Healthy Weight Loss in Obesity Awareness Week

This is Obesity Awareness Week.  The United Kingdom has the fastest growing obesity problem in the whole of the European Union.  In the UK a quarter of adults are clinically obese and in England obesity has grown by almost 400% in the past 25 year.



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The more obese you become, the more you are likely to suffer from a range of physical problems:

·         High blood pressure

·         Strokes

·         Heart disease

·         Diabetes

·         Gallstones

·         Joint pain

·         Reduced mobility

·         Some forms of cancer

In addition obese people are more likely to suffer from low self-esteem, lack of confidence and low mood.

The obvious remedies for obesity are eating less and exercising more but if you’ve dieted before you know that it can be simple to lose weight but keeping it off is another matter.  Often the weight goes back on and a bit more is added which puts you off trying again.

If you want to lose weight in the long term it’s about changing your relationship to food.  The first step is to become more aware of what you are eating because it’s easy to eat without even noticing what you are eating.  When you eat slowly you give yourself a better chance of hearing the signals from your body that let you know you have had enough.

The next step is to recognise whether you are eating because you are physically hungry or emotionally hungry.  Physical hunger comes on slowly but emotional hunger comes on quickly and is not satisfied by food.  In fact, if you eat when you are emotionally hungry, you often end up feeling sick.

Hypnotherapy and NLP can help you to change your relationship to food and control your weight in the long term.  It can also help you to keep motivate to exercise.  So, take the opportunity of Obesity Awareness Week to try a healthy approach to weight loss.

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The King's Speech

The Kings Speech



King George VI, 1939



The film, The King’s Speech, released on 7 January, is raising awareness of the problems associated with stammering and the impact on individuals and their families.   Colin Firth, who plays King George VI says “… this is common to everyone who struggles with stammering: all you want is to get to the end of a sentence. To speak is your dream, content is often secondary. You'll order fish instead of beef at a restaurant because you can't get the "b" out.” (The Observer, 2 January 2011)

About 5% of children experience some difficulty with their fluency during childhood but most achieve normal fluency with or without help. About 1% continue to stammer into adulthood and the majority of those affected long-term are boys.

Stammering can take many different forms and each person who has a stammer experiences slightly different features.  Causes vary but include physical issues (eg family history, physical development and coordination), speech and language development, personality and childhood environment.

For more information see British Stammering Association www.stammering.org

Cognitive Hypnotherapy

Cognitive Hypnotherapy is complementary to traditional treatments such as speech and language therapy and draws on a range of modern psychological and therapeutic disciplines including Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Positive Psychology.    Cognitive hypnotherapists are happy to work as part of a therapy team.  The therapy can form part of the treatment for stammering by helping sufferers to use and develop their own resources.  Each individual is treated with a programme that is tailored to their needs and this could include

·         Breathing exercises

·         Relaxation techniques

·         Building confidence

·         Alleviating anxiety and stress

·         Increasing self-esteem

If you want to find out more about cognitive hypnotherapy or are interested in working with a hypnotherapist you can find a directory of qualified hypnotherapists at www. questinstitute.co.uk or www.hypnotherapists.org  or by contacting the National Council for Hypnotherapy on 0845 544 0788.

If you live in the Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire area contact me at http://www.roystonhypnotherapy.co.uk/