Understanding your relationship with food can be the key to healthy weight management. If you have already found that cycles of dieting aren’t a long-term solution, a therapeutic and holistic approach with hypnosis to lose weight in Harley Street at The Conway Practice will help you explore the subconscious triggers related to your eating habits.* Why does dieting often fail? It’s common to overeat after restrictive eating, as both physical and emotional pressures make maintaining a reduced consumption of food difficult. As a result, when the time on a diet comes to an end, you may well experience stronger cravings and increased hunger, making overeating more likely. This behaviour is often referred to as the ’restriction-binge cycle’ where periods of strict control are followed by episodes of over-indulgence.
During hypnotherapy for healthy weight management, Jonathan Conway will identify the emotional issues that contribute to compulsive or comfort eating.* If weight-loss goals haven’t been achieved by constantly monitoring calories and food intake, this can create stress, frustration, or feelings of guilt and failure. Food can then become a source of emotional relief, rather than a response to physical hunger.
Social factors can also play a part in negative eating habits. During a diet, you may avoid socialising with friends and family when you would normally enjoy your favourite foods. Once the diet ends, overeating is often used as a reward for getting through a period of self-constraint.
Therapeutic intervention with hypnotherapy will enable you to manage these subconscious prompts with new coping mechanisms to reduce the stress response, and to recognise fullness cues and the difference between emotional and physical hunger.* Relaxation and distraction techniques introduced during hypnotherapy will reduce anxiety by nurturing a state of deep calm and focused attention.* Guided imagery and positive affirmations will help to lower stress levels and physical tension, improving self-esteem and giving you back control.
Hypnotherapy is available at The Conway Practice in Harley Street, or online with Jonathan Conway. Call today on 07956 855 027 or alternatively use the Contact Form
