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In my 12 years experience with weight loss clients, psychological factors are more significant than physiological factors in weight loss. Most of these psychological factors are well known and easily treatable by any competent NLP/EFT/hypnotherapist. Here are a few other things that are of interest to both potential clients and therapists.
The body has its own hormone for promoting fat reduction and muscle gain: growth hormone - the same one they give to short children. Unfortunately, the pituitary gland produces less and less growth hormone as we get older. This makes it much more difficult for those over 30 to stay slim, especially through exercise.
It is possible to promote growth hormone release through arginine and ornithine. I use niacin which also helps burn calories by raising the temperature of the body amonst other benefits.
Iodine is a critical element in converting fat to energy. And caffeine prevents fat formation so feel free to enjoy coffee after meals & especially after consumption of sugar.
Sugar can cause several problems. More than the calorific content itself, high blood sugar causes reactive hypoglycemia (an additional urge to eat), blocks growth hormone via insulin and probably has something to do with age-onset diabetes.
Other foods eaten on their own can cause high blood sugar. Potatoes, carrots, white bread/pasta all have a high Glycemic Index. Fructose tastes exactly the same as standard sugar yet has a very low GI. Acesulfame K and other artificial sweeteners have far fewer health problems associated with them than excessive sugar consumption.
If you're overweight, you're never going to _need_ to eat. What you describe
as hunger is not hunger.
The main physiological symptoms that overweight people commonly think is
hunger are:
1. Low blood sugar levels usually having crashed from very high blood sugar
levels aka reactive hypoglycemia.
2. Slight indigestion (normal).
3. A drop in circulation to the digestive system (normal after digesting
some food).
There are also usually psychosomatic feelings inside the abdomen which get mistaken for hunger.
If you take one group of people who find fitting into society's perception of "ideal" weight very easy, and take another group who find that very difficult...
... you can find similarities in each group that are not present in the other group. From my research, the differences between these groups are not what you might expect:
The "easy" group does NOT eat less than the "difficult"
group.
The "easy" group does NOT exercise more than the "difficult"
group.
The "easy" group does NOT eat healthier food than the "difficult"
group.
Because these usual suspects make not an ounce of difference, many people assume that the difference is genetically predetermined and therefore we should put up with it. Especially as a few people are making a LOT of money off our struggles.
Yet, we can find out the differences that might make the difference to someone who wants to find being their ideal weight a piece of cake!
Some of these differences might be more of a consequence than a cause. For example, the "easy" group is obviously going to be happier than the "difficult" group. However, this may be a cause if the person eats to make themselves feel better.
But enough of the explanation.
Here are the other differences I've found:
1. The "easy" group believes they can control their weight or
that they don't need to, whereas the "difficult" group believes
that getting to their ideal weight will be difficult.
2. The "easy" group believes that no matter what they eat or how
much exercise they do, their weight will not very much from their "normal"
level. The "difficult" group believes that if they eat too much
or don't do enough exercise then their weight will increase. They also believe
that certain foods are "fattening".
3. The "difficult" group dislikes feeling hungry and usually eat
long before that happens whereas the "easy" group doesn't mind
that much or doesn't notice.
4. The more the "difficult" group eats in one sitting, the more
they enjoy it (up to a point when they usually feel guilty). For the "easy"
group, the anticipation and the first bite usually provide the greatest
enjoyment.
To test whether beliefs made that much difference, one of my weight-loss
clients ate healthily, exercised intensively three times a week, drank plenty
of water and only wanted to lose weight for health benefits.
I did everything I could think of to help her lose weight (well-formed outcome,
desire to eat/drink more healthily etc), but reinforced her beliefs about
her weight being outside of her control and kept well away from her beliefs
about her inability to lose weight.
When she came back next week, her weight hadn't changed at all. I then helped her change her belief (simultaneously using sleight of mouth and covert submodality shifts) to being able to lose weight and ended the session after 10 minutes.
Next session, she had lost 4 pounds in a week and continued to lose weight until she hit her ideal weight with minimal further intervention on my part.
Now, when I say you have to believe, I mean really believe. The main part of the brain involved is the hypothalamus, which is part of the limbic or mammalian region. You need deep expectations of moving to your ideal body weight, not through just a brief bit of focussing, but expecting both to burn off any food you eat and to lose weight the rest of the day.
When you learn to dislike eating foods that are bad for you, what might
you dislike about them? Amplify those dislikes and imagine eating those foods now.