Weight Management - Harmony Life Balance

Many people have issues with their weight or size at some point in their life.

Fad diets – new diets, have their craze, being promoted via the media, force people to focus on their weight… some resorting to diet pills, gastric bands and even liposuction, which for some may be a success for a while, but it’s likely after a while old habits usually return.

Until you deal with weight or diet within your mind, and understanding how the body works regarding food, it can be a never ending fight.

Hypnotherapy is one such way to access the part of your mind that is creating blocks regarding food and diet. Food is related to so many of our life’s situations and experiences. Without food we cannot survive. For example… parties, birthday celebrations, celebrating certain successes, funeral wakes, eating habits as a child. All these situations create feelings within us whether good or bad, creating links as we are eating. Even the grand old sayings… ‘you must eat everything off your plate before you can leave the table!’ Or… ‘make sure you eat all your food up! There’s children starving the other side of the world who would be grateful of that food!’ I’m sure we’ve all heard those as a child…there’s not many who haven’t. Guilt can then creep in if you leave food on your plate. These type of comments then over ride our natural feeling full up signals within our body called our ‘Leptin’ response, causing us to over indulge… the list goes on.

What is said to us regarding food, or while we are eating food, creates certain anchors, emotions or cravings. It’s at these precise times – the comments – that we pick up subconscious habits and beliefs, that can then play out in our experience, without us even realising. These can all come from our experiences around food.

Examples

Such an example, would be when a child behaves well. The parent then praises them up and gives them sweets as a treat. That child then associates feeling good with being well behaved, associating sweets or sugary things with feeling good. The child then thinks… ‘if I behave I can have lots of sweets’ – but when the child does behave, and the parent decides not to keep rewarding them, this could then create confusion and frustration within that child. The child then decides to create a scene bringing about anger because ‘they can’t have’ … creating a craving if you like, for the sweet, sugary feel good factor. Whether the parent gives into them or not, a vicious cycle or habit has already been created regarding sweets or sugary food. When that child becomes angry as an adult, they could most likely turn to sugary sweet food to calm their anger!!

Another good example would be… say if you visited your grandparent, enjoying tea and biscuits regularly, once a week, for as long as you can remember as a child or even as an adult. Then, unfortunately, that grandparent passed away… the loss or grief could create an urge to eat biscuits to comfort those emotions or feelings of loss, because you want to remember those happy times with your grandparent…thus weight gain could creep in. The subconscious works as easily and as quickly as that!!

Links and Patterns

You can certainly see how the mind links and pattern matches things together. They need not be obvious, just very very subtle things. It’s about the emotional response and situations linked with the food that can create binging and a wanting for more. Of course, this all runs at a sub-conscious level.

How Hypnotherapy can help

Accessing those emotions, responses and thoughts, and changing them to a positive response is what happens in a Hypnotherapy session.

Hypnotherapy can access those parts of the subconscious mind that are running these programmes – releasing or reprogramming them, to create balanced habits and beliefs regarding food. This then allows you to choose the right foods and nutrients to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle.

So whether you’re a person just wanting to change bad habits with food, wanting to choose healthier options, suffer with diabetes and need help balancing and maintaining a healthy weight… Hypnotherapy might just be worth considering or giving it a try.

Weight Control Package

Initial Weight Control programme involves 4 sessions at £70 per session. This can then be followed by optional monthly follow up sessions at £40 an hour to help you maintain a positive outlook regarding your diet, health and well being.

Initial 1st session – followed by

2nd session one week later – followed by

3rd session 2 weeks later – followed by

4th session 4 weeks later

Then, optional monthly sessions at £40 an hour.

I offer advise on choosing healthy eating options along with this package. Helping you to change, not only your eating habits, but your outlook on food for the rest of your life. With the aim to maintain your new healthy food choices easily and effortlessly.

If you require more information please get in contact, where I will be more than happy to talk with you.

Michelle Townsend…Harmony Life balance

For more information on Weight Control, please contact us via our Contact Form

Weight Control

“I originally saw Michelle at the end of May. My weight had snowballed to 14.3. I felt lethargic and generally fed up of being overweight. The first thing she told me was to cut out beige products- potatoes, cereal, rice, pasta etc.
I saw Michelle 4 times and then after 1 month. She has completely changed my eating habits. A biscuit at night with coffee was an essential, I think I may have had 1 in 2 months.

I am now 13.2 and still keeping to eat sensibly. I may have the odd treat, but now find it very
Easy to get back on track. I can now face the stairs several times a day instead of once. It has made me feel better about my self.

I think if I go on holiday I may need a booster when I get back. As Michelle says sometimes we need a treat.

I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Michelle for hypnosis, you feel completely relaxed with her.”

SW Sedgley