Scientific research at Tufts-New England Medical Center has provided evidence that all popular diets work if you can stick to them. Atkins - low carb; The Zone - low glycemic index; Ornish - low fat; Weight Watchers - low calorie.
But researchers have also proven beyond a doubt that very few people can stick to their diet because their appetite is out of control. So to be successful with a diet, hypnosis for weight loss can be quite helpful.
Webster's Dictionary defines "Appetite" as: "The desire for gratification of some want, craving, or passion." So "appetite" is eating and drinking for relaxation and pleasure.
Many people confuse hunger with appetite. Hunger is defined as "The body's call for nourishment." In other words, when the body needs energy, that's when you feel bona fide hunger. By that differentiation, it is impossible for you to actually be hungry if you are overweight.
However, it is possible for you to have feelings that you interpret as "hunger." And the stomach contracting in expectation of being fed causes those feelings.
When you were an infant and you became cranky, your mother would put a bottle into your mouth to distract you from that upset. You would get distracted, become more relaxed and often fall asleep. That sequence was repeated dozens of times so that your unconscious mind was programmed: When something goes into your mouth, you get relaxation and pleasure from it. Now that you are fully grown, if you feel agitated, you crave something in your mouth for relaxation and pleasure - food!
PEOPLE ALSO GET CRAVINGS AND URGES BECAUSE OF CONDITIONING.
When you connect eating with any other action, the other behavior will trigger cravings for food and a strong compulsion to eat. This is called a conditioned response. For example: If you eat when you talk on the phone, you will get an urge to eat every time that you talk on the phone.
WHAT ABOUT COMPULSIVE OVEREATERS WHO EAT BECAUSE OF EMOTIONAL REASONS?
We define a compulsion as an "irresistible impulse." One of the presuppositions of NLP is: There is a positive intention behind all behaviors. In other words, our mind will only motivate us into behaviors that benefit or protect us in some way. So in NLP terms, being fat is a behavior when it provides a positive outcome for us.
By now you are probably wondering what the possible positive outcomes of being fat just might be. The list of possibilities is as long as the list of people who are grossly overweight. But I'll give you a classic example: A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. So to protect the self from getting the heart broken again, the unconscious motivates the self to gain weight to keep the self out of relationships and prevent another broken heart.
A big secret to eliminating your appetite is reframing. With an NLP reframe, we respect the fact that the mind is motivating us to consume extra food for relaxation and pleasure. And if we are eating compulsively because being fat is protecting us, we respect that also.
In a neuro-linguistic programming six-step reframe we compromise with our unconscious mind. In the scenario of eating for relaxation and pleasure, we ask our subconscious to assume the responsibility for substituting some new behaviors. The new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same relaxation and pleasure. But they must also be more acceptable to us on a conscious level. When the mind is motivating us into alternate behaviors that provide the relaxation and pleasure that we require - we lose our appetite on this score.
If you are a compulsive eater we do an additional reframe. We ask your unconscious to accept responsibility for finding and substituting new behaviors in place of being heavy. These new behaviors must be as effective and available at providing the same positive outcomes. But they must be activities that are more consciously acceptable to you. When your unconscious mind is motivating you into alternate behaviors that provide the same benefits that you require, you lose the feeling of urgency to overeat.
As far as feeling cravings because of conditioning (conditioned responses), we utilize various hypnotic and NLP techniques that erase or "extinguish" those conditioned responses. That breaks the connection between the behaviors, and eliminates the urges and cravings. When your appetite has been obliterated and all of your compulsions to overeat have been dealt with, you can easily stick to any type of healthful diet indefinitely so that it becomes a permanent lifestyle change. Compulsive eating and appetite suppression is a complex topic. I can only broach the surface of it in this article. You can locate several additional articles on this topic in my hypnosis article library on my website.
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