Weight Reduction Miracle - Self-hypnosis Plus The South Beach Diet
Following the South Beach diet plan is among the most widely used ways to lose weight today. It is based around diet and exercise changes that help you steadily lose weight. By avoiding "bad" fats and carbohydrates and having plenty of "good" ones, dieters can take weight off without feeling deprived or sacrificing their health.
There are three steps in the South Beach diet plan. During stage one, dieters avoid all carbohydrates except for vegetables. Although multiple foods are not allowed, dieters still have a wide choice of foods they can eat. Stage one is the strictest stage, but also the quickest since it only goes on for fourteen days. Dieters are expected to lose approximately 10 pounds during this stage.
In the second phase, dieters begin incorporating the previously banned carb-rich foods into their diet. Dieters can expect to lose 1 to 2 pounds per week while steadily increasing the volume of carbohydrates they eat. The second phase lasts until dieters arrive at their target weight.
The third phase is the maintenance stage. Dieters utilize their strategies from the second phase to keep their goal weight throughout the rest of their lives. If dieters start to regain weight, they can revert back to phase one of the diet.
It is likely that you've seen pre-prepared South Beach meals and snacks in the grocery store. These products are handy, but you do not need to spend money on them in order to follow the diet. You only need to commit to the various general guidelines for each stage of the plan.
During stage one of the diet, you can enjoy lean meats, such as turkey, chicken, and fish, eggs, nuts, most vegetables, and a small quantity of dairy. Fruits and fruit juices are avoided during this stage because of their sugar content. Also banned are all carbohydrates, fatty cuts of meat, alcohol, and some vegetables that are rather high in sugar content, such as beets. The goal of this stage is to ban "bad" carbohydrates from your diet and initiate the weight loss process.
During phase two, dieters slowly reintroduce fruit, whole grains, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters learn how to adjust their eating habits to keep a desirable weight. Once this is successfully completed, the diet transitions into the lifetime stage, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that helped them reach their goal weight.
The factor for success with the South Beach diet is dedication to eating healthy. Although that appears easy, this diet and most other diet plans fail because dieters give up before the plan can start to work. The struggles that most men and women have with losing weight often come from deeper issues such as a lack of impetus to lose weight, a habit of binge eating, or an uncontrollable appetite. The good thing is that all of these issues can be resolved with techniques that anyone can learn from a high quality hypnotherapy weight loss CD program.
To treat a lack of motivation, a technique from a technology called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will help give you a strong desire to stay on track with your weight loss program.
First, dieters pinpoint precisely what it is that is most valuable to them, as an individual. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are utilized to make the dieters feel that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. Another option is to make the dieter feel that if they do not lose weight, their most valued criteria will be in jeopardy.
Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the previous example, let us say that the dieter's most highly valued wish is that the dieter's kids are happy and safe. Using an NLP technique known as Submodalities, we can guide the dieter into thinking that if he/she is unable to lose weight, the kids will be condemned to follow the parent's lead and they will be fat and unhappy. This type of belief will provide a powerful desire and feeling to stick to a diet and lose weight.
Many NLP techniques can help to reduce or even completely remove the impulses and cravings that prompt one to overeat. This works very well to help dieters stay on the first and most difficult weeks of the South Beach diet. Furthermore, helps dieters commit to an exercise program, which will enhance the efficacy of any diet.
Stress is a problem that often drives people to eat too much or neglect their health, but stress-relief can be provided by both hypnosis and NLP practices. One such technique is known as the NLP Flash. With the Flash technique, having your unconscious mind use stressful thoughts as triggers for calming thoughts gets rid of the stress that causes the desire to eat excessively.
Uncontrollable appetites often cause men and women to pack on pounds. Countless people have apparently out-of-control eating habits because over the years, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat in certain situations. For example, many of us eat in front of the TV even though we aren't actually hungry. Fortunately, hypnosis and NLP possess practices that can quickly extinguish these conditioned responses. These practices create appetite suppression without the use of drugs.
By treating the root issues that keep people from losing weight, hypnosis and NLP has helped many dieters finally get fit and trim for life. When used with the South Beach weight loss plan, dieters can enjoy natural weight loss and triumph at reaching their fitness goals.
Alan B. Densky, CH has spent over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including weight loss CDs and hypnosis for weight loss DVD. Visit his hypnosis CDs website for Free hypnosis newsletters, videos, and downloads.
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