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

Why Retreat when you can go to a Luxury Weight Loss Resort?

A new Australian weight loss retreat, Ontrack Retreats, is challenging the established myths of gruelling "fat camps" and instead offering a luxury resort holiday vibe where people can lose weight in style. DANAE WILSON reports ...

Located in the beautiful Blue Mountains, a new weight loss retreat is set to change the way people go about losing weight in Australia.

It's being defined as a weight loss "resort" - a place where the taste of the food served is more important than the quantity.

As the Western world struggles under the burgeoning yolk of childhood obesity, the flip-side is that weight loss retreats are starting to appear - they are like health retreats which have become more enlightened, more sympathetic. Gone are the days of fasting and carrot juice for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Furthermore here in Australia, for a long time luscious tropical Queensland had the mantle as the "health retreat state of Australia", but Ontrack Retreats owner Dave Rawlings has created a weight loss "resort" based in the Blue Mountains which he believes will challenge that perception.

Not everyone wants a super-expensive weight loss retreat where they pay through the nose for that extra resort-vibe, he says when I caught up with him in Leura recently.

"We've deliberately priced ourselves under the prices currently charged by pretty much all of Australia's other weight loss retreats," he says. "Hopefully we can help a lot more people - and of course being a new business, people also expect that - so it's a great opportunity for all those people who have been scared off by the very high prices on the weight loss retreat market, to be able to dip their toes into the water and get very personal service at a much more amenable price - yet with highest quality resort-style facilities."

Despite being close to Sydney, Dave however anticipates more people coming from outside of Sydney than from Sydney itself.

"When people want to get away from their lifestyles and deeply ingrained eating habits, they are more likely to look outside their local community - to get as far away from it as possible - hence the word "retreat" has become synonymous with weight loss holidays," he says.

Ontrack Retreat features superb fitness and leisure facilities including indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, squash courts, a fully equipped gym and hectares of gardens to relax and meditate in.

"So if we can change the vernacular from the word "retreat", which has a certain negative victim-like connotation, to "resort", I'd be pretty happy with that," Dave says.

Coming from a personal background of years in the finance industry in London, with all its attendant health hazards, Dave found from direct experience that one of the most constructive ways to regain fitness and get healthy is to extricate yourself from your current life situation with all its self-perpetuating habits.

"I spend six weeks in an Australian weight loss retreat and like these things are for a lot of people, it was genuinely life-changing. But sometimes we think we can do things better and I had to give the way I believe a weight loss resort should be run, a go in the real world," he says.

One of these things, in an Australian society increasingly in love with gourmet cuisine, is to make the food on this weight loss retreat taste better than ever before experienced. A simple ironic slogan, "no rabbit food" which refers back to expectations of miserable Spartan starvation conditions locked away in the health retreats of old, gives just a hint of tasty things to come for food-loving attendees.
"One thing I vowed," Dave adds, "is to make sure that the food is delicious to everyone who attends."

"We had one person with us recently who had a phobia about any milk products at all, including soy milk, and even including lactose-free cow's milk," he says. "But we were determined to meet her requirements because we want all of our visitors to come away with that genuinely attentive first-class resort feeling.
"This is definitely not a one-size-fits-all weight loss experience."

Being Motivated Just Beyond Health

One question I had to ask Dave Rawlings, is how he will measure success. This led onto an issue which is becoming a global concern now - although it still has its deepest roots in the Western world - the so-called "childhood obesity epidemic".

"Being on a weight loss retreat is a very inspiring experience of most of the people who attend one," he says.

"Not only do they lose weight which they can measure in kilos, but they usually lose weight which they can measure in centimetres.

"They also find their health starts to improve. Like a friend of mine who lost 28 kilos in four weeks at a weight loss retreat - she was also able to get off medication for high blood pressure - which changed her life profoundly as she has now got off all medication.

"So part of it is developing a healthy lifestyle which leads to long-term, sustainable weight loss and long-term health improvements too.
"You don't just change your body, you change your life.

"During this time people often become remarkably motivated and that motivation can sometimes lead to people starting businesses and doing the things they want to be doing with their lives.

"We provide people with healthy strategies such as cooking using healthy highly nutritious recipes which ideally, and in most cases the results bear this out, they will go on to apply for the rest of their lives.

"On an individual level the time out of a weight loss resort or retreat is highly beneficial to the individual, but this can also have a profound impact on the people around the person who did the retreat with us.

In a small way, the ripple effect takes place, and while I don't expect to change the world overnight, tackling matters like childhood obesity are becoming big issues in governments of the Western world.

For example, in the USA as I write, their First Lady Michelle Obama has taken on the matter of childhood obesity and with a campaign called "Let's Move" she has initiated the goal of ending childhood obesity within a generation. Dave agrees.
"Here in Australia we need the same initiative.

"At Ontrack Retreat we're operating on a deeply personal and subjective one-by-one basis, but the aim is to help achieve at a personal level what needs to be achieved at a community or national level.

"Michelle Obama is putting a pretty long time on it when she recently said that they "want kids born today to grow up at a healthy weight - so it will take a generation".

"So I probably won't run out of people arriving at Ontrack anytime soon - but if I did, my job would be done - and it would be okay to be doing something else because the social shift had been so massive."

When the USA Sneezes

Indeed in the USA they have just launched their Council on Childhood Obesity - and are now reviewing every single program and policy not just in government but across the country that focusses on education and nutrition so they can use the resources they have more smartly.

With the very recent vote for Barack Obama-led healthcare reform extending health care to tens of millions of Americans by a vote of 219 - 212, it has the potential to be a historic period in the USA. So Michelle Obama's adoption of the cause of childhood obesity is timely as it may be caught up in the optimistic fervour of the healthcare campaign cry of "Yes we can".

The famous expression "When America sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold" - which was first uttered in 1929 in the aftermath of the Wall Street crash, may yet have a new version spawned for it: "when America loses weight, the rest of the Western world goes on fat camp.

So in Australia we need real measurable outcomes and an independent group to look at and work on these things.

As Michelle Obama says, "we have to change the way we view food and nutrition forever.

"We can start with kids because their habits haven't been ingrained," she said in a recent interview. "We can shift the way they think, even the way they taste food - adults - possibly much harder - we get a little stuck in our ways. We can guide kids. We can help our kids get to a different place."

As for Dave Rawlings, as an escapee from the London ratrace, he's personally enjoying alternating between the retreat in Leura, and his office in Manly just a stone's throw from Manly beach.

"I'm loving being in Australia and have no plans at all to return to London," he says. "As I speak to you I'm looking out across the beautiful Blue Mountains, this place is heaven on earth."

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