What I’ve Learned about Weight Loss
All opinions stated are based upon my anecdotal experiences and go against much social, cultural, medical, and scientific assertions to the contrary.
The media projects an idea of weight loss involving three rules:
1. Reduce your consumption of calories,
2. Increase energy expenditure, and
3. Eat healthy foods (whatever those are as this list changes).
The primary premise is weight loss involves a mathematical equation of calories in vs. calories out. For some people this in fact seems to work. However, my experience is most people, particularly as they age, find weight loss to be NOT this simple. Many people will cut calories experiencing an initial weight loss which quickly tapers off. They might even begin gaining even though their caloric intake is technically low enough to ensure steady weight loss. Yet, there is no steady weight loss. These people can even embark upon an exercise program which will have initial results that taper off, stop, or even result in a reversal to weight gain. Those of you who have experienced this know what I’m talking about. You probably have experienced tremendous frustration at doing everything right yet struggling. Even when you change your diet to a “clean” one, eating the “healthy food” du jour, you simply cannot maintain or even initiate a steady change in your weight and appearance. This doesn’t even include those people who experience overwhelming compulsions to eat. If you are like that, you eat when you’re not physically hungry. You seek out food, eating things that are not what you “really want” but will just have to do for the moment. You know what I mean. Cutting calories or eating “clean and right” are impossible endeavors because something inside of you compels you to eat. I’m here to tell you these compulsions are real and they will not let you be thin or lean and muscular or any variation that your conscious mind views with approval and acceptance.
This situation exists because your own unconscious mind, which affects and controls your physical body as well as affecting your perceptions and behaviors, produces these experiences. Until your unconscious orientation and inclination to produce overweight is changed there will be no significant and lasting physical change.
What produces this unconscious orientation and inclination you ask? I don’t presume to know how or why the brain is wired to produce these orientations and inclinations. But my experience is showing everyone has unconscious emotions and beliefs tied into unconscious memories of experiences from your life which result in unconscious compulsions to be physically and emotionally the way you are. There are tons of people in every gym around the country who train like madmen, eat “clean”, and watch their caloric intake, yet their bodies do not look like they are doing much of anything. Even after years of this training the most they achieve is a bulky look. In fact if a stranger doesn’t know that such a person is a gym rat, they would never guess or suspect it. How can this situation exist? Their, and your, unconscious emotions and beliefs produce this situation.
Using Hypnosis I work with clients to adjust these unconscious emotions, memories, and beliefs to produce the change their, and your, conscious mind desires. This is an ongoing process of discovery upon my part and I regularly add new clinical processes while discarding old processes in my continual search for “what works.”
Just as your unconscious emotions and beliefs produce the physical effect of overweight, once these beliefs and emotions are realigned, an amazing physical transformation to leanness can occur and can do so with unbelievable rapidity.
