subject: Weight Reduction Miracle - Self-hypnosis Plus The Cabbage Soup Diet [print this page] Losing weight is often a challenging struggle; consequently, most overweight people are always looking for new ways to lose weight. The Cabbage Soup diet program is known to many dieters as a popular "fad diet" that offers a quick way to lose excess weight, but does it really work? The diet program is explained here, along with the keys to losing weight and keeping it off for good.
The Cabbage Soup diet requires, as the name suggests, consuming cabbage soup for seven days. During this time, dieters only consume low calorie cabbage soup and a few other foods for weight loss. The plan is not a lifestyle altering plan like some other well-known diets, and requires no long-term lifestyle changes beyond the week-long duration of the diet program.
There are several versions of the recipe for cabbage soup. Most contain seasonings, cabbage and other vegetables, such as mushrooms, celery, onions, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Some dieters like to add spicy flavorings to enhance the taste of the soup. Other people monitoring their sodium intake try to prepare a low-sodium recipe. Many recent versions of the diet incorporate healthy sources of protein to make the diet more satisfying.
Besides cabbage soup, there are highly specific guidelines for what other foods are allowed on each day of the diet. As a general guideline, dieters can eat cabbage soup every day, plus fruit on the first day, vegetables on day two, vegetables and fruit on day three, skim milk and bananas on day four, beef and tomatoes on day five, beef and vegetables on the sixth day, and vegetables, fruit juice, and brown rice on the final day. Those using the diet then revert to their normal dietary habits, hopefully now a few pounds lighter.
Is the Cabbage Soup diet actually effective for weight loss? Although no official scientific research has studied the diet conclusively, those using the diet plan report mixed success. For several people, the program resulted in weight loss (up to ten pounds, typically less), but only for a limited time, as the pounds gradually came back as the individual returned to their normal dietary habits. Some people experienced light-headedness, lack of focus, and weakness while on the Cabbage Soup diet. Other people felt no effects at all, experiencing no illness, but no weight loss either.
The Cabbage Soup diet plan is among several popular diets that people can use. Unfortunately, because this plan may not work, for many people it just adds to the difficulty of being overweight. A better method of losing weight does not use fad diets or short-term diet plans. It takes dedicated work and long-term health commitments to see permanent weight loss. For most dieters, this means eating healthy and getting plenty of exercise.
Unfortunately, many people cannot seem to keep up the healthy habits needed to lose weight. Several people cannot seem with their weight because of their strong cravings, uncontrollable appetites or dietary habits, or a lack of motivation. Hypnosis is effective for resolving these obstacles and providing the motivation necessary for losing weight naturally.
Among the reasons weight loss hypnosis is excellent as a weight loss aid is because weight loss hypnosis may be used for natural appetite suppression. Many overweight people have uncontrollable appetites because they experience "emotional eating" which makes them have an unconscious drive to overeat even when they aren't actually hungry. Hypnotherapy helps re-program the unconscious mind to stop the drive to eat too much, resulting in natural appetite control without drugs or pills.
Another way hypnotism works to help you get the weight off is by removing the anxious thoughts that give you the urge to overeat and sap your motivation to exercise. When you begin to have negative thoughts, hypnosis taps into your unconscious to automatically have positive thoughts instead, which causes you to become relaxed.
Your motivation for exercise can be dramatically enhanced through hypnosis therapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). First, you identify what the most important aspects of your life are. Then you use NLP techniques to lead you into feeling that the things that are most crucial to you will benefit if you exercise, or placed at risk if you fail to do so. This way, it becomes easy to stay motivated to exercise and stay in shape.
Everyone has the ability to learn hypnosis and NLP techniques from a good weight loss hypnosis CD program. The techniques in hypnosis CDs utilize the power of the unconscious to help dieters end their cravings. By ending cravings and urges, the appetite is suppressed or eliminated. Hypnotherapy also keep you strongly motivated to exercise to lose weight.
By reprogramming your unconscious thoughts, hypnosis therapy makes weight loss a natural process. It is an excellent tool to keep you inspired and naturally committed healthy habits. So before taking on a fad diet, consider a healthier approach to weight loss through exercise, eating right, staying positive, and using hypnosis to make it happen.
