Hypnosis Gastric Band

What Is Gastric Band Surgery?

If you are struggling to lose you, you may have heard of a surgery called gastric band surgery. This type of surgery involves fitting a band around the upper area of your stomach to limit the intake of food an individual can eat. With this band being placed on your stomach, it will help to encourage weight loss. Once the band is placed on the stomach, an individual’s hunger levels will decrease because this band limits the amount of food a person can consume. From there Individuals will feel full after eating half of what they usually would eat.

The main goal of this surgery is long term weight loss benefits, and even though this surgery is considered a last resort for most looking to lose weight, it is definitely still utilized in some cases.

This surgery sounds great and all, but recent research has shown that patients who undergo gastric band surgery can potentially face a number of complications in the months following. These risks include the band slipping from one’s stomach, erosion within your body, malnutrition, and feeling sick or nauseous. If these risks become serious enough, then another surgery will have to take place in order to remove the band placed on your stomach. With these risks in the mind, the procedure is still appealing for those who are desperate to lose weight. After struggling with diets, exercise, or medical conditions, anything is worth a try.

This surgery has many risks that are intertwined with the benefits and because of this, there are strict guidelines in place to even qualify for this surgery. Those with a BMI of over 40 are eligible, as long as they meet other specific criteria necessary for this surgery. Following the surgery, one must still attempt to exercise, eat healthier, and attend follow-up appointments, in order to obtain the sought after results.

A Safer Alternative To Gastric Band Surgery

If you are someone who is not happy with their weight, loves the benefits of gastric band surgery but weary of all the risks, then gastric band hypnotherapy might be right for you.

Gastric band hypnotherapy is a treatment used to help you lose weight in the same ways as the surgery does, without the actual surgery. This process is a non-invasive alternative to weight loss surgery, showing little to no side effects. By using this technique, a hypnotherapist reaches your subconscious, explaining that you must obtain a gastric band fitted around your stomach.

Having this virtual gastric band fitted on your stomach through hypnosis doesn’t require surgery. Simply a few sessions where an individual undergoes hypnosis. By working with your subconscious, a skilled hypnotherapist can target your subconscious mind, making it believe that you’ve actually had this physical procedure. During the session, after being convinced you have undergone surgery, your subconscious mind will treat your stomach as if it has reduced in size. Again, no surgery or medication is used, making it a safer and painless alternative.

Gastric Band Hypnosis- What To Expect?

Gastric band hypnosis can be used to help people lose weight and eliminate cravings and unhealthy eating habits, without the risks that come with traditional gastric band surgery. Many hypnotherapists that practice gastric band hypnosis use a common two-step approach.

They first look to identify the root cause of your weight issue. This issue will most likely always step from emotional eating.

Just as you could have guessed, emotional eating can be a common and unhealthy way of coping with challenging feelings or emotions that one can experience in their lives. If you notice yourself aimlessly eating food when you are upset or stressed, relying on food as a treat or reward for a tough week or even to motivate yourself during tough times, are all signs of emotional eating. If you find yourself eating as a fallback when you are bored, then you are most likely struggling with the unhealthy habit of emotional eating. These can all be signs that you are using food to help boost your mood.

Over time, these emotional eating habits can lead to feelings of guilt, shame, or even bring on a cycle of unhealthy eating habits. From there, you could possibly be led down a path encountering eating problems, disordered eating, and even could produce physical health problems.

After uncovering the root of your eating, your hypnotherapist will encourage and work with you, helping to remember long-forgotten experiences surrounding food. These might be subconsciously affecting you now, causing you to emotionally eat. Your therapist can also work towards helping you to recognize patterns, reactions, or behaviors you may not realize you have been doing in terms of eating habits. Addressing and recognizing any unhealthy thought patterns surrounding food can be helpful before starting gastric band hypnotherapy, making sure you receive your desired results.

Once these two important steps are done, your hypnotherapist will carry out the virtual gastric band treatment with the aim being a positive response from your body upon hearing suggestions to better your habits.

Your first meeting with the hypnotherapist will be an initial consultation, where you are able to openly discuss what you hope to gain from hypnotherapy. This is a great opportunity to talk about any previous weight loss attempts, your eating habits, any health issues, and your general attitude towards food. This information will be beneficial to your therapist and give them a clearer idea of what will help and whether or not any other forms of treatment should be considered.

It’s important to note that if you have any health problems relating to your weight, you should seek advice from your doctor first, even before seeking information about gastric band hypnotherapy. The procedure itself is designed to mimic gastric band surgery, helping your subconscious to believe this has really happened.

First, your therapist will begin by talking you into a deeply relaxed state, commonly known as hypnosis. During the time you are in this state, you will be fully aware of what is happening and in control at all times. Once you are in a hypnotic state, your therapist will talk you through this operation you believe you are receiving. They will explain step by step what happens in surgery, from being put under the anesthetic to making the first incision, fitting the band around your stomach, and even stitching up the cut. The sounds and smells of an operating room are used to help enhance the experience, ultimately persuading your subconscious that what’s being said is really happening to you.

During this initial session, your therapist may also touch on ways to increase self-confidence moving forward, and give strategies to help deal with emotional eating.

Most hypnotherapists suggest returning for follow-up appointments, to help monitor the virtual gastric band’s success. During the follow-up sessions, they can make any adjustments needed in order to reap the full results. For some, these followup appointments can be helpful and used to continue hypnotherapy sessions as part of a long-term weight management plan. With more sessions in place, your hypnotherapist can work harder with you to address underlying issues surrounding food and self-esteem. This way, once the session is over, you will be able to fully commit to this change in lifestyle. Furthering your education on nutrition and exercise is often advised as well, aiding to promote physical health and well-being for your body.

The human mind is extremely powerful, and once your subconscious accepts these suggestions that are given during a session, your behavior will change accordingly.

You Can Now Just Skip The Diets

Diets typically do not tend to deal with the permanent lifestyle changes required, such as a sustainable long-term shift in eating habits or attitude towards food. Many diet plans are only temporary and can be difficult to maintain on an on-going basis. This is due to the fact that they are too restrictive, depriving an individual of their favorite foods.

Some diets can be utilized for short-term weight loss, but will not work well in the long run. By causing us to count calories or consciously measure portion size, while fully omitting types of foods, many diets can make us more obsessed with food and our eating. This is almost as unhealthy as continuing to eat the way some individuals have been and might take the pleasure out of eating. Ultimately, diets like these can lead to cravings of certain foods, where a diet-overeat or binge cycle can start.

Unlike most diets, getting a virtual gastric band is designed to help you make big lifestyle changes for the long-term. By recognizing and addressing underlying issues in your dietary habits, helping you to recognize triggers, and working with your subconscious to help you to feel fuller for longer, hypnotherapy can help you to take those first steps towards making positive changes in your life.

Unhealthy relationships with food

If you are considering weight-related surgery or hypnotherapy alternatives to help you to lose weight, it may also be worth considering your relationship with food. Taking a step back and understanding what this relationship is, negative or positive, is a smart step in the right direction. By only focusing on the end goal of weight loss, you can often overlook underlying issues of an unhealthy relationship with food that may be affecting you across different areas in your life.

This relationship might then start to impact your self-confidence and self-esteem, potentially causing feelings of anxiety or guilt. With these new bad habits circulating your mind, you could be held back in social or work-related situations. Problem eating doesn’t have a single look and can affect anyone, at any age, in any number of different ways. After taking a deeper look into your habits, If you are worried that these eating habits may be impacting your overall health and well-being, it’s important to speak with your general practitioner.

Will gastric band hypnotherapy work for me?

This question is a common one that most will ask when considering gastric band hypnotherapy. We wish it was simple, but unfortunately, it isn’t a case of yes or no. The bottom line is that your results are largely up to you. Hypnotherapy can help people with many different things and is the most useful when it comes to changing one’s habits.

For this reason alone, it is often successful in helping people develop healthy eating habits and losing weight. However, just like any other lifestyle changes, it will require your total commitment. Which is true for most weight loss methods, other surgeries, and diets, nothing is 100% guaranteed.

As with any form of hypnosis, the results of hypnotherapy are fully dependent on your approaching the process. If you go in with an open mind, ready to make major lifestyle changes, this process will most likely work for you.

You are more likely to make sustainable changes and get what you want from gastric band hypnotherapy if you believe in the process and in your therapist. Being comfortable and trusting your hypnotherapist is essential to process, which is why it is advised that you take time to research hypnotherapists in your area. You can find out more about them, how they work, and what their qualifications entail. This way, you can arrange to meet with them before you begin, getting to know them, and making sure you feel comfortable with them.

Is This The Right Solution For Me?

Again, this isn’t a simple yes or no answer. For some, the answer might be yes, but others might not be prime candidates for this type of hypnotherapy. The first thing that should be known is that gastric band hypnotherapy isn’t for everyone. The most successful patients are the ones that truly want to change their weight, eating habits, and their relationship with food. Those looking for a crutch, or helping hand so that they don’t really have to apply themselves aren’t likely to be as successful long term. You need to be entirely committed to losing weight in your head and heart. This solution isn’t for those looking for something else to take control. Point blank, you are the key part of your own success.

Whatever your situation is, you must remember that there are plenty of options available to you, and if one doesn’t work, don’t be discouraged.

Each client must be prepared to change their eating habits and mend their overall lifestyle. In the case that they are not prepared to change these habits might negatively impact their results. If you are truly serious about losing weight then it will work for you. Last stated before, hypnotic suggestion works best with those with the right mindset and perspective. But even with that being said, gastric band hypnotherapy shows each case measured on its own merits.

Am I Guaranteed To Lose Weight?

Just like diets, medications, exercise routines, or surgeries, there are no specific guarantees of results. This is due to a number of factors that can affect the outcome of the procedure or practice. In terms of gastric band hypnotherapy, the only thing we can confirm is that there will be no side effects.

It is worth stating that no form of hypnotherapy will work if you are not 100% committed, and that is entirely up to each individual. The mind is a very complex and powerful organ. By undergoing gastric band hypnotherapy you will be arming yourself with the necessary tools to reframe your old eating habits into better ones, that will be long-lasting.

Each session is aimed to help you change mindset and lifestyle, enabling you to change your relationship with food and lose that weight.

What Are The Costs Of Treatment?

A Gastric band hypnotherapy treatment consists of an initial session, followed by several hour-long therapy sessions. These sessions are often supported with a CD or MP3 recording to help you utilize each session further down the line. In the first session, a good therapist will also take the time to organize a full breakdown of your dietary and medical history before proceeding with any treatment. This way, your therapist knows you as well as you know yourself.

During treatment, you will be talked into hypnosis, where you will feel extremely relaxed and calm. It may look like you have nodded off, but in fact, your brain is still highly active and is targeting your subconscious mind.

In the following sessions, you will then be introduced to the gastric band hypnotherapy. In these sessions, your hypnotherapist will work with you to “fit” the virtual gastric band for maximum effect, going through a fake surgery process.

Unfortunately, there are no fixed prices across the board for this treatment option. Just as most things in life are priced, the more successful that your therapist is the more they will charge. If their business is successful and well known, the more they will charge. If you are looking for high success rates, expect to pay a bit more.

Looking at all your options and quoting prices for different therapists will be beneficial in the long run. This way you can ensure you are getting the right price for your needs.

You should expect to pay a quarter to a third of the cost of each session to cover your initial meeting, treatment, and subsequent MP3 or CD support services.

Do You Believe That Gastric Band Hypnotherapy Is Right For You?

Have no fear, there are thousands of people who feel just like you do right now about losing weight, discouraged, and irritated.

Maybe Christmas has come and gone, and the festivities have brought a few extra pounds that keep adding up. Or, maybe diets haven’t worked for you, and now you’re willing to try something that will give you the positive mindset you are looking for, helping you to control the cravings you have when it comes to food.

Wherever you are in this journey, I’m sure that deep down you know that you are not happy with what’s going on in your life. You are looking for a change. If hypnotherapy is something that you are prepared to look into, then start taking steps in the right direction today.