I'm just wanting to hear of people's experience with hypnosis to help quit sugar. I've tried and I've tried to cut back with my sugar intake but I simply lack the self discipline needed and I seem to be just getting worse. I am hopeful that it would work with me as I stopped eating and enjoying chocolate for a while by using a self hypnosis I found on the internet but it wasn't long lasting.
Other than my need for sugar I eat a healthy diet and exercise every other day and am happy with my weight so I am not after tips for weight loss, I can just see myself heading down the diabetes track. I notice that my children both also have very sweet teeth so this is an issue that could effect them later down the track which obviously would be best to avoid.
I know that everyone has their own opinions on the best way to do things, at the moment I am just after opinions on hypnosis specifically. Please share your experiences with hypnosis TIA
Hypnosis for sugar addiction.
Hypnosis for sugar addiction.
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I found adding foods with natural sugar like fruit and water with lemon in it helped get Me off all the chocolate and crap snacks I was eating
I know you asked for specifics about hypnosis only, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to give you my two cents anyway (used to eat coke and chocolate for breakfast, now a nutrition coach lol, so I know the feeling).
My tips would be to either go cold turkey (although obviously very hard) or to take it one step at a time. For example if you eat a whole block of chocolate or pack of tim tams at once, drop it down to 3/4 or 1/2 that for two weeks (or more) until you are hitting that mark 100% of the time. Then take another step. It could be the same one but you drop it down to 1/4 and again do that until you are doing that 100% of the time. Also when you're craving something sweet, have a glass of water first (I often find that helps me the most). I also like to have a cup of tea and 1-2 pieces of dark chocolate (80% cocoa at least).
Unless clients are 110% committed to completely (and forever) cutting out a certain food, I never recommend going cold turkey. At the end of the day you need to ask yourself things like do I still want to enjoy a dessert when we go out for dinner? Do I still want to enjoy a piece of birthday cake? Do I still want to enjoy a piece of pavlova at christmas? If the answers to those questions is yes, then take it one step at a time. Once it becomes habit to just have a tiny bit of sugar every now and then, you'll wonder what you were concerned about. If you go cold turkey and end up having birthday cake 3 months down the track, more often than not you'll find you revert back to old habits.
But whatever way you end up going with this, good on you for wanting to do something about it :) good luck!