Frequently Asked Questions
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Q. How can you help me to lose weight with hypnosis ? I thought it was just about exercise and portion control.

A. Hypnosis can help you to reduce your portion sizes and encourage the desire to exercise, but with hypnosis we deal with the root causes of why you are eating incorrectly in the first place. By addressing the root causes, healing them and instilling new behaviour patterns, you can experience permanent weight loss in a cravings free manner.

Q. I am a little skeptical and also concerned about losing control with hypnosis.

A. I invite you to research hypnosis and determine for yourself how safe and natural the process is; visit our links for a starting point. You are always in control and your subconscious mind will not take you anywhere you are not ready to go. Healing is done before you bring yourself out of hypnosis, so you return feeling relaxed and calm.

Q. What are your credentials for running a weight loss program?
As well as offering you the benefits of my own personal experience, I am a Nutrition & Wellness Specialist, certified by Can-Fit-Pro. Providing guidance from a physical, nutritional and holistic perspective. We can set goals, and work incrementally towards the goals that you seek. This program is designed to work alongside eating recommendations from Health Canada and sufficient exercise you enjoy, from the their Physical Activity Guide.

Q. How long does it take before I lose weight?

Everyone is different, everyone has different reasons why they have that extra weight and everyone heals those reasons at different rates. Once we have healed any root causes for your extra pounds, we can then move to the next phase of monthly check-ins - your motivation booster ! Monthly check-ins are not compulsory and may only take 30 minutes ($40) if it is purely a reinforcement session. I may be offering group weight loss reinforcement sessions in the future, please check back later in the year.

The Lifestye Change, and my Experience (Listen to Radio Ad)

In Mid-December 2005, I began my journey of "letting go," of over 50 lbs. In 7 months I had reduced my clothes size from a size 22 to a size 10 by using local store bought foods and healing the root causes behind my unhealthy eating patterns.

Now the fall of 2007, I am still a size 10 and I look better than I have ever looked before. My energy levels are great !. I honestly cannot envisage myself going back to my old eating patterns.

I am continuing to walk my talk, and I invite you to join me in becoming that slimmer you that is inside...

Using normal grocery store foods and hypnosis, you can foster behaviour change that leads to a healthy and balanced way of life and experience a natural slimness. By continuing to live within this healthy lifestyle, you can be assured that the weight will remain off. The diet plan is not a low fat diet, but it is a low sugar diet. It works with the glycemic index of foods, the speed at which your body converts the food into energy. Did you know that the sugars in beer actually converts to fats in your body faster than pure white sugar? Just by cutting out beer, you may achieve a significant reduction in body weight !

Introducing Hypnosis and Weight Reduction
Hypnosis can help you to achieve your weight loss goals in several effective ways:

1. To control any cravings naturally and automatically
2. To encourage a decrease in portion size as appropriate for you
3. To instill a healthy lifestyle that you have bought into
4. To deactivate current food triggers e.g. snacking in front of the TV
5. To travel into the future and see / feel yourself at your ideal weight
6. To travel backwards to determine and heal the reasons for your eating patterns

At Muskoka Hypnotherapy we also create weekly "Action Sheets" to enable us to follow your progress; these sheets include actions such as drinking up to 2 L water and taking time for enjoyable exercise.

Guided meditation journeys with the voice of Karen Eardley gently backed up by rain, a lapping lake and soothing original background music. More >>

Permanent Changes

Hypnosis can help you to conquer food cravings, satisfy your appetite with less food and encourage healthier choices. We use:

• Positive Phrases to instill your new behavior patterns.
• The benefits weight loss are reinforced and anchored into your body.
• See yourself in the future at your ideal, realistic weight.
• Root Causes are explored to see if there are any psychological reasons why your body is resisting losing weight.
• Post Hypnotic Triggers are created to assist you to trigger your suggestions. Great for those areas where you may usually experience difficulties e.g. Night-time snacks
• Healing of any root causes creates conditions for permanent change.

The "Diet" Plan = Healthy LIfestyle Choices

The diet plan is not a low fat diet or a high protein diet, it is a low sugar, more natural, way of eating for the rest of your life. It works with the glycemic index of foods, the speed at which your body converts the food into energy. Did you know that the sugar in beer converts to fats in your body faster than pure white sugar? Just by cutting out beer, you may achieve a significant reduction in body weight!

1. In the first two weeks of your lifestyle change, you restrict the foods you allow yourself, but you always have a huge range of interesting an nutritious foods to choose from.

2. The second phase of the plan reintroduces healthy items back into your eating patterns gradually, and this phase will continue until you have reached your desired, and realistic, weight.

Monitored Progress

We combine hypnotherapy and diet changes to assist you to automatically reduce your body weight, and we use Activity Sheets to assist you to stay on track and monitor your progress! Each week we set tasks or goals that will support you in your holistic healing process and assist you in moving you nearer to your goals. The activities are always ones you agree with, such as increasing water intake, and you simply circle your progress daily.

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What is Your Body Mass Index?

The Canadian Guidelines for Body Weight Classification in Adults uses the BMI as one of the methods of assessing health risk. The other is waist circumference, with those waists over 40" in men and 35" in women considered as excess abdominal fat. These are only a generic guide and are not intended as a substitute for guidance from your Medical Doctor (GP) Other factors such as lifestyle habits, fitness level, and presence or absence of other health risk problems also need to be considered.<more info from Health Canada>

It is recommended that your BMI is less than 25 for minimized health risk. BMI's over 30 have a high risk of health problems possibly including Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Coronary Heart Disease, Gallbladder Disease, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and certain Cancers: (Source Health Canada Web Site)