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One of my goals that has been bugging me because I haven't been able to acheive it is to reduce my body fat to gain higher energy level, better health etc...

I drink 8-16 glasses of water everyday (tap water that has been boiled and cooled and sometimes bottled spring water.) I do 6-7.5 hours of Karate every week and walk to school every day. I try to eat healthy too...

I feel as if I'm not making any mistakes but I am getting nowhere, I have seen I slight change but nothing much.

My question is this:

Is there any big secret to weight loss is the any special technique or something, If any of you guys have won this battle could you please tell me how you did it?

P.S. I don't have any money to buy anything.

There is a book on weight loss that you may be able to get from the library called "Think Yourself Thin." Basically, instead of a "diet" book, it's a book on how to reprogram your mental-self-image.

The one thing I've noticed is that hypnotic methods can work TOO well, which results in sagging skin in my case.

Kaiden,

Would you care to expound on your weight loss methods? I'm curious as I've tried hypnosis for weight loss without much results.

Tracey

As a Hypnotherapist who works with weight loss clients and having successfully used hpynosis to enhance and support my own weight loss and health maintenance program, I am interested in the specifics of what you tried and your experience of it.

Did hypnosis have other benefits related to nor not related to weight loss?

Was there any benefit?

Did you use self hypnosis or did you have a hypnosis professional of some description helping you?

I am always interested in how people are applying hypnosis and to what degree they experience success so I can continue to improve my own use of hypnosis with this particular subject.

I appreciate any information you are willing to share.

Consider the Paraliminal Tape called Ideal Weight.

Side A helps you reduce your weight at about 1% of your body weight per week. It helps you notice and pay attention to natural signals we all have that say when to eat, what to eat, and when to stop.

Side B helps you deal with specific problems, such as the buffet table.

But, I gotta warn you. Ideal Weight has the highest level of dissatisfaction amoung our users. It is not a magic pill that causes weight mysteriously to disappear, but it can be a very effective aid to help you reach and maintain your ideal weight. Remember that, and you will do well.

Read the "Foundation and Research" article in the Paraliminal section of our website for more information about the hows and whys of Paraliminals.

Wave Rider,

I saw a hypnotherapist for about 3 months (1x/week). I admit that our sessions were scattered and the focus could have been better. I really enjoyed my sessions and would not hesitate to continue seeing a therapist.

To answer your questions, the biggest benefit I received was relaxation. I had gone on vacation and spent a week with a friend who ate very little. He'd "forget" about food. I envied that because I've never been one to forget eating. It's somewhat of a focus for me. We worked on taking away that focus and it worked for about a week and then I continued my normal patterns. I don't know if there was something I started doing differently or if it was not an effective way for me.

I have "Ideal Weight" which I've started to use again.

The biggest problem I have withe paraliminals is making the time for them. I know that must make the time if it's important. I have a tendency to use them right before bed and I fall asleep during them. Since I wake up as soon as the tape clicks off I know that my mind was aware of the tape and I didn't "lose" anything, but I don't think it's the most effective way for me to use the tapes.

Anyway, that's just my experience. I have often suggested hypnotherapy to friends and colleagues because I truly believe it is helpful. My wish is that I was able to afford hypnotherapy on a regular basis.

Tracey

Instead of Ideal Weight, you might want to try New Behavior Generator. Now, I must warn you that most "diets" out there have a 98% failure rate because THEY STINK. Low-fat diets are the result of "magical thinking," e.g. "If I don't eat fat, the fat will go away." Ketogenic diets work better, but they have their own set of problems (cost being a big one).

So far, the best diet I've found is "Neanderthin," which deals with food addiction by cutting out those foods which are most addictive. I've lost over 100 pounds on this diet alone, with NO mental tricks other than those the author used in his Third Edition book to link the diet with one's religious memes.

Neanderthin is an excellent eating program but it's not something I enjoy.

I've recently discovered the joys of being a vegetarian. I feel healthier when I don't eat meat. Thus, Neanderthin doesn't appeal to me anymore.

I'm working with a program called "Naturally Thin" by Jean Antonello. It deals with the ideas of eating by body signals. Eating when hungry (physical hunder), stopping when satisfied (not stuffed), eating whole foods (not processed crap), and eating on time (don't wait to eat just because of the time).

It works fantastic and works on the premise that we are typically in feast or famine cycles and that in order to be our ideal healthy natural weight we must break the cycles. This is accomplished by the tasks above. It really is fantastic and ends the "diet" cycle that most people live in.

So I incorporate this with a more vegetarian lifestyfle (I still enjoy meat, but in very small amounts) and I'm feeling much better.

REcognizing that it takes time to lose weight, I'm in this for the long haul and not looking to lose massive amounts in short periods of time. I did follow a low-carb diet at one point and lost 50lbs in 3.5 months which was very pleasing but I realize now that I was in a famine phase and it was very easy to crash and start feasting on anything but what I "should" have eaten.

Tracey

I'm pretty new to this board, but I've done lots of reading (the slow kind) about proper nutrition and diet. As best I can tell, noone out there has *the* answer. You might try PRing a few books and ask your body what is right for it.

FWIW, my ND recommends a zone-type diet. Especially vegetarian.

In regards to the techniques from "Think Yourself Thin," most of the tips, tricks, etc. are on the Ideal Weight paraliminal.

What I did was tell myself every morning when I looked into the mirror, "wow, I look thinner today." It's important, because over-all you DON'T notice weight loss if you don't look for it. It creeps up on you. Saying that you notice it programs you to notice it. Also, I copied a picture of how I want to look (the cover to Over Sea, Under Stone) onto my hard drive and use Paint to black-out the title and author, and put my name, the weight I want to be at, and a reasonable date. I used this picture to reset my self-image.

I also used the Natural Brilliance model to deal with caloric reduction. I was able to reconcile the war between pleasure-in-eating and restricting the amount of food I eat by eating small portions of really good food. Whenever I might be tempted to put something in my mouth, my first thought was always "would Doctor Lector eat this?" If the answer was "probably not," I passed on it. I would also eat my food with absolute hedonism. I would eat it very, very slowly savoring every bite. The nature of food addiction is not in the taste of the food, so much as the effect of having consumed it. "Eat slowly" translates to "delay your effect" when in the paradigm of food addiction, but it translates into "enjoy your meal fully and sensually" when working outside of the paradigm. Much of the products of LSC deal with installing an extra-paradigmatic view.

I'm using the past tense when talking about these tricks because I'm really not too concerned with my weight at this juncture. However, talking about them has perked my interest on seeing how well I can re-apply them.