Her reasoning is simple.  When you ‘lose’ something, you go looking for it and she doesn’t want you to find it in the refrigerator.  When you release your weight with hypnosis, you change your mindset and the change is permanent.

Gibbons has over 35 years of experience as a clinical hypnotherapist and is a success coach, hypnotherapy trainer and author.

The hypnosis classes will help to re-train your unconscious mind to eat more healthily so attendees will find their motivation more easily.

Hypnotherapy weight loss classes are held at the Magick Bean is in Southsea, close to the Kings Theatre.

Week 5 was the turn of hypnosis. In the article, she discusses her visit to hypnotherapist Marisa Peer, the resident Celebrity Fat Club hypnotist. The visit was basically summarised along the lines of ‘one, two, three, sleep, imagine yourself slim, and on the count of three you’ll never want chocolate again.’

Although sceptical, Anna was amazed by the experience and the vividness of her memory of food association from her younger years, which you can read in more detail in the article online. She also returned for a second session to specifically help her to stop eating chocolate and crisps.

At the end of the week, Anna had lost 3 lbs and is quoted as saying

I feel lighter, happier and, for the first time in years, in control of food. I want to eat healthily, and have no problem refusing fatty or sugary meals

There is now only one date remaining on his weight loss seminars schedule so if you want to teach your unconscious mind how to help you in losing weight at one of McKenna’s seminars, then you’d better get your skates on.

The last date on the website at the time of writing is Saturday 29th March at the Ibis Hotel in London.

The next two seminars are:

Thursday 17th January – Accrington Football Club, just off the M65

Saturday 9th February – Prestwich Lodge, Bury, Manchester, just off the M60

MindTree is a predominantly hypnotherapy centre working in Manchester, who not only provide hypnotherapy seminars and sessions, but also run hypnosis training courses, NLP courses and Train the Trainer courses.

Sara Lou-Ann Jones is one of the founding members and has worked in hypnotherapy, NLP and Life Coaching. Her co-founder, David Ward Holland, has worked as a hypnotherapist for more than ten years now.

Sara and Jimmy Petruzzi will be running the free weight loss seminars. Jimmy is a world class, top performance coach whose past clients include premiership footballers and their teams, politicians and television stars, and has a regular slot on Sky TV.

This website offers an online food journal and a 21 day diet plan that you can keep and repeat. You can also listen to seminars, read ebooks and tips, get a free self-hypnosis CD ‘Imagine Yourself Thin’ and there’s a supporting members community to help keep you going. You also get support from your virtual support coach, hypnotherapist Rosa Smith-Montanaro. No more weekly meetings to attend, you can complete all your sessions online and get the added bonus of the hypnotherapy CD. I wish you could exercise online too!

The website is American but is open to anyone. We’re not aware of any UK weight loss site that incorporates hypnosis at the moment, but if we find one, we’ll let you know.

News 10 Now sat in on one client’s hypnotherapy session at The Wellness Therapy Center with hypnotherapist Shannon Rice. You can view a short one minute clip online – you have to watch one advert first.

Hypnotherapist Shannon Rice emphasises that hypnosis is a not a magical cure-all for weight loss but a stepping stone to help people in the right direction and to remove any mental blockages standing in their way.

Giving tips from his book, I Can Make You Thin, the 44 year old hypnotherapist talks about how we eat what we think we should, rather than what our body tells us we need. The article, which you can read online, gives his top ten tips including McKenna’s four golden rules.

Admittedly, the article is rather cynical and judging from the tone and what is said, we’re not too sure that the Daily Mail reporter went with the right attitude in mind and does admit cheating in order to report the goings on. However, if you want a bit more of an insight before you fork out the required £293 fee and travel to London for the day, this will give you that.

Losing weight is becoming an urgent priority for Britain as we follow America in the trend towards obesity.  Barely a day goes by without obesity, increased diabetes and high blood pressure making the news in one form or another.

Yet despite this urgent need to lose weight and get fitted, weight loss expert Tom Nicoli insists that a diet is not the best way.  We need to make long term, maintainable changes to our lifestyle and the only way to do that is begin with our minds, to deal with our subconscious levels to ensure that we can see these changes as positive and to stop us fighting with inbuilt habits and neurological patterns built up over our lifetime.

Self-hypnosis CD’s can work for many, or if you feel you need a more personalized session, then you can visit your local, qualified hypnotherapist.  Hypnotherapy is a relatively quick treatment and some weight loss programs can take effect after only one or two sessions.