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  Weight Loss With Hypnosis

We all know about obesity’s harmful effects on health, happiness, and even lifestyle. The negative effects of carrying too many extra pounds can lead to life-threatening problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, and diabetes. In addition, strain on everything from your joints to your sleep cycles increases with too much weight. (Life Clinic).

But for many overweight people, shedding those extra pounds – and then keeping them off – can be a major challenge.

As important as losing weight is for your health, it is one of the most difficult things to accomplish.

The healthiest methods for losing weight involve changing old diet and exercise habits – two of the hardest things to do. Research has shown that hypnosis is an effective tool for losing weight and keeping it off for the long-term.

Proven Weight Loss with Hypnosis

For example, in 1998, a study involved 60 obese participants. The patients were randomly divided into one of three groups. One group received hypnosis that focused on stress reduction, another group received hypnosis that focused on energy intake reduction, and the third group received only dietary advice.

Researchers studied the percent of body weight lost at 7 different follow-ups from 1-month to 18-months after the treatment. At the 3-month follow-up, all participants in the three groups had lost 2-3% of their baseline body weight. However, at the 18-month follow-up, the group that had received hypnotherapy and stress reduction reported continued significant weight loss compared to no change in the other two groups. This study shows that when hypnotherapy is used in combination with stress relief suggestions, weight loss is significant in the long-term (Stradling, Roberts, Wilson, & Lovelock, 1998).

In another example, an analysis of two different studies involving hypnotherapy and weight loss, researchers found a significant difference in the amount of pounds lost comparing participants who received hypnosis and those who did not receive hypnosis. The initial follow-up showed the average weight loss to be 6.00 pounds in the non-hypnosis group and 11.83 pounds in the hypnosis group. The last follow-up conducted with the studies showed that the non-hypnosis group lost an average of 6.03 pounds and the hypnosis group lost an average of 14.88 pounds. The analysis showed that the use of hypnotherapy greatly increased amount of weight lost over time. (Kirsch 1996)

These studies show us that hypnotherapy is a valid form of weight loss treatment with lasting, long-term effects. In only a few sessions, many patients find they can lose the weight and keep it off.

Sources Life Clinic Health Management Systems. Retrieved on July 6, 2009.

Kirsch, I. (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments: Another meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(3), 517-519.

Stradling, J., Roberts, D., Wilson, A., & Lovelock, F. (1998). Controlled trial of hypnotherapy for weight loss in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorder, 22(3), 278-281.