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Suppress Your Appetite with Hypnosis and Lose Weight for the Holidays

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I do feel for practitioners who deal with weight loss.  It can be quite tricky.  Many things can cause weight problems.  For years my overweight clients would tell me they were just hungry all the time.  They just couldn’t stop snacking or overeating at meals.  Some had trouble with the types of food they kept choosing.  Others, couldn’t limit themselves in the evenings or when out at restaurants.  

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I’m Co-Authoring a book!

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Several Hypnotists are getting together and writing what it is like to BE a hypnotist.  So few people think of hypnosis as a career and of those who do so many really need a role model for being successful.  Look for our book to first come out in e-book form.  I can’t wait to see it and read what all the other authors have written.  The title isn’t for sure yet, but it’s going to be something like “7 Successful Hypnotists Show You How”   I’ll announce more as I know.

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Own Your Own Business as a Hypnotist

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How would you like to have a brand new career at the fraction of the cost of college, help people, make great money and become financially independent even in this rotten economy?   Last year I made $80k.  This year if the numbers keep holding I’ll make over $100K.  People are looking outside the box for help.  Are you the one meant to help them? 

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How to Keep Weight off Once you Lose it

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Teaching Hypnosis Clients to Maintain Weight Loss
Part 1
 By: Celeste Hackett
 October 1,  2012 
 
Much has been taught and written with regards to how to use hypnosis for weight loss, but little has been written about how to help your clients maintain their ideal weight once it has been achieved. What good does it do your business when clients experience thrill upon thrill as they watch pounds and inches disappear if later they have to agonizingly watch the same weight creep back on again?   Most clients, by the time they reach your office, have experienced many times before the disturbing cycle of losing and regaining weight. Keep in mind they have come to you hoping for a different sort of experience, and if you want to give them something of real value that must mean permanent change after they are fitting into those size 7 jeans again. But is permanent weight loss even possible? I believe it is.
 
After years of battling with my own weight issue, and most times those battles meant using hypnosis, I finally lost an excess weight of 35 pounds. I am greatly relieved to say I have also managed to keep off the weight since February of 2010. That’s right; next February I’ll have successfully kept those pounds off for 3 years. Now that I am at this point in my weight journey, I feel more confident than ever that I can control my weight. In fact, I can weigh anything, within reason, that I want to anytime I want to. If I hadn’t experienced this myself, I wouldn’t have believed it was possible. The good news is that I am not the only one maintaining weight loss like this, so you can be sure this is not a fluke of nature, and if I and others can do it, so can your clients.
 
So just how is weight maintenance achieved? It seems it’s somewhat easier than we thought. The rules of weight maintenance are to 1) Clients must weigh themselves (in the nude) first thing in the morning, after they go to the bathroom, and 2) Clients must immediately cut way back on calories, that very day (and night), that they find they are any more than 2 pounds over their ideal weight, even if it’s just a tenth of a pound over. If your client cuts back enough, (such as fasting or semi-fasting for the day) and if her metabolism is working at optimum level, the weight will be totally off the next day after the fast (or cut back day).   
 
If your client finds it is very difficult to fast or semi-fast on far fewer calories for a full day, have her simply cut back to half of what she normally consumes for two or more days until the weight comes off. If she is someone who has a sluggish metabolism, she may need to fast or semi-fast for more than one day until the weight comes off. Some clients, instead of cutting way back on calories like this, or in addition to doing so, also find that increasing exercise for the day helps them get the weight off quicker and easier.
 
Don’t forget to teach your clients self-hypnosis and/or offer them a recording to make these lower calorie days easier to deal with. These “low cal” days are when your clients will really appreciate such tools which can help them boost their determination, re-inspire them with the benefits of keeping the weight off, and even suppress their appetite.
 
You may have heard that it isn’t good to weigh yourself every day. And proponents of not weighing often say that the reason you shouldn’t is because it can be discouraging when your weight fluctuates, which it can do daily, after you drink water, after you eat, after using certain medications, after you work out, when your bowels or bladder are full, or during your menstrual cycle etc. But for those of us who weigh daily, we have found that if you weigh the first thing in the morning before the meds, water, eating, working out, and after you go to the bathroom, most of the time the weight is, well, rather accurate. 
 
Also, if you tend to do a “fasting day” on a day when your body really was sensitive to something and was just holding water (and the like), the pay off will be that once your body rebalances you’ll have the excitement of seeing your weight go below your ideal weight by a pound or two which won’t cause a normal healthy person to starve, but only means nachos and ice cream for lunch that day are totally guilt-free. Now wouldn’t that be nice? I can tell you personally.  It is.
 
There was a very interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that supports weighing every day. The study was conducted at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital at Brown Medical School in Providence, RI. It consisted of 314 successful dieters split into a control group and 2 intervention groups. The outcome of the study showed stepping on a scale every day, and adjusting eating and exercise habits accordingly, can go a long way in helping dieters maintain weight loss. Dr. Rena R. Wing gave a statement to the press that “if you want to keep lost pounds off, daily weighing is critical.” But she also warned that, “”Stepping on a scale isn’t enough. You have to use that information to change your behavior, whether that means eating less or walking more. Paying attention to weight — and taking quick action if it creeps up — seems to be the secret to success,”
 
But did I actually say your clients should consider fasting? Yes, but please make sure they check with their doctor first especially if they have health problems such as diabetes, kidney disorders, or other serious conditions.  Not everyone is suited for an all out “water only” fast, but most people can do a partial fast throughout the day. One option for example would be drinking low cal beverages from the time your client wakes up until the early evening. For instance your client could consume one or two high quality protein drinks, plenty of water, coffee and tea, and/or maybe some broth-based soup throughout the day. In this example the fast would end in the early evening with light vegetable salad and/or an apple.
 
In apparent support of this theme there have been some studies that do show fasting can benefit us. As recently as May 17th of this year scientists published a paper in Cell Metabolism. The paper spoke of work done on laboratory mice at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies which found that regular eating times and extending the daily fasting period may override the adverse health effects of a high-fat diet and prevent obesity, diabetes and liver disease in mice. ”It’s a dogma that a high-fat diet leads to obesity and that we should eat frequently when we are awake,” says Satchidananda Panda, an associate professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and senior author of the paper. “Our findings, however, suggest that regular eating times and fasting for a significant number of hours a day might be beneficial to our health.”
 
In my next article, I’ll offer 8 different fasting options, including my personal favorite. I’ll also share some very special additional tips, tricks and techniques you can use to coach your client into permanent weight control. Ideas your clients will find very useful and I believe you’ll be able to use in your business to help take your work to a wonderful new level of expertise.
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Hypnotist was Right: German Billionaire Commits Suicide

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In my last blog I volunteered to work with the World’s billionaires for free.  I was afraid of something like this.  We seem to think that because someone has money that they have no worries or feelings.  Just today, before hearing of this I sent out a News Release about my offer.  Channel 8 is the only one looking at this as possibly newsworthy.  I’d like to get the word out. 

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TV Show “Monk” and Hypnosis

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My mother is madly in love with Monk so I am exceedingly happy to hear this news, because she’ll watch it and say hmmm, maybe that Celeste is on to something. Hey, I still want my mom’s approval and I am 46 years old, but if this TV show is like so many other of Hollywood’s takes on hypnosis, it’s bound to be inaccurate LOL!

The media is constantly showing hypnosis to be used in ways it can not be used, or showing it to be ineffective (showing hypnotists with lack of skill doing the work and the outcome being less than what it could and should be). Still, I love a great story too, and very much love that hypnosis is moving even more into the consciousness of our society.

I’ve never seen “Monk”, but from what I understand he has a variety of fears. Fears that haunt him and make him behave in ways, that on the show, seem funny. Do you know someone like this? I promise you, if in real life they are having these kinds of fears, it’s not funny for them. Clients suffer greatly from a variety of fears and often well-meaning family and friends will play the problem down, laugh it off or worse, just tell them to “get over it”.

The great thing about using hypnosis for overcoming (not just managing) fear, is how quickly clients get better. Just today I worked with a 20-something for fear of testing. She would freeze anytime she had to take an exam. Her fear went all the way back to her Mom and Dad fighting. She was amazingly better in just 2 sessions, but we did 5 to make it more likely to be permanent. I like to do deepest and most thorough work I can do.

Moms and dads fighting in front of the kids. Boy, that is a blog topic I’ll have to make sure I expand on one day. Family fights often are the beginning of many of my clients problems.

Fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of testing, fear of relationships, fear of dogs, the list goes on and on. If you have a fear, an anxiety, an apprehension think about hypnosis and talk it over with your mental health provider and/or a qualified hypnotist. You can overcome this problem usually in 4-6 sessions. And from what my clients tell me….It’s great to be free!

Now, what celebrity would you recommend getting some hypnosis? Brittney Spears? Tom Cruise? Angelina Jole? Seems like some of them just go round and round and never get over stuff. What a shame. Aren’t there any good hypnotists in Hollywood?

One day, maybe one of my clients will write a book and hypnosis will get portrayed as the amazing tool for healing it is. Until then….what channel is that Monk guy on anyway?

Celeste Hackett

Celeste Hackett Family First Hypnosis

About the Author
Celeste Hackett is a board-certifed hypnotist with decades of experience in the field. Her passion lies in helping people create real, sustainable change so they can live their lives free of unresolved, negative emotions and create a healthier way of living. She teaches hypnosis at a National level, writes for the Journal of Hypnotism, and uses advanced techniques to help you overcome stress and create a lasting sense of peace.
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