A Weight Loss Success Story

The following article appeared in Health & Fitness Weekly in September 2004, concerning an Elite Clinics client.

I've been overweight for most of my adult life, and must have tried every possible diet that has appeared over the years. It's always the same story, though; I usually manage to lose some weight when I'm on a diet, but it's always difficult, because my willpower isn't really that good, and I end up feeling miserable because I have to cut out the things I like eating best, and, and then as soon as I lose a few kilos and stop following the diet I always seem to put the weight back on again.

I was feeling really fed up with spending my whole life on a diet, trying and failing to lose weight, when I read an article in a newspaper about how people are slimming down easily using hypnosis. I decided to see if I could find a clinic in my area, and I came across Elite Clinics in Fuengirola and booked a course of sessions after calling in to see them for a chat. I'd never experienced hypnotherapy myself before, although my brother stopped smoking after visiting a hypnotherapist a couple of years ago, so I was aware of how successful it is.

We went through a detailed questionnaire to start with, and it helped to pinpoint exactly what my specific problems were; I tended to reach for something to eat when I was bored, I have also always been a fast eater, and exercise for me was just not on the agenda!

I was informed that my answers to the questions were very important, as the follow up sessions would be designed around my own personal needs.

The actual hypnosis was really relaxing - I felt as though I was hovering between being awake and falling asleep, which apparently is exactly how it should be. What I was amazed about, however, was that I could have sworn that I'd only been "under hypnosis" for what seemed like 5 minutes, but in fact it was nearly half an hour!

Over the next few days, I kept finding myself doing various changes in my routines and eating habits. For example, I was sitting down to watch TV one evening, a time when I would normally have had some sort of a snack, even when I wasn't actually hungry, and I found myself getting up after a couple of minutes and starting to do some tidying up instead. So as a result I ended up not eating some unnecessary snack and also I was getting a bit of exercise too!

I can't explain the difference. All I know is that I don't feel as though I'm on a diet, I'm still enjoying eating whatever I want to eat, and yet I'm steadily losing a kilo per week, and I now have the motivation to do some form of exercise every day, even if it's just walking up the stairs to the apartment instead of using the lift, which is what I always used to do. It doesn't even feel like a chore - I just go for the stairs naturally now.

I'm so pleased with the weight control programme. I'm losing weight easily, without even thinking about it; I feel great about myself, my self-confidence is coming back, and I just know that this time I really will achieve my target weight as I can actually visualise myself now as a slim person, whereas before it all seemed too much of an effort because I knew in my mind that the diets weren't going to be successful in the long term.

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