GASTRIC BAND Hypnosis

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.  ~Author Unknown

Sheila Granger's Virtual Gastric Band Hypnosis program is a safe, effective , highly successful alternative to bariatric surgery.  The VGB program makes eating enjoyable, satisfying and weight loss easy to accomplish.   Over eating becomes habit and hypnosis is effective in eliminating  harmful habits.  When is comes to weight control, the issues are vast, family eating patterns,  eating as a substitution for something missing in one's life, eating for comfort and in some situations a form of protection.  Sheila and Marc's recently published workbook outlines the 8 rules and gives the reader the tools to keep track of food choices.    Hypnosis gives the client the mind set to reach their goals.  An article in Elle magazine describes one type of hypnotic band program.

http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Weight-Loss-Surgery

If you wish to keep as well as possible....

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891


Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D  has written the book, The Placebo Response.  Dr. Brody  has gathered research (academic and private) that reflects interesting connections between the way we think and process information and how we physically respond.   For example in  studies using  placebo capsules; blue, green and purple pills seemed to work especially well as sedatives and sleeping pills, while red, yellow and orange pills, seem to work better as stimulants.  (p.65) Now mind you, none of the capsules contained medication yet the patients got results!!
This is the expectancy theory.  Your perception and expectation in a situation can affect your response physically, emotionally  and chemically.  Positive expectations lead to positive results.  In an other study done at John Hopkins University of Psychiatry,  the placebo produced the same results as the medication,  when the physician dispensing the pill, had no preconceived view on the effectiveness of either pill, while the patients who received their pills from a physician with very strong feeling about a particular medication, reacted better with that pill.  So even the way other people around you think, can effect you.  


So positive expectations should be reinforced daily,  whether through affirmations, positive self talk, and/or setting reasonable goals and  accomplishing them.  Think positive and spend your time with positive people.

Food GETTING TO THE ISSUE

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution.  ~Author Unknown

Why do people overeat?
If you tend to eat more then your body needs for good health and wellbeing, you may wonder why you can't just stop the mindless eating patterns.

There are many reasons someone has poor control when it comes to food.

Sometimes it's chemical:

We know that eating carbohydrates prompts the body into producing serotonin  in short bursts.  Serotonin is a feel good chemical (neurotransmitters) naturally produced in the body and  is the same chemical found in prescribed antidepressants.  You eat ..serotonin levels increase... you feel good.... the serotonin levels drop....you feel sluggish, let down....you eat some more...you feel good.... and so the cycle goes..

So food can make you feel better mentally and  act as an anti-depressant. 
Who doesn't want to feel happy, content and wonderful? 

Sometimes it is emotional:

Feeling sad, depressed, lonely may trigger you to eat more,

although this brings us back to carbs and serotonin. 

If food actually makes me happy physically and mentally why stop eating?  

You create a habitual pattern ingrained in your subconsciousness mind

Hypnosis can work on two levels to address this issue.  First by identifying the triggers (emotional and/or physical) and through forgiveness for self and others releasing the triggers that prompt the over eating and repatterning the neuro-pathways that make eating mindless and habitual.  On a second level the process of hypnosis has shown to have a positive effect on blood pressure, and serotonin and dopemine levels in the body.

Open Exchange

Please read my article in Open Exchange http://www.openexchange.org/features/JAS11/calabro.html