Easy Ways to Lose Weight

NLP and hypnosis offers many easy ways to lose weight.

Increase your metabolism

Our metabolic rate determines how many calories we can take in before the excess gets stored. By increasing metabolism, you can lose weight without eating less calories or exercising more.

What is metabolism?
If we are unable to convert all the food and substances into things we need right now, what we can't eliminate has to be stored.
Ways to increase metabolism

Easy ways to lose weight: Overcome bad eating habits

Many people have a stress eating response. Create a resource anchor with NLP Anchoring so you don't use food (particularly bad carb cakes and cookies) to relax.
The compulsion blowout can overcome cravings for particular food. This submodality technique works well for chocolate addiction and various simple carbohydrate and sugar addictions.
NLP Swish pattern can link the impulse to over eat with a new powerful self-image. Binge eating can take over a person's life, making them feel out of control and shameful
NLPs best appetite suppressant is future pacing a new strategy ahead of time. What alternate behavior such as drinking a glass of water first, slowing down your eating, or taking a walk would be more useful?
Emotional over eating can stack on the weight fast, without dealing with the bad feelings we were trying to fix. Time line therapy can overcome negative emotions. Techniques such as the Six-step reframe can make peace with our unconscious urges.

Easy ways to lose weight: Have accurate maps

Calculators and Charts
Weight loss would seem to be a simple matter of calorie intake and output. We get sucked in to believing it's about will power and determination. Our bodies are much more complex. Our hormones directly affect appetite, metabolism, and fat storage. An accurate map is vital so we don't waste our efforts.
What is a calorie?
If we take in more calories than we use up for maintaining our body and in physical activity, we will put on weight.
Calorie intake to lose weight
To lose weight our calorie intake must be less than the energy we are converting and using for fuel. Sounds simple enough - 3,500 calories in a pound (.45kg).
What is the cause and effect of obesity
Many studies also connect obesity to health problems, such as lowered fitness, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, sleep difficulties (and resulting side effects such as lowered immunity) and an overall reduced life expectancy.
Know your endocrine system facts
The major glands in this system secrete hormones directly responsible for many weight control functions. You cannot fight your hormones, learn how to work with them.
Understand menopause and weight gain
Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone, Cortisol and Insulin disruptions can cause weight gain during menopause.
What is insulin?
How does insulin work
Knowing how insulin works naturally in our bodies can help us get this fat storing/using hormone working for us.
Function of Insulin
Insulin's work in controlling blood sugar and energy is vital for keeping our metabolism and energy high.
What is testosterone?
Testosterone is a major player in being lean and toned for both sexes.
How to increase testosterone
This article shows how to increase testosterone naturally in 17 ways.
Sleep deprivation effects on weight
Sleep deprivation drops metabolism by 10%. It increases our levels of hunger hormones (grehlin) and decreases the hormone that signals satiety (leptin). It also increases cortisol, which reduces testosterone (along with our ability to stay lean)

Easy ways to lose weight: Enjoy eating healthy food

There is so much conflicting and simplistic advice around, we need healthy eating guidelines.
Know your vegetable nutrition facts
If you aren't getting enough nutrients, your body will want more. Bodies don't count calories, they send messages for you to get raw materials. Vegetables are powerful satisfiers of appetite, have many nutrients and are generally low in calories (unless you drown them in high calorie dressings)
Best Vegetables for dieting
Some vegetables are even better than others are. For most of us, the best vegetables for dieting are to have some. Create positive associations with NLP Anchoring and Mapping Across from something you love to eat
Why you should drink water to lose weight
Often we misinterpret thirst and hunger, causing us to over eat. Drinking more water also replaces the empty (and numerous) calories in other drinks, especially soft drinks.
Develop healthy eating habits.
We can change our associations to certain foods with techniques such as Mapping Across and NLP Anchoring. If timing is the problem (skipping meals etc) we can use the Mental Imagery technique to rehearse eating at particular times.
What are carbohydrates
Without carbohydrates, you can't burn fat. It is not desirable to eliminate carbs from your diet.
Know your good carbohydrates
Too many simple carbohydrates lead to insulin spikes, loss of insulin sensitivity and weight gain. It is not just the calories.

Easy ways to lose weight: Get Motivated

Get the motivation to lose weight
Try out the Last Straw Technique to make it happen.
By making sure you have a compelling well-formed outcome, you can maintain long term dieting motivation.
Get the motivation to exercise
When do you find yourself exercising or being active without consciously thinking about it? When do you find yourself at the gym, out jogging, or playing sport? Use Mapping Across and future pacing to experience this more often.

Easy ways to lose weight: Exercise to burn fat

Importance of physical fitness in weight loss
Many people focus on reducing food intake to lose weight. While it is extremely difficult to continue to over eat and lose weight just by increasing activity, physical fitness plays a vital part.
Know how to burn calories
Just being alive burns a certain number of calories. Our Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is the calories each of us needs to maintain our life functions. Dropping below this amount slows down our metabolism - we go into conservation mode.
Exercises to lose weight
Additionally, we burn calories through activity - standing burns more calories than sitting, walking/moving burns more than standing. Moving faster (running etc) burns more than moving slowly. Use mental imagery to make extra activity part of your day.
Increase your walking to lose weight
For many of us, an easy way to increase activity is to walk more.
Exercises to lose weight quickly
Aerobic exercise burns calories while we are doing it and increases our metabolism for a time afterwards.
Try running to lose weight
Apart from the short-term extra calorie burning while doing exercises, the long term effect of increasing fitness and aerobic capacity is that using more oxygen increases metabolism.
How to gain muscle mass
Gaining muscle mass, particularly core muscles increases metabolism in the long term. 1lb of extra muscle means you can eat an extra 40 - 120 calories a day. One of the reasons people put on weight as they get older is the decrease of muscle mass (if we don't maintain our muscle mass we lose 5% every 10 years). We might stay the same weight, but have to eat less calories to do that.
How to lose belly fat
Belly fat is different from normally distributed fat. The main cause of belly fat is from increased cortisol and chronic stress. It is also one of the insulin resistance symptoms
What is the best exercise for weight loss?
Weight bearing exercise is the best and easiest long term weight loss method (or at least waist loss method). It's really the leanness that counts isn't it? Two people can be exactly the same height and weight, but the one with more muscle will be slimmer. Adding a pound (.45kg) of muscle increases your Basal Metabolic Rate by 40 - 120 calories. You need more calories to stay the same weight.

Other really easy ways to lose weight

I can make you thin
I can make you thin is Paul Mc Kenna's best selling book about the structure of being thin. I really like this book and the hypnosis session CD it comes with. Paul has really thought this one through and tested out his ideas on a worldwide audience. It is not just a simplistic rehash of "common sense" as so many weight loss books seem to be.
Self hypnosis for weight loss
Some instant hypnosis resources to target all these different areas

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