subject: Kill Cravings And Lose Weight Now! Try The Mediterranean Diet And Self-hypnosis [print this page] If you want the body of a Greek god or goddess, you don't have to hurl thunderbolts or battle one-eyed monsters - simply eating like the ancient idols can help you get a body that members of the opposite gender will worship.
The Mediterranean way of eating, which is a diet that includes a great deal of fresh vegetables and fruits, fish, olive oil, whole grains and red wine, can help you arrive at the perfect body. The Mediterranean weight loss diet has also been linked to a healthier heart and a longer life span. Red meat, fatty dairy products and foods with refined sugar are rarely consumed, if ever.
Centuries after the powerful gods shook things up, the Mediterranean style of eating still makes great sense as a way of life because you get full on large amounts of high-fiber, low fat foods that leave you feeling sated for much longer. The vegetables and fruits eaten as part of the Mediterranean diet are naturally low in calories, and are rich in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids, nutrients your body needs to create new and healthy cells.
The Mediterranean diet lets you have a higher fat intake than most weight loss diets, but it is healthy fat that comes from olive oil and nuts, which are rich in beneficial monounsaturated fats, and low in unhealthy saturated fats, like those found in cheese, ice-cream or beef.
Just keep in mind that for higher calorie foods, like the whole grains, olive oil and red wine, you still need to focus on overall calorie intake and serving sizes. The secret to any successful weight loss meal plan is taking in fewer calories while still feeling satisfied.
When you feel satisfied, it makes it a little easier to conquer cravings that many people who are trying to follow a weight loss diet experience. What good is a diet if you cannot stick to it because your appetite is out of control? Before you begin any weight loss meal plan, you'll need to find a safe, effective technique to eliminate your urges, cravings and appetite to overeat. Lose weight hypnosis is a wonderful way to help you curb your cravings.
The typical person experiences cravings and an urge to eat for two major reasons:
A. When you pair eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and an impulse to eat.
B. When you feel stress, you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.
Let's look at Part "A" first. Over 70% of the population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it: If you feel an urge to eat when watching television, it's because your mind recorded the video image of food in your hand, and then associated that image with the image of the TV. From that point, every time you watch TV, your unconscious flashes the image of the food in your hand, and you get an urge.
You've actually "programmed" your unconscious to make you feel cravings and urges as a "conditioned response" to watching TV. The same thing occurs when you eat in your car or while on the telephone, etc.
Weight loss hypnosis will eliminate the conditioned responses quickly by reprogramming your unconscious mind to have it trigger unconscious images of you watching the TV without eating, and that will eliminate the urge to eat. It will also give you an urge to reject food in that scenario!
But what about Part "B"? Our sensations of anxiousness are created by our thoughts. If you think upsetting thoughts, you feel stressed and upset. If you think happy thoughts, you feel calm and relaxed.
If you have an upsetting thought seated at your computer, your mind can associate that thought with the computer. Thereafter, when you are sitting at your computer, you have a conditioned response; your mind will flash to that upsetting thought and you will feel anxiety. Self hypnosis techniques can help you conquer these patterns almost immediately.
The techniques used in the most effective self-hypnosis programs are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works by using a person's existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion.
Video weight loss hypnosis can program your subconscious to use stressful thoughts as a trigger for relaxing thoughts. So if you begin to think of something that is distressing, your unconscious will automatically change to a relaxing thought in a millisecond. You become relaxed, so there are no sensations of anxiety to cause your cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it is much easier to lose weight and keep it off forever.
Staying on a sensible weight loss diet plan, like the Mediterranean style, along with self hypnosis means you can finally overcome your cravings to achieve the body of a Greek god or goddess.
