What It Takes to Lose Weight
and Keep It Off

Charles E. Henderson, Ph.D.

You will never know how to easily lose and maintain weight until you know at least something about calories, nutrition and exercise. If you don't know the nutritional (and weight-gaining) difference between a french fry and a tomato, you are doomed to be fat.

With self-hypnosis you can bypass willpower and make resisting eating easy. You can also use it to motivate yourself to want to exercise for health and appearance.

But if you don't know anything about food and nutrition, or about what kinds of exercise are and which aren't, you're likely to defeat your efforts with bad decisions. Decisions, that is, about what you eat and how you exercise.

You must have this knowledge to achieve your goals. You cannot achieve a healthy state of ideal weight if you do not know which foods and beverages to avoid, and which ones are good for you.

The methods of self-hypnosis will get you subconsciously motivated to eat right and exercise more, but you will have to seek out information about nutrition. There are tons of books available on dieting and nutritional approaches to weight control. To my knowledge, all of them work if you stick with them! (And that's what self-hypnosis does – helps you stick with a regimen.)

Just a note about exercise. Over the years I have found that I and just about everyone I have helped has had to engage in regular exercise to achieve and maintain ideal weight. I know what my own requirements are, and I've known what it took for lots of other people to lose and control their weight. And it doesn't seem to make any difference whether a person runs, jogs, crawls or walks, so long as it is sufficient exercise for that person. Keep in mind that it is what is right for you, not someone else, that is the important criterian.

Two-and-a-half pounds of loss a week is just about the maximum you can count on safely losing on a sustained basis. Some authorities say less, but everyone agrees that losing too much weight too fast will cost you muscle. Muscle you want to keep; it is fat you want to lose.

So get yourself one or more good books on dieting (best-sellers are usually a safe bet), or join one of the many weight-loss groups around. Do a little research into exercise to determine what is best, and safe, for you. Then initiate your program and use self-hypnosis to stick to it.

PLEASE NOTE: My latest book is a complete manual of self-hypnosis: Self Hypnosis: for the Life you Want.

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