The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy warns that being fat is now a disease
Wallington, Surrey, UK (PRWEB UK) 6 July 2013 -- Even though a committee of the AMA's own experts thought it should not be classified as a disease, the association’s delegates still voted to support the change.
The report highlighted that if the UK did the same, over 20 million people would be classed as diseased at the stroke of the pen.
The need to lose weight has been a problem in the Western world that started to become a problem after the Second World War and has been increasing year on year.
The fact that the average size of people in the UK is growing points to the fact that the NHS does not have an effective way to helping people lose weight.
For Americans who went to bed last week feeling fine, they must be horrified to wake up only to discover that they have a disease.
Paul Howard, Institute Director for The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, said, "How can obesity be a disease? We all know that in most cases obesity is something that can be controlled and completely reversed by getting the person with the 'disease' to make some simple lifestyle changes. This is not the case with most diseases."
At the Surrey Institute, when people come for help to lose weight with hypnotherapy, they find that levels of motivation differ. Some clients just want to drop a few pounds, whereas others need to lose weight because it is having profound effects on their life and perhaps the long-term outlook is not good. Some people are overweight but still fit, others (because of their size) are physically unable to exercise and some just can’t be bothered.
The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy believe that the level of motivation can make the difference between success and failure.
Paul Howard explains "It is why so many people Yo-Yo diet, because they start a diet when their motivation is high and they lose weight. Then as time passes the motivation wanes and they start to be “naughty”, and their control of their diet goes out the window and they start to put on weight again, and generally put on more than they have lost."
The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy believe that motivation only really matters if traditional methods of weight loss are used, like dieting for example, when the dieter needs to be motivated to stay in control of what they eat, or more importantly, what they don’t eat.
But when clients lose weight with hypnotherapy, a different approach is used. It is different because what happens at the Surrey Institute with their hypnotherapy for weight loss programme is that it concentrates changing behaviours.
When behaviour is changed the responses become automatic (habitual) and therefore motivation is simply surplus to requirements. Motivation is needed at the beginning, just to get the new behaviours entrenched at a subconscious level. Once this is done most people find they can just go about their normal lives, making what appear to be natural and appropriate choices about food and drink.
The report goes on to explain how motivation to lose weight can be increased using hypnotherapy, so even if someone's motivation to lose weight is starting to wane, they can give that motivation a boost to stay successful and continue losing weight if they need to.
Paul Howard has been practising hypnotherapy at the Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy in Wallington, Surrey for over 11 years. He specialises in hypnotherapy for anxiety and psoriasis and is a Fellow and the Marketing Director for the National Council for Hypnotherapy.
Paul Howard, The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, http://www.sich.co.uk, 0208-669-6990, [email protected]
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