Hypnotherapy

Have you tried every diet without success? Hypnotherapy can help you to change your relationship with food permanently.

My name is Judi Butler, I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and for many years I have been helping people to lose weight by changing their relationship with food.

In recent months it seems to me that everyone who needs to lose weight is turning to GLP-1 receptor agonists known to most people as weight loss injections.

I feel, however, that unless people change their relationship with food, they are going to be unable to sustain that weight loss.

A recent study in the British Medical Journal has stated that ‘50% of people are estimated to regain weight after discontinuing treatment’ and also that ‘up to 39% of the weight loss with a GLP-1 drug is from lean mass (skeletal muscle) equivalent to around 20 years of age-related muscle loss’.  

The injections work by suppressing hunger but I find that most people gain weight initially not by eating when they are hungry but by eating when they are not hungry – in other words eating for emotional reasons.

We all tend to eat for different reasons, most commonly, comfort or boredom and yet if we listened to our body and only ate when we were hungry then not only would we lose weight but also we would be able to obtain more pleasure from our food.

I am currently treating some clients who are on the injections who simultaneously want to change their relationship with food. Interestingly, I am finding that people who are on the injections are not losing weight any faster than my clients who are not using them

So, my advice quite simply is that if you wish to use the injections, please also concentrate of changing your relationship with food in order to eliminate comfort eating

The key to long term weight loss is to listen to your body and only eat in a response to hunger.

Hypnotherapy is able to permanently change your relationship with food so that you can enjoy a healthy lifestyle and reach your ideal weight.

What happens during your first visit?

During your first visit I will ask you questions about your diet and lifestyle. I will use this meeting to assess the benefits of hypnotherapy to you as an individual. I will then discuss a proposed plan of treatment and will arrange for you to attend a further appointment.

Prior to your next appointment, I will have prepared a hypnosis script, particularly for you based on the information I have obtained at the initial meeting.

What is hypnotherapy?

The term hypnosis is derived from the Greek word Hypnos meaning ‘sleep’ and the state of hypnosis is very similar to the feeling you have just before you fall asleep at night.

During a hypnotherapy session, I will ask you to make yourself comfortable on a beauty couch in a private room. I will then gently talk to you until you reach a state of deep relaxation. When you are fully relaxed I will implant the ideas into your mind that are required in order to bring about the necessary change in your eating habits.
You will be fully aware and in control throughout the session but you will find that in this altered state of consciousness, you are particularly responsive to my ideas and suggestions.

What can Hypnotherapy help with?

• Lose weight
• Stop smoking
• Sports performance
• Confidence
• Phobias
• Relaxation
• Pain control
• Anxiety