“Is a hypnosis session to help you lose weight in February and you can use it right now. Just follow along with the sound of my voice. Close your eyes or defocus them. Use your peripheral vision. Relax your face, relax your shoulders, relax your chest, and relax your stomach. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. Take another deep breath in and slowly let it out. Now, bring your attention down to your stomach. Relax your stomach muscles, feel that relaxation move throughout your stomach area, relaxing all the muscles, melting away any tension that you may find. And then feel that relaxation you’re going to move up into your chest, relaxing the chest muscles. Feel your chest open and expand. Feel that relaxation move deep into your lungs and your heart.

Now, feel that relaxation begin to move up into your shoulder muscles, relax those shoulder muscles completely and totally, and feel that relaxation continue to move up into your neck, up into your ears, and down into your jaw, relaxing the jaw muscles completely and totally. Feel that relaxation move up over your lips, up into your nose, so that with each and every breath you take, you begin to relax a little bit deeper than before.

Now, let that feeling of relaxation begin to move up into your eyes and your eyelids. Feel that relaxation wash over your eye muscles completely and totally, relaxing those muscles. Let your eyes relax and feel that relaxation move up into your eyebrows, up into your forehead, and down over your face completely and totally relaxing the muscles of your face.

I want you to enjoy this feeling, this feeling of calm, peaceful relaxation, because it’s from this place, with your relaxed, calm body and mind, that you can naturally and automatically program your subconscious mind to start making healthier food choices naturally, so you can release the weight in the most effortless, easy way possible. And you can begin to do that by feeling a deep sense of love for your body, appreciating all the little things it does for you, and realizing that while you may want to look a bit different, that you still love your body. Now, that you cherish it, that you honor it, and you begin to create this physical transformation on a foundation of love, love for who you are, and love for your body.

And because you love your body so deeply, you want to treat it in the best way possible. You want to see just how good you can feel, so that when you imagine yourself at your goal weight in the body that you want to live in, you can connect to those feelings. Now, you can imagine waking up tomorrow morning at your goal weight in that body, feeling yourself before you even get out of bed, feeling that body, noticing what it feels like to be at that weight. And now imagine yourself hopping out of bed and getting dressed in the exact clothes that you would wear with that body. Notice how it feels to get dressed in those clothes, to be this version of yourself, inside and out. And imagine yourself moving through the day, moving through the day in this body, as this version of you. Notice how it feels, how it feels physically, how your knees feel more comfortable, how there’s less weight pushing down on you, how much more energy you have because you’re not carrying that extra weight around anymore, and how much stronger and alive you feel because your body is operating more efficiently.

And you feel alive and amazing physically and mentally. You begin to think of yourself as a thin, healthy person, as a person who honors and cherishes their body, and eats and lives a lifestyle that proves this. You crave healthy things, you crave water, you crave sleep and you crave relaxation. This makes your body feel so incredible. You feel alive, clear-headed, and able to think clearly. And you crave healthy foods and eating just the right amount of them. And because you start to feel this way deep within yourself, you begin to naturally act in a new way. All the unhealthy foods begin to fade from your awareness and your focus is drawn to healthy, natural, fresh foods that truly power the body that you have, so that you can increase that love you can show and shower your body with love by treating it the right way by giving it what it truly wants and craves, which is healthy, nourishing food and living a healthy, nourishing lifestyle that makes you feel absolutely incredible. And you get so addicted to this feeling of being alive, of looking how you want to look, of being the person who you know you truly are, that it almost becomes automatic for you to naturally and easily slim down so that you can comfortably live at your goal weight.

Now, I’m going to count from one to five and when I say five, you’ll be fully awake, completely rested, and refreshed. Number one, slowly, easily returning to your full awareness once again. Number two, each muscle and nerve in your body is loose, limp, and relaxed, and you feel wonderfully good. Number three, from head to toe, you feel amazing in every way. On the number four, you become aware of the room that you’re in and the body that you’re breathing into. And on the next number I count, eyes open, fully awake, completely rested, and refreshed. Number five, eyes open, take a deep breath in, and have a great day!

When have you been most on track with your weight? Success leaves clues and everyone has some experience of success, what was yours?

*How did you make it happen?
*What started it all?
*What was “different” about that time?
*What was going on in your life?
*What kept you motivated?
*What did the success feel like?

Share your experience in the comments section and learn from others.
You never know which piece of information could change everything.

One thing I’ve noticed working with so many weight loss clients is that almost without exception they are too harsh on themselves.

Often, it stems from the mistaken belief that they need to be “hard” on themselves, but there is a huge difference between being hard on yourself and being supportive and helpful.

One of the techniques I often suggest to instantly illustrate the difference is to imagine saying the things you often say to yourself (in the tone you say them in) to a person in your life that you love.

For example, imagine saying to that person “you’re so lazy and stupid, you’ll never lose weight”. (Harsh I know, but I want to point out the things that people are often saying to themselves constantly). Do you think that would motivate them or just make them feel bad?

Now, imagine you wanted to help and support this friend. What would you say to them? Notice how your words and tone are different, probably more supportive. What would happen if you began talking to yourself this way?

Remember you don’t need to be harsh with yourself to get great results, you need to be effective and helpful.

I was thinking the other day about what was truly responsible for the changes that I’ve made in my life. The answer I kept coming back to surprised me. It wasn’t all the books, programs, and classes I consumed, it was more basic than that.

I realized that my changes were made possible by one belief; that if I wasn’t getting the results I wanted, it was because I was wrong.

Now that may not sound like a big deal to you, but it was HUGE for me. Why? because I was very defensive. I was so busy defending myself that I missed noticing the results I was getting, which were crappy.

But, when I began to accept that there were better ways to do things, everything changed. I began to realize that the accepted conventional wisdom was often dead wrong. I began measuring the value of methods not by popularity, but by effectiveness.

The reason I’m writing about this is because if you’re not happy with your results, instead of beating yourself up, take some time and educate yourself about new ways to get what you want.

Don’t get caught in the trap where you say “I know what to do, I just need to do it.” because there is a good chance that the real problem is that you don’t know what to do.

To your beautiful body,

Jim

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I mean here is someone who is obviously successful and focused with personal chefs, trainers, and coaches who has not been able
to maintain the results she wants.

The questions is why?

The good news is that having all of those things is NOT what creates permanent weight loss.

After studying hundreds of people who have lost weight and kept it off long term, it has become very easy to spot the biggest problem that
sabotages most dieters success. And the funny thing is that  Oprah, like most people, knows exactly what the problem is too. To me this is the most important sentence in the entire article:

“I use food for the same reasons an addict uses drugs: to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress.”

She says this and then goes right back into I need to refocus and get motivated again, etc. But, if food is her main way of easing stress and dealing with unpleasant emotions, then she’s never going to get long term success. Why?

Because being alive means that we’re going to experience stress and crave comfort, and if her best way of doing that is with food, no amount of motivation is going to outlast those deep emotional needs.

So, what do people who permanently change their weight do differently?

They create new and better ways to relax, take their mind off of things, and enjoy themselves without food. Think of all the work people put into exercising and eating right, and compare that to the energy they put into learning new ways to feel good emotionally without food, there’s a real imbalance.

I’m not saying that it’s necessarily easy to do this, but I am saying that your results will last a lot longer when you do. Imagine how much easier it would be to control your weight if you didn’t look for food when you got stressed, depressed or bored?

I believe almost all weight issues come down to emotinonal eating. If you only ate when your body needed genuine nourishment,
what would it look like? So, the next time you’re considering a weight loss plan or a diet, don’t make the same mistake Oprah did, make sure that it teaches you how to feel the way you want to without the food.

To experience what I’m talking about, I’ve put a progressive relaxation
session up for you to use here:
http://www.programyourselfthin.com/relaxation

Listen to this 8 minute relaxation
session and notice how it automatically
influences your eating for the rest of the day.

To your beautiful body,
Jim

I was asked this question on a interview I did recently and my answer may surprise you. (I’ve posted it below for you to listen to)

You’ll find that when you choose a goal weight based on what is important to you, the whole process of changing your body feels more comfortable and becomes more natural. It is the secret to unleashing the necessary abundance of motivation.

So, listen to the audio and take a few minutes to decide what weight would suit your life best.

By far the most common challenge people face losing
weight is how to maintain motivation and stick with a plan.

This is something that I’ve worked with a lot.
In my private practice and in my programs
this is almost always peoples biggest obstacle
to making the weight loss permanent.

Understand that the secret to solving
this problem requires a different approach.

Most diets focus solely on changing your external
behaviors. But the problem with this is that you
start to feel deprived, bored, etc.

with Program Yourself Thin 2.0 we’re going to
reverse the process. You’re going to start by
changing your internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

Instead of being giving a set of rules to follow
perfectly (traditional diet), this course is going
to be a process of creating a new self image and
learning how to install new habits that run
without you having to think about them.

You will not be the same person at the end
of this course as you were in the beginning.

This is because in the Program Yourself Thin 2.0
course you are going to make the changes from
the inside out.

This means you’re going to redefine who you are
and continually connect to that idea in a very
powerful way that makes motivation completely
natural and automatic.

The beauty of this approach is that even when
you hit times in your life when you get distracted
or emotional, you’ll still find it easy to eat well,
you’ll still want to move your body because you
know that it makes you feel better.

This is the secret to permanent change.

Remember, most diets focus on changing
only your external behaviors, with
Program Yourself Thin 2.0 you’re going to
change your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

When this happens, your behaviors change
by themselves, and willpower becomes unnecessary.