Hypnotherapy for weight loss experience

mair1910

I've decided to try a session of hypnotherapy to aid my weight loss. I have seen that there are a number of hypnotherapists in Cork and the surrounding areas with a huge range in prices (€100 to €300) and session lengths (1-2 hours). I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with a hypnotherapist or knows why the prices vary so much?

generic2012

I'd say it's because the people charging €300 are pushing their luck even further than the people charging €100. Besides, magic licenses are getting more expensive since this new science fad of the last few centuries.

Zillah

It likely won't do any harm in the short run, but here's my question:
Do you think the hypnotherapy will still be working five years from now?

Studies show that people that use any sort of gimmick to lose weight inevitably put it back on. Any variety of short cut or quick fix, whether it is hypno-therapy, drugs or bizarre fad-diets, means you haven't changed the mentality and habits that led to weight gain in the first place.

You shouldn't even be aiming for 'weight loss', you should aim to reach and stay at the target weight, which means learning to eat the right food in the right amounts every day for the rest of your life.

I don't see how hypnotherapy can help that.

Are you finding it too hard to resist eating snacks at night?
You need to look at what you're eating for meals, because it shouldn't leave you hungry. More protein, more fibre.

Are you failing to lose weight even though you are eating properly?
You're probably eating more than you realise, everything adds up. You need to keep a food diary and do actual calorie counting.

There's lots of things that can help and I don't think hypnotherapy is one of them.

nice_guy80

I'm in the wrong business

I did it, a few years back.

It was with Irish Hypnosis. I thought that having to present myself to someone each week to talk to, would make me make more responsible food choices (and at the time I hadn't the balls to be joining a public weight loss group).

They also claimed that they had a 100% success rate. Who can argue with that?!


Anyway, it made me lose weight. Although I'm not sure how much weight I lost, exactly (how much exactly does €200 weigh?).


It was nonsense. I was in and out of the place a couple of times and each time it was a case of going in, saying my hellos, lying back in a chair, and effectively falling asleep while someone was rabbiting on at me to count backwards from 100.

I do believe in Hypnosis, in the sense that your mind does react differently to different things/noises, etc. but I believe about it more on a scientific level. I found myself second guessing the whole episode from the word Go, with the hypnosis classes.


If you send me €100 I'll send you out a thank you card. At least you'll have something to show for that!*



*Just to note, I do think some people will benefit hugely from Hypnosis, but you have to be a very easily manipulated person who will put all of your faith into a person's every word. You have to be easily lead-on. I went in completely open-minded to the experience and I had wanted to do it for quite some time, but I found it an entirely lackluster experience and i don't think I lost any real weight at all (and if I did lose anything, it came back fairly swiftly).


These days, despite my embarrassment, I joined a Slimming World group. I find the public nature of the group and your weight being openly talked about has pushed me a lot harder. I find it much more motivational and having to be weighed in each week makes me more accountable for my food choices.


But different things work for different people.

Give the hypnosis a shot if you like the idea. You never know, if you never try, but my own experience was a pretty poor one, so I'd not be in a rush to recommend it to you.

generic2012

great post KKV

mair1910

Thank for your feedback everyone much appreciated!! ðŸ‘