A: First of all, most diets today fail because they:
1) ignore the essential psychological requirements of weight loss (such as motivation and commitment)
2) promote an eating and exercise plan that is so radically different than a person's usual lifestyle that it soon becomes very difficult to continue with.
Both of these limitations are strongly corrected with The Weight Loss Mindset™, making this program a unique and highly effective approach to losing weight. First, the 8 highly effective hypnosis sessions will help get your mind and your emotions in the right place to eat less and exercise more consistently over time to lose and keep the weight off.
Second, the two research-based booklets included with this program will help you create and maintain your own personalized diet and exercise program (which is then much easier to maintain). The first, An Intelligent Approach to Losing Weight©, reviews 30 of the most effective research-based approaches to losing weight. The second, Emotional Eating Busters©, reviews 30 healthier ways to minimize and control difficult emotions besides eating.
A: Honestly, given my schedule as a full time psychotherapist, it would be impractical (not to mention obtrusive) for me to solicit statistics from all of my customers to collect rates. However, I have received a good deal of strong positive feedback from my customers who choose to write in to me, giving me a nice profile of those who do tend to succeed.
These customers that successfully lost and kept off their weight with this program regularly:
1) practice select hypnosis sessions regularly for the needs at the time,
2) use portions of An Intelligent Approach to Losing Weight© to refine and continue with their own personalized diet and exercise program/lifestyle,
3) use select tools and resources from Emotional Eating Busters© to control emotional eating as needed.
The Weight Loss Mindset™ will give you the results you're looking for when you consistently practice, refine, and incorporate the tools from this program until you get the results you desire (and beyond). Remember, successful, healthy weight loss is a permanent, gradual blend of motivation, commitment, and positive diet and exercise lifestyle changes. This program will help you achieve all of this and more.
A: The process of clinical hypnosis is as follows: a subject closes their eyes, relaxes, and gets into a focused mental state (known as a trance) through the suggestions of a hypnotherapist. Then, the subject is given a number of suggestions for positive change which become easier to accept (now that conscious resistance is lowered).
This hypnosis process works well for most people (assuming the hypnotherapist is properly trained and experienced) . It's important to know that "being strong willed" doesn't make it harder to be hypnotized. Neither does having a certain personality or having most learning disorders. Modern clinical hypnosis (like with this program) simply requires being able to relax and focus on what is being said for a stretch of time. If you can do those two things, then you can be hypnotized and benefit from hypnosis. This skill of being able to relax and focus is natural and doable for most people, becoming easier and stronger with time and practice.
A:That depends on your unique needs and goals, as well as how consistently and attentively you listen. The better quality and quantity the practice = the better the result.
Given these factors, here is an approach and timetable that generally leads to success: Start by listening to one session a day (or more) in order for the first week until you try them all. Then, continue listening once a day to whichever session best addresses your particular weight loss needs at the time. This may take several additional weeks or longer of daily listening.
After noticing significant improvement with your motivation and commitment to eat better and exercise, spread out the sessions to every few days and then weeks. Finally, keep listening periodically as needed to refresh and maintain your weight loss mindset and lifestyle, such as once a month.
A:Your weight loss success depends on your commitment and dedication to the three components of this program:
1) how consistently and focused you practice the hypnosis sessions of The Weight Loss Mindset™,
2) your dedication to your personalized research-based diet and exercise program (from "An Intelligent Approach to Weight Loss©"),
3) your commitment to the exercises to better control and lessen emotional eating (from "Emotional Eating Busters©").
Losing and keeping weight off requires a committed lifestyle change. This new lifestyle should be seen as a permanent marathon to pace yourself on, rather than a sprint to quickly stop when the weight is lost. Quick weight loss almost always ends up with a quick weight regain. You'll have to go about it the right way to get the permanent results you are looking for.
Therefore, when you apply yourself to your program in a consistent manner with practicality and common sense, you can plan on losing about 1-2 pounds a week with periodic plateaus until you reach your goal. (Of course, depending upon a person's particular circumstances, individual weight loss rates will vary).
A: Every person has a unique situation that has prevented them from losing weight to this point. Therefore, I created a wide variety of different, complimentary hypnosis sessions so that some combination of them can help everyone get and stay in "the weight loss mindset".
In other words, too many different, complimentary hypnosis sessions promoting weight loss is much better than too few. I want my program to help everyone using it to actually lose and keep off all the weight they wish.
A: All things being equal, live sessions are usually better than standardized prerecorded sessions. However, that being said, this program strives to overcome this limitation. The fact that this program offers 8 professionally recorded hypnosis sessions from a licensed Doctor of Psychology, plus the fact that these CDs allow for unlimited practice and suggestion reinforcement make this program far more effective than most live hypnosis sessions can be..
Plus, this entire 8-session program costs about the same as 1 live hypnosis session-about $150-which generally doesn't include a professional CD recording of the session to reinforce the suggestions at home. (Also, see the answer the question 6 above).
A:Unfortunately, most other hypnosis CDs selling today have a number of significant limitations that make them far less effective than The Weight Loss Mindset™. These other hypnosis CDs tend to be:
a) recorded by amateur hypnotherapists without any legitimate graduate-level therapy degree, license, or hypnosis training whatsoever
b) are read from impersonal scripts
c) are too specific to apply to the needs of most listeners.
Conversely, my hypnosis recordings in this program are superior to most others because I:
a) have a legitimate doctorate, license, and private practice in clinical psychology,
b) receive regular therapist-level clinical hypnosis seminar trainings from the world famous Dr. Michael Yapko,
c) record my sessions from personally prepared, free-flowing outlines (not scripts), and
d) offer a much higher number of total complimentary sessions (8) than most other hypnosis programs (1-2).
A: Yes. In fact, I've devoted 3 of the 8 hypnosis sessions on the themes of losing the urge to eat junk food and/or replacing junk food with healthier, balanced food choices. Listening to these 3 sessions in particular ("eating less", "eating better", and "controlling emotional eating") will help you desire junk foods less and healthier foods more.
A: Yes. In fact, I've also devoted 3 of the 8 hypnosis sessions to the theme of exercising more and leading a more physically active lifestyle. Listening to these 3 sessions in particular ("enjoying exercise", "living an active lifestyle", and "getting the perfect body") will help you desire and engage in more exercise, as well as live a more active lifestyle in general.
"I hear Dr. Gilchrist's voice when I am about to make bad choices. Great help, better than a conscience. I couldn't have lost the weight without the Mindset CDs. Thanks!"
Robert Cannon Ogden, Utah
