Why Most People Can’t Lose Weight Long Term – And What to Do About It
SPOILER ALERT: IT IS NOT ABOUT FINDING THE PERFECT DIET!
The decision to finally lose weight often starts with being fed up. Perhaps your favorite outfit is too tight to wear anymore, or you look in the mirror and ask yourself “what happened to me?” Or maybe you have a hard time just getting up a flight of stairs.
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So you hit a threshold and decide “that’s it – I’m going to finally stop those bad eating and exercise habits and lose weight now.”
And that’s where the problem comes in: Most people will then jump all-in to try to lose weight by starving themselves and stressing their body with too much exercise too soon. So they proceed to throw all the food in their house away, starve themselves, and force themselves to overexert themselves anyway – because it should work. It feels bad in the moment, but people still do it with the hope that they can finally hit that weight loss goal.
The reason that most people don’t experience long-term weight loss is because of this kind of All-or-Nothing (AoN) thinking. It requires a lot of willpower to keep it up, and eventually you will crash out of it before you can reach your weight loss goal. So you go back to your old habits – only to try again weeks, months, or even years later. This pattern of extreme measures is what causes yo-yo dieting – and it never leads to long-term weight loss.
What Works For Weight Loss
With weight loss hypnotherapy, we use the mind’s natural tendencies for a person to do more of what feels good, and do less of what feels bad. As a weight loss hypnotherapist, I help you reprogram your mind with hypnosis so that the behaviors that caused you to gain weight feel worse, and the behaviors that will cause you to lose weight will feel better. We help you reprogram your mind with hypnosis so that the behaviors that caused you to gain weight feel worse, and the behaviors that will cause you to lose weight will feel better.
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Client Success Stories
-GK, San Jose, CA
Why Diets Don’t Work
I’ve been following dieting and weight loss trends for over 20 years. Back in 1998 when I started researching weight loss, the big trend was The Atkins Diet. Over the years I have seen a lot of fad diets come and go – all without success for most people. I see the same thing today with the Keto Diet that’s currently the rage. For most people, if they lose some weight while on a diet – they gain it right back.
The same issue is true for exercise trends – whether it is boot camps or trying to spend two hours in the gym every day. Most people approach an exercise program from an extreme All or-Nothing attitude that is unsustainable.
The reason diets and boot camps don’t work for most people is that they are All-or-Nothing approaches, and are doomed to fail. That is why 95% of all diets fail in a year. Longer-term the statistics are just as grim. Studies show that 96% of people will gain back all the weight
they lost within five years.
And the other issue is that weight loss is not about behaviors for most people. Most people know what they should eat, what they should not eat, and that they should exercise. But it is not a matter of knowledge. It is about unconscious patterns related to food, exercise, and often self-worth. That is why it is common for people to jump from diet to diet and never permanently lose weight – because it is not about learning a new behavior. With weight loss hypnotherapy, we help change those deeper levels of the unconscious mind so that your behaviors change automatically – without “dieting.”
Hypnosis for Weight Loss
In a Weight Loss Hypnosis session, I will induce hypnosis in the client, which allows them to receive effective and beneficial suggestions to lose weight and keep it off. With weight loss hypnotherapy, we can end the self-sabotage that often happens in a full waking state. Often people report that hypnosis is very relaxing. They also find they are able to take in suggestions to change your behaviors around what to eat, how much to eat, enjoy exercising more, and discover how to feel better about yourself during the process.
You will not have to go on a diet. We will help you make incremental changes to food intake and exercise levels that work for you and your lifestyle – so it doesn’t feel like you are giving anything up. That makes it sustainable over a period of years and decades.
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“I lost 30 pounds and I’m still losing weight”
“Marked improvement in just a few weeks”
A Complete Weight Loss Program – So You Keep It Off For Good
When you come into my clinic in San Jose or we work over video, we will begin to reprogram your unconscious mind so your behaviors will change. We will address the following points that apply to you, and help to remove any other blocks that have prevented your weight loss success up until now.
- Eliminate the All-or-Nothing thinking that leads to yo-yo dieting
- How to lose weight – and keep it off – without the struggle
- Stop starving yourself only to gain the weight right back
- Stop jumping from one fad diet to another
- How to control your portions better
- How to deal with troublesome snacking
- Reduce food cravings and resolve binging behaviors
- Reduce / eliminate emotional eating
- Adopting a “slim person” mentality from the inside out
- Reprogram yourself so that you crave exercise or other positive behaviors the way you used to crave comfort foods
- Heal old hurts about food and your weight that are keeping you stuck
- Change negative patterns and limiting decisions from your childhood that are still causing problems with your weight and health today
- Learn to like exercise
- Reprogram your self-talk to build self-esteem instead of beating yourself up
- Learn to think like a thin person
- Create health and fitness goals that are exciting and achievable
Hypnosis can more than double the effects of traditional weight loss approaches
An analysis of five weight loss studies reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 showed that the “… weight loss reported in the five studies indicates that hypnosis can more than double the effects” of traditional weight loss approaches.
University of Connecticut, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1996 (Vol. 64, No. 3, pgs 517-519).
Hypnosis Over 30 Times as Effective for Weight Loss
Investigated the effects of hypnosis in weight loss for 60 females, at least 20% overweight. Treatment included group hypnosis with metaphors for egostrengthening, decision making and motivation, ideomotor exploration in individual hypnosis, and group hypnosis with maintenance suggestions. Hypnosis was more effective than a control group: an average of 17 lbs lost by the hypnosis group vs. an average of 0.5 lbs lost by the control group, on follow-up.
Cochrane, Gordon; Friesen, J. (1986). Hypnotherapy in weight loss treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 54, 489-492.
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Hypnosis isn’t magic, though the results can be magical.
In your sessions you will discover:
- How to get results immediately even if willpower has failed in the past.
- A customized experience based on your specific background and goals.
- Profound hypnotic experiences so you know how and why the process is working for you.
- Tools you can take with you and use – often without other people known you are using them.
What if you could believe…
“I’ve Got This – This is Going to Work”
“The Past Does Not Equal the Future”
Our approach will be to focus on what’s GREAT about you,
rather than what’s WRONG with you.
Together, we’re going to get that part of your mind that has
been holding you back from losing that weight for good.
Two Years Later: Hypnosis Subjects Continued To Lose Significant Weight
109 people completed a behavioral treatment for weight management either with or without the addition of hypnosis. At the end of the 9-week program, both interventions resulted in significant weight reduction. At 8-month and 2-year follow-ups, the hypnosis subjects were found to have continued to lose significant weight, while those in the behavioral-treatment-only group showed little further change.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (1985)
Hypnosis Showed Significantly Lower PostTreatment Weights
Two studies compared overweight smoking and nonsmoking adult women in a hypnosis-based, weightloss program. Both achieved significant weight losses and decreases in Body Mass Index. Followup study replicated significant weight losses and declines in Body Mass Index. The overt aversion and hypnosis program yielded significantly lower posttreatment weights and a greater average number of pounds lost.
Weight loss for women: studies of smokers and nonsmokers using hypnosis and multi-component treatments with and without overt aversion. Johnson DL, Psychology Reprints. 1997 Jun;80(3 Pt 1):931-3.
Change starts with taking action.
What Is The Next Step?
The next step is to make sure that I can help you. The best way to do that is to contact me to schedule a free 30-minute hypnosis consultation session. We can do that by Zoom, phone, or in my office in San Jose. That way, we can get to know each other and I can help make sure I can help you shed your unwanted weight. We will discuss your weight loss goals, and what has prevented you from achieving them. Then we will discuss what the next best step is to help you reach your goal.
Call now at 650-417-3187 or email [email protected].
Note that most people come into my clinic in San Jose. I’m not just the local “weight loss hypnotherapist near me,” but I also work with people over video conference all over the world. My office is in West San Jose, near the borders of Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. It is less than a 15 minute drive from nearby cities like Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas, Palo Alto, and Mountain View.
