Weight Reduction Miracle - Hypnosis CDs Plus The Ornish Diet

The Ornish Diet is a low-fat, vegetarian diet plan. Proper use of the eating plan, exercise, and stress-management techniques of this plan results in weight loss and noticeably improved health for most dieters. Although this diet program requires more dedication than many other diet programs, and often requires dramatic lifestyle changes for the dieter, studies have shown that it is effective for both losing weight and helping to reverse heart disease. With its emphasis on stress-management and healthy food choices, this diet is also a perfect candidate for use in conjunction with hypnosis therapy.

The Ornish diet comes in two, slightly different formulations, a Preventative diet and a Reversal diet. The Preventative diet is ideal for people who want to lose weight and lower their risk for heart disease. It is also good for dieters trying to reduce their cholesterol levels. The Reversal diet is formulated for people already suffering from heart disease who are looking to reverse the symptoms of the disease and lower their risk for heart attacks.

Both versions of the Ornish plan recommend a nutritional approach that is made up of 10% fat, 20% protein, and 70% complex carbohydrates. Under the diet, all meat, fish, and poultry are avoided. All nuts, fats, oils, and seeds are also banned. Refined carbohydrate foods such as white rice and white flour are also not allowed, but whole grain pasta and bread, beans, and legumes are permitted.

Foods allowed in restricted amounts include egg whites and nonfat dairy products such as fat-free milk, yogurt, and cheese. Most convenience foods are not permitted, since any processed foods with more than 2 grams of fat in one serving are banned.

The diet lets you to eat whole grains, vegetables, beans, and fruit at each meal until you feel full. The benefit of this diet program is that since you are permitted to eat as much as you want of permitted foods, you can feel full and satisfied all the time. This diet program, unlike many others, is not based on unsafe "starvation" techniques.

Along with the eating plan, another essential component of the Ornish diet plan is stress-management. There are many stress-relieving practices you can use, such as yoga, meditation, and hypnosis. Practicing hypnosis is ideal for relieving anxiety and tension while supporting natural weight loss. Hypnosis works by helping your unconscious mind focus on having positive thoughts instead of negative ones when you begin to get anxious. These techniques are quite effective in promoting relaxation.

While the Ornish plan is healthy and effective for most dieters, it can be hard to follow because it has many restrictions. This diet and others similar to it often fail because dieters are unable to stay on them. Many people struggle with dieting because they suffer from an uncontrollable appetite, irresistible food cravings, compulsive overeating, or a lack of motivation to lose weight. These obstacles keep many hard-working dieters from maintaining their diet and achieving permanent success. Hypnosis therapy helps you beat these obstacles, and is an effective complement to the Ornish diet program because it offers powerful motivation to stay on a weight loss plan.

Hypnosis works to control and regulate the appetite by "reprogramming" the unconscious mind to eliminate and replace bad habits with good ones. Years of unhealthy eating habits such as "emotional eating" can cause people to eat impulsively, even when they are not truly hungry. Hypnosis breaks unhealthy associations with food and our feelings to stop this conditioned response and end emotional eating. Hypnosis can further influence dieting success by replacing the overeating response with another activity, such as exercise. This way, instead of feeling urges to overeat, you will have the motivation to exercise for your health.  

Hypnosis can also be used to quell the emotional anxieties that keep you from losing weight. For many people, being overweight provides a "secondary gain" in the form of a feeling of emotional protection or safety. For example, many people with low self-esteem are afraid of people not liking them, so they use their extra weight as a reason to assume other people will dislike them.  Through hypnosis, we can have more positive thoughts and focus on improving our health instead of feeling overwhelmed by such anxieties. We can use hypnosis therapy to improve our self-esteem, to clearly see our self-worth and commit to our personal health.

Hypnosis therapy offers a powerful, natural combination of stress-management, motivation, and behavior regulation to promote weight loss and help you follow your diet of choice. Using hypnotherapy with the Ornish plan is especially effective, but hypnotherapy is ideal for helping dieters stay committed to any diet plan. Hypnosis promotes the success of diet programs as well as natural weight loss so dieters can enjoy permanent results.