Hypnotherapy & How it Can Help with Weight Loss

​Watch this brief video to see what happens with the pendulum. No, you won't get "very sleepy." ;)

​Would anyone like a free hypnotherapy session? I need to do one for certification, and am offering it to you all first, because I know it can be powerful with issues like behavior change. Hypnosis for weight loss is extremely common. Let me know soon, by pm, if you would like to try it.

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Last Chance to Take the Personality Assessment

The personality assessment identifies ten traits. We look for strengths, areas that need tweaking and a breakthrough point that is likely to offer the biggest transformation is resolved. 

This would offer great insights on which strengths to lean on in making the changes you want to make, with healthy eating or with weight loss, but also would suggest where to look for what might be holding you back, if it's not going as well as you would like.

And right now, I can offer it for free. But after this month, I have to pay a monthly fee to use the software, and I am probably not going to do that.

So if you think it is something that might be helpful, get it while the getting's good!

Here's the link to take the personality assessment...
https://www.personalityassessment.me

And when prompted, my code to use is PA914. Let me know by pm, once you have taken it.
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Emotional Eating: Does Eating Make You Happier?

Food should always be a pleasurable experience, but eating shouldn’t be the reason why you are feeling happy and upbeat. If you frequently eat to modify your mood, that might be getting in the way of your efforts to eat healthier or to lose weight.

Feeling better is a good thing, and food can be a quick way to do it. But if you are trying to change your eating habits, it’s important to find other healthier mood-changers.
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What Triggers Your Emotional Eating?

Keep A Food Journal

The best way to uncover the sources of your emotional eating is to start keeping a food journal. When you do, give yourself space to include the factors and circumstances of each meal and what you ate for each.

How were you feeling? Tired? Bored? Irritable? Had you waited too long to eat (*raises hand*). Take note of things like that, along with what you ate and when.

As you continue to detail each meal, it’s incredibly likely that a pattern will begin to emerge. This pattern will probably be a cross section of the moments and influences that trigger your emotional eating.

Why It Works

The food journal is the most honest source of information that you will have.

Being able to see what your habits are throughout the week gives you a good idea of how you spend your time and when you eat. Was it stress? Who were you talking to before you ate food?

These pieces of information could be the key to setting you free from emotional eating.

Try Mindful Eating

​Mindful eating is a process that you use to gain control over eating habits. Sometimes when you eat, you’re tired, bored, or simply killing time. During these types of eating rituals, time may seem to pass quickly without your noticing, or even more distressing, you look down and realize that you completely obliterated a bag of snacks that you just purchased that day. One really great way to deal with that sort of occurrence, is to make it a point to practice mindful eating.


Experience the Meal


The first step to good mindful eating habits, is to focus on the meal. This is to say in a very literal sense to focus on how it looks, what it’s made of, and to notice things about what you’re eating. This will cause you to slow down truly have control over how much you are eating during your meal. As you learn to savor the taste of the food, rather than shoveling it and swallowing as quickly as possible, you will have an enjoyable experience that allows your body to digest and chew your food sufficiently.


Get Rid of Distractions


A lot of times, it can become easy to binge eat food when you're distracted. This means that when you are first trying to retrain your mind and body to eat properly, it might be a good idea to reduce the amount of distractions such as television or social media when you are sitting down to have a meal. Snack foods are made to tempt the senses and be momentarily enjoyable, but when you take away the focus of eating and allow your hands to go into auto pilot, that could be a path directly to unmonitored eating.


Waiting 20 Minutes


When it comes to eating seconds, a good rule to use is the “Wait 20 minutes” before you eat more food rule. Science has been telling people that it takes a small amount of time between the consumption of food and the brain's ability to registers that food has been eaten. If you have waiting the full 20 minutes and you still feel hungry, there is a chance that you are still hunger, but if you got distracted and found some other way to fill your time before eating, then you just might have been bored.

A Reminder of How Intuitive Eating Can Help

-It helps to prevent the sense that you are being denied the food that you want, because no food is off limits.

-Instead of portion control, you have the hunger & fullness scale - you decide  how full you want to eat, and what indicates hunger to you, or the need to eat again.

-It encourages acceptance of exactly where you are right now, on your eating journey.
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Stress Management & Self-Care

Deep Breathing

Even though breathing is something that every person can do without thinking, it’s probably a good idea to turn your focus to your breathing at least 3 or 4 times a day.  

If you breathe in too shallow of a fashion, it’s very easy to put your body into fight or flight mode on a constant basis, and even cause damage to your heart. Making sure that you spend time doing deep breathing also helps you to control the oxygen delivered to your brain.

Exercise

Moving your body on a regular basis can greatly improve your stress levels.

When you exercise, your body releases helpful endorphins that help you to relax and fight anxiety. You are also giving your body the chance to burn off the extra energy that it has stored up.

Even a simple walk can make a massive impact on how you feel. If you can keep some kind of schedule for exercise each week, you may be able to reduce your stress noticeably.

Do What You Love

Healthier eating habits are a form of self-care, as is gentle exercise. 

But it also needs to include moments of delight, of doing what you love.

Carve out time for tea breaks, or time to just pause for a moment and just be. Make sure there are things to look forward to each day, not just things to check off on your to-do list.

If you are going to spend less time eating, fill the void with something you enjoy, that lights you up.

Do you truly know, deep down, that you are worth it, even if it's hard to find the time? What can you take off your list to make time just for you?​

Emotional Eating & Self-Love

If you are used to treating yourself with food, or rewarding yourself, soothing yourself, etc., don't abandon yourself now that you are trying to make changes in the way you eat.

Be kind to the you who misses the treats, or the comfort food. Find other ways to show yourself love and give yourself comfort.
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