At Balance Hypnotherapy we have spent years specialising in weight loss hypnosis. We know that in order to get great results for our clients one of the most important issues that we usually need to address in our sessions is portion control. So many of our clients complain that they are unable to tell when they are full and when they are hungry. They believe that the signal has somehow been lost but the reality is that they haven’t really listened to their body which is why we use a combination of suggestion hypnosis and mindfulness to help our clients to listen to what their bodies are really telling them.
During our Weight Loss Hypnosis Nottingham sessions we know that the problems with portion control can be caused by many factors. Here are just some of the common issues that we see every day at our clinics.
- Eating all the food on your plate even though you are not hungry.
- Habits created in childhood.
- Food is eaten because of emotions rather than real needs.
- Restaurants and supermarkets create super-sized products.
- Eating your food at the same time as watching your TV, phone or tablet.
- Gulping down food because you are always in a hurry.
- Using very large plates or glasses and filling them.
- Eating the wrong foods or empty calories
Weight Loss Hypnosis and Portion Control Tips
During our first sessions with our clients, one of the first things we do is examine the issues that they have with portion control. Usually, we give our clients a set of mindful eating rules to follow during our weight loss hypnotherapy program. This is a useful way of helping our clients take the time out to really listen to their bodies for probably the first time in years. Overeating is usually a habit created by ignorance, habit or emotional issues. When we are young children we generally do not have a problem with our eating. If you watch a young toddler eating their food they usually end up playing with it when they have had enough. They have an automatic cut off switch in their mind that says that they have had enough. The problem with overeating comes later because of the very reasons that I have mentioned above. When we get our clients to eat mindfully and follow our guidelines they often find that their portion sizes decrease significantly or they end up leaving food on their plate.
Portion Control Hypnosis Download
All our clients received a portion control audio download to listen to in between their sessions which helps to reinforce the mindful eating rules. The audio should be listened to daily and preferably at the time of day when the person is most likely to overeat. Listening to this regularly can help to create subconscious change. The portion control mp3 is usually used in combination with a number of our other audios to help bring about changes to eating patterns. Our best-selling Gastric Band Hypnotherapy audio program can be purchased in our online shop.
Changing Portion Size with Hypnotherapy
As well as subconscious suggestion and mindfulness we use a number of other methods to help our clients recognise when they are full. Aversion hypnotherapy can be used to help our clients remember a time when they felt so full that they were almost ill. We can play on this memory and create a trigger so that the next time they overeat this feeling and thought reappears helping them to stop eating. We can also use analytical hypnosis to see if there are any emotional reasons why a client may choose to eat through feelings of fullness. If these are discovered then they will need to be tackled as a part of the therapy.
Our weight loss hypnosis Nottingham sessions use portion control as just one method of helping to bring about positive changes to our client’s eating patterns. If you would like more information on our weight loss programs or would like to see if we are able to help with your problems then please call us on 01636 650 521
