Sometimes we eat for emotional reasons. To comfort ourselves. To avoid difficult situations.

If we are worried about our weight, this behaviour just makes us miserable. But we still do it.

This blog on the whole gives tips on practical ways to reduce our eating in a sustainable way.

But if we talk to ourselves in unhelpful ways, calling ourselves ugly, fat, useless, then we are not feeling emotionally strong enough to focus on our weight.

With hypnosis, you can get yourself emotionally stronger, ready to take on the project of managing our weight. In a businesslike, healthy and calm way, without any nasty name-calling.

Eating less is clearly an important goal in losing weight. Getting a clearer idea of the reasons for eating too much will help us to regain control.

For some of us it is habit. We have got used to eating a bag of crisps with our pint, or eating a cake with our coffee. Maybe we are shopping and eating in the way we did when we were young and active.

For some of us, it is an expression of difficult feelings about ourselves. If we feel unloved, worthless, unattractive, lonely, betrayed, ashamed or guilty, or any number of complex emotions, then we might overeat in order to feel better, to feel in control.

Hypnotherapy deals with these unhelpful feelings. Once you feel comfortable again about who you are, you will have the confidence and the energy to reorganise your eating patterns. Learning to love ourselves, warts and all.