Is your body really calling for that fast food?

About 25 years ago, I started my venture into the health and fitness industry. I eventually received my certification as a fitness trainer and did that for about 10 years. I thoroughly enjoyed helping my clients reach their health goals. It’s a feeling of joy that I get to day as a hypnotherapist.

In fact it’s my career as a fitness trainer that gently “pushed” me into this world as a Hypnotherapist. Even though I was getting excellent results where most fitness trainers have failed, I wanted to push the envelope with my clients. There were times when a client would get “stuck” even though we did numerous fitness programs to get them past the hump. Then there were those clients that were even more difficult. The ones that were doing everything “right” - eating healthy, working out 3X plus a week, wrote a food journal and never cheated, but still couldn’t lose a pound! I didn’t get it and it frustrated the heck out of me. Then I added hypnosis into the whole mix.

I took my Hypnosis Course Certification and starting using the techniques I learned with my fitness clients. BOOM! It was the push I needed. It was amazing how this extra element would take them past their sticking points. Not only that, but it seemed to make it a lot easier. However, there would still be those very few clients that would still do everything “right” and even added Hypnosis to the mix that STILL could not lose a lb!

In retrospect, I should have felt very content knowing I was helping the vast majority of my fitness clients attain thier goals and even helping those that could not get anywhere with previous fitness trainers. Eventually I opened up my hypnosis practice and my fitness clients having such a great relationship with me, voluntarily switched over to becoming my hypnosis clients. So off I was with a jumpstart into my hypnosis career.

However, the same thing happened again! With my hypnosis clientele I could get the vast majority of my weight loss clients to thier goals succesffuly but still there was that 2 or 3 clients that would do everything right and still be stick. As I look back, I know I should have been alot easier on myself, but I guess it’s that perfetionistic side of me that wants success in everything I do. So I made it a priority to be able to help those clients that were doing everything right but still not getting to thier goals.

Then it hit me - Even though they were following their diets to the tee - even ones that were nutritionally supervised by a nutritionist, what if those diets weren’t in line with their unique needs? Which brings me to the point of this blog?

We are so inundated with this diet or that diet, even worse, this pill or that pill. But what if the body is rejecting these diet programs no matter how “good” or “scientific” they may seem? We’ve been so brainwashed with a plethora of eating plans that we’ve moved away from our instinctual information and entrusted our lives to “professionals” (sometimes ones that are overweight themselves), even though it may seem to go against our instinctual nature.

I’ve come to realize that the body is an amazing thing - especially because it is so well connected to the subconscious mind, and if we listen to the knowledge contained within our bodies we will find out what is most right for us, instead of allowing someone else to dictate what is right for us. When my clients started trusting thier bodies more and listening from within, it’s as if it was the “key to the lock” they were looking for and weight started coming off. When this would happen it was like re-living those moments when I could help fitness clients reach thier goals that seemed so impossible for them.

So today, this is what I center my weight loss program on - bringing clients back to their natural instinctual health! Like Hippocrates said “The body’s natural tendency is that toward health.” We just have to clear the blocks and listen. However, sometimes we have to release layer upon layer upon layer of misguided perceptions and feelings they’ve had around food, before we could get them clear enough to listen to their true instinctual voice, but that’s another topic for another time. One amazing thing that would happen consistently, after they were clear enough, is that their bodies would go back to natural whole foods - and once we got them off the fast food greasy synthetic foods, their bodies responded wonderfully, so much so, that they felt more energetic, vibrant and overall just happy and of course trim and healthy. Isn’t that what it’s all about?

Let’s get back to basics - find that inner voice and listen to it! It will always tell you your truth.