Hypnotherapy - Weight Loss

slumped

Anyone ever used a hypnotist for weight loss?

Patrick Fox advertises his services - anyone ever gone under??

S

The_Goose

No my sister used this Lypotrim thing. You just drink shakes and weight literally falls off but you must actually be over weight and expensive.
GF uses weight watchers and she has lost a fair bit aswell.

You have to really want to loose the weight tho, meaning theres no point wishing you were thinner while scoffing down a cream bun and a roll covered in mayo!!!!

WhiteWashMan

slumped wrote:

Anyone ever used a hypnotist for weight loss?

Patrick Fox advertises his services - anyone ever gone under??

S

i certainly wouldnt rely on it a sole method of losing weight.
as far as i am aware its really just to try and reaffirm your will to continue with your weight lose regieme, be that through some sort of dieting method or excersize.

although i would be interested to learn more about peoples experiences. i dont know anyone that has done it.

Endurance Man

Eat fruit, drink water and exercise, this is the formula. Dont waste your money on these gimicks - thats for americans to do .

Zulu

Eat smart, exercise more. There's no easy way.

trishw78

Sorry to say this but oyou just need to do the stuff you know works the tried and test method exercise more eat less and more healthly, drink more water, fruit etc all the advice above and I know it's a pain but consult with you doctor or nurse if your morbidily obese... But take the generally advice above.

The thing with all these methods of drinkin shakes and standing naked under a full moon holding a daisy while chanting is they may work in the short term but you will always put back on the weight twice over, and I speak from personal experience on the shake example not the daisy one.

Zulu

trishw78 wrote:

... I speak from personal experience on the shake example not the daisy one.

:v:

trishw78

... I forgot to mention learn to love the way you look... Womem should have curves...

dudara

There's only one way to lose weight.

Watch the calories, up the exercise and have self-control. Anything else is just hokum

Mr Magnolia

slumped wrote:

Patrick Fox advertises his services - anyone ever gone under??

S

He's a fraudster, been there (for something else), waste of money.

I'd say hard work and sensible eating are your best options

g'em

just to reaffirm what everyone else has been saying. use more calories than you intake. you'll lose weight. go over to the fitness board if you want advice on a healthy diet or healthy eating tips, there's shedloads of threads about it there.

megameaty

I'm studying hypnotherapy at the moment. The main thing a hypnotherapist will do is find out the reasons you eat and then give you some post hypnotic signs so that when you go to eat fatty foods etc you'll eat healthy foods instead. They'll also hypnotise you so that when you feel like eating but aren't hungry the eating habit will be replaced by a healthier habit like going for a jog. It might only take one session to reinforce this and its completely safe. My friend did it a year ago to quit smoking. He went to one session and hasn't smoked since.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Sorry to say this but oyou just need to do the stuff you know works the tried and test method exercise more eat less and more healthly, drink more water, fruit etc all the advice above and I know it's a pain but consult with you doctor or nurse if your morbidily obese... But take the generally advice above.

Might be hard to stick to, People eat more than they should for reasons other than the food tasting good.

I read "easyway" - a stop smoking guide by Allen Carr, and it completely took away the psychological need to smoke, he also has a book called easyway for losing weight. Maybe check that out before the hypnosis.

Unwilling

Hi

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this one...........
Hypno band - so it's bascially hypnotheraphy and cognitive behaviour therapy to dupe your mind into thinking you have had a gastric band op.
So you eat less, feel full after a fraction of your normal portion size.
Obviously the advantages being it is not surgery, it's not invasive, the cost, you don't have to do the liquid diet thing.
But I'm not sure.
I've done hypnotherapy for smoking before and was very successful.......

HAS ANYONE HEARD OF THIS BEFORE or better still HAS ANYONE DONE IT!!!

Pleeeasse

Tash.777

I have just attended one of his sessions to give up smoking.....

Can I please tell anybody thinking of this to please think again, 165 euro for 10 minutes of talking to me telling me how bad cigarettes are for me??? I know this or else I wouldn't be here looking for help...

He gave another 10 minutes talking about my job and how I was lucky to be working in the current economic situation....He then wanted to set up a phone session for next week another 110 euro...

Come on please dont be fooled...I went in with an open mind in the hope that I could get some help to give up smoking...

Dont get me wrong I still think Hypnotherapy could work but you must find the right person.

Hope this helps anybody looking for experiences with Patrick Fox.

Gilda Fortune

I dont know about Patrick Fox, but i do know an excellant hpnotherapist in Co Clare. its 120 for an hour and a half. and she doesnt just hynotise you, she delves into your past and is like a counseller too. she doesnt try to get you to keep going to her continually either.
She can make you motivated to exercise and eat less. But you have to want it too.

The best remedy for losing weight is just exercising, eating less, and dont drink too much alcohol. alcohol is a depressant and sets you back.

Pebbles68

I went to hypnotherapy and had fantastic success. I certainly don't think it's a gimmick as others have tried to suggest. Maybe the individual therapists were questionable but that certainly wasn't my experience. I was going to weight watchers for about 4 years with little or no success. I knew all about what I should have been doing; eat healthy, more exercise etc. but I simply couldn't make myself change. That's where hypnotherapy helped me. The hypnotist didn't try to replace what I was doing, he still encouraged me to go to WW. The biggest thing I found was after the sessions healthy living just made sense and I found the change in habits so natural. I was so happy with the results i posted on his website. Here's the link http://www.aidansloan.ie/hcforum08/viewtopic.php?t=1715

Sleepy

Do you believe in God?

If so, hypnotherapy may work for you.

If not, it won't. It works the exact same way as faith: the hypnotherapist convinces you that it'll work and because all it's attempting to fix is a lack of willpower, it works.

crotalus667

Tash.777 wrote: »

Can I please tell anybody thinking of this to please think again, 165 euro for 10 minutes of talking to me telling me how bad cigarettes are for me??? I know this or else I wouldn't be here looking for help...

He gave another 10 minutes talking about my job and how I was lucky to be working in the current economic situation....

I know alot of beople in the biz and one of the best has a stop smoking session down to 17 minutes most will be able to do a GOOD session in about 20 mins

Tash.777 wrote: »

He then wanted to set up a phone session for next week another 110 euro...

Sounds like he is a milker , not un common in the theripies market , alot of therapeists spend too much time on learning marketing and not enough on the therapy it's self

Sleepy wrote: »

Do you believe in God?

If so, hypnotherapy may work for you.

If not, it won't. It works the exact same way as faith: the hypnotherapist convinces you that it'll work and because all it's attempting to fix is a lack of willpower, it works.

Sorry but that is wrong , every one (with no intelectual disability) can be hypnotised wheither they believe in a god or not

Sleepy

I've been for a hypnotherapy session, it didn't work and I can assure you I've no intellectual disabilities (assuming that wasn't a poorly veiled insult). Very relaxing but not the "re-programming of the sub-concious" the therapist claimed. The entire session seemed more focused on trying to convince me of the "power of hypnotherapy" and the phrase "I know this can work, I believe this *will* work".

If you can make the same leap of faith to believe in a god you want to believe in, you can make the same leap of faith to believe in the power of hypnotherapy if you want to believe in that too.

crotalus667

Sleepy wrote: »

I've been for a hypnotherapy session, it didn't work and I can assure you I've no intellectual disabilities (assuming that wasn't a poorly veiled insult)..

No it was not a poorly veiled insult,

Sleepy wrote: »

Very relaxing but not the "re-programming of the sub-concious" the therapist claimed. The entire session seemed more focused on trying to convince me of the "power of hypnotherapy" and the phrase "I know this can work, I believe this *will* work".

Sounds like an incompetent NLP'er

Sleepy wrote: »

If you can make the same leap of faith to believe in a god you want to believe in, you can make the same leap of faith to believe in the power of hypnotherapy if you want to believe in that too.

There is no leap of faith needed hypnotherapy has a proven effect on the brain and the hypnotic state is a natural state that you and every one else enters into every day , god is a man made fairy tail

moco

I went for the gastric band hypnotherapy a few weeks ago and it was an absolute waste of time and money. So much so that I paid for 3 sessions and can't be bothered going back for the other two.

Caros

Never mind hypnotherapy, eat wiser, cut the crap food and get your legs out there walking and the weight will fall off soon enough.

zuroph

moco wrote: »

I went for the gastric band hypnotherapy a few weeks ago and it was an absolute waste of time and money. So much so that I paid for 3 sessions and can't be bothered going back for the other two.

Gastric band hypnosis is a bit of a fad at the moment, so everyone goes looking for it. it only really works on certain types of sueggestability. the hypnotherapist should really be looking at using various different methods to help you.

crotalus667

zuroph wrote: »

Gastric band hypnosis is a bit of a fad at the moment, so everyone goes looking for it. it only really works on certain types of sueggestability. the hypnotherapist should really be looking at using various different methods to help you.

I have heard differing results form different therapists butr it seem alot of the less scroupulious ones seem to like the fact that it is a 3 session treatment :rolleyes:

zuroph

its a fad, which the womens magazines and newspapers settled onto, but there are better more traditional methods for long term success.

GraciousGeenie

Hypnotherapy only works if you are really at a stage where you are ready to make change in your life. If you are not - don't waste your money!!!! (speaking as someone who wasted €1,000 with Paul Goldin Clinic in Dublin)

Change only happens when you've looked into the reasons you are why you are (and there is always an underlying reason is there not???).... work a little on them (counselling etc.) and then find a food plan which suits you and your budget.

I've joined the Motivation Clinic and find that this suits me well. I think though it's only suiting me now as I have done the work on the inside first.

One note with regard to giving up smoking - I gave up by visiting Geoff Anthony. He differs in that I think he based his programme on Neuro Linguistic Programming as opposed to Hypnotherapy.

crotalus667

GraciousGeenie wrote: »

He differs in that I think he based his programme on Neuro Linguistic Programming as opposed to Hypnotherapy.

If thats what he told you it must be true :rolleyes: "NLP is old wine new bottle"

GraciousGeenie

crotalus667 wrote: »

If thats what he told you it must be true :rolleyes: "NLP is old wine new bottle"

Nothing really constructive in that... "He" didn't tell me anything. I simply didn't smoke any more.

Anything positive to add??

crotalus667

GraciousGeenie wrote: »

Nothing really constructive in that... "He" didn't tell me anything. I simply didn't smoke any more.

Anything positive to add??

I was just trying to educate you seeing as you have a false belief that NLP is not Hypnothearpy :rolleyes:

GraciousGeenie

Any and all interventions work only if you are at a stage where you are ready to work for change.

Cat Melodeon

There's a lot of patronising nonsense on this thread. People trying to lose weight know that a combination of controlled eating and exercise is *all* that is needed. However some people need a hand to become disciplined and to learn new habits and new ways of thinking. This is where alternative therapies can help, from hypnotherapy and NLP to motivational training and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. If you believe something will work for you, it has a good chance of succeeding.

I quit smoking using the Alan Carr book, did hypnobirthing for my last pregnancy and had a natural birth, and once this next baby is born I'll be trying hypnosis for weight loss. I don't believe in attending an expensive one-off clinic though - I think regularly training yourself (all hypnosis is self-hypnosis) and repeating positive affirmations is a better way of breaking old ways of thinking and acting. This is better done using cheap CDs or free resources than paying some celebrity quack.

Call it hypnosis or mindfulness training, whatever, if you work at it, it will work for you and can be a fantastic aid to breaking old habits, be that smoking or phobias (and hopefully, lack of discipline around eating and exercise).

zuroph

two things
A) Complementary Therapy, not alternative
Any clinic that promises a one session fix for weight loss should be avoided. Its a complicated process that takes a number of sessions to set up.

Maple

Zombie thread.

Locked.

Maple