Holistic Remedies For Weight Loss Part Two
8 Holistic Remedies for Weightloss
Here are some holistic remedies for weight loss. These techniques are often used in holistic medicine for their many benefits. Remember that diet alone is often not enough to sustain long lasting results. This is especially true for fad diet.
Send Positive Messages to Yourself
In many cases, a trigger will tempt you to turn to eating food. This habit can eventually become your enemy. Too many people, for various reasons, choose to punish themselves for eating too much. Others use food as a way of expressing self-control. This rarely helps the weight loss process and reinforces bad eating habits.
Many had parents that used food as a way to control them. Such as in discipline, or to redirect their child’s wayward behavior are at a greater risk of overeating and becoming obese as an adult. These people need a holistic approach to losing weight.
How do you give yourself these messages?
One way to break the pattern of overeating is to try giving yourself positive messages. Positive messages include telling yourself that “my need to eat a snack will not last and will pass over time” or “I have the ability to control my eating behavior”. This can reinforce positive patterns of eating and can lessen the urges to eat.
When you are successful in reducing your consumption of food, you can send yourself other types of positive messages. Such messages include “Being healthy is great” and “I am proud of myself for eating healthy foods in the proper amounts today.” These thoughts and phrases can help you in re-framing your relationship with food. You think of yourself in a different way. As a responsible person eating food for the right reasons.
Positive messages can work with exercising as well. You can use“I am strong and exercise will help me” or “I feel good after I have exercised” and “I am proud of myself for exercising for thirty minutes today.” These will make exercising easier and you will be more likely to partake in it on a daily or near-daily basis.
Meditation
Meditation is one of the best techniques used in a holistic approach to weight loss. Those who practice meditation will gain a greater mindfulness of the various thoughts and emotions they are feeling so that they can become aware of emotions they hadn’t noticed in the past. Meditation can help those who binge eat learn the ways they use food in order to cope with negative emotions. It also helps overeaters understand that they should eat when they actually feel hungry and stop eating when they are full. The underlying causes of eating too much can be addressed by meditating.
In meditation, you sit or lie in a comfortable position. You usually close your eyes and focus on the in and out of your breath as you begin to relax your muscles from your head to your toes. You can say a syllable or mantra in order to deepen the state of relaxation. Then you let your mind remain in the present moment in a state known as “mindfulness.” Do this for several minutes until you feel entirely relaxed. Then you may tell yourself that you do not need to focus on past traumas but can stay in the present, eating less and exercising more.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy with a qualified psychotherapist can help those who have problems overeating learn to modify their eating behavior. One type of therapy that works particularly well is cognitive behavioral therapy. This type of therapy can teach you how to change your behavior in order to reach your goal of losing weight. Rather than searching for the underlying reasons behind your overeating,
When you seek the assistance of a therapist trained in cognitive-behavioral therapy, the therapist will help you learn new habits. Such as how to replace old and well-established patterns of eating with behaviors that are more productive. The therapist might address problem thoughts and beliefs such as “I am depressed so I deserve to eat”. they can also show you how these thoughts drive you to overeat.
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help you change your obsession with body image as the reason behind your trying to lose weight. This will help you focus on losing weight because this is a healthy goal rather than because you hate how you look. These techniques are very helpful in helping you learn how to eat properly and with a goal of healthy weight loss.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is an alternative therapy technique that has worked on many people who suffer from obesity. A qualified hypnotherapist can use various techniques to put you into a therapeutic and relaxing trance. Then they can help put into your brain thought and suggestions, such as “I want to be healthy” or “I can control my eating” or “I like to exercise.” They can give you post-hypnotic suggestions that help you take what you got from hypnosis to use after you have come out of the trance.
You can come away with thoughts in your head that promote healthy eating and exercise. Hypnosis may be done just once or on a regular basis in order to reinforce positive ideas around losing weight the healthy way.
Yoga
Yoga is a centuries-old practice that will not just improve your balance and flexibility but can improve your mind and body connection so that you can begin to eat better. It involves doing several different poses in tune to breathing exercises. Yoga is part meditation and part exercise. It can be one of the forms of exercise you do as part of a weight loss program and can help you learn to eat less because you are more in tune with your body.
Guided Imagery for Weight-loss
Guided imagery is a form of meditation that involves imagining yourself in a beautiful and serene place while focusing on your breath. You imagine your body to be much thinner and that you can see, hear, and smell everything in the place you have chosen. The place you choose can be anywhere but most people choose beaches, mountaintops, forests, or meadows to imagine. This practice relaxes you and gets you more in touch with your body so that you eat less after practicing this technique.
Journaling and Self-Motivation
Try keeping a journal of your thoughts and successes or engage in some other form of self-monitoring method so you can be more aware of exactly what you eat and why you are eating. You can write down a list of everything you eat during the day, which can enlighten you as to your eating behaviors.
You can use your journal to reflect on the various emotions you are feeling, learn what drives you to eat, (and keeps you from eating) as well as the outcomes of your endeavors around eating and exercise. Journaling can reinforce positive behaviors so that you can easily look back on where you once were and reflect on the positive path you are now on.
Exercise
Just reducing your food intake will be inadequate in helping you lose weight. You need to engage in some form of physical activity. This is essential as part of a holistic approach to losing weight. Choose an exercise you enjoy so that you are more likely to stick with it. Better yet, choose several different physical exercise types you are likely to stay with and do different exercises on different days.
In Summary of Holistic Remedies for Weight-loss
In the spirit of holistic healing, you should select those principles, techniques, and approaches that will best serve you as you embark on a holistic weight loss plan.
No individuals are completely alike and no single method will work on everyone. In visualizing yourself thinner, remember the behaviors and eating techniques that resonate most with you. When you engage in exercise, do something you actually enjoy doing. If you choose to do cognitive behavioral therapy, take an active part in your treatment process.
In Conclusion
Work on the various techniques. This means doing things like meditation after your exercise for the day. Or the practice of sending yourself positive messages throughout the day. Remember that you are in charge of your weight loss project so make positive and effective decisions. This will help your weight loss process go much more smoothly.
Use the above techniques along with regular exercising and eating healthy foods. Make the holistic approach to weight loss something that is unique to you and your personal goals. A holistic medicine practitioner or nutritionist can be an invaluable asset in that they can identify your vulnerabilities. They then can design a plan that will help counteract any pitfalls and issues that may sabotage your success.
Be sure to talk to your doctor before starting any type of weight loss program.
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