Weight Loss Miracle - Hypnosis Plus The South Beach Diet

Following the South Beach plan is one of the most popular methods of losing weight today. It is built around diet and lifestyle changes that help you lose weight naturally. By cutting out "bad" fats and carbohydrates and eating plenty of "good" ones, dieters can take weight off without feeling deprived or sacrificing their health.

There are three stages in the diet plan. During stage one, dieters avoid all carbs except for vegetables. Although many foods are banned, dieters still have a wide range of foods they can consume. The first stage is the toughest stage, but also the quickest since it only takes fourteen days. Dieters can expect to lose approximately ten pounds during this stage.

In the second phase, dieters begin reintroducing the previously restricted carbohydrate-rich foods into their diet. Dieters can expect to lose a couple pounds each week while slowly increasing the volume of carbs they eat. The second phase lasts until dieters achieve their target weight.

The third phase is the lifetime maintenance stage. Dieters take the strategies from the second phase to keep their ideal weight throughout the rest of their lives. If dieters start to gain weight, they can revert back to the first phase of the diet.

It is likely that you've seen pre-prepared South Beach snacks and meals sold in stores. These foods are very handy, but you do not need to spend money on them in order to be on the diet. You just need to commit to the various general rules for each stage of the plan.

During the first stage of the diet, you can enjoy lean meats, such as fish, turkey, and chicken, eggs, nuts, most vegetables, and a small amount of nonfat dairy products. Fruit juices and fruit are not eaten during this stage because of their sugar content. Also banned are all carbs, fatty cuts of meat, alcoholic beverages, and a few vegetables that may have high sugar content, such as carrots. The intent of this stage is to ban "bad" carbs from your diet and start the weight loss process.

During phase two, dieters gradually reintroduce whole grains, fruit, and other banned foods into their diet. In the process, dieters discover how to balance their diet strategies to keep a desirable weight. Once this is successfully accomplished, the diet shifts into the life maintenance stage, in which dieters attempt to maintain the healthy habits that brought them to their desired weight.

The key to success with the South Beach diet program is dedication to healthy eating. Although that sounds easy, the South Beach diet and many other diets fail because dieters abandon the diet before the program can take effect. The struggles that most men and women have with losing weight often stem from deeper issues such as a lack of impetus to lose weight, a habit of binge eating, or an inability to control the appetite. The good news is that all of these issues are treatable with techniques that are easy to learn from a good hypnosis weight loss CD program.

To treat a lack of motivation, a technique from a tool called Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) will induce a strong desire to stick to your dieting goals.

To begin, dieters pinpoint exactly what it is that is most valuable to them, as a person. This is known as their "highly valued criteria." Then, NLP techniques are employed to make the dieters think that by losing weight, their highly valued criteria will become enhanced. Another option is to make the dieter think that if they do not lose weight, their valued criteria will be in jeopardy.

Motivation comes from what we believe in, not from logic! So in the above case, let's say that the dieter's most highly valued desire is that the dieter's kids are happy and safe. Using an NLP tool known as Submodalities, we can guide the dieter into believing that if he/she is unable to take weight off, the kids will be fated to emulating their parent and they will also be overweight and dissatisfied. This idea will give a strong desire and feeling to stay committed to the diet and take the weight off.

Other NLP techniques can help to reduce or even completely remove the impulses and cravings that compel one to overeat. This works very well to help dieters stay on the initial and most difficult days of the South Beach diet. Additionally, it helps dieters stick to a fitness program, which will enhance the efficacy of any diet program.

Stress is an issue that frequently drives people to overeat or stop caring about their health, but stress-relief is offered by both hypnosis and NLP practices. One such tool is known as the NLP Flash. With the Flash, having your unconscious mind use negative thoughts to prompt you to have calming thoughts relieves the stress that causes the urge to overeat.

Out-of-control eating habits often cause people to put on weight. A lot of people have apparently uncontrollable eating habits because over time, they have developed a "conditioned response" to eat under certain circumstances. For instance, many of us gorge on junk food in front of the television even though we are not truly even hungry. The good thing is, hypnosis and NLP both have practices that can easily extinguish these conditioned behaviors. These practices eliminate the appetite without drugs or pills.

By targeting the root obstacles that prevent dieters from shedding pounds, hypnosis and NLP has helped many dieters finally get in the best shape of their lives. Combined with the South Beach diet, dieters can experience easy weight loss and success at reaching their weight loss goals.

About The Author:
Alan B. Densky, CH has invested over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including dieting CDs and video hypnotism for weight loss DVD. Visit his self hypnosis CDs website for Free hypnosis newsletters, videos, and downloads.