Posted by Alan
in Articles on February 21, 2010
Many of the clients that I see on a weekly basis have tried a variety of diets and weight loss programs that rely on specially prepared foods, injections or starving themselves to achieve weight loss. My clients report that these programs provided weight loss, but only temporarily. After a short period of time, they would put the weight back on and be back where they started or in many cases even heavier.
There are several reasons for this. Reason number one is the if you severely cut back on your calorie intake, your body’s natural response is to begin to store energy and slow your metabolism. Sure you begin to lose weight because your starving yourself, but as soon as you begin eating again (after the program ends) your body is still in a slow metabolic and energy storage mode. This means that you gain weight back faster and sometimes more excessively before things normalize again.
The number two reason that so few people have long term success with these programs is that they haven’t changed anything within themselves or the way they think about food. Essentially the responsibility for achieving the results has been put on the “weight loss program” rather than themselves. For long term weight loss we need to change the way we think about food. Begin to be thin teaches you how to use your brain more effectively to provide you with more options and choices. I works in synergy with the way your brain works, stores and processes information.
Think about it, we only have our 5 senses to make sense of our world. We see, hear, feel, smell and taste things. Every experience we have is made up of these “modalities”. So the question becomes, what do you think of when you see a piece of cake? What do you hear (or say to yourself) and how does seeing that piece of cake make you feel? All of these feelings that come up when you see “cake” are learned. They are based on past experiences with cake!
With the Begin to be Thin program, show you how to change your response so that you have more choices and control! How would it feel if you saw cake and it immediately made you think of how wonderful it will be to have more energy, be fit and vibrant? It’s a very different response that allows you to take back your power and manage your weight forever. Once you learn these tools they are yours for the rest of your life and can not only be applied to food, but to any personal goals you choose to pursue!
Posted by Alan
in Articles on February 20, 2010
It’s one thing to decide that it’s time to lose weight, but another to change behaviours that have been created over a long period of time. So much of what we do day to day takes place automatically without having to pay much conscious attention to our activities. We can drive from one place to another while listening to the radio or thinking about other things and then arrive at our destination without being able to recall exactly what route we took or what we saw along the way. For many people the same phenomenon occurs when they eat and watch TV. It’s amazing how a whole back of chips or popcorn can disappear without us being able to even recall eating that much.
There is no question that breaking habits and patterns takes effort and to win the battle, you’ve got to get your unconscious mind working with you instead of against you. Hypnosis and NLP techniques provide powerful tools for changing unconscious behaviours and aligning your unconscious with the weight loss goals you want to achieve. Through “Train your Brain” exercises we can help you empower yourself to be able to make new choices and create new behaviours that serve you in more positive ways and support your desire to become more healthy, vibrant and energized.
Posted by Alan
in Articles on February 9, 2010
In an amazingly simplistic view of how things work, we have been told for the last 40 years that fat makes us fat. So we cut out the fat from our diets and discovered that we were not only still fat but unhealthy too. Then we were told that we needed to cut out even more fat and increase our visits to the gym. And to top it off, we were handed a copy of the government approved food pyramid or the diet of the National Cancer Institute and told that this is what we are supposed to eat to reach our ideal weight and be healthy. Now we are fatter than ever, riddled with degenerative disease and dying at an earlier age than our parents did. What are we doing wrong?
A recent study from the United Kingdom reports that the lower the number of hours you sleep, the higher the likelihood you will put on extra weight. These findings apply to all age groups including children. The research team reviewed the findings from 696 studies on the effects of sleep time on weight gain. They found a solid relationship between hours of sleep and risk of obesity. All the studies of adults as well as children showed a significant and consistent negative association between Body Mass Index and hours of sleep.
Another study reports that sleeping too little is linked to increased risk of stroke. While the researchers point out that their findings can be applied only to the postmenopausal women in the study, other experts are saying that the same relationship between sleep and stroke risk is universal.
Is it possible that the risk of obesity is not only controlled by what we eat but also how we sleep? T. S. Wiley warned us about this connection back in the year 2000 in her groundbreaking book Lights Out. A number of other studies have documented the adverse effects of sleep deprivation and its heightened risk of obesity and death, but it doesn’t seem like we want to listen. Maybe a look at the mechanisms that support this connection will increase motivation. Read the complete article from Natural News Here.
The Begin to be Thin Weight Loss program includes a 36 minute sleep inducing mp3 to help you get the rest you need! This recording can also be purchased on it’s own at www.remembersleep.com
