Talk me out of this, maybe

[singinjeannie]

Has anyone ever used hypnosis for weight loss? There's a guy coming to my town offering a seminar type thingee where you pay $40 and get hypnotised for weight loss.

Think this would work? Any opinions or experience out there???

If I go, my 13 year old son can go with me for free.

-Jean

[kashi]

I've been wanting to try that too! Still haven't, though.

[jmjj215]

Um, I would not. Although I haven't had any experience with this type of hypnosis (or any type for that matter), I think the key to weight loss is behavior change. The keys, IMHO:

1) Desire
2) Consistency
3) Progression

Just pay yourself $1 per day for 40 days - every day you exercise and stick to a normal, healthy diet (no crash diets here) of healthy food, give yourself $1. At the end of 40 days you'll have formed a habit (takes 21 according to whoever started that myth).

That's my two cents!

I agree with Jesse, although I'd love to hear that hypnosis works. lol. I am going through the weight battle right now, and although I have successfully been able to lose weight in the past, I for some reason am so unmotivated and keep failing myself. Yet i am SO obsessed about my budget and saving money. Go figure

[mom-from-missouri]

i also agree with Jesse, but some co-workers of mine did it for smoking-and, it kind of worked. Well, it worked for the 2 girls who kept going back once a week for about a year. They have not smoked in over 2 years now. The others who went with them thought the lady was just after money and quit going, and are smoking again. I think you just have to watch who you go to. The one in our town that seems to have a good rep is a nurse and also works at the hospital. The dr's let her use it at the hospital because she has a good rep for controlling pain with no drugs (esp for laboring mothers). The other one in town has a bad rep-(she also reads cards and is a physic, so that doesn't help her rep). I think that besides using the hypnosis, she also puts in her 2 cents of medical advise also. I notice she is now starting to work with children who have behavioral issues, according to her advertisments.

[DivaJen]

Using Jesse's idea, you could pay yourself $2 a day and pick one new habit to incorporate. Maybe that would be exercising each day, or avoiding sodas/sweets - whatever feels right to you in terms of getting on a healthier path. At the end of 21 days, you would presumably be well on your way to establishing a new, healthier habit, and you'd have $42 saved instead of spent. Then you could choose a new small habit to work on for the next 21 days, while keeping up with the first one.

I'm cynical when it comes to quick fixes for things like losing weight. If it were as easy as plunking down $40 we wouldn't have a weight problem in this country. But that's just my humble opinion.

[singinjeannie]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking -- probably a waste. They'll probably get you there and then try to get you to come every week, etc. Everyone knows I don't have the money for that!

Anyhoot, I was hoping someone had done it for weight loss and had some success. Sure would be nice to get someone else to motivate me in the right direction. I simply have no good reason to lose weight right now, so I stay at the same place (about 15-20 lbs over my ideal). My DH doesn't complain (he could stand to lose about 40), I feel healthy enough, I'm very active, but don't do regular exercise, I just eat too darned much junk food.

Wish I could get a hypnotist to convice me I hate sweets. Boy would I be thin.....

[jmjj215]

I'm cynical when it comes to quick fixes for things like losing weight. If it were as easy as plunking down $40 we wouldn't have a weight problem in this country. But that's just my humble opinion.

I think the reason we do have a weight problem, generally speaking, is because it's so easy to "plunk" right down in front of the TV, and "plunk" right into our car instead of walking, and "plunk" $1 into a soda machine for some sugar...

[terry1156]

Originally Posted by singinjeannie

Has anyone ever used hypnosis for weight loss? There's a guy coming to my town offering a seminar type thingee where you pay $40 and get hypnotised for weight loss.

Think this would work? Any opinions or experience out there???

If I go, my 13 year old son can go with me for free.

-Jean

While it may help, it won't be a one time thing where you'll never have to go again. It means you would likely have to commit to going a large number of times at $40 a pop, not just the once.

[PrincessPerky]

Actually the habit of 'plunking' at the TV and such, while easy now was still formed at some point long(ish) term.

DD certainly doesn't do it (she is 1) and niether do most toddlers, unless mom or dad encourages it. Then wonder around the room, play with toys, find ways to expirament with the buttons... anything but sitting down to watch! But they can be trained to sit, DS now is, and we are not TV people!

I think noticing that you didn't get into those bad habits overnight can help you take the time to replace them with good ones, one month at a time. I started putting some of my plan together online, but essentially you have to be willing to go ahead and make a change for yourself on your own, which, well, most people don't. They want to plunk down some loot and get someone else to do it.

I would too! but it doesn't work. No magic pill got me from my teen habits (size 10) to my current ones(non pregnant size 6), and no magic pill will finish the job, but after BBY3 is born, I will get back into my size 6s in less than a year, and I will be healthy, and full of energy along the way, and not deprived of everything good.

diet

link, but like I said it is not done and does rely on YOUR motivation.

[Bluezy]

What about acupuncture? I've used acupuncture for allergies and it works fabulously.

Best to ya hun!

Bluezy

[marglo]

yeah, I agree with the rest of you...I'm real doubtful of something like that...I suspect I'd just lose my money. I feel you have to change your lifestyle...develope good disciplined habits and stick with them. I'd like to think there's an easier way though!