Recently, in my work as a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist, I have been seeing quite a few people who want to lose weight but just don’t seem to be able to.

The problem with a diet is that it is commonly a regime of food intake that is not natural to us.  We are by nature designed to eat everything that is edible so if you focus on a specific range of foods you are refusing your body some nutrients that it naturally needs.

So eat anything you want, including ice cream and chocolate if you want it.  The trick is to only eat an appropriate amount.  Eat one piece of chocolate instead of a bar.  Eat one scoop of ice cream instead of a bowl.  Don’t eat until you are full, don’t eat until your plate is empty; only eat until you are satisfied.  If there is food left on your plate, so be it.

We often laugh about comfort foods, but some foods do make us feel happier so if we are feeling below our best, we sabotage our way of eating by heading for the biscuits, chocolate or whatever it is that fills the empty space.  The trick here is to understand more about why you feel down and learn how to deal with the way you feel.

There are psychologists paid large sums of money to work out how to make you part with more of your hard earned cash and of course, if you learn to stop walking down these sweet aisle in supermarkets you will be much more able to resist the impulse – after that all you have to do is get past the checkout without grabbing a bar to eat on your way home.

I remember being told by a client, “when someone says something negative about me I try to eat my way out of the larder”.  That is where people like me come into our own.  We help you work out how to deal with the issue.