Who knows best - Fighting the fat (Channel 4)

arse..biscuits

Anyone see this last night? Two experts trying to achieve the same goal but through different methods. This week was fat loss. One expert was a personal trainer who makes his clients work hard and sweat buckets, the other expert was an alternative therapist with over 20 years experience who uses clinical hypnotherapy to help her clients change how they think about food etc.

They were each assigned a big fat client for 6 weeks to see who would loose the most weight.

I wont give away who won in case anyone wants to watch it.

Khannie

Worth watching?

connollys

Recorded it on Sky+ will watch this evening.

Vegeta

arse..biscuits wrote: »

I wont give away who won in case anyone wants to watch it.

Any chance of putting the winner in spoiler tags anyone?

metamorphosis

the winner was

the personal trainer

choons

You can watch most Channel 4 programs for free on 4od:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/who-knows-best/4od

SanoVitae

I have a background in both hypnosis and personal training.

As great as hypnosis is, I always recommend that my hypnosis clients exercise, especially weight training.

Hypnosis can help a person change the way they feel about themselves, food and exercise. This leads to behavoural change - improved eating habits, increase in discipline, motivation to go to the gym etc.

What hypnosis cannot do is reverse the loss of muscle mass which is the cause of a lot of many people (especially over 30) gaining weight in the first place. They lose muscle, their metabolism slows down and when they keeping eating the same amount of food as they always have, their bodyfat levels slowly but increasingly rise.

While the show makes for good TV, it's never a matter of whether purely mental training (hypnosis) is more effective than purely physical training (exercise). This is comparing apples to oranges.

To lose weight, especially in the long-term, you need to put in the work (both exercise and nutrition) AND make behavioural changes (especially increased discipline).

Hypnosis is one way of achieving the latter and that's why I combine it with the former!

P.S. I think it would have been much better and far more relevant if they had compared exercise methods against each other - e.g. MetCons/Crossfit vs Steady State aerobics vs Traditional Bodybuilding routines etc.

De Deraco

Did not think much of the Personal Trainer.
Was half watching it but I think he was looking for a Stone in weightloss in one week!!

metamorphosis

yeah he wasn't that great the PT. He did say something along the lines of you can lose a stone in a week and when the girl lost 7lbs in 2 weeks he said it wasn't good enough.