An old school friend of mine has just died from Bowel Cancer.  This article in the Huffington Post gives you all the information you need about changing your diet.

As for being embarrassed about seeing your doctor, it certainly won’t be a big deal for him or her.  They have seen it all before.  What they would not enjoy is sending you off to the hospital when they see clear symptoms of the desease and it’s probably too late!

I’m astonished at how few people eat breakfast.  By that I mean breakfast cereal before you leave the house (who cares what time of the morning it is).  A high fibre cereal helps your digestion and gets your metabolism started.  Oh, and I believe there are vegetarians who eat no vegetables.  Funny (peculiar) old world.

In the Horizon program “The truth about fat” taught us a lot about weight loss.  The thought processes of a lady who had undergone Gastric By-pass surgery had changed dramatically.  Her reactions to high calorie fat-building foods were those of a slim person.  She had lost a lot of weight after the operation, but her mind was ahead of her body.  In her mind she was already that slim person she wanted to be.

So how could the mind of a fat person be changed to that of a thin person without surgery?  The solution was right in front of me.  One of my weight loss clients wasn’t doing too well.  He was really struggling to keep his food intake down before the Hypno-band operation.  So we went to work to change his whole attitude to food and get him to think thin and not be attracted to high calorie fat-building foods, just like the lady in the Horizon program.

I carefully designed our next session focussing on how he felt about himself (not too good)  and how proud of himself he would feel when he had lost weight and acquired the slim boddy shape he wanted so badly.

Initial feedback has been very positive.  He’s not thinking about food much at all.  This is a big change for him.  He has no cravings for fat-building, unhealthy food and has started to lose some weight.  So he now thinks slim and is becoming slimmer…..

Hypno-band clients in Potters Bar are achieving sustained weight loss.  Now Horizon viewers can figure out why!

So, in last week’s Horizon we learnt that the subconscious mind is far, far more powerful than the conscious mind.  This week we learnt that a Gastric By-Pass operation changed an obese person’s brain activity and removed cravings for high calorie fat-making food.  It changed the person’s attitude to food to that of a “normal” thin person.

In hypnosis, the therapist makes powerful suggestions to the client’s subconscious mind.  This has the same effect as the Gastric By-Pass procedure seen in this week’s Horizon.  The therapists suggestions turn-off the client’s cravings for high calorie, fat-making food and create a desire for healthy, low calorie food.  The client’s behaviour has been switched to “normal”, without surgery and the risk involved.

A Hypno-band weight-loss client of mine, who understands the power of the subconscious mind, told me last week that he was sure that he couldn’t lose weight using his conscious mind alone. “It’s just not strong enough on its own, so I need you to unleash the power of my subconscious mind for me.  The combination of the two should be strong enough to solve the problem!”

He hadn’t seen last week’s Horizon on BBC2, but he knew what they know anyhow. Leading neuroscientists believe that our subconscious mind is far far more significant than our conscious mind.  Take a look at this clip from Horizon  and you will get some idea of the power of your subconscious mind.

So the Hypno-band program brings the subconscious mind into play.  It uses the power of the subconscious  to boost the client’s mental resources to help them change their relationship with food and their eating behaviour.  The odds are now in their favour.  They can look forward to achieving sustained weight loss.

One of my Hypno-band weight loss clients in Potters Bar had a bad week.  He actually put on several pounds.  Both he and I were very disappointed.  To be fair, he had been unwell for a whole week, but had continued to go to work.

We discussed the way forward and we did a short re-enforcement Hypno-band session. He agreed that he would look very carefully at what he ate and when he ate and would take more ecercise.  He also promised to listen to the “homework” CD I had given him several times in the next week.

Well, the result has been a spectacular weight loss of Nine Pounds in one week!

So can we really expect the weight loss journey to progress smoothly with uniform weekly weight loss?  In a word NO.  There will be set-backs and disappointments. Both the client and I must stay calm, think the situation through clearly and get back on track.