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Showing posts with label Weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weight loss. Show all posts

9/14/2009

How Hypnotism Reduces Your Weight

The battle of the bulge keeps on as millions across the globe fight off extra weight with the help of several alternatives that pop up by the day. While each one claims to be the most efficient and the best, there are few that are proven scientifically.

One of those alternative by which some people credit their fitness and body tone to is hypnosis. How? Well, hypnosis sessions are intended specially for weight loss now. The hypnosis for weight loss program includes the application of this age old technique by a qualified hypnotist designs and carrying commands when you are under a state of hypnosis.

Hypnotic wonder:

The conditioning takes place during this phase and you actually subconsciously accept the conditioning to apply its details once you are out of the state. The sessions are planned by the practitioner of this age old art according to the extent of weight loss desired or required.

Naturally the number of sessions and the length of each would differ in the case of one suffering from morbid obesity and one who needs to simply be conditioned to avoid certain food components to shed just a little weight. Hypnosis for weight loss is not a new concept at all. May be the application of the art with regards to weight loss may be recent but similar conditioning ahs been indulged in, in the past.

You too can now indulge in the same and that too without having to leave the confines of home! How? Well there are a number of dedicated resources that operate online and allow you to indulge in some safe and simple self hypnosis led by an expert.

The professionals who guide you through the course are among the best names in the industry. These professionals, both online as well as offline work in tandem with medical advice that may be given to you to keep your weight in check which may be the result of some health ailment like thyroid or inherent obesity. Without a doubt, hypnosis for weight loss is a much better option than getting under the surgeon’s knife or popping pills which may result in a series of untoward reactions.

A new you!

Today, celebrities and a host of common people are trying out the technique to condition themselves into not indulging in food components that are high in starch or carbohydrates of bad cholesterol. Hypnosis for weight loss conditioning never goes beyond a session and that too the contents of which you are at all times in complete control of.

The methodology is tried and tested and can be stopped at any given point in time. You could also try out the effectiveness of the therapy at any of the real time avenues in your locality. The practitioners of the art of hypnosis that offer you the benefit of the hypnosis for weight loss program are renowned and synonymous with dedication, guarantee and trust.
John Goldman
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12/13/2008

11 Tactics for Lasting Weight Loss

Lasting weight loss is more about small, sustainable adjustments to how you live and eat than it is following a rigorous, intense, short-term program that completely changes all aspects of your diet. The latter might deliver dramatic losses in the short term, but we all know how quickly the pounds can return once we get back into our everyday habits. Below are a handful of tips that can give your weight loss efforts the nudge they need to succeed:


1. Forget weight. Too many people focus on pounds when it comes to measuring weight loss. Instead, focus on better measures: how your energy levels are doing, how your joints are feeling, how your attitude is faring, how your clothes are fitting, how you look in the mirror. Sure, your weight is the clearest measurement of your progress, but your goal shouldn't be a number: It should be measured by your health and happiness. If your joints are telling you your weight-loss efforts are helping, then there's no better measurement you could have.


2. Develop movement habits. Research shows that people who fidget burn 500 or more extra calories in a day. Learn the lesson: all extra movements burn calories. So develop movement habits. Some examples: Stand when on the phone; leave the room during TV commercials; walk 10 minutes after dinner; tap your foot to the music. Develop one or two such habits, and you'll burn many more calories.


3. Drink water. You've heard the health benefits of water just so many times. So finally do it: Get yourself a big, interesting, friendly cup or Mason jar or travel mug, fill it up after breakfast, and keep it with you everywhere. Refill, refill, refill. At the end of the day, wash it out and have it ready for tomorrow. Nothing will satiate your hunger as well as plentiful cool water.


4. Entertain your mouth. Sometimes all it takes to halt the snacking is a piece of gum, a slow-to-dissolve piece of candy, a toothpick, even an olive pit. While society looks down on overt mouth habits in public, if you can be subtle, there's absolutely nothing wrong with an hour-long engagement with a piece of sugarless gum, particularly if it keeps you from snacking.


5. Shop the perimeter. Big grocery stores are laid out in predictable ways. Usually, the healthiest, freshest foods are around the perimeter: produce, meats, seafood, dairy, bakery. The danger is in the aisles, with its cookies, potato chips, canned foods, boxed foods, ice creams, and such. Your food-shopping goal: Stay only along the store perimeter. Just once a month, delve into the aisles for necessary staples.


6. Spice up your meals. Add zest to food with cayenne and jalape?o peppers, ginger, Tabasco sauce, mustard, and other spices. Studies find that zingier foods have thermogenic properties that boost your metabolism's fat-burning ability -- by as much as 25 percent, in some reports.


7. Sleep better. It sounds like quackery, but you really can encourage weight loss by sleeping. Research into sleep and hormone function finds that your metabolism rises and you burn calories more efficiently when you're well rested.


8. Nix Nickelodeon. Avoid the TV programs you enjoy with your kids or grandkids -- or tune out the commercials. Children's programming contains much more junk food advertising than adult shows: 2,800 calories per hour, on average, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. And studies find that watching less food on the tube translates to fewer fatty, sweet products in pantries.


9. Top your tank before exercise. Have a well-balanced carbohydrate/protein snack such as half an apple with peanut butter or crackers with low-fat cheese an hour or more before a workout. The carbs will keep energy high while you exercise, and the protein will slow your digestion, giving you stamina for sustained effort.


10. Skip the wine. If you sip a glass of wine or beer with meals, think about a prohibition diet. The drink isn't bad per se, but your body tends to give priority to processing alcohol, making calories from the food you eat more likely to be stored as fat, according to researchers at Pennsylvania State University.


11. Do the ring test. Should you cut back your portions of salt? Even if you don't have high blood pressure, try this test: Slip a ring on your finger. Now eat salty food, wait a few hours, and try to take the ring off. If sliding the ring is more difficult now than earlier, you're probably among the many people (mainly women) for whom salt causes bloat -- potentially grounds for several extra pounds, according to researchers at the University of Maryland. Check food labels for sodium and cut your intake to feel lighter on your feet.

Source: www.rd.com