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Are
you always dieting? For the overweight among us, this may sound an all-too
familiar predicament: successfully losing weight by dieting for a few days only
to be side-tracked by cravings and old eating habits like stress eating.
Many
of us may already know what not to eat to avoid weight gain, but still find it
hard to resist temptations. What usually goes wrong? Why is it hard to lose
weight and keep it off? When it comes to eating, the
expression “the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak” becomes so true. But isn’t
willpower enough? And does the mind have something to do with losing weight and
keeping it off?
According
to Ms. Barbara Young, a Life Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist, our ability
to succeed in losing weight and keeping the weight off long term requires not
only the knowledge of proper nutrition but also having the right relationship
with and mindset about food.
“A
part of our mind control emotions associated with cravings and urges to eat even
when we are not physically hungry. This behavior is usually programmed in our
subconscious minds so we get pulled to old eating patterns easily.
Unfortunately, when it comes to eating habits, emotions are more dominant than
logic that is why sometimes willpower or knowledge of proper nutrition is not
enough to stop us from sabotaging our own weight loss journey,” explained Ms.
Young, who will be headlining the Mind Your Body Workshop launched by the
Cohen’s Lifestyle Center as support program for its clients.
How eating habits are
formed
Often,
Ms. Young explains, people try to lose weight with very little understanding of
how they came to gain why they gained the flab in the first place, or how they usually
behave in relation to food.
“We
learn our eating habits from the time that we were born. When we were still
young babies, we were fed with milk when we cry even if the reason for crying
was not due to hunger,” she shared.
Growing
up, Ms. Young adds, we got rewarded with food for behaving well, or were always
told to finish the food on the table. These behaviors then become ‘programmed
habits’ that we carry through our adult life subconsciously, such as emotional
eating and mindless eating.
“Emotional
eating is the habit of eating to feed our emotions and to feel good, when we
are not physically hungry,” she explained. Mindless eating, on the other hand,
is the habit of eating quickly before the brain picks up the signal that ‘we’ve
had enough.’
Hypnotherapy and
weight loss
Key
to winning the battle against the bulge, is addressing the roots of one’s
obesity, especially one’s eating habits, at both the conscious and subconscious
levels. One way to accomplish this is through hypnotherapy, a scientifically
verified and effective technique that can promote accelerated change in
thoughts, feelings or behavior.
Self-hypnosis,
a self-induced hypnosis, as taught at the Mind Your Body Workshop, will
complement the Cohen’s Lifestyle Program, a rapid weight loss and wellness
solution through nutrition based on a person’s unique blood profile.
The
workshop will help individuals whose weight loss progress or weight maintenance
is getting sabotaged by cravings, stress and emotional eating by teaching them
how to practice self-hypnosis. In addition, they will learn how to distinguish
emotional from physical hunger.
The
Cohen’s Lifestyle Centre is committed to helping Filipinos not just lose weight
but keep it off by adapting a sustainable healthy lifestyle. At the workshop, Ms. Young explains, “we
teach our clients how to create their own weight loss mental script to reprogram
their old thoughts, feelings and eating behaviors to address their personal
situation.”
The
workshops are now regularly conducted at the Manila centre for the Luzon-based
clients, and at the Cebu centre for the Visayas- and Mindanao-based clients.
To
learn more about the Cohen’s Lifestyle Program, visit www.cohenlifestyle.com.ph.
2 comments
These are perfect for people who sees diet as not eating anything. I actually don't have a problem with weight as I have a fast metabolism. I don't gain much weight, yet I'm not malnourished. :) My parents do eat healthy and they passed that on to us. It's sometimes okay to eat oily foods as long as we do something to flush it afterwards. :) Besides, temptation is harder to resist if it piles up on us
ReplyDeletelife becomes boring if you don't enjoy the food that you eat, and when you say diet it means the right amount and proper intake of food, though, some mistakenly understood it as something to stay away from food!....with all the mouth watering recipes and tempting presentation, one would really find it as a big guilt not to indulge,....i think one of the key to stay abreast to one's goal is discipline and the will to make it happen....this program would really mean a lot to those who really need this, it'll serve as an encouragement and guide to make their everyday living better without the feeling of being left out......
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