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Hypnosis For Weight Loss

Fructose, The Liver Toxin (Why Sugar is as Bad as Alcohol)

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Did you know that an increasing number of people are being diagnosed with Fatty Liver Disease who aren’t alcoholics?

One of the challenges I have as a hypnotist with weight loss clients is countering the multi billion dollar bombardment of misinformation and mass hypnosis of the food industry.

I just watched this short video and thought I’d share it with you so you could see what we’re up against in the disinformation war.

I can’t tell you how many weight loss clients I’ve worked with since 2002 who said to me, “But I AM eating healthy!”

Then it turns out they were consuming a bunch of foods “marketed” as healthy, like sweetened yogurt, “heart healthy whole grain cereal,” sports drinks, fruit juices, energy bars etc. Or they were eating out a lot. It turns out there is fructose in a lot of condiments, salad dressings, sauces, etc.

I even explored those weight loss shakes and surprise! One of the main ingredients?

Fructose, (which sounds healthy cuz it comes from fruit right? )

Wrong.

Despite any number of hypnosis sessions, if a person continues to be influenced by the media to BELIEVE orange juice and granola for breakfast are “healthy” and doesn’t actually CHANGE what they eat, it’s not going to get through. Does that make sense? It’s not just about portion control. And “organic” brands are STILL full of sugar. I just looked at the label of a jar of salsa and one of the main ingredients was “Organic Evaporated Cane Sugar” as if the diced tomatos weren’t already sweet enough! And this video points out that every Cane Sugar molecule is comprised of a sucrose molecule and a fructose molecule. Even Honey has it.

So once you know about this, the next question is what do you DO about it? How do you break the trance the master marketers have used to make the entire world obese?

THAT’S where hypnosis can help. It’s about YOU becoming the master of your own MIND.

And I’m right here with you. I’m just a little ahead of you on the learning curve.

As I have gradually and sometimes inconsistently eliminated more and more simple carbs and sugar sources from my own diet I’ve

a. lost 30 pounds

b. had more energy and

c. my MIND has continued to be clearer.

Would those 3 outcomes be of interest to you?

In my own process of clearing the health myths and misinformation out of my own mind and body, I created what is arguably my most comprehensive self hypnosis course,  “It’s Not Just About The Food.”

It’s not just about losing weight. It’s about changing the multiple factors that combine to make us fat and keep us stuck.

It’s all about supporting yourself in getting OUT of the “manufactured food trance”, of the American Diet and taking charge of your own  your own mind and body.

I also continue to explore how to get the weight off and keep it off without having to spend 4 hours in the gym every day, without counting calories, without being hungry and deprived, without having to weigh your food or going to expensive weekly support groups…

One of the things I explore in the course is how to “trick” yourself into finding ways to move your body that are so joyful and fun you can’t wait to do it again. so enjoyable that you sometimes even FORGET about eating… I was FOOD OBSESSED for most of my life so if you can relate it’s pretty cool to no longer be obsessed.

I also cover how to make the transition to whole foods that actually HEAL your body reduce your risk of diabetes and make you feel full and satisfied.

Stuff like that.

I hope this is helpful to you.

Let me know if you have any questions. Contact Me!

Here’s the direct link to the course again: It’s Not Just About The Food!

Own Your Mornings Own Your Life

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It’s Day 3 of the 90 Day Transformational Challenge.

I’ve got another spontaneously fresh video for you which I made first thing this morning as dawn was breaking, while drinking my gigantic cup of Swiss Process decaffeinated coffee… (I dumped caffeine during the last 90 day challenge)

FYI This video is actually a “wide awake, conversational hypnosis session” (which you can watch for free should you choose to accept that as your Daily Mind Mastery Assignment… ;o).

I’m not suggesting you watch all the way to the end but if you do watch all the way through to the end remember that it’s all on purpose and the suggestions I deliver for your unconscious mind’s benefit you more and more and everyone knows that everything works better for you that way if you’re ready to hear and integrate what I have to say…

 

Here’s the video:

Here’s the Transformation Tune I mentioned in the video for today’s Mind Mastery Message support song…
BONUS!!!

I made a short, reflective video at the end of a well lived day… to check in and look back over the progress made. Enjoy!

 

Any questions? Any answers? Any Stories from YOUR life about how YOU are applying the Daily Mind Mastery and Transformation Tunes? I want to hear from you!

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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The Devil Isn’t Fat… It’s Fructose

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hand holding soda can pouring a crazy amount of sugar in metaphor of sugar content of a refresh drinkFructose anyone?!?

It turns out that the devil was never fat.

The devil is sugar. And the prevalence of sugar in the form of High Fructose Corn Syrup is the devil of devils.

But millions of people actually think that drinking fruit juice is a healthy alternative to soda…

Think again.

Millions also think that somehow dried fruit like raisins are a healthy snack. Still sugar.

Raisin Bran cereal a healthy breakfast? um not exactly. This misinformation that has been pounded into our heads for the last 30-40 years is actually mass hypnosis. If you look on any stock photo service and you search for “healthy foods” usually what shows up is a bowl of fruit, not a grass fed steak.

Any surprise we are experiencing an obesity epidemic?

Check out this awesome info graphic…

fructose overload infographic

Discover the fructose content of common foods, beverages, sauces, and even sugar substitutes in our infographic “Fructose Overload.”

We’ve been lied to for a long time. So it’s not your fault if this is news to you. BUT… If you are interested in a different approach to long term sustainable fat loss and fitness, check out my course, “It’s Not Just About The Food”…

and!

Stay tuned for my long awaited interview with my dad about Ketogenic diets and the power of healthy fats to run your brain, and actually create a leaner body…

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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The Essence of Honest Hypnosis

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37314437_mlImagine YOU.

Getting what you want.

Doing what you want.

Being who you want to be.

Faster.

Easier.

Better.

If you’re open to learning and applying what you learn, I can teach you how…

   – Mark Shepard, NLPT – “America’s Honest Hypnotist” 

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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Hypnosis For Weight Loss & Fitness

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Hey! Just For FUN,

Let’s Bust An Old

Weight Loss Hypnosis Myth Today!

[be sure to scroll down for the fabulous video I made for you as well as a very cool weight loss hypnosis SONG]

A lot of people seem to think that if they go to a hypnotist for weight loss (fat loss really), then they won’t have to exercise or change their eating habits… the pounds will somehow, suddenly, just magically melt off…

Somehow after spending an hour with “The Wizard of Oz” they will just magically start to crave only foods that are healthy and slimming and will somehow want to go to the gym every day.

And if that mythical experience doesn’t happen, then they feel justified in blaming the hypnotherapist for their failure to reach their goals.

The reality is that hypnosis is a good way to retrain yourself to stop eating crap, and to actually get yourself to get up off of the couch and move your body but first you have to stop hypnotizing yourself to be the way you’ve always been.

The bottom line is that YOU are the actual hypnotist. The professional trained in hypnosis who you pay money to is actually coaching (or “coaxing” ) you into changing your thoughts. Changing your thoughts changes your behaviors. Changing your behaviors is what actually gets you the results you desire.

Hypnosis is a tool to communicate with your unconscious mind so that your unconscious mind actually starts giving you more of what you want and less of what you don’t want. You are the one doing the actual communicating.

On this journey we encounter a few challenges that really boil down to rejecting the Mass Hypnosis of our dominant cultural patterns.

One challenge is that your unconscious mind is really the “soft animal of your body”. And all us animals are pre-programmed to save energy. Unfortunately resting whenever possible to save energy evolved as our “default” program. And in today’s world of “labor saving devices”, and constant sitting at work, in cars, on the couch etc, we all move our bodies a lot less than in a traditional hunter/gatherer society where we evolved.

Instead of walking 5 miles to get something to eat (or 10 if necessary), we walk 5 steps to the refrigerator or the kitchen cabinet.

Another challenge is that any TV you watch, even if it’s only in the waiting room of your car dealer’s service department, is filled with hypnotic food and beverage ads. And THAT hypnosis is constantly bombarding your little unconscious mind over and over with vibrant, riveting images and stories that promise PLEASURE from food… RELIEF from stress… HAPPINESS with each lip smacking mouthful…

One of the reasons I dislike going to the gym is that they have the televisions blaring all the time… banks and banks of hypnotic media preaching exactly the opposite of what I want to feed my mind while I’m working my body.

The most important message I can convey to you is that YOU are the world’s most powerful hypnotist. Your best approach to cancelling old eating and exercise habits is to learn how to take charge of your own mind.

Careful! There ARE side effects! You might start seeing through all the dominant cultural baloney that “everybody just accepts”. :o)

I’d like to suggest if I may that it might be time for you to Stop allowing random Television strangers (ad agencies and food manufacturers) hypnotize you.

It just might be time for YOU to take charge of your change. I’m not suggesting you Master Your Mind For A Change right this instant. But you certainly might want to consider starting soon… Like today. or Tomorrow… or perhaps this coming Tuesday… You don’t have to change now unless you truly want to with all your heart!

Here’s a short video I made the other night after I worked out… for 5 minutes. Yep. You heard that right. My workouts are about 5 minutes long. The video is even shorter. You could even stretch while you watch it.
(below the video is a song that is actually a weight loss hypnosis session. Yeah really!)

I’m gearing up for my next 90 day challenge and one of the areas I’m personally working on with my body is to lower my body fat percentage. I would like to see my abs. However going form 18% body fat down to the 9% or so that would showcase my “washboard” is a bit of a leap, even for me. So the goal I’m going to set will probably be to move my body fat down to a significant 15%. That’s a bit of a stretch but it still seems “doable”.

So along with my other goals in other areas of my life, this is one I will start using self hypnosis to make into my new reality. What I’m looking for is long term, sustainable health, not some crash diet or crazy workout that might cause me to hurt myself.

If you’d like to go deeper with me in this area of your life, check out my course, “It’s Not Just About The Food!” my online fat loss course. and join us for the 90 day Transformation Tuesday Challenge

Transformation Tune: This is actually a “wide awake” hypnosis session. Play this song over and over and over… As you let it get stuck in your head remember that you are controlling your own unconscious thought patterns in a good way… enjoy.

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The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

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The Great Sugar Conspiracy

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48863412_mlOne of the challenges I have as a hypnotherapist who has worked in the hypnosis for weight loss field for over 15 years is the HUGE impact of CULTURAL HYPNOSIS on our basic eating patterns.

By cultural hypnosis I mean the prevailing bad science that vilifies fat and cholesterol yet celebrates “heart healthy whole grains” and “Fruit Juices”.

It doesn’t take much effort to discover that eating whole grains and more “fruit” is not a healthy choice if you want to lose fat.

In fact wheat is higher on the glycemic index than bananas. In other words grains are sugar. Potatoes are sugar. Fruit is sugar.

Recent research points its finger DIRECTLY at sugar in all its forms as the cause of the current obesity epidemic.

It turns out a “calorie is not just a calorie”.

The low fat diet ends up being a high carb diet simply by default.

So the first job is to counter the mass hypnosis of the food industry which is one of the largest advertisers on all media  – (along with the pharmaceutical companies)

and trust me on this one, advertising IS hypnosis. And anyone who has any exposure to the media and all the various forms of advertising are being hypnotized. And very few people are even aware of how their beliefs and behaviors are guided unconsciously because of the influence of advertising.

The question is whether YOU are going to take charge of your own mind and what you believe and what actions you will take to change your life.

And something HAS to change doesn’t it? Because if you keep doing what you’ve been doing you are going to keep getting what you’ve been getting.

So my main job as a hypnotherapist is not just to educate my weight loss clients and it’s not to “hypnotize” them to suddenly crave only “healthy” food. It’s to teach them how to take charge of their own hypnosis so that they stop BELIEVING the media baloney about what is actually “healthy”.

  • The Paleo diet has been labeled “the most recent diet fad” by the media and yet it is exactly the diet that we evolved to eat over MILLIONS of years. The large scale introduction of grains into our diet only happened a mere 10,000 years ago.
  • The increase in simple carbs into our diets only happened 300 years ago and the “low fat diet” was only introduced 30 years ago.
  • With the addition of corn to the human diet we suddenly see evidence of tooth decay in human remains.
  • With the influx of a ton of sugar we began to see heart disease and dementia ever increasing…

hmmm… who is hypnotizing whom here?

If you don’t want to take my word for it. Do a little reading.

check out this article:

The Sugar Conspiracy

Then check out

Grain Brain by David Perlmutter

And then if you would like my support and help in hypnotizing yourself to get off the diet rollercoaster and on a practical, sustainable healthy lifestyle that includes mastering your mind for a change, check out my course:

The really important thing is just to be fully aware that you can realize the change you’re looking for…

And here’s how

Click the link below to: