New Year Revisited

The weather here in Leatherhead has been very cold and snowy.  Many activities have been cancelled and schools closed. This is just the type of unusual event that can throw us of track with our resolutions.  

Whether we plan to get fit or lose weight, even stop smoking can be derailed by unexpected events often outside of our control.  If we are stranded at the train station on our way home from work or our journey on the motorway takes three times longer than planned, the pie, pasty or chocolate bar is more tempting than usual.  

The visit to the gym is cancelled because of the snow or our daily walk is cut short because the paths and pavements are so icy.  It is very easy at this point to give up. Maybe your weight loss has stopped or even crept back up a pound or two. The motivation to exercise can be harder to kick-start after an enforced break.

Here at Leatherhead hypnotherapy I tell my clients to see that these events are not a failure in their new lifestyle or plan but a chance to kick start the process again.  

Using hypnosis we can reprogram the subconscious to see a set back not as something that has ruined everything so that we have now failed but an opportunity to remind ourselves of our long term goals and how important being fit and healthy is to us.

Weight loss in particular can be a series of pit falls.  No sooner have we eaten all of the Christmas chocolate than along comes Valentine’s Day, followed by Mothering Sunday quickly followed by the chocolate festival that is Easter.  However much we tell our families not to buy us chocolate and sweets some of them still arrive, accompanied by such goodies as Pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, Simnel cake. The list is endless.  

If we are going to lose weight and keep it off then we have to learn to deal with these pitfalls.  One piece of cake, a chocolate or a piece of Easter egg is not going to cause us to put all the weight back on that we have lost.  Eat it and enjoy it then give the rest away. Share it with friends, family and work colleagues but enjoy a small indulgence yourself.  Denying yourself any treats will turn you into a martyr and eventually you will break out and over indulge. Then you will decide that you are hopeless and give up all together.

I don’t tell my clients here at Leatherhead hypnotherapy that they can eat cake and chocolate every day, after all a treat is not a treat if we have it every day, but once in a while take the cake or chocolate sit down in peace and quiet and savour the flavour.  You will find it easier to carry on eating healthily, and get back into the routine of doing your favourite exercise when the cold and the snow have gone.

Contact me to see how hypnotherapy can help you.