Making Your Diet Stick with Hypnosis!

Making Your Diet Stick with Hypnosis! Anine Grumbles, Ph.D., CHt HypnosisWashington.com

Welcome, Anine Grumbles, PhD, CHt.

What Is a Diet? • What you routinely eat. • Not a temporary restriction of food or eating. • Not stuff you don’t enjoy till you lose the weight. • A long term way of (preferably healthy) eating. • Healthy diet is a life style. • Weighty Words • Lose vs. reduce, release, or shed.

Temporary Fad “Diets” • Temporary • Restrict foods • Don’t work in the long term • Difficult to maintain • Stop dieting and you gain it all back and more. Reduce weight and keep it off? Change views about food and eating.

Patience • Don’t expect it to work overnight. • It took months or even years to accumulate all of the weight • In some cases you are holding them very close to you. Be patient with yourself. Think of this as a journey. A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.

Calories – a Numbers Game Energy we receive from food we eat. Energy in > energy burned = excess stored as fat Energy in < energy burned = weight reduction Women eat an average of 1800 – 2500 calories per day and men more - more with junkfood.

3500 Calories = 1 Pound 500 calories less/day Reduce your weight - healthy • 1 pound/week. • 50 – 52 pounds/year • Increase your activities (exercise). You don’t have to count calories • More green and leafy vegetables • less of the starchy ones like potatoes and carrots. • Less processed foods, less sugars and white flour. In case you are not aware of it, artificial sweeteners cause you to gain weight, not reduce it.

Staying Motivated • Why do you want to reduce your weight? (Write it down). • Ask yourself at least 5 times why you want to reduce your weight. (write down all of the reasons.)

Gain 4 questions. • 1. What did you gain by putting on the weight? • 2. What will you gain by reducing your weight? • 3. What did you lose by gaining weight? • 4. What will you lose by reducing your weight?

Motivation - What’s Your Type? • External

Motivation vs. Inspiration • What motivates you? What inspires you? • Is your motivation from inside or outside of you? • Are you motivated more to avoid pain or to do something to gain pleasure?

Type Is More Important than Amount.

Inspiration Stronger than Motivation. • Motivation seeks a reward for taking action. Intrinsic motivation: Reward = the challenge itself, the fun of doing and accomplishing the goal. • Weigh the feeling • I have to do this… vs. I enjoy doing this, it’s fun and makes me happy. • Which one feels better to you? Have to or FUN?

Your Success and Support Depend On… Not everyone wants you to succeed. As you begin to succeed and reduce those pounds- • Those around you may be forced to examine their own health status. • You may be a threat to their status-quo • You have to be strong and stay motivated – • Motivated enough and strong enough to overcome temptations you would prefer to avoid. • Re-stock your motivation or your inspiration.

…Commitment, Support, and Groups Keep your eye on the prize! Desired outcome? • Know the advantages of being at and achieving your ideal weight. • See yourself as if you have already achieved your ideal weight. • Vision boards = unconscious suggestion. • Set goals and mileposts • Reward yourself with non-food rewards when you reach them.

Commitment, Support… Reducing 50, 100, pounds or more requires commitment. • Do you have a friend who support you? • works out buddy • cheerleader • Accountability buddy

…Support and Support Groups • Having support is a huge help and a positive motivator. • Who has your back? • If you don’t have a support group, consider joining one. • HypnosisWashington on Facebook. • I’d love to hear from you.

Stress and Obesity • Chronic stress and higher cortisol levels linked with • Bigger waistlines and higher levels of obesity. • To inadequate and poor sleep. • Depression. • Cardio-vascular conditions.

Reducing Stress • Reduces the amount of cortisol from adrenal glands. • Every time you feel stressed, no matter what it’s about. • Cortisol is released into your bloodstream. • Causes fight, flight, or freeze reaction. • Removes your brain from the equation; • Can’t think effectively. • Resort to mindless or emotional eating.

Reducing Stress with Self-Hypnosis

Using Hypnosis for Weight Reduction Research shows • Hypnosis effectively reduces stress. • Combined with a weight reduction program • Greater long-term results in standard weight loss treatments.

How Hypnosis Helps You Reduce Weight • During hypnosis your brain waves slow • You enter a relaxed receptive alpha state or even a deeper creative theta state. • Your mind is more open to suggestion. • You experience thoughts so realistic that the body usually reacts both biochemically and physiologically.

Hypnosis a Natural State • Your conscious mind and the unconscious mind are working together. If you choose to undo old programming that no longer serves you. Change: • Behaviors and Habits. • Old beliefs. • Old values. • Things that limit you from getting what you desire. • Your relationship with food

Hypnosis – Under Self-Control Noonecan make you do anything under hypnosis you don’t want to do! • Your doctor may want you to lose weight for your health, if you are not willing to do what it takes to change your relationship with food, and release the excess weight, all the hypnosis in the world will not help you lose the weight. You have complete control. • You have to congruently want to reduce your weight, for hypnosis to work for you. • It can help make things easier, by helping you • reduce your appetite, curb your cravings, • why you gained that extra weight; decide if you still need that weight; and if not, decide to release it.

Self-Hypnosis is Easy to Learn • Even If you’ve never been hypnotized: • you can easily learn and practice it. • the more you practiced the more proficient you become • downloadable MP3 you can download where I walk you through the process. Most of the uses can be done by you for yourself.

10 Ways to Use Hypnosis for Weight Reduction - #1 • Learn Self-hypnosis • Practice to relieve stress and lower cortisol levels in your blood stream that promote gaining weight. • Coming soon: HypnosisWashington.com A downloadable MP3 for Self-Hypnosis

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #2 • Use positive affirmations in conjunction with self-hypnosis. • positive self-suggestions help you establish a positive mindset, adjusts your internal dialogue or self-talk to one that supports positive motivation for achieving your goals and aspirations. • Make your positive affirmations even more powerful with sensory imaging. • Check HypnosisWashington.com A downloadable PowerPoint for creating and using incredibly powerful positive affirmations – coming soon.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #3 • Lock your positive affirmations more securely into place using aroma. Essential oils + hypnosis. • Aroma connects directly to the amygdala, a part of the brain where memory and emotions are also processed at the unconscious level, before being processed at the conscious level. • Certain smells evoke vivid memories tied with emotion. • Aromas can become entangled with positive suggestions for new behaviors and new habits that can help you more easily release and reduce your unwanted weight.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #4 • Use your imagination! I’m sure you know from experience, imagination wins the contest with willpower. “Imagination is more important than Knowledge.” Albert Einstein • He knew that the secret language of the unconscious mind - symbols, pictures, and other sensory stimuli. • So get relaxed with hypnosis and use your imagination to rewrite your stories, and reshape your life.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #5 • SMART goals: S SpecificM Measurable A Achievable, Attainable R Reasonable T Time bound & timely

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #5 Well formed SMART Goals: • Each day I see, hear, and experience at least 3 things to appreciate and lift my spirits . • I enjoy walking 2 miles, 3 days each week. • By April 30, 2018, I have reduced my weight by 52 pounds

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #5 • “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich • “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.” Muhammad Ali

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #5 • Walt Disney built an entire industry on “If you can dream you can do it.” So, relax, imagine yourself looking the way that you want to look. Pretend you’re seeing yourself on TV or YouTube. • See yourself already at your ideal weight, as if you already have achieved the goal you desire.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #6 • “There is no failure only feedback.” Premise. • Henry Ford said something similar, “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” • Persistence and resilience • Hypnosis helps you get on course and stay the course. • Works with willpower to give you more self-control, increase your motivation, and perseverance.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #7 Cravings for unhealthy, sugary, or junk foods? • Hypnosis can lessen or eliminate some cravings! • chocolate chip cookies to green, furry, moldy bread • No chocolate chip cookies since 2008. • Coming Soon! Free News letters will announce new MP3 download: “Reduce Your Junk Food Cravings” HypnosisWashington.com

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #8 • Like more of the foods that are good for you • Wholesome nourishing foods • High nutrient per calorie value • Variety • Greater diversity of foods = wider range of nutrients to maintain health and well-being.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #9 • Adjust your metabolism -how quickly you burn food for energy. • Helps to melt off the pounds more quickly. • Use hypnosis to go into a deep state of self-hypnosis rapidly.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #10 • Mindful eating: Become aware of the food you are eating. • 5 W’s of eating. • Shapes, colors, smells, textures mouth-feel of food • Aware of your body: hungry, or not hungry; Fullness set points to stop eating.

Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #11 • Can help increases calorie-burning activity- Exercise! • Helps you get motivated • appreciate the results of exercise, • more importantly, take action and move your body! • You could even get to like it - but no promises. Stair story

Hypnosis Awesome for Weight Reduction 11 of the awesome ways hypnosis can help you successfully reduce your weight and keep it off. • Few of these techniques works with only one application. • That’s why the more you use self-hypnosis, the more effective it is. • For the small amount of time it takes to do self-hypnosis, you get a high return on your investment. • Integrate other technologies with hypnosis – exponential!

Using Your imagination • An exercise using Hypnosis for Weight Reduction #4.

Thank You Gift, if You QualifyPersonal Weight Reduction Plan 60 minute 1-on-1 coaching session • -If you’re thinking about working together • -If interested in reducing at least 30 pounds • -If you’re open to receiving support

My Intentions • #1 Give you as much value as possible. • Not a sales pitch. • #2 See if we might be a good fit to work together to achieve your goals.

To Request Your Personal Weight Reduction Plan • Send me an email: Anine@HypnosisWashington.com • Available to you or a friend • Offer expires at midnight, on May 15, 2017, PDT.

Making Your Diet Stick with Hypnosis!