Hypnosis can be successful to help you lose weight, but you will need to take additional measures for it to be effective. Hypnosis helps reinforce positive beliefs and behaviors about eating so that you will no longer overeat for emotional reasons. Absolute Peak Hypnosis Center says "hypnosis helps develop and condition your 'mental muscles' to help accomplish goals." Be ready to make changes in your eating behaviors before you try to use hypnosis to lose weight. "Your motivation to change your bad habits, so you can lose weight, must be total, genuine and heartfelt," says Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D.
Step 1
Find a reputable hypnotist that will take the time to help you understand why you overeat and help you overcome the negative behaviors that you have developed over time.
Step 2
Interview possible hypnotists and be sure they are using behavior modification techniques--along with hypnosis--to help you succeed.
Step 3
Keep a food journal/diary to help you identify which foods make you feel good after eating them and which make you feel bad (bloated, full, uncomfortable, etc).
Step 4
Meet with your hypnotist on a regular basis. For the hypnosis to be effective, you must realize it is a process that takes place with proper behavior modification and that it will take more than one session to accomplish.
Step 5
Consider self-hypnosis to help you continue the change process and to maintain the weight loss long term.
Tips and Warnings
- Make sure you understand why you want to lose weight before you begin to seek out a weight loss hypnotist. Hypnosis is a tool that helps you create positive attitudes and beliefs about food and eating, but only if you are ready to make those changes in your lifestyle.
- Hypnosis is not about putting you to sleep and making you do things that you do not want to do. Any hypnotic suggestion that is out of context with your sense of self-improvement is rejected by both the subconscious and conscious mind. Hypnosis is merely a state of relaxation and heightened mental alertness that helps people become aware of their own strengths to achieve their goals.
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