Hypnotherapy

SparkyV
SparkyV Posts: 4
in Health and Weight Loss
Am interested in your feedback if you've tried hypnotherapy. Am considering it as a way of beating emotional eating.

Thanks

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  • jorowling
    jorowling Posts: 54 Member
    I purchased a hypnotherapy CD a few months ago...but for reasons quite unknown to me, I started my weightloss journey without even opening it. I have been on MFP for 8 weeks or so and the cd is still in its wrapper! Good luck to anyone who has used this tool and successfully lost weight. Good luck to you too. :)
  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    Am interested in your feedback if you've tried hypnotherapy. Am considering it as a way of beating emotional eating.

    Thanks

    Honest-speaking here. The money you pay (or if your insurance actually pays which too many dont for very good reasons), you could meet with a behavioral specialist who can do the appropriate therapeutic series of sessions to help you identify the behavioral eating, work on how to overcome obstacles and to finally get a grip on the unknown. I personally find hypnotherapy is just one person's way of getting richer while you get poorer.
  • WritingMyLife
    WritingMyLife Posts: 57 Member
    Well, I am currently using a hypnotherapy CD. I have been trying to lose weight, again and again, for about twenty-five years. (I'm 37.) Like another poster, I ordered it and started MFP again before I even got it. I'm doing well. It's hard to say whether it's helping or not. I've had less cravings than I can remember before when dieting the memory is faulty. My father used hypnotherapy to quit smoking years ago, it lasted about three years for him. I've done cognitive therapy for several years at one point and have read a ton of books on the topic of weight loss as well as related books that are useful. I consider the CD one more tool in my arsenal. It cost me twenty dollars on Amazon and was highly rated. Message me if you'd like to know about some of the books that I've considered the most useful. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.
  • SparkyV
    SparkyV Posts: 4
    Hi, thanks all for your thoughts.

    True, cramernh. Crazy to just line someone's pockets when really getting to the bottom of the issue would be a better investment. Would help sort out other areas of life too. I will look further into the behavioural / cognitive therapy.

    All power to you in your personal journeys.

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