weight loss hypnotherapy sessions with Sandra Cabot, call her on 0406 638 858 or check out her websites www.sentiencetherapies.com and www.sydneycbdhypnosis.com.au

Fat Loss products & supplements ... you're better off in retreat!

If there was a weight loss product that genuinely worked, everyone would be using it. Weight loss trainer and raw living foods dietician VANESSA BAILEY looks over the chequered history of the diet products industry, and concludes there's little to separate the slimming pill market from the realm of weight loss scams ...

SA new study found that delicious, fatty foods are as addictive as cocaine and heroin.

Florida scientists looking into the causes of obesity let lab rats gorge round-the-clock on cake frosting and sweet treats, as well as bacon and sausage, and discovered that it triggered addiction-like responses in their brains.

To maintain their food-induced highs, the rats consumed more and more fatty treats - and got obese in the process.

Writing in the journal Nature Neuroscience, researcher Paul Kenny of the Scripps Research Institute said he suspects the same chemical changes that happen to rats when they devour unhealthy foods might also be happening in humans.

"People know intuitively that there's more to [overeating] than just will power," he says. "There's a system in the brain that's been turned on or overactivated, and that's driving it at some subconscious level."

"Obesity may be a form of compulsive eating," he wrote.

Australians, a bit like Americans

A recent article published stateside on the Raw Living Foods Blog which is worth keeping in touch with, states: "Americans are sick, they're sicker than ever, and most Americans over the age of 55 have at least one risk factor for diseases. For example, 1/3rd have elevated cholesterol, most are inactive, 1/3rd have high blood pressure, 30% are obese, more than 65% are overweight, and 10% are diabetic ... Those are the facts and we treat those patients primarily with drugs. What we treat, of course, is not the patient or the disease, but we treat the risk factors, the signs and symptoms of the disease."

The article goes on to offer more "food for thought"from a speech by Dr. John McDougall to a group of MDs: "Real doctors don't talk about diet and disease."
"Well, you know, things like genetics and viruses and biochemistry and things like that. You see, it's not sexy. The person you saw at the front desk can teach you about diet and lifestyle. You don't have to be a doctor or a dietitian. I mean, anyone can teach you. It's not really sexy, is it? So, it's not very popular. And then, when you give patient control, then you as a doctor lose control and this is an ego-centered business, isn't it?"

"Lifestyle is what it's all about, correcting the cause through a change in lifestyle. Most of you understand that it's a plant-based diet, it's modern exercise and it's clean habits that work."

As the below sections show, thinking that a pill is going to fix the habits, is pretty wishful.

Weight Loss Scams - Not the World's Oldest Profession, but Pervasive

The following is from the Australian Government Scamwatch website - makes for sobering reading:

Weight loss scams promise weight loss for little or no effort. The scam may involve an unusual or restrictive diet, ‘revolutionary’ exercise or fat-busting devices, or products such as pills, patches, or creams. Scammers exploit the fact that people can often be attracted by promises of success with little effort. Many weight loss scams suggest that you can achieve great results without having to do any extra exercise or even modify your diet. Often, attractive people or celebrities are used to sell the products. These may be people with a different body shape and metabolism to you and who use the product in conjunction with an exercise regime and strict diet.At best fad diets and products might result in a temporary weight loss in the short term and can be dangerous if followed over a longer period. Unless a person develops and maintains a better diet and physical activity habit, any weight lost (often water or muscle rather than fat) will soon return.

The weight loss scheme or product:

- lacks scientific evidence or demonstrated links between the result and the effects of the program, food, supplement, gadget or process being promoted
- is sold outside normal commercial distribution channels. For example, through the internet, by unqualified individuals or mail order advertisements
- claims effortless, large or fast weight loss such as 'lose 30 kilos in 30 days' or 'lose weight while you sleep'
- claims that you can achieve weight loss without exercise, or without managing food or energy intake
- fails to recommend medical supervision, particularly for low-calorie diets
- claims to reduce fat or cellulite in specific areas of the body
- uses terms such as 'miraculous breakthrough'
- recommends the exclusive use of any type of gadget
- claims it is a treatment for a wide range of ailments and nutritional deficiencies
- promotes a particular ingredient, compound or food as the key factor of success
- demands large advance payments or requires you to enter into long-term contracts.

How to Protect Yourself from weight loss scams:

- If it looks too good to be true—it probably is.
- Remember there are no magic pills or safe options for rapid weight loss.
- Be very careful about offers for medicines, supplements or other treatments: always seek the advice of your health care professional.
- ALWAYS get independent advice if an offer involves significant money, time or commitment.
- Read all the terms and conditions of any offer very carefully: claims of free or very cheap offers often have hidden costs.

The English Have a Fatty Diet, So Here's Their View ...

From a new weight loss & slimming pills article by Alice Hart-Davis in the UK's Daily Mail:

"Dr Justine Setchell, a GP at the Westover clinic in London, says diet pills, even if they work, will not solve the underlying problem of why you got fat in the first place.

'There is no magic bullet for weight loss,' she says. 'To lose weight, the basic adage is "eat less, move more".

'None of these pills offers a long-term solution. People who take them haven't looked at the underlying reasons why they got fat in the first place, so when they stop taking the pills, they usually go back to their old ways and regain the weight.
'If you don't address the psychology of why you eat what you eat, you will never lose weight.'

And even if you do lose weight, what are the health risks? A few weeks ago, Reductil, a prescription- only appetite suppressant, was withdrawn from use: the European Medicines Agency (EMA) suspended its licence after an international clinical trial showed it increases the risk of heart problems.

Two years ago, the EMA suspended another prescription appetite-suppressant, Acomplia, over fears it could lead to suicidal thoughts."
The article goes on to catatogue the slimming pills on the market in the UK:

"There's Zotrim, which is not a new pill, but its standing has been boosted by the new University of Liverpool findings.

Its active ingredients are the South American herbs guarana, yerba mate and damiana. Research has shown that they slow the rate at which the stomach empties after a meal, while stimulating the metabolism. You feel less hungry, so you eat less.

However, it can make some people feel jittery. I tried it and it did have the side-effect of making me feel edgy.

Capsiplex, a metabolism-booster stuffed with extracts of red-hot peppers, which is popular with Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears, has been put through trials at the University of Oklahoma. These showed that it can provoke the body to burn as many calories as a 25-minute jog.

And Proactol, a fat-binding pill based on cactus extract, already boasts scientific proof of how well it works on the manufacturer's website, but is now hoping for even more startling clinical results. It sounds great, but I'm always trying to cram more omega-3 fats into my diet, so I wouldn't want to use a product that stripped them back out.

Appesat, which is made from fibrous seaweed, fills you up, and clinical trials confirm its claims. I've tried this, but found I needed the maximum dose to have any effect on my appetite. Even then, my brain knew it hadn't had enough to eat even if my stomach technically felt full.

All of these diet pills are made from natural materials and are unlikely to do much harm.

And then there is Alli, the only clinically proven weight-loss medication to be available without prescription, which launched last year to great fanfare.

Alli is a fat-blocker rather than a fatbinder, a low-dose version of the prescription anti-obesity pill Xenical, which blocks the chemicals in the body that digest fat."

Again, we see the preponderance of fat-blocking pills which block good fats as well as bad fats. So you might lose weight, but you'll quite possibly end up with thin wispy hair and wrinkling skin as a by-product. Not to mention the damage to body organs that deprivation of Omega-3s contribute to.

Recollections of a Natural Health Journalist

I recall earlier this decade, in my role as a rep of WellBeing Magazine, attending the launch of what was pretty well Australia's highest advertised weight loss pill, certainly in the last decade.

I won't mention it, or allude to it, because these are my subjective recollections of the event. Let's just say the much-fanfared launch was held in a Sydney CBD nightclub. On arrival the first thing I noticed was girls dancing in cages.

The next thing I noticed was the owners of this multi-multi-multi-million dollar Australian vitamin company were chain-smoking and doing shots at the bar.

One of the directors had taken it upon herself to be the front-person for this all-natural slimming pill. She was blessed with an abundance of beauty, certainly not an abundance of body fat. She made the presentation and they hyped up their success stories so far of people who had lost unhealthy levels of weight. This director was then seen constantly spruiking the product on paid morning TV infomercials for months and years on end. Her lollipop appearance suggested she had never needed to lose an ounce of fat in her life.

The product made this company millions, and is still sold to this day. Its success suggested a victory of hype over substance, of cleverly-crafted marketing mythologies over pure science or genuine regard for people's health. That night was one of the turning points in my regard for Australia's natural health industry.

In Their Own Good Time

Once moving into writing about holistic and balanced ways to lose weight, I found that going into shops etc around Sydney I was faced with having to restrain myself from interacting with every overweight or obese person that wandered past.

People have a right to be exactly as they are without being harassed by every person making a buck out of some weight loss pill or regime.

It is the overweight person's right to be exactly as they are, for there may be a reason for their weight which is beyond their control, and again, it's easy in society to stigmatise people for the slightest variation in their appearance. Look at the derogatory terms that have sprung up for redheads - "ranga" being among the worst of them.

Many people cannot see beyond an overweight person to their intellect. My view is, they must be heartily sick of the endless marketing directed at them for products, most of which they likely already know don't work. They will find their way when they are mentally and spiritually ready to undertake the journey. In the meantime, leave them alone.

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