Hypno?

Hello all, my sincere apologies for not sticking to my word and writing about my ongoing exploits. To be honest, I haven't felt inspired - mainly because I had begun down the slippery slope of beginning to give up....yet again!

Enter stage left, my mom, with an interesting email. My mom, like me, has been in a battle with her own weight (since she was about 30), she has probably tried every diet known to man, and has had varying successes, but she never gives up, and is always on the look out for the next breakthrough in the world of fat, and she came across an article on the hypnoband.

Now, I won't try and explain it all in detail, but suffice to say a therapist hypnotises you to believe that you have had a gastric band fitted, and therefore as your subconscious tends to control these bad eating habits, it to believes that you can now only eat small amounts, and should help you to consume less.

If you want to read more on it, there's plenty of info on the internet.

As you know I had already had several CBT sessions, which I felt had only scratched the surface of my eating problems , but had helped me to deal with a couple of issues that I didn't even really know were issues, small insignificant things that are just part of daily life, but that were being blown up into something larger by my obsessive thinking, and being fed by an assortment of nice cakes etc.

Anyway, the hypnoband looked interesting, and after some research (done by my mom) we located a lady - lets call her Hypno lady, who offers not only hypnoband, but, general hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and CBT.

I went to see her last week, and talked for a couple of hours, while she looked into my background. I told her all about the CBT that I have already had, and she has given me diet sheets to start with.

My next session is on Tuesday, and I am having regression hypnotherapy, not the sort where maybe I was Florence Nightingale, or Queen Victoria in a previous life - but just regression to a point where, and I quote ...'your subconscious thinks it would be helpful to go back to'...

I have to say I am a little apprehensive about this - I have no idea where my pesky subconscious will take me to, but hopefully after this session, Hypno Lady will know what direction to take with me, whether that be continuing with CBT, trying hypnotherapy or getting the hypnoband 'fitted' but whatever that may be - I'm back on board, and trying again!

xx