Weight control and eating problems

Food for thought

Tired of yo-yo dieting? Fed-up of fighting your weight?

Perhaps you worry about constantly overeating or bingeing?

Or maybe you've had enough of trying to eat your way to happiness.

Everybody needs to eat to live. It's one of our basic needs and the desire to eat is one of our basic drives. The problems often start when food and eating no longer just form part of this simple equation but become unconsciously linked to other issues in peoples lives. Usually these issues are emotional in origin rather than physical and this may lead to comfort eating or binge eating.

Sometimes people just overeat or eat the wrong kind of food because they have developed poor eating habits for whatever reason.

The Diet merry-go-round

As people lose control of their eating behaviour and put on weight, self esteem and self image often starts to become another issue to add to their problems. An individual's self esteem can take a further dent when they get themselves on the dreaded diet merry-go-round.

Diets on the whole don't work in anything but the short term. Why? Because they don't address any of the reasons mentioned previously but they do tend to deny people the things that they have been using to help themselves feel better. Is it any wonder they make people feel more miserable and then they come off them? Then they go back onto another diet, and come off that one, and so on & on & on .........

The Alternative

If any of the above ring a bell with you then maybe you could benefit from Hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapists don't have a magic wand, so you won't leave the clinic 20 lbs lighter after your first session. What Hypnotherapy can do however, is help you to change your relationship with food and help to unravel your eating habits from the other issues in your life.

Most importantly Hypnotherapy can address any underlying issues of self esteem and self image and help to motivate you towards the lifestyle changes that mean long term success.

So you end up looking good and best of all feeling good about yourself.

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