| Studies have shown that obesity is more often | | | | celebrant and a tonic. It's served at weddings and |
| the result of an attempt to satisfy an emotional | | | | wakes and encouraged by American mothers in a |
| hunger rather than a overzealous attempt to | | | | wide variety of non-nutritional settings. Is it any |
| satisfy a genuine nutritional need. Behaviors taught | | | | wonder then that a pint of ice cream is |
| during childhood that food is a salve for | | | | metaphorically used as a source of comfort for a |
| everything from anxiety to shame and distress | | | | broken heart and the term "stress eating" is more |
| can have devastating effects on adults as the | | | | commonplace in our vernacular than "proper |
| metabolism slows and the pressures of adult life | | | | nutrition"? |
| increase. What's more, this tendency can also | | | | As a person gains weight, the problem |
| have an accelerated effect as a person gains | | | | compounds as feelings of shame, loneliness and |
| weight and then turn to food as a way of | | | | self loathing begin to emerge. The subconscious, |
| soothing the shame and distress they feel by | | | | unaware that it is the non-nutritional eating that is |
| being overweight. | | | | causing the weight gain in the first place, responds |
| The reason 95% of people attempting a diet | | | | by encouraging the consumption of comfort |
| based weight loss program fail is because, | | | | foods as a way to soothe these negative |
| although popular diets uniformly instruct the user | | | | feelings, thereby triggering another round of |
| on portion control as well as food selection, they | | | | weight gain. The dieter finds themselves caught in |
| don't address this root cause of the weight gain. | | | | a downward spiral that is extremely difficult to |
| According to Margot Miles CHT, president of | | | | break without intervention at the psychological or |
| Success Hypnosis and developer of the popular | | | | subconscious level. |
| Hypnotize Your Body self-hypnosis weight loss | | | | For over 50 years, science has acknowledged |
| program, "Giving a person different foods to eat | | | | that hypnosis is a safe and effective method for |
| and suggesting portion control without addressing | | | | reprogramming behavior of the subconscious |
| the ingrained behavior behind a person's eating | | | | mind. Whether in conjunction with a healthy diet |
| habits is about as effective as cutting your hair in | | | | plan or alone, by focusing on reprogramming the |
| order to keep your hair from growing." | | | | subconscious, a person can often realize |
| The genesis of this problem lies in our culture | | | | permanent weight loss without an overabundance |
| where food is anything but a strict nutritional | | | | of will power and can accomplish it in a natural and |
| component of life. Food is traditionally used as a | | | | comfortable way. |