It is often the case that overeating is an emotional issue, not a diet issue. This means that the underlying causes of your desire to overeat or choose the wrong foods is based on an emotional issue that has gotten used to being stuffed down or snuffed out with food. Uncovering the issue allows your subconscious mind to find alternative ways of responding and handling the pain.

Hypnosis is a technique proven to help people lose weight without feelings of deprivation. This makes changing how you eat feel natural. Clinical Hypnotherapy uses direct-suggestion scripts, guided imagery, and regression sessions.

• Direct Suggestions allow your subconscious mind to develop new patterns. This part of the process is taped onto an audiotape for you to listen to every day.
• Guided imagery includes using visualization to: increase metabolism; create an image of a healthy, slim, attractive new you; increase your energy; and extinguish cravings.
• Regression allows you to return to the initial events in your life that created the beliefs that cause stress and subsequent eating behaviors, and release them.

With hypnosis, the goal is to change your relationship to food for the rest of your life. Since it works with the subconscious mind, changes often go unnoticed by the conscious mind. For instance, if one suggestion is to no longer snack after dinner, it is likely that you will stop snacking after dinner, but not even notice it until asked about it at the next appointment. It may even be that you have no memory of the suggestion ever being posed in the first place!

With Randi Botnick, plan a minimum of four-to-six visits to work on weight loss issues. It takes 30 days to change a habit. You will be given at least four tapes to listen to daily between appointments. These tapes will allow the suggestions to become embedded permanently into your subconscious mind. Nutritional supplements and guidance are also available, if desired.