24 Seven February 2022

Tips to Speed
Up Your
Weight Loss
Written by Rena Greenberg
You’ve been eating less, sweating at the gym,
reaching for healthy meals and passing by the
old snacks that used to call out to you, and still
the scale numbers aren’t budging. Have you ever
had the experience of feeling like you are doing
everything “right” but not getting the desired
result? You may wonder with frustration what is
going on and why your weight loss is so slow.
Here are a few tips to help you get through
those times when it feels like your weight loss has
slowed down to almost a complete halt.
Keep going. Just because you aren’t seeing
the results you are looking for yet, is no reason
to give up. In all areas of your life where you are
successful, it’s often a journey to get to where you
want to go. The only one who fails is the one who
gives up. Besides, there’s really no going back once
you remember how awful it was to be controlled
by food and to literally be putting poison into your
body. As you re-train your brain and keep hitting
the re-set button, every time you practice self
hypnosis, you’ll start to realize that you’ve come
too far — there’s no going back.
Be patient. Give yourself the gift of time. Even
if you were only to lose one pound a month,
you would still be going in the right direction.
One of my dear clients, Cathy McHugh, came
to me for gastric bypass hypnosis. When she
first arrived, she could barely walk. Within
nine months, she had lost 90 pounds and was