Yet another article appears in the press about the dangers of crazy diets!
This time it's LighterLife that is highlighted. If you haven't come across LighterLife it is a low calorie diet which replaces all meals with nutritionally balanced shakes. It is aimed only at those people who are extremely overweight. Unfortunately, these dieters survive on just 500 liquid calories a day and some healthcare practitioners are now saying that this is extremely dangerous. Starving yourself in this way loses weight fast - but also "depletes the protein and muscle of the internal organs" according to leading obesity expert Professor John Garrow.
Side effects have included generally feeling unwell, hair loss, menstrual disorders and inabality to concentrate and although people do lose weight some people have reported an unhealthy "dislike" of real food which has stopped them eating sensibly once they reach their goal weight.
I have had numerous clients come to me after they have lost weight with LighterLife because they have put much of it back on since returning to eating real food. Unfortunately, they have returned to their old, poor eating habits.
With hypnosis and NLP my clients get a choice about what they eat, how much and when, but have changed their feelings around food so they don't overeat, don't eat unless they're hungry and automatically choose healthy food. They are not "on a diet" just eating sensibly, losing the weight slowly and exercising to ensure their bodies stay healthy.
Many of my clients say that they have stopped obsessing about food, stopped worrying about their weight and stopped looking for comfort from food and trying to use food to solve their problems.
To remove the problem of obesity once and for all we need to start eating healthy foods in healthy amounts. We need to know what is healthy and what is not (back to Home Economics and Domestic Science is schools I say!). But most of all each of us needs to take responsbiliyt for our own health. Right Now. No more excuses. No more weird diets.
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Saturday, 15 November 2008
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
food and you
We're coming up to the Christmas season - a time to eat, drink and be merry before starting yet another diet on 1st January!
What's easier than dieting; takes less time commitment than weightwatchers or slimmers world, cheaper than private slimming clinics and safer and less painful than surgery and a gastric band?
You guessed it - NLP and Hypnotherapy!
Really there are only two steps to take to lose weight:
1. Eat Less 2. Move More
There are lots of techniques you can start using right now to cut down and take back control.
Use a smaller plate. This way you can eat everything on your plate which will psychologically make you feel as though you've had a full meal.
If you're drinking have glasses of water in between alcoholic drinks. You will feel better because you'll be less dehydrated and you'll cut the "empty sugar" calories.
If you're eating out have a salad starter - you'll be less likely to want a pudding!
At home there's a really easy technique - if you don't buy it you can't eat it! Do your food shopping after you've eaten and don't even walk down the biscuit and cake aisles!
Buy more expensive, tasty things and eat smaller portions - taste the food! This is particularly good with things like chocolate and cheese.
We have just six working weeks until Christmas and someone asked me today if it was too late to start a weightloss programme! Certainly not! It's never too late to change a habit and eating and drinking habits are no different.
You can lose 2 - 3lb of fat a week so starting now could mean over a stone lost by Christmas - wow - how good would you look at your Christmas party!
Of course for many people Christmas means gaining weight! Three sessions over the next six weeks could ensure you keep control of your eating (and drinking) and don't gain any weight between now and the New Year!
I introduced a Special Package price for weightloss clients about a year ago and it's still 4 sessions for the price of 3. The processes I use help clients to eat and drink sensibly without dieting or feeling deprived - who'd want to diet or feel as though they can't enjoy themselves during the Christmas and New Year festivities?
How do you want to look for Christmas? Keep that picture firmly locked in your mind then book your appointment!
What's easier than dieting; takes less time commitment than weightwatchers or slimmers world, cheaper than private slimming clinics and safer and less painful than surgery and a gastric band?
You guessed it - NLP and Hypnotherapy!
Really there are only two steps to take to lose weight:
1. Eat Less 2. Move More
There are lots of techniques you can start using right now to cut down and take back control.
Use a smaller plate. This way you can eat everything on your plate which will psychologically make you feel as though you've had a full meal.
If you're drinking have glasses of water in between alcoholic drinks. You will feel better because you'll be less dehydrated and you'll cut the "empty sugar" calories.
If you're eating out have a salad starter - you'll be less likely to want a pudding!
At home there's a really easy technique - if you don't buy it you can't eat it! Do your food shopping after you've eaten and don't even walk down the biscuit and cake aisles!
Buy more expensive, tasty things and eat smaller portions - taste the food! This is particularly good with things like chocolate and cheese.
We have just six working weeks until Christmas and someone asked me today if it was too late to start a weightloss programme! Certainly not! It's never too late to change a habit and eating and drinking habits are no different.
You can lose 2 - 3lb of fat a week so starting now could mean over a stone lost by Christmas - wow - how good would you look at your Christmas party!
Of course for many people Christmas means gaining weight! Three sessions over the next six weeks could ensure you keep control of your eating (and drinking) and don't gain any weight between now and the New Year!
I introduced a Special Package price for weightloss clients about a year ago and it's still 4 sessions for the price of 3. The processes I use help clients to eat and drink sensibly without dieting or feeling deprived - who'd want to diet or feel as though they can't enjoy themselves during the Christmas and New Year festivities?
How do you want to look for Christmas? Keep that picture firmly locked in your mind then book your appointment!
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