Hypnosis for Weight Management
Maintaining a healthy weight has become more challenging over the past few years, and the awareness of the importance and need for it is growing. In the U.S. alone, more than 30% of adults are overweight and more than 40% of them are obese. So we want to explore,
How can hypnosis influence weight management and our relationship with food?
Hypnosis helps in changing behaviors, so we’ll look into the particular behaviors that need to be influenced to aid in weight management.
The most common way to measure and interpret weight refers to a person's mass per height (also called the Body Mass Index or BMI). Over the past few years, the prevalence of being overweight has increased as a result of several factors such as greater caloric intake, bigger food and beverage portion sizes, and decreased physical activity.
Other reasons for the general difficulty in weight management are not necessarily food related. We have less physically demanding jobs thanks to technological progress, and we spend more time commuting using transportation than walking or biking. Our lifestyles have become much more sedentary than those of our ancestors and even of our parents.
All these factors are related to behaviors that we could change with the help of hypnosis.
The effectiveness of hypnosis in changing our behaviors works with the brain and body. The process is analogous to taking medicine in capsule form. Hypnosis is like a capsule, it allows the delivery of content –hypnotic suggestions– to address behaviors that impact weight management to help your brain to better facilitate a change for the better.
Then the “substance” inside the metaphorical capsule is the hypnotic suggestion, the content that helps your brain drive the change. Dr. Spiegel, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Reveri’s cofounder, offers these suggestions in each self-hypnosis session in Reveri.
Can hypnosis help with weight management?
Now that we understand how the brain facilitates change with hypnosis, we can explore how it helps weight management.
A recent study demonstrated that hypnosis assists with weight management by increasing food awareness, limiting emotional eating, reducing food cravings, and improving self-acceptance of body image. Hypnosis can also be used to increase behaviors that support weight management, such as eating more slowly, sticking to a diet plan, and increasing physical exercise.
Hypnosis can help you develop a healthy relationship with food and your body.
Learn all about how Reveri approaches hypnosis for healthy eating on our website.
Self-Hypnosis for Healthy Eating
There are multiple ways self-hypnosis can lead to healthy eating.
Reveri's Eat Well exercise is designed to help people treat their bodies well via their food intake. This can lead to healthier habits regarding what one eats, how much one eats, or a combination of the two.
Adam is a shining example of an Eat Well success story. He lost 33 pounds in six months using Reveri, and he began exercising regularly with all his newfound energy from eating healthier. Now, he's the fastest guy in his running group!
To Summarize
Hypnosis can help you change behaviors that interfere with managing your weight, and improve your relationship with your body and food.
Evidence suggests that routine use of hypnosis for weight management leads to greater weight loss. It is very effective in supporting weight reduction and maintenance and can improve weight outcomes when added to other psychological treatments for weight management.
Given the effectiveness, safety, and ease of use of hypnosis, and in light of growing difficulties in managing weight, hypnosis for weight management and reduction is a powerful option! We recommend you give it a try.
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Many Reveri members experience the benefits of self-hypnosis after a single 10-minute session.
