Toni Mackenzie and Rosemary Hartley can help you change your life. For more information on how they work in their own individual ways, click on their photos.
Toni and Rosemary are highly experienced, warm and caring hypnotherapists, who can help you take control of your eating habits and your weight by working with you as the unique individual you are. This will usually involve Weight Loss Hypnotherapy to access your subconscious mind and put in positive suggestions of you being in control, and EFT and NLP to address and change any underlying issues and learned negative habits and behaviours. For some people the more extreme method of Gastric Band Hypnotherapy has proven to be very effective.
Eating disorders, such as compulsive or binge eating, 'yo-yo' dieting, anorexia, and bulimia are affecting an increasing number of males and females of all ages. Many people are obsessed with food and weight and indulge in regular dieting, fasting, purging, over-exercising, and the use of slimming pills, diuretics and laxatives.
These practices usually produce at best, short term weight loss, but they do not provide a long term answer to the eating disorders, as the underlying problems are not being addressed.
Unlike animals, human beings eat for many reasons which often have nothing to do with the body's need for nourishment. We often eat just for pleasure, out of habit, 'comfort eat' because we're lonely, miserable or bored, and use food as a reward, to celebrate, and to commiserate. There are often deeper underlying reasons for holding on to excess weight, such as low self-esteem, or a desire to 'hide' behind excess weight.
Before you can fully take control of your eating habits, you need to become consciously aware of why, when, what, and how much you are eating, and identify whether you are feeling real physical hunger or emotional hunger.
Once you are aware of why you over-eat, you can begin to deal with any unresolved emotional issues you may have. EFT can help you let go of these issues and Hypnotherapy and NLP can re-programme your subconscious mind and create new positive thoughts, feelings, actions and habits.
GMTV's Lorraine Kelly and Dr. Hilary Jones talk to a Headteacher who successfully lost seven stone after Virtual Gastric Band Hypnotherapy
Gastric Band Hypnotherapy is not for everyone and is not a quick fix, nor a 'magic wand'. Before having the virtual band fitted, it is important that you deal with any emotional issues which have lead to you over-eating in the past, and begun to take control of your eating habits, eating consciously, mindfully, and in smaller portions.
For this weight loss method to work, you will be required with the help of hypnotherapy, to allow your subconscious mind to imagine your stomach is the size of a golf ball, so that you are only able to eat extremely small portions of food before feeling that you are full.
Gastric band surgery is designed for those with a Body Mass Indicator (BMI) over 25. A BMI between 18 and 25 is regarded as 'normal', between 25 and 30 is classed as 'overweight' and a BMI between 30 and 40 is in the 'obese' range. If you have a BMI over 40 you are classed as 'morbidly obese'.
Obesity can lead to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes Type II, stroke, cancer, joint problems such as osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, and can even affect life expectancy.
If you have a BMI of over 25 and feel that gastric band surgery could help you to lose weight, the Hypno-Band™ is a safe, risk free and inexpensive alternative to actual surgery.
Check your BMI and Body Fat by entering your height and weight in the calculators below:
How the Hypno-Band™ Weight Loss System Works
This system is normally carried out over three hypnotherapy sessions, preceded by an assessment session and then there is a follow up session six weeks after the virtual band has been fitted.
Please note that if there are psychological or emotional issues which need to be addressed before going ahead with the virtual gastric band surgery session, or if you have not changed your eating habits and already started to lose weight before the 'pre-op' hypnotherapy session, extra session/s will be required before your 'surgery' can be carried out, and these additional sessions will be charged for at the hourly rate. (See below for costs)
Session 1: You will be weighed and measured by your therapist and an assessment will be carried out to determine any underlying issues, negative habits, and limiting beliefs, as it is important to personalise the weight loss programme for each individual client. CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and (Emotional Freedom Technique) are likely to be used to help you begin to change your thoughts, feelings, and eating habits.
Session 2: Your first hypnosis session will take you on a relaxing hypnotic journey to help you begin to release any negative emotions and limiting beliefs, then create positive imagery and suggestions to help you commence your weight loss. You will be given handouts including a food diary, healthy eating advice, exercise tips, and a recording to listen to each day over the following week. (Sessions 1 and 2 are usually carried out over two consecutive hours during the first meeting.)
Session 3: One week later your food diary entries will be discussed and you will again be weighed and measured by your therapist. Provided you have already changed your eating habits and lost weight and/or inches, you will be ready to have your second hypnotherapy session to prepare you for the procedure of fitting the virtual gastric band. You will be required to listen to the recording from the previous week, four times over the following week.
Session 4: The next week, your virtual gastric band is fitted whilst you once again relax into a hypnotic trance. You will be given a recording to listen to each day over the following week and a copy of the Hypno-Band™ post-op diet, which is adapted from the BOSPA (British Obesity Surgery Patients Association) and contains six golden eating plan rules.
Session 5: Approximately six weeks after the fitting of your virtual gastric band there will be a follow up session to check if the band needs to be tightened or loosened, positive suggestions are reinforced during a further session of hypnotherapy, and you are given another recording to listen to over the following few months, to help keep you 'on track' with your new way of eating healthily, and staying in control.
Cost of the Gastric-Band Procedure
Actual Gastric Band Surgery costs around £7000 to £8500 and involves taking time off work for the operation and recovery time and there can be complications associated with the surgery. It does not address your psychological or emotional reasons for over-eating or help you change your relationship with food.
Hypno-Band Surgery costs £325 for the standard five sessions, each lasting approximately one hour. If additional sessions are necessary to deal with any deeper emotional or psychological issues affecting your eating habits, or if you have not changed your eating habits or lost any weight/inches, before returning for your second hypnotherapy session, your 'pre-op' hypnotherapy session will need to be postponed.
The successful outcome of the Hypno-Band Weight Loss system requires that you have dealt with any such issues, with the help of your therapist, and begun to take control of your eating habits, before having your 'surgery' hypnotherapy session. If this should be the case, any extra sessions will be charged for at the rate of £65 per hour.
Below is a video animation of how a real gastric band operation is carried out:
EFT (Tapping) for Weight Loss - 'Acupuncture Without Needles'
There are important emotional and anxiety factors that propel people toward overeating. A new approach, calledEFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)has been discovered to help take control of all types of eating disorders. EFT is a self-help procedure which combines fingertip tapping of key acupuncture points with focused thought.
This simple procedure has helped thousands to quell the cravings that cause them to eat when they are not actually hungry.
EFT Founder Gary Craig states "...people are amazed when their out-of-control cravings disappear after a minute of tapping with EFT. It has nothing to do with will power. It's all a matter of energy." The energy Craig refers to is qi or chi, which flows through the body along paths called meridians, mapped thousands of years ago by Chinese physicians. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, disruptions of qi can trigger overeating, unhealthy food choices, and physical inactivity.
EFT stimulates these meridians so that the disruptions subside. The result is a lessening of the anxiety states in many people and, accordingly, a lowered need to tranquilize those states by overeating.
Hundreds of reports and case studies from EFT practitioners and top health care professionals, testify to the procedure's effectiveness.
If you are ready to commit to taking control of your eating habits, contact Toni Mackenzie or Rosemary Hartley, to help you to identify your reasons for not managing to do so in the past.
Using Hypnotherapy, EFT, NLP andpossibly Hypno-Band, you can begin to turn your attention away from the negative aspects of losing weight, and focus on the many positives, as these powerful techniques help you to change your destructive patterns of eating behaviour and consequently change your life.
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