Many of us go on a diet this time of year, but few lose weight. Studies show dieting only has a 5 to 9% success rate. For the rest of us, restricting what we eat slows our metabolism and leads us to binge down the road (a recipe for weight gain and the #1 diet mistake.) Instead, experts say the key to maintaining a healthy weight is to change how we think about food.
One way people successfully do so is with hypnosis. Though scientists don’t understand exactly how it works, it seems that hypnosis brings your brain into a trance-like state in which you tune out the outside world (much like when you’re reading a book or watching a movie). In that state, you’re highly suggestible. Your conscious mind (the part that likes to over-think things) shuts off, and your subconscious, the part responsible for impulse and imagination, takes over. Hypnotists take advantage of your open mind, and train your brain to follow different impulses, changing your eating behavior from the inside out.
The goal of weight loss hypnotists is to make healthy eating a natural instinct (replacing that familiar compulsion to eat an entire bag of chips). Below are the 4 main ways they retrain your brain. The good news is that you don’t have to be hypnotized to make them a part of your routine. Just start today, and, with repetition and practice, you can change your relationship to food. Click here to read the rest of the article.
