Would you like to feel slimmer... more attractive... healthier?

Supported by hypnosis and coaching in habit reversal techniques, Food & Your Mood helps you regain control of your waistline and your life.

Food & Your Mood
is a structured 8 session programme designed to help you increase awareness and take control of the eating habits that have made you gain weight.

This isn’t primarily a “diet” programme - although we will look at successful diet strategies - it is a way of helping you understand your relationship with food so that you can eat when you are hungry and get on with the rest of your life.

Using “evidence-based” techniques, the programme will support you as you discover what, why, when and how you eat. Replace bad habits with new, healthier ones, and build your self-esteem while your waistline shrinks. Cognitive Hypnotherapy is recommended by TherapyAdvisor.com as the most effective way of losing weight and changing your eating patterns. CBT offers proven strategies for you to change unhelpful behaviour and ways of thinking. The power of hypnotherapy has been widely recognized in achieving relaxation and stress-reduction, and stopping unwanted habits. When you are deeply relaxed your mind is receptive to suggestions, capable of enhanced problem-solving and impulse control. These techniques work well in groups where you can also make friends to support you as you change your life.From July 2008, an 8 session group programme combining proven CBT techniques with hypnosis to reduce stress and control appetite, will be starting in Temple Cloud, and eventually throughout the region from Bristol and Bath to Wells and Shepton Mallet.Contact Frances for more information, or to come for an introductory personal consultation about your weight, health, and feelings about food....What have you got to lose but weight?

WHAT IS INVOLVED?

An initial 60 minute personal consultation

Eight 90 minute groups, spread over 12 weeks, covering:
- Self-esteem & body image
- Awareness of your eating patterns
- Changing your attitude to food
- Strategies that work for you
- Developing your support network
- Setting realistic goals
- “Mindless eating” & mood
- Cravings, temptations & eating out
- Saying “no” - to food and people!
- Self-esteem & body image
- Developing your support network
“Homework” between sessions to keep the momentum going

Each session will include approximately 60 minutes of group discussion and thought-provoking tasks in pairs, followed by 30 minutes of hypnotherapy.

The hypnotherapy will help you to become more relaxed and less prone to stress-related "mindess eating", and will use a range of different suggestions to change your eating patterns, build your confidence, and help you maintain motivation.

Three hypnotherapy CDs will be provided for personal use between sessions, and self-hypnosis may be taught if the group feels it would be useful. Each group will have different needs and attitudes, so the programme elements form a basis that will be tailored to suit individual requirements.

The course will be accompanied by notes, handouts and worksheets to keep you on track.

Each group will have no more than 14 participants to ensure a supportive and confidential atmosphere.

A 4 session weight maintenance course will be available for those who have reached their target weight, to sustain momentum and reinforce positive new habits. Thereafter, monthly support groups can be arranged if requested.

The programme has been designed to meet National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) “best practice” guidelines, and the recommendations of TherapyAdvisor.

WHEN AND WHERE?

A new programme will be run approximately every three months, depending upon demand.

Groups will be starting in:

AUGUST 2008
SEPTEMBER 2008
JANUARY 2009
APRIL 2009

Contact me for information about exact starting dates...

Groups will be held at:
Oxford House, Temple Cloud, BS39 5BW - Next door to Cameley Surgery

However if you live within 20 miles of Bristol or Wells, groups can be arranged in your local area if there is sufficient interest and a suitable venue can be found.

WHAT WILL IT COST?

Initial one hour personal consultation and assessment to discuss your life, health and relationship with food: £30
Weight loss programme: eight 90 minute sessions over 12 weeks: £120 for the course
Follow-on Weight maintenance programme: four 90 minute sessions over 8 weeks: £60.

Do you want to be slimmer, more attractive and more confident in yourself by 2009?

Contact me now - by phone or email - to arrange your personal consultation and start changing your eating patterns today.

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Cognitive Hypnotherapy for weight loss?

Cognitive hypnotherapy is an effective combination of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with techniques from hypnosis.

CBT provides proven strategies for you to change unhelpful behaviour and ways of thinking.

Hypnotherapy offers one of the most successful methods of relaxation and stress-reduction. When you are deeply relaxed your mind is more receptive to accepting suggestions, learning and applying strategies for problem-solving.

Studies have shown that “weight loss with hypnosis added to treatment was approximately double that of CBT alone” and that people who have had hypnosis maintain weight loss for longer.

CBT + hypnosis is recommended as the best treatment for obesity by the US evidence-based medical site www.TherapyAdvisor.com

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Why diets alone don't work...

People gain weight for a wide range of physical and emotional reasons. Often it begins simply as over-eating for comfort when they feel stressed, tired, upset or anxious. But soon ‘mindless eating’ has become a habit that it’s hard to stop.

Diets make you focus on food - whether you are counting calories or cutting out fat or carbs. The more you think about food the harder it is to resist eating it...

And if you ignore the underlying stress or upset the problem remains.

Food & Your Mood helps you understand the reasons for emotional eating and put a stop to bad habits using relaxation, distraction and increased self-esteem. We focus on you - not food - and work to find strategies that are right for your life and circumstances. Changing your attitude rather than your calorie intake is the key to success...