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Testimonials & Case Studies Weight Control - Tracey's story It was my 37th birthday and I went to see my doctor as I was feeling generally unwell. He did routine tests which all were normal. He then told me to step on the scales and be weighed. This was something I was dreading as I had not weighed myself for a couple of years. When he told me I was over 17 & 1/2 stone, I was shocked. I am only 5ft 3 and couldn’t believe I had put on so much weight. I had never been slim and even when I was a teenager I weighed 12 stone and wore size 18 clothes. I have 3 children, at that time my daughter was 9 and my twin sons were 6. I didn’t really have a social life. I had a full time job and was kept busy at home with housework, homework and trying to get sleep. I think I turned to the fridge and just ate to make myself feel happy. I permanently had a headache and had no energy, I was finding it hard to find clothes to fit me and was creeping up to a size 26/28. I decided I had to do something about my weight and health in general and very bravely searched on the internet under “hypnotherapy and weight loss”. I found a hypnotherapist in my area and sent a very brief email explaining that I wanted to lose weight. I didn’t think much more about it and then the following day an email reply came back from Neil Robinson. He asked for some more background to my life and I sat down to reply. It was only as I was about to hit “send” that I re-read my life history and realised I was very unhappy with my life and had lost my identity and didn’t have a life of my own. I sent the email and waited. Neil sent me a reply almost immediately asking me to come and visit him. I didn’t know what to expect and had only seen people hypnotised on the television and was very anxious about visiting him but I was so determined to lose weight that I arranged a visit the following week. From this point on there was no looking back, Neil sat and talked to me about how I felt and said that I could lose weight and feel good about myself if I really wanted to. I sat and talked and talked and cried from time to time. He listened to what I was saying. He took time to explain how hypnotherapy works which allayed all my anxieties and preconceptions. He said I would become very relaxed and enjoy it. After all the talking my first hypnotherapy session lasted about an hour but I felt like it was only 10 minutes. I arranged another visit for the following week, and left his office feeling on top of the world feeling that a great burden had been lifted. I felt like I was floating on air! Neil had told me under hypnosis that I would never diet again because the word "diet" is a negative word - it threatens the denial of food which can bring about starvation and then overeating and excess weight gain. Hypnotherapy retrains eating habits, generates satisfaction that leads to relaxation and creates a slim attractive body, a relaxed mind and a satiated spirit. Those words rang in my soul for that first week - and still do. Even before my next visit I realised I could change things and started to eat healthy foods. Before I had never eaten breakfast, but just snacked all day and ate lots of fatty foods. In all my previous attempts to lose weight I had just ending up feeling hungry and miserable and ended up yo-yo dieting, but after visiting Neil I didn’t feel the urge to binge eat or snack anymore. This was so painless and I felt completely in control of my life again and I didn't need to 'comfort eat' any more. I started having 2 slices of wholemeal toast for breakfast, fruit midday, a light low fat lunch and a cooked meal with lots of veg and no potatoes for dinner. After a month, my headaches had stopped and my energy levels had increased. I started to pay more attention to myself and treat myself to new clothes and make up. Then I started exercising twice a week at a dance class and before long I noticed my clothes were becoming baggy. I started buying a new wardrobe of clothes in smaller sizes and every few months I realised they were getting too big for me too! Then it was back to the shops again. I hadn’t mentioned to anyone that I had been to a hypnotherapist or that I was on a healthy eating plan. It was about 3 months after I started that friends began to ask if I was losing weight. That gave me even more of a boost and I have continued on my healthy eating and exercise routine. Now it's just about a year since I started and I am now wearing size 12 bottoms and size 14 tops and still going down. One rule I had given myself was that I would not weigh myself. In the past I had dieted hard and then become disheartened when I weighed myself and hadn’t lost any weight. Last week, for the first time since my visit to the doctors, in February last year, I asked a close friend to weigh me but not to tell me my weight if it was over 12 stone. I could not believe my ears when she said I now weigh just over 10 stone. Bearing in mind that I have never been under 12 stone, not even as a teenager, I was thrilled. Just about everyday I meet people and they comment on the new me and how I look like a completely different person. They want to know how I did it so this is my chance to let them know how the power of the mind and being in the care of a skilled hypnotherapist like Neil has changed my life. I now feel great about myself, have a full and active social life and have made lots of new friends.
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