Causes Of Excess Weight Gain

There can be many reasons why we put on weight.

Certainly cultural and environmental factors can play their part. The modern lifestyle is often much less active than in even the recent past, and we’re trained into this from childhood.

Children

Few children these days are allowed to walk or cycle to school due to fears for their safety, and competitive sport has become increasingly marginalised. Even playing in the street has been replaced for many by a diet of TV and computer games.

Adults

For adults, the car can be king and, due to the proliferation of and ease of ordering from Internet sites, it’s no longer necessary even to make a weekly shopping expedition. Another concern is the quality of the food we eat. Much of what’s readily available is loaded with sugar, salt and fat, all of which can contribute to weight gain.

Nutrition

A further problem is that the nutritional value of our food has noticeably declined. The body needs a certain amount of protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and enzymes every day to be healthy, but we can end up unconsciously eating more bulk, just to meet our bodies basic needs.

Excess Food

The excess food we consume can’t easily be processed and discarded, so it can end up being stored, usually as fat (although excessive salt consumption can also lead to fluid retention).

Food Additives

Many of the food additives which are used can also have unwanted interactions with certain people’s body chemistry, once more leading to unwanted additional weight. Finally, there can be psychological reasons behind the excessive consumption.

Hunger and Thirst Signals

One of the simplest is that many people have no distinction between hunger and thirst and, instead of taking a drink to refresh themselves, they’ll eat something instead.

As they haven’t dealt with the real problem, they’ll have another urge soon after, snack again, and so on.

Unconscious Factors

On a deeper level, there can be unconscious factors which drive people to overeat - for example fears, emotions and connections accumulated over time.

In amongst these there will usually be one overriding element - what we call ‘the dynamite’ - which, once dealt with, allows them to resume a more normal relationship with food and eat only enough to support their weight loss and maintenance goals.

An Example

An example of ‘the dynamite’ is the phrase "I’m Daddy’s Big Girl". This client had ‘big’ and ‘love’ tangled up and couldn’t stop eating for fear of losing Daddy’s love. When this confusion was made conscious, she was able to separate the two and no longer felt compulsively driven to overeat.

Imposed Programming

Sometimes it can be necessary to undo some imposed programming like ‘finish everything on your plate’, or ‘don’t be wasteful’ - things that we may not even be aware of in our conscious minds.

Self Image

Some people may need help with an outdated self-image (no longer a ‘fat person’, just a naturally thin person who needs to lose a little weight), a boost to their self-belief (especially if they’ve been a yo-yo dieter in the past), or to establish a new series of habits which work better for them. Some people may require all of these things.

Unconscious Defences

Unconscious Defences If your reasons for overeating are relatively uncomplicated, your mind may not throw up many defences at all. However, when the unwanted behaviour is bound up with something very important, (as you can imagine being loved was very important to the lady mentioned above, especially when she was a little girl), the thought of anyone trying to change that can throw up many unconscious defences before the truth is revealed.

Attachment Of The Subsconscious Mind

The defences your mind uses will bear a direct relationship to the attachment your subconscious mind has to its old behaviour. The nature of a defence is that when we’re actually doing them we deny that they’re defences, and justify why our behaviour is appropriate.

Breaking The Attachment

These defences could show up as choosing to be distracted by outside noises while in hypnosis, lethargy, disappointment, negativity, even anger (at yourself, at someone else, or even at us as therapists).

It won’t have anything to do with whether or not you’re in hypnosis, or whether or not it worked. As long as you think of us as your guides through the process, trust us when we point out a defenso to you, and recognise this for what it is - just a defence, there’ll be no need to worry.

Sticking With The Programme

When you stick with the programme, your commitment and our skill will ensure that you get the result you want.

Your Commitment

To help you with this, (as it’s been proven time and again that people are much more committed to getting something they’ve already paid for), it’s our policy to ask for full payment before starting either of our Weight Loss Programmes.

Staying the Course.......

This helps to ensure that you’ll keep coming back while we uncover the driving factors for your unwanted behaviours and until your subconscious successfully modifies those behaviours, no matter what defences your mind throws up.

 

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