Supercharge Your Metabolic Rate For Rapid Weight Loss With Hypnotherapy

We have all heard it or even said it one time or another: “I’m not able to lose weight because of my metabolism.” It’s easy to blame our extra pounds on an abstract idea like metabolism, but let’s examine the real importance of metabolism - and better yet, how you can get the most “burn” for your buck by recharging your metabolism.

In the most basic sense, metabolism encompasses each of the chemical and physical changes that take place inside the cells of the body. Most often, however, metabolism refers to the process in which the body obtains and uses energy from food, so it really does play an important function in weight gain and loss.

Not everyone is given the same metabolism, and our rates actually change throughout our lives, so someone who blames their metabolism is not necessarily making excuses. Age affects metabolism, which will slow about 5% every 10 years after age 40, and by gender, as males typically burn more calories at rest than females, and by the amount of muscle mass you have (more muscle generally means a higher rate of metabolism). Heredity also impacts metabolism, not to mention pregnancy, as well as whether a woman decides to breast-feed.

Despite all of the wild cards, the fact is that if your calorie intake exceeds your metabolism, excess energy will get stored in the body as fat. Though some of the issues affecting metabolic rate can’t be changed, fortunately, there are methods to rev up the metabolism you’re born with.

The first directive is to consume the right foods in the right amounts. When you omit a meal, your body turns on starvation mode, which slows metabolism to conserve calories, because it does not know when it will be fed again. And when the metabolism slows down, so does your weight loss.

When you finally do eat food after skipping a meal, instead of burning the calories in the food you have just eaten, your body transfers them to body fat to store for the next “fast.” To keep your metabolism efficient, eat 4 - 6 smaller meals spread evenly throughout the day and aim to eat close to the same times every day. Most importantly, never skip a meal.

You can also step up your metabolic rate with exercise, including both aerobic workouts and weight lifting. Aerobic activities, such as dancing, biking and running, use more calories in the short term, while weight lifting will create more muscle, which boosts metabolism and burns more calories in the long term - even when you’re sitting still, muscle needs more calories to function than fat.

In fact, each pound of muscle requires 35 calories a day, while every pound of fat requires just 2 calories per day. Despite this, you may be surprised that the more weight you posses, the faster your metabolism is likely to run. Simply put, the extra weight forces your body work more to maintain its processes.

This is partly why it is nearly always easiest to lose weight when you start dieting, and is harder as you continue because, if you are significantly overweight, your metabolism is already at an elevated rate, so that even a minor reduction in calories will bring about an immediate weight loss.

But what happens after that immediate loss, when a plateau occurs and motivation seems to go by the “weigh” side? Persistent compulsions and cravings can swiftly return, and when they do, do not neglect a valuable resource - lose weight hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can actually retrain your unconscious mind so that, in essence, you can do away with food cravings. When we examine why we snack, identifying why weight loss hypnosis works so well becomes evident.

For most of people, snacking has become a habit - maybe you do it unconsciously when you’re driving or watching TV or when you are under stress. Hypnosis can actually reprogram your thoughts to stop those associations, leaving you to drive or watch TV without having the need to eat.

One of the most successful weight loss hypnosis techniques for breaking the snacking cycle is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, which relies on collaborating with the unconscious mind and making it use the same thought processes that are creating your appetite, to eliminate your appetite. NLP takes many years of study and practical experience for a hypnotherapist to learn and master, but positive results can come very quickly and seem almost magical to someone who has always fought against cravings.

NLP can be just as imperative as exercise and motivation because, as you read above, it can help ensure that you eat the proper kinds of foods at the right times, and this is a main part of turbo-charging your metabolism. If you want to keep your metabolism at full speed and ensure that all of hard work and exercise aren’t going to waste by succumbing to your food temptations, weight loss hypnosis and NLP can be a secret weapon to eliminate your cravings once and for all.

Alan B. Densky, CH has been assisting clients with appetite control and weight loss since 1978. Visit his hypnotherapy website to watch his Free hypnosis videos, or learn about his effective lose weight hypnosis CDs or his effective video self-hypnosis losing weight DVDs.

- Alan B. Densky, CH