Hypnosis for Weight Loss Seattle

Emotional Roadblock 5: Stress

Even though you feel like you're living on the edge and burning a zillion calories a minute, the fact is...stress causes fat to be stored.

From the Dec. 1998 issue of Shape Magazine:

"Researchers have found that stress actually promotes the storage of fat deep in your abdomen rather than just under your skin," explains Pamela M. Peeke, M.D.,M.P.H.,senior scientist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Why would anxiety and depression lead to an increase in abdominal fat?

Stress prompts the adrenal glands to secrete the hormone cortisol, preparing the body for an emergency, which includes telling it to store more fat. "And there's no question that cortisol increases fat deposition in one place, the worst place of all - the belly," says Peeke.

Studies have shown, she adds, that deep abdominal fat cells have more receptors for cortisol and other stress hormones than do superficial fat cels elsewhere.

If you want to lose weight and you are living a stressful existence, then you absolutely MUST do something about this.  Hypnosis itself is an amazing and very fast anti-stress tool. All of my clients learn a number of different ways to instantly relieve stress. It's like pushing a button and re-setting the body so that your chemicals (hormones, etc.) are working for your weight loss goals.

Listen, I understand all about busy jobs and lifestyles with the kids and parents and obligations everywhere. I worked in a very stressful job at Fedex Express as a manager constantly working under the threat of "get it done on time or we'll find someone who will."  

I'm not telling you that you have to quit your job, sell everything and move to South America although that doesn't sound so bad now does it? :-)  What I am saying is that you must work out how to handle the issues in your life so that your body doesn't think the barbarians are at the gate about to take over the city you live in.

All of my clients learn hypnotic stress-reduction techniques to deal with this. Below are some tips to reducing your stress

Craig Sigl

Seattle Wa

1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day. And while you walk, smile. It
Is the ultimate anti-depressant.

2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day. Talk to God/Yourself about
What is going on in your life. Buy a lock if you have to.

3. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, 'My
Purpose is to__________ today. I am thankful for______________.

4. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that
Is manufactured in plants.

5. Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, broccoli , almonds & walnuts.

6. Try to make at least three people smile each day.

7. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues
Of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead
Invest your energy in the positive present moment.

8. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a
College kid with a maxed out charge card.

9. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

10. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

11. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

12. You are not so important that you have to win every argument.
Agree to disagree.

13. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.

14. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their
Journey is all about.

15. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

16. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In five years,
Will this matter?'

17. Forgive everyone for everything.

18. What other people think of you is none of your business.

19. GOD/TIME heals everything - but you have to ask for it.

20. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

21. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends
Will. Stay in touch!!!

22. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

23. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: I
Am thankful for__________. Today I accomplished_________.

24. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.

25. When you are feeling down, start listing your many blessings.
You'll be smiling before you know it.

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