Why Should I Use Nlp To Lose Weight Instead Of Dieting?

When you are worried about your weight, the first instinct is to go on a diet. “Easy” you think, “I’ll just start eating healthily, cut out all the bad food and I’ll be thin within a month, right?”. Well possibly not....what people forget is that things are not always that black and white, and when other things in your life start to go wrong, it is easy to revert to the thought process of “oh well, it doesn’t matter”.
While diets look at WHAT you eat, WHEN you eat it and HOW MUCH of it you consume, NLP takes a different approach to helping you to lose weight – it looks at WHY you eat, your thought processes related to eating and the habits you have picked up over the years.

The goal of NLP is to re-programme your brain to change the way you think about food. Food is seen as a comfort blanket by many people, and this can lead to weight gain. This could easily be down to other factors, however as the weight starts to become an issue and the food is eaten as comfort. These thought patterns are repeated over and over and this leads to a very destructive cycle which it can be difficult to change.

NLP training practitioners help you to break this cycle by looking at the root cause of the cravings in the first place, and why the comfort is required. It is done by making you ask why exactly you feel the need to eat, and then dealing with that side of your life rather than just eating to mask it.

By: John H Jones

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