Every year, 300,000 deaths are attributed to obesity according to the Surgeon General.  Being obese and overweight is associated with heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes, strokes, respiratory problems, and even psychological disorders such as anxiety and depression.  If your doctor has encouraged you to lose weight, it is because your weight may be putting you into a high-risk category for disease.

Too much food and too little activity account for obesity.  Scientific research points toward behavioral and environmental factors as major contributors to the epidemic of obesity.  The best chance to prevent or treat obesity is by changing your day to day behaviors with food and exercise.  Here is the problem: most of us, in our constant quest to lose weight, annually pump over $37 billion dollars into the weight loss industry, and yet we are increasingly getting heavier and heavier as a nation, young and old. 

Extreme dieting focuses on food deprivation rather than focusing on changing the way you relate to and think about food.  Over time, this unhealthy relationship with food becomes habituated into the subconscious mind.  If one does not change old negative habits and attitudes, dieters become frustrated, and give up!

Until a few years ago, there was only the diet process, which has proven to be long-term, unsuccessful.  Lucky for us, this is no longer the case.  Many health professionals are looking for an effective alternative to the diet cycle, and are recommending a completely different behavioral approach to weight loss.  This non-diet method, that has been successfully helping thousands lose weight is Hypnosis.

The best chance to prevent or treat obesity is by changing your day to day behaviors with food and exercise.

 Lois Prinz, director of New Mexico’s Center For Hypnosis and founder of National Hypnotherapy Training Center explains that when the mind and body are both relaxed and feeling safe and calm in a hypnotic state, it is easier to incorporate new behaviors.  These behaviors, over time, become new habits.  "Everybody knows what to do when it comes to losing weight, it’s just that we don't know how to make a better behavior a habit, " says Prinz.  "Hypnosis is the bridge that carries us over the mental obstacles to healthier thinking that leads to healthier habits."

One of the unique features Center For Hypnosis offers is assisting clients in the way they think and behave through redirection of the subconscious mind.   As your relationship with food and exercise behaviors improves, improvement is both mental and physical.  Replacing past negative food habits with positive food habits frees you from the notion of dieting.  This also explains why your shape or size or weight is no longer even an issue for you, so you naturally choose to nourish your body healthfully!

Everyday, hypnosis usage increases as we look for a positive, long-term behavioral approach to weight loss.  More and more doctors are suggesting their patients use hypnosis along with traditional medical, diagnostic and allopathic curative approaches to weight loss.  And recently, public records show in a study reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, subjects completing a behavioral approach to weight management inclusive of Hypnosis, LOST A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WEIGHT (17 times as much!) when compared to non-hypnotic users. 

If you’ve been advised to lose weight, and you just don't want to drag out another diet, consider Center For Hypnosis as your alternative to dieting for weight loss.  Come learn how you can become another Center  For Hypnosis success and recapture your health, youthful energy and improved appearance.  It’s so easy to be successful. Hypnosis works.  And, the cost of your treatment may even be tax deductible!  Visit us online at www.Hypnosis4Change.com or call 505-292-2237 to arrange an initial evaluation and take the first step toward a healthier you!  Or, call me and I’ll personally call you back to answer questions before making your appointment.  See you soon! 

Published in Living Natural Magazine - 2005

Lois Prinz is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Designated Trainer and Examiner for the National Guild of Hypnotists.  Lois also practices the Thought Field Therapies of Neurolinguistic Psychology and Emotional Self Management with EFT.  She can be reached at 505-292-2237.