If you wish for the body of a Greek god or goddess, you do not have to hurl thunderbolts or battle one-eyed monsters – simply eating like the ancient idols can help you get a body that people will worship.
The Mediterranean way of eating, which is a diet meal plan featuring a great deal of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, fish, olive oil and red wine, can help you attain the ideal body. The Mediterranean diet plan has also been linked to a healthier heart and a longer life span. Red meat, fatty dairy products and foods with refined sugar are rarely consumed, if ever.
Thousands of years after the powerful gods shook things up, the Mediterranean style of eating still makes great sense as a weight loss meal plan because you get full on large amounts of low fat, high-fiber foods that leave you feeling sated longer. The vegetables and fruits eaten as part of the Mediterranean way of eating are naturally low in calories, and are chock full of antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids, elements your body requires to create new and healthy cells.
The Mediterranean way of eating allows a higher fat intake than most weight loss diet plans, but it’s healthy fat that comes from nuts and olive oil, which are rich in beneficial monounsaturated fats, and low in unhealthy saturated fats, like those found in beef, ice-cream or cheese.
Just bear in mind that for higher calorie foods, like the whole grains, olive oil and red wine, you still must focus on serving sizes and overall calorie intake. The key to any successful weight loss diet is consuming fewer calories while still feeling full.
When you feel full, it makes it a little easier to overcome cravings that most people who are trying to follow a weight loss diet go through. What good is a diet if you cannot adhere to it because your appetite is out of control? Before you start any weight loss meal plan, you’ll need to find a safe, effective technique to eliminate your urges, cravings and appetite to overeat. Weight loss self-hypnosis is a wonderful method to help you curb your cravings.
The average person feels cravings and an urge to eat for two main reasons:
A. When you combine eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and an impulse to eat.
B. When you feel stress, you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for pleasure and relaxation.
Let’s talk about Part “A” first. Over 70% of the population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it: If you have an urge to eat while watching television, it’s because your mind recorded the video image of food in your hand, and then associated that image with the image of the television. From that point, every time you watch television, your unconscious mind flashes the image of the food in your hand, and you get an urge.
You have actually “programmed” your unconscious to make you feel cravings and urges as a “conditioned response” to watching television. The same thing happens when you eat in your car or while on the telephone, etc.
Lose weight self-hypnosis will erase the conditioned responses easily by reprogramming your subconscious mind to have it trigger unconscious images of you watching the television without eating, and that will eliminate the urge to eat. It will also give you an urge to reject food in that scenario!
But what about Part “B”? Our sensations of anxiety are generated by our thoughts. If you think upsetting thoughts, you feel anxious and upset. If you think happy thoughts, you feel happy and relaxed.
If you have an upsetting thought seated at your computer, your mind can connect that thought with the computer. Thereafter, when you are sitting at your computer, you have a conditioned response; your mind will flash to that upsetting thought and you feel tension. Weight loss hypnosis can help you conquer these patterns almost immediately.
The techniques used in the most successful self-hypnosis programs are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works based on the utilization of a person’s existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion.
Video weight loss self-hypnosis can program your subconscious to use negative thoughts as a trigger for comforting thoughts. So if you begin to think of something that is distressing, your unconscious mind will automatically change to a relaxing thought in a millisecond. You become calm, so there are no sensations of tension to cause your cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it’s much easier to lose weight and keep it off forever.
Combining a sensible weight loss diet plan, like the Mediterranean style, along with weight loss hypnosis means you can finally overcome your cravings to attain the body of a Greek god or goddess.
Alan B. Densky, CH developed the use of video hypnotherapy weight loss and received a U.S. Patent on the technology. His hypnotherapy website offers several different lose weight self-hypnosis programs designed to fit every personality. Visit for Free hypnosis videos, newsletters, and articles.
– Alan Densky