Friday, June 19, 2009

Staying low carb with weight loss self hypnosis

It tends to be really difficult to maintain your motivation to stay low carb over a long period of time, especially when everyone is always offering you sweet drinks, desserts, sandwiches, and the like. Ultimately, that is what this blog is really all about, is just keeping up that motivation to remain low carb for the long haul because it is the healthiest approach.

It turns out that there is an extra tool available to low carbers that can make this daunting task a little easier. It is weight loss self hypnosis, and I bring it up because I have only just found out that it is much more reputable than I ever imagined it to be. But actually it is just a way of embedding your intentions more deeply in your mind so that it takes less effort to follow through.

It turns out that this technique is also highly compatible with the low carb approach. You can strengthen your resolve by making carby foods seem less appealing, even getting to a point where they no longer show up on your internal "food radar." They just don't seem like food at all, so you don't want to eat them. That sounds great!

However, it also looks like, while self-hypnosis is something that you do on your own, it is best to see a medical or psychological professional who can help you experience hypnosis the first few times, and help you develop your own personalized program of self hypnosis for weight loss so that you can get the most out of it and have it fit just right with your own weight loss or weight maintenance needs.

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