Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Might Help You Succeed with Weight Loss

Often times, we try our absolute hardest to lose weight, attempting to follow different diet plans and workout regimens, but always coming up short of our goal.

Sometimes it’s because we skip a few days of our workouts and then end up stopping it all together, and sometimes it’s because we started to cheat on our diets.

However, while some might portray your shortcomings as being your fault due to a lack of willpower, recent studies suggest that your weight loss issues might be stemming from how your brain is wired.

Researchers have been able to identify key parts of the brain that control things like self-control and motivation, both being major factors in your success in weight loss.

They were able to identify these sections using an MRI, which scans your brain and can detect activity.

By having people work out and observe motivational videos while hooked up to an MRI, they could soundly deduce the parts of the brain related to physical exercise and weight loss.

Another important find in this study showed the purpose and effects of two major hormones found in those sections of the brain: ghrelin and leptin.

They were found to have influenced people to be more likely to eat more whenever they started to drop pounds.

This could be linked to an evolutionary response that would keep our body weights in check automatically, ensuring we always had enough energy to keep up with strenuous tasks.

The results of this study have not only helped scientists identify which portions of the brain contribute to a lack of weight loss, but also helped point out some good solutions.

Namely, cognitive behavioral therapy was shown to have a great amount of promise considering the findings of the research.

Cognitive behavioral therapy involves working through the problems you might be experiencing that might have influenced your excessive eating habits in an attempt to rewire your brain.

A lot of people are what’s known as stress eaters, meaning they eat excessively to cope with anything in their lives that’s causing them stress.

This usually involves eating a lot of comfort food, which can lead to rapid weight gain.

Cognitive behavioral therapy can also help you lose weight by increasing your self-control, something that many people struggle with.

By making you more likely to control your eating habits, you’ll be less likely to snack or cheat on your meals.

Hypnosis Offers Hope to Those Trying to Shed Pounds

Weight loss is often a lot more complex than it seems. On the surface, you’d think that just working out a little more often would get you in better shape. After that you might start trying to incorporate a diet as well, which comes with its own challenges of finding out which diet is right for you.

Then you start to learn that there are all these little tips and tricks - small things that you have to do in order to meet your weight loss goals.

While all of that is important, there’s an aspect of weight loss that’s often overlooked: the psychology of losing weight.

If you’re not mentally invested in your plan to lose weight, you’re going to fall apart somewhere along the line.

It might be that you don’t feel like working out one day and you fall off track from there, or it could be that you chose to have a cheat day in your diet and gave in to your old eating habits.

Either way, you need to be mentally prepared to overcome temptations and obstacles in your weight loss plan. One of the best solutions that some people have found is hypnotherapy, or simply hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy involves having a professional sew thoughts into your subconscious mind, so that instead of having to actively think about wanting to do something, it’s always somewhat on your mind.

By using hypnotherapy to plant thoughts of your dedication to weight loss, you’ll find yourself a lot more motivated to stick with your plans.

This technique has been found to be especially useful in people who are struggling to get over humps in their weight loss progress.

By having these thoughts firmly set into your subconscious, you won’t give up motivation and won’t have to go out of your way to motivate yourself.

Almost anyone who starts a plan will go through cycles of losing weight and then plateauing for awhile, but that’s something that you can mentally overcome without giving up.

No matter which diet or workout routine you choose to help you get in shape, the most important factor is whether or not you’ll adhere to it.

You could be following the top program in weight loss and still come up short of your goals if you don’t think you’re strong enough to follow through, but with the right mental fortitude, you’ll be able to reach your goal much faster.

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How Will Life Change for You Once You Lose Weight?

You might be someone who has a desire to lose weight, but you haven’t quite managed to do that yet. Maybe you’ve struggled in one particular area or several when it comes to shedding pounds.

What might help you is to imagine how your life will change once you do lose the weight. The person that you are now with the weight struggles that you have now will change as you start to lose and again when you’ve reached your goal weight.

The important thing is that you do get started and you do picture what your life is going to look like then.

You might be someone how who struggles just to get up off the sofa. You can’t even consider climbing up a flight of stairs.

But through making healthier choices with your food, moving more and the support of others, you can find the willpower to change. You can go from sitting on the sofa to walking - from walking to jogging, from jogging to running.

You can have adventures with your new weight that your old weight held you back from being able to do. You’ll be able to visit amusement parks and walk around all day. You’ll be able to compete in sporting events or walking or running for a good cause.

You’ll be able to go on hikes up steep trails or climb mountains. The changes that you make don’t have to be ones where you’re eating weird foods or starving yourself. You simply make wiser decisions when it comes to what you put into your body.

Instead of having heavy breads and calorie laden gravies or sauces, you switch to lite bread and make your gravies without all the heavy creams and butter. But that doesn’t mean that you must give up all your favorites and have meals that are lacking taste, either.

You’ll just make easy changes. You can eat the foods that you like just by changing the focus from the ones that fill you up for longer periods and are better for you from the ones that don’t leave you satisfied.

When you get the weight off, you’ll be able to do things you never thought possible. This might be something like joining a swim competition or taking up surfing. You’ll be able to do the things that you want to do as well as try out new adventures.

You won’t feel like you’re struggling just to keep up with other people. Plus you’ll gain confidence and boost your self-esteem. Take a moment to imagine that you’re not limited in any way by your weight.

Then take the steps to make that picture in your mind a reality. Today is your day to begin a life without limits.

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