Hypnotherapy is not a quick fix to achieve your ideal weight, but it is a very effective and easy way to ‘make the necessary changes’ to achieve a sensible, healthy and sustainable weight adjustment.
The ideal approach to weight loss is about making a lifestyle change that supports a healthy and happy lifestyle. This often involves stopping excessive consumption of food or sugar in order to achieve the desired weight loss (see more about this under – ‘Hypnosis For Bad Habits’). It also involves you regaining a natural and intuitive relationship with yourself, your body, food and exercise. YES AGAIN – as we are all born with a natural and healthy relationship to hunger, food and our body. My clients often talk about the latter as being the most valuable gain after our work together.
Clients often come to me after having tried the ‘usual’, common things to lose weight – diets of various kinds, exercise, personal trainer, group exercise, pills, fasting, starvation or surgery. When traditional approaches to weight loss fail, many consider hypnosis, and with good reason. At Prue Bach Hypnotherapy in Vejle, I offer a deeper psychological approach that works with the deeper cause driving the unwanted behaviour.
This means that clients typically already KNOW what to eat and what not to eat to support healthy weight loss. They are also typically updated on exercise and what is beneficial to their health. Therefore, my collaboration with clients is typically focused on what HAS NOT been considered yet, in addition using hypnosis to help reinforce good eating and exercise choices.
Regardless of what you are seeking help with in your transformation, my experience has shown me that successful transformation ALWAYS involves a shift in our ‘way of BEING’. It may sound ‘diffuse’ and ‘intangible’, but after our time together, its value will be clear. The way we are in our lives is much more relevant to the solution than anything we have or haven’t DONE.
This primarily involves working with the ‘inner’ environment by becoming aware (mindful) of your habitual approach to the issues relevant to weight. This is where ‘Mental Fitness’ is relevant as an important supplement to hypnosis for weight loss. What’s your typical thought patterns and feeling patterns been about different topics? The relevant topics and patterns could be about – your food choices and portion sizes, eating times and places, body image, your ‘look’ or size, history and habits, your weight, exercise or opinion about your body or yourself. We all have a ‘relationship’ with these things.
These relationships are strongly linked to the results you have achieved and is at the heart of your successful change. In our sessions together we identify what your personal story has been and then, more importantly, we identify what the solutions are to achieve what you personally desire.
As a holistic hypnotherapist and manifestation coach, this change involves a shift in perspective and a change in your personal story, as our thinking and emotions affect everything – our physical body and well-being, as well as the results we experience. You will comes to understand yourself better, which includes finding the CAUSE of your ‘struggle’ with weight. This is typically unconscious and therefore unknown.
In my experience, the magnitude of the client’s JOY at being free of their weight struggle is equal to the magnitude of their struggle. This core, deeper level, mind and body work is highly effective and lasting in making the relevant changes.
As with all transformational change, I also include working with ‘self-identity’, as our self-concept affects everything, especially our bodies and that includes our weight. These inclusions in my work with clients makes my transformational work powerful and effective, where clients often experience unexpected lifestyle benefits to their weight loss. This involves you getting to know yourself better, so you can be true to yourself and achieve lasting success.
No matter what people want – we tend to seek change because we think it will help us ‘feel good or better’. Feeling good is about ‘keeping our commitments to ourselves!’
As a holistic, clinical hypnotherapist, at Prue Bach Hypnotherapy and Feel Good Living clinic in Vejle, I will help you FULFILL your commitments and make your dreams come true by harmonizing your new thoughts and feelings with successful actions! This makes it easier to maintain and implement healthy habits.
Success comes from doing the right things, long enough and maintaining it.
This is what makes the use of hypnotherapy for weight loss, such an excellent tool, especially when combined with Mental Fitness skills. It helps to effectively fire and connect new neurological pathways through encoding the new, chosen and preferred patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. This supports success and replaces the unconscious sabotage patterns and sets you FREE!
Read of Kirsten’s success in taking responsibility and having faith in herself after hypnosis and hypnotherapy for weight loss:
Dear Prue
Thank you very much for my treatment with you. You are very inspiring and lively to be with. I have enjoyed our sessions – it has been hard work but you have lovingly but firmly guided me along the way.
I turned to you for help with my weight. I wanted to lose weight but didn’t know where to start or how. You gave me back my own North Star. You gave me back the responsibility and you also gave me faith in myself. The biggest changes I have noticed after and during our time together are changes in mindset and behaviour. I take better care of myself. I correct when I get off track. I also feel that I have become better at accepting myself. I give myself time and peace, but also to make some choices that I may have taken too long to make.
I love you as a therapist. You are authentic and you have a sense of humor. I love your enthusiasm and not least your accent. You support and you follow along in the process. I really felt safe in your hands. The hypnosis was good and useful, but it was actually our conversations beforehand that made the biggest impression on me. They were good. But I am still impressed and also surprised by the things I have experienced in the hypnosis. It just confirms that the truth is inside me. You are on my shoulder. When things get difficult, I see you stand up, stretch your arm forward for the North Star, then I play your pep talk inside myself and then the lion is ready again. I am the ‘Instructor in my own life.’
Thank you very much for you and for your help on my journey.
Thank you so much for all the inspiration you have sent me. I’m not done trying it out at all. It’s great that you send a little extra after each session – it makes me feel special and that’s nice.
Love Kirsten Helbo
This ‘struggle’ with weight is typically associated with pain or negative emotions or is due to a lack of mind-body awareness. None of these problems are successfully solved by controlling food or exercise or taking pills or being surgically supported.
Working with your conscious mind, unconscious mind (your body) and your subconscious mind (patterns/habits), however, does. Hypnosis treatment of weight loss makes relevant changes to the ’cause’ of the problem driving and controlling the unwanted patterns and corrects and integrates them. As a qualified Medical Scientist, it is important that I use evidence-based methods. Scientific research proves that the successful effects of cognitive behavioural therapy are significantly increased when hypnosis is added to the treatment.
A typical weight loss treatment is 4 sessions. For the treatment of sugar addiction (see under Hypnosis for Bad Habits), it is typically 2-4 sessions.
Read client testimonials of their success using hypnosis and hypnotherapy for weight loss as well as hypnosis and hypnotherapy for sugar addiction:
Hi Prue,
Thanks for our time together and our last session. I hope you are well. I am!
I have been enjoying the new me for a few months now and have written down a few words that I hope you can use for something:
When I contacted Prue, my problem was that I had an eternal battle inside my head with regard to “snacking”. After a big weight loss (before meeting Prue), my goal was to keep the number on the bathroom scale down, and I wouldn’t mind if the numbers went down further. It filled my head so much that, for example, on the way to Legoland with my son in the car, I would spend more time thinking about whether I should “allow myself” to have an iced coffee than talking to my son about what we can do at Legoland. I could gain weight if I didn’t stick to my “proper” diet. I was convinced that it was precisely THAT that was my problem/my challenge: food and the urge for it. Otherwise, there was nothing “wrong” with me.
It worked really well with the conversations for a good 1½ hours before the “trip in the chair”. I felt 100% safe and sat with the feeling that I could just talk about everything! Because the more open and honest I was, the greater the chance there was to “turn the tables” because even though I thought there was nothing else wrong with me, I was not happy. I was under pressure and constantly overworked mentally.
During the course of the treamtent I gained greater insight into why I was the way I was, who I wanted to be and have since thought many thoughts. Positive thoughts! I had no experience with hypnosis before the course, just a notion that I should lie in a chair and be completely “away” and not be aware of what was happening to me. I am pleasantly surprised at how easy it was for me to give in to the hypnosis – probably because I felt so comfortable in your company and because I really wanted a change. I had no doubt that something “happened” to me. It was the wildest feeling when I woke up from the hypnosis. It really worked for me and I could feel a change in myself – Joy, energy, courage, lightness in the body. All in all, a lot of good feelings!
My problem was actually that I was roaringly insecure! My urge to “snack” was my quick fix because eating made me happy. At least that’s what I fooled myself with. But afterwards I got annoyed with myself again and nothing had changed. I was far too busy dealing with what others (perhaps) thought of me and my way of being to notice what was important to me and only me (vs others)!
During and after my treatment, I have let go of my thoughts about other people’s attitudes. They can think what they want, I can’t control that –and I don’t want to spend unnecessary energy on it. I’ve thrown my bathroom scale out in the garage and made a decision that the number on the scale doesn’t matter. If I’m happy with what I see in the mirror, then that’s how I should be. My relationship with food is much more relaxed. If I want to eat chocolate (snacks) with my children, I do it and I enjoy it – without subsequently having a bad conscience. My thoughts and my body are not working overtime like before and that’s great! I feel good and am happy with myself.
I’m so glad I reached out to you and got in touch with you, Prue. It has been a life-changing experience and I am deeply grateful for your help. You have been recommended to many in my circle of friends! Good experiences must be shared.
Thanks!
Julie
Aim: Relieve sugar cravings to lose weight which I have had a problem with since childhood.
The conversations before hypnosis were thorough and positive and the hypnosis sessions hit the spot and were powerful.
I lost 7kg in about 1 month, changed my thinking patterns to more positive ones, where I look up and I am much more approachable.
I eat healthier, and more easily steer clear of what is not good for me. A big bonus is that I feel that I have been helped to change my mindset, so that I can shut down bad thoughts much faster. It is easier for me to stay focused on what is good for me.
The cause of the problem was old habits.
The hypnosis experiences were easy for me to relate to as Prue created a safe atmosphere during the hypnosis.
The hypnosis treatments and conversations have worked and had a surprisingly good effect. Prue was good at making me see new paths. I feel completely treated successfully.
It surprised me that based on a few conversations you can change an old habit from one day to the next.
Prue was very skilled and present. It could not have been better. There was a very professional and competent approach to the treatment, where the level of service was absolutely perfect.
I would recommend Prue Bach.
Thank you for your help, Marco.
For many years I have weighed too much and worked too much and been really bad at taking care of myself.
I have eaten too much food and way too much candy. And had periods when I was either active in terms of training and other periods when I was completely inactive. So overall, my desire was to get rid of the sugar cravings and hopefully lose weight as a result. But I also had a desire to work with the patterns and beliefs that were the reason why I sabotaged what I wanted.
I wished I could – stop eating candy and sweet things, that I could live a more active lifestyle, where I was better at self-care and where I could work less, that I was in control and not the other way around. I wanted a life with more energy and a more active lifestyle.
The conversations before the hypnosis were really valuable. Prue is really good at seeing the whole of you and so good at asking about the right things and getting to the core of what needs to be worked on. You get many aha experiences along the way.
It is difficult to describe hypnosis. It’s as if you’re fully awake and aware and know what you’re saying, yet sometimes you say something you didn’t expect. And the things that are said by Prue mysteriously go into the subconscious and in just a few sessions can change some patterns and thoughts that you have been with for years and could not do anything about yourself. It works 😊
The urge stopped after 3 sessions and has not returned.
Since the last session, I have eaten cake and ice cream on 3 occasions which were in social contexts. I was anxious to see if it would backfire, but it didn’t. I can control the urge and eat something if I feel like it when I’m social, but when I’m at home I find that even though I might want a treat, I don’t want sweets at all. In that case I come up with an alternative solution. I have a bag of gold caramels lying around which has been in the cupboard for several weeks. It would never have happened before. It’s a very strange but really amazing feeling. For SO many years I’ve been used to craving candy every single day, not being able to walk past the candy shelf in the supermarket without buying something, always having something in my cupboards. So it’s really nice to feel like I’ve got control back.
There is no doubt that the hypnosis treatments have worked! As I said, my sugar cravings have completely disappeared. And at the same time I have solved some of the underlying issues that were to blame for me eating far too much sugar. I feel complete with the things I sought treatment for. And it also gives me peace of mind that I now know that if I discover other inappropriate patterns, I know where I can find help to solve it.
Prue is fantastic 😊 both as a therapist and as a person. She is of course professional and competent but also really present, authentic and with good energy. She is good at seeing you, healing you and asking the right questions. It makes her so sharp at finding the exact problem to be worked on in that day’s session.
She has an approach that combines the scientific and the spiritual, which for me means that she is truly inspiring and motivating in her way of working. I have solved the things I came for via hypnosis, but have also received tips for tools and inspiration that you can work with yourself to strengthen your personal development outside of the sessions. In my case, some examples are, within areas of meditation, mindset and manifestation.
I have already recommended both Prue and the establishment to others. It works 😊
Dear Prue,
What the problem was and how long you have had it
I came to hypnosis with the aim of getting my sugar cravings under control. I had thought that I was probably a person who very easily becomes “addicted” to things that are supposed to sweeten my life.
I started smoking cigarettes when I was approx. 12 years, and from the age of 35 I drank far too much. I had no control over it. I also smoked and drank even though I didn’t feel like it. The alcohol was probably the worst. I could sit at work and think: today I’m just driving home from work, no problem NOT buying a bottle of red wine. BUT when I was sitting there in the car on the way home, I couldn’t control myself at all. So the wine was bought and drunk in record time so I could fall asleep on the sofa.
When I moved home to Billund after 23 years in the USA, I stopped smoking and drinking. It was super easy, but I had replaced my cigarettes and wine with: sweets, cakes, chocolate.
Now I could not control that consumption either. I could lie in bed and think: you don’t get up and eat, you don’t get up. BUT in the end I got up and ate all sorts of crazy things to get my thoughts to stop.
So the problem was: I felt miserable inside and tried to forget it with the help of cigarettes, wine or sweets. I just wanted to sleep it all away.
In the waking state I was not present in the Now. I constantly had thoughts and fantasies about a completely different life than my own. That’s how I think I’ve always felt, that I wrote a better life than the one I had.
How you have felt your change (physically and psychologically) – behaviour, habits, mindset, feelings
I felt it the first time I was in hypnosis. After that session, I haven’t had thoughts that are constantly about sweets, cakes, chocolate. I can shop or watch other people eat sugar, but it’s kind of like I don’t see it. It has no appeal for me. There is no alarm bell going off, candy candy candy, I have to eat it. I don’t see it.
Nor do I have thoughts that constantly create fantasies about me and another life. I am present right now in my own life. I can watch TV and not fall into spells. I can listen to love songs without weeping.
I’m happy when I wake up, I’m happy when I go to bed tired, I smile all the time – both inside and outside.
I repeat my mantra 1000 times throughout the day. If I start a fantasy, I can stop it by saying: you are right here right now.
How did you experience our sessions – both the conversations and hypnosis
I thought it was such a huge experience for me. It worked. Words were put to what hurt. I am so grateful to have met you Prue. I got rid of all the old crap that my parents had instilled in me. The first hypnosis was probably the most profound. However, all 3 hypnosis were necessary, new impressions appear all the time, where I can see the last hypnosis sessions working inside me.
For example, I can have my parents visit without being completely upset and feeling the urge to get drunk or eat sweets after they’ve gone. Now I am the lion that does not always swallow raw. They don’t get under my skin. Now they are just people with whom I talk a little.
Something that has surprised you
That I can’t see sweets, cake and other unhealthy things
That I am really present right now and here.
That I KNOW I’m good. That I am the best at being me. I don’t have to imagine or try to be someone other than myself. I am good as I am.
That I don’t sit and get so overwhelmed with tears when love songs are played.
That I don’t spend my time on fantasies.
Your conclusion about treatment and me as a therapist
All I can say is that it worked. It was so nice to get rid of all the old crap I’ve been lugging around for far too many years.
Prue, you came really close, it was so safe and easy to tell you about my life. You were always 100% with me, your laugh your lovely smile, it was so infectiously lovely to be with you – your radiance, warmth, kindness, love and your genuine enthusiasm for my progress.
Whether you would recommend me
Yes, I would like to, I can only say that it is probably the best I have ever tried.
Feel free to share, I can only highly recommend you and hypnosis.
The warmest and most loving greetings
Jette the lion
(Has enjoyed value of 2 sessions since)
I have had a big sugar craving for many years. I wanted to control of my sugar cravings which I have had since I was a child.
I had no expectations as I haven’t heard of anyone trying it. I just read online and thought it might be interesting to try. I am also a trained dietitian, so I had control over my diet and exercise often. But there was still something psychological that made me eat a lot of sugar in the evening.
I am VERY surprised at how positive it has been. After 1 session, Prue had done something, so there was a constant blockade between my thought of sugar and sugar. I didn’t think about sugar at all and when people asked, I automatically said ”no thanks”. More and more people told me it was crazy how I had stopped snacking. So already after the first session, Prue had hit something that made me have no sugar cravings. Already at the first session I felt a sense of security with Prue. Prue was so calm and really good at explaining things in a language you could understand and even feel!
Session 2 was more profound. Here she got hold of the cause of my sugar cravings. This is the reason why I chose session 3 and 4. I am so glad I chose session 3 and 4 as it has allowed me to close something from my childhood that has been bothering me for many years. I would therefore always recommend that people take all 4 sessions, especially if you find out in session 2 why you have had this sugar craving.
I still have a feeling today of being GRATEFUL to have met Prue. I try every day to remember all the positive things she has taught me.
Mental symptoms-
Mentally, she has healed me 100%, if you can say that. I had so many negative thoughts in my everyday life, which filled up a lot. I actually have no negative thoughts and if people are negative I am good at saying that my life is too short for negative thoughts.
Physical symptoms –
I am much more healthy and active. I enjoy my training much more and my walks are worth their weight in gold and not just something I have to get over. I am more active with my child too.
Thought Patterns –
I only have positive thoughts and no negative ones. I am good at forgetting the negative and turning it into something positive and being grateful for the life I have.
I would like to keep the cause of the problem private. But it is from my childhood and to do with some parents who worked a lot. It was nice and relaxed being in hypnosis. Prue has helped me stop and actually live life now – so I don’t have to work as much as my parents did, I’d rather live life now, by being there for my child and watching him grow up. I’ve stopped too with working in the evening and only when he is in daycare.
YES YES, without a doubt, the hypnosis treatments and conversations have worked and had a positive effect. I have been to a psychologist and this is much better and more useful. Hypnosis can be used in your life right here and now, also for the rest of your life.
I definitely feel completely treated. I have achieved a positive change that I never thought would happen. I am grateful every day for having met Prue.
Prue has done everything well. She is so calm, present, positive and just nice. A person you really dare to open up to. I liked that she had written notes so she could remember EVERYTHING I had said, it really shows that she is passionate about her work.
There is nothing that could have been better or that I wished differently.
There was a professional and competent approach to the treatment. Prue had it under control. She didn’t read anything or anything like that. She was good at coming up with useful examples that made sense in relation to where I was in life and what I had to change.
The service level was high.
I would recommend Prue Bach and hynotherapy to others. I give Prue Bach the warmest recommendations and the establishment is lucky to have her.
I actually miss my conversations with Prue because I felt like I was flying higher and higher with each session. But right now, I’ve ended up in a place where I can see my WHOLE life changing into a lot of positives.
The sugar cravings are gone, I have a normal relationship with sugar now – I FEEL GOOD
Dear Prue
I would like to thank you for the very good treatment. I have gained a lot from my time with you.
I have complied with my 3 months without alcohol, with not eating after 7 pm and have had a really good time with both.
And the very best is – being able to set a goal and stick to it.
It has also been great to wake up without negative thoughts.
I get exercise in.
I prioritize myself, for example, I am currently on an educational course – and I have stuck to it, even though I’m actually too busy. And then I lost weight. 3.5 kg. It’s not that much, but it’s slowly going in the right direction and I’m very satisfied!
So thank you very much!
Many greetings,
Hildur Edelberg
I was in treatment with Prue for 4 sessions.
I wanted to get rid of my huge sugar addiction – which I have had since my very early teenage years and thereby also get rid of a few kilos.
In collaboration with Prue, I really succeeded in getting a different angle on sugar – an understanding of why I did what I did as well as a completely NEW INTERNAL understanding that sugar does not benefit me in any way. It gave me an understanding that by letting sugar go I can get even more out of life.
Now, 14 days after our time together, I can state that I have had virtually no withdrawals, and my desire for food has changed in a significantly healthier direction, which means that I have already lost weight.
During our 4 sessions together, we really effectively cleaned up the traumas from my whole life that lay behind my issues.
Prue has a fantastic radiance and is full of positive energy. She is keenly perceptive and quick, in a fine combination with great empathy. At the same time, she manages to create a safe environment.
I am impressed with Prue’s skills and can highly recommend her
Dear Prue
Thank you very much. It was SO meaningful and redemptive to be with you today (after 1st session). Thanks. I look forward to exercising all your wise words and using self-hypnosis in my life and creating a new path and foundation, with the’ lion’ as a starting point:-)
I look forward to my next hypnosis session with you.
Friendly greetings
Stine
I sought help from Prue regarding weight loss. However, I knew very well that there are of course other issues and blocks that I have had for many years.
My goal was that I would like to feel light in my body.
Prue was great to talk to. She was super good at listening and asking about everything important. She was really good at explaining and guiding me in how the process should go. I felt a lot of trust in Prue.
The hypnosis sessions were very professional. I felt completely safe in Prue’s hypnosis treatment, even though it was a really tough session to get through.
Prue is very skilled and competent in hypnosis. She is very trustworthy and we had a really nice chemistry/dialogue.
There was a very professional and competent approach to the treatment, where the level of service was very high.
I would definitely recommend Prue Bach to others!
The hypnosis experiences together with Prue have meant that I have cleaned up old beliefs about how I should be. Now can I finally just be me self .
My behaviour and ways of doing things have changed, so I have to stop and notice myself instead of just racing at 120 mk/h like before.
I have slowly started meditating.
I make sure to notice in myself when my body signals something or the other. And I am much better at listening for what it is that I need, instead of just eating something or other. I am better at allowing myself to rest. I’m better at telling myself that now I don’t need to do any more – now I want to stop and relax.
The hypnosis treatments and conversations have clearly had a strong and positive effect on the mental level.
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