Weight Control
Would you like to feel more in control of what you eat? Maybe you would like to shed a few pounds or perhaps you need to put on a bit of weight?
Either way, Solution Focused Hypnotherapy could help. Understanding what it is that drives your appetite can help you to gain control. Our primitive ancestors were programmed to feast when food was plentiful but also to fast when food was in short supply. Our primitive or subconscious minds are programmed in this same way and, given the easy access to food for most of us in these modern times, temptation to feast is all around.
Most of us know, in our conscious, intellectual minds what we should be eating, we know what is healthy and what is not, so when we’re operating from this part of our brain, eating sensibly tends to be easier. However, the subconscious or primitive part of our brain could be working against us, encouraging us to eat while we can. We know that the more stressed and anxious we are, the more control our subconscious mind has over our thoughts and emotions. So, by working together to reduce anxiety and increase your self-confidence we will minimise your emotional responses to food. Helping you towards a more positive frame of mind, and defining small achievable goals, will enable you to establish more sensible eating patterns and increase your sense of well-being and self-confidence. There is no quick fix but we will work together to help you to achieve your goal.
How it Helps
Research has shown that using hypnotherapy to reduce stress can have a greater long-term effect on weight loss than following dietary advice alone:
Hypnosis Subjects Lost More Weight Than 90% of Others and Kept it Off. Researchers analyzed 18 studies comparing a cognitive behavioral therapy such as relaxation training, guided imagery, self monitoring, or goal setting with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis.
Those who received the hypnosis lost more weight than 90 percent of those not receiving hypnosis and maintained the weight loss two years after treatment ended. [University of Connecticut, Storrs Allison DB, Faith MS. Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy for obesity: a meta-analytic reappraisal. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1996;64(3):513-516.]
Just want to say a BIG THANK YOU. I felt really positive all the way round 102 miles. I have never felt like that in any event before. Even knowing I could have been 4-5 hours faster has not made me feel negative and annoyed. I’m deffo in a much better place now
I’ve just encountered my first spider! I calmly got a cup and paper and placed it outside! THANK YOU!
I think it’s really helped improve my life.
Following a few traumatic years after the very quick loss of mum after being diagnosed with cancer and being there for my dad and losing him also two and half years later with cancer the mental stress had taken its toll. I gave into antidepressants, I thought I could cope but knew I wasn’t. I gave myself a timeline of only 12 months to be on these and I kept to it. At this point I was also working on a very important project at work and personally I needed to find my inner strength and remove layers of built up stress and anxiety, that’s when I spoke to Karen. The difference in how I feel, how I deal with various situations and the way I look at life has totally changed, my anxiety no longer exists, I approach life’s challenges in a more relaxed and calm manner. You need to invest in the most important aspect of your health, your mind.
Sought help from Karen for a couple of phobias after she was referred to me by a friend. From the first time we met, Karen made me feel really comfortable and relaxed. She puts me really at ease and helped me to gain the confidence to tackle my fears. I can’t recommend Karen highly enough. Thank you Karen.
I would highly recommend Karen for hypnotherapy. I first attended a relax session just to try it out and found that actually I was a lot more stressed out than I realised. The relaxation helped me to de-stress and also the chat before helped me to reassess my work life balance and make some pretty big decisions at work which ultimately made me speak up and change things. The positive thinking and reinforcing that through the subconscious is now part of my everyday thought processes and I have found that I am much happier. I can spot now when I am under too much pressure and can speak up before it gets to too much a stressful place. It is so important to be able to see these signs early before stress takes over and does some very strange things with your mind!.
I have been to see Karen about issues with confidence. Karen is a very calm and easy person to talk to. She is very good at explaining how the mind works, why we can become stressed and anxious and has helped me to think more positively about my life. The hypnotherapy itself is very relaxing but the message gets through. As a result I feel more in control and confident that I will be able to deal with whatever life throws at me. It has had a positive effect on my life and I would have no hesitation in recommending Karen.
For as long as I can remember I have been afraid of heights. Started out as an issue I acknowledged with mild anxiety but some 40 years later became a full-blown fear which affected my life and filled me with dread. To the point that I had to check what I was doing daily to ensure that I would avoid doing anything involving height. Particularly edges. Especially bridges. I met Karen some time ago on a counselling course and it was when she posted that she was studying hypnotherapy I contacted her to challenge her to help me get over this, what was to me an irrational but real fear. I didn’t expect much but was willing to give it a go. The result was astonishing. When I next had an issue to deal with, even though I was aware of my tension, I was able to relax enough to get through the situation which has now perpetuated my confidence. I am now able to function with many situations where in the past I would have moved heaven and earth to avoid. I can wholly recommend this therapy with Karen.
I was watching TV tonight and out of the corner of my eye I saw a black shape about the size of a conker gliding on my wall. It was a spider. My usual reaction of a flutter of the heart didn’t happen, and I just paused my TV, got a cup and put it out my window. No hassle, no reaction whatsoever! Then I spotted another one, I did the same thing of capturing it and putting it out of my window, as it is only an enemy of my imagination, but was able to keep my cool, calm composure that you were able to teach me! I could not be more thankful for what you have enabled me to do! I would have cried and screamed at my parents before I had ant sessions with you.
Just a quick update, have been cigarette free for two weeks……….it has been incredibly easy and I want to thank you, I didn’t think it would be so easy. Very pleased and proud of myself.
I’m so very grateful, I cannot thank you enough. Thank you thank you sooooo much xxxxx
Thanks to Karen, I have been able to massively reduce my stress and anxiety, be more positive about day-to-day life and break a habit which started due to my anxiety and have tried to break for the past 6 years. If you’re looking at hypnotherapy, I definitely recommend KD Hypnotherapy.