Beat Urges and Lose Weight Naturally! Try the Mediterranean Diet and Hypnosis

If you want the body of a Greek god or goddess, you do not have to battle one-eyed monsters or hurl thunderbolts – simply eating like the ancient idols could help you get a body that members of the opposite gender will worship.

The Mediterranean way of eating, which is a diet meal plan that includes an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, olive oil and red wine, can help you arrive at the best shape. The Mediterranean diet meal plan has also been linked to a healthier heart and a longer life span. Fatty dairy products, red meat, and foods with refined sugar are rarely consumed, if ever.

Thousands of years after the physically powerful gods shook things up, the Mediterranean style of eating still makes great sense as a diet plan because you get full on large amounts of high-fiber, low fat foods that leave you feeling sated longer. The fruits and vegetables eaten as part of the Mediterranean way of eating are naturally low in calories, and are rich in antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids, elements your body needs to create new and healthy cells.

The Mediterranean way of eating allows a higher fat intake than most weight loss meal plans, but it is healthy fat that comes from nuts and olive oil, which are rich in beneficial monounsaturated fats, and low in unhealthy saturated fats, like those found in cheese, ice-cream or beef.

Just remember that for higher calorie foods, like the whole grains, olive oil and red wine, you still need to focus on serving sizes and overall calorie intake. The key to any successful weight loss diet is taking in fewer calories while still feeling satisfied.

When you feel satisfied, it makes it a little easier to conquer cravings that a lot of people who are trying to follow a weight loss diet face. What good is a diet if you can’t stick to it because your appetite is out of control? Before starting any weight loss meal plan, you will need to find a safe, effective method to eliminate your urges, cravings and appetite to overeat. Lose weight hypnosis is a wonderful resource to help you curb your cravings.

The average person feels cravings and an urge to eat for two key reasons:

A. When you combine eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and a compulsion to eat.

B. When you feel anxious, you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for pleasure and relaxation.

Let’s talk about Part “A” first. Over 70% of the population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it: If you feel an urge to eat while watching television, it is because your mind recorded the video image of food in your hand, and then associated that image with the image of the TV. From that point, each time you watch TV, your unconscious mind flashes the image of the food in your hand, and you get an urge.

You have actually “programmed” your unconscious mind to make you feel cravings and urges as a “conditioned response” to watching TV. The same thing occurs when you eat in your car or while on the phone, etc.

Weight loss hypnosis will erase the conditioned responses simply by reprogramming your unconscious mind to have it trigger unconscious images of you watching the TV without eating, and that will eliminate the urge to eat. It will also give you an urge to reject food in that scenario!

But what about Part “B”? Our feelings of anxiousness are produced by our thoughts. If you think upsetting thoughts, you feel tension and upset. If you think happy thoughts, you feel peaceful and relaxed.

If you have an upsetting thought seated at your computer, your mind will associate that thought with the computer. Thereafter, when you are sitting at your computer, you have a conditioned response; your mind flashes to that upsetting thought and you will feel tension. Self hypnosis techniques can help you change these patterns almost immediately.

The techniques used in the most effective hypnotherapy programs are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works based on the utilization of a person’s existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion.

Video weight loss hypnosis can program your unconscious to use negative thoughts as a trigger for comforting thoughts. So if you start to think of something that is upsetting, your unconscious mind will automatically change to a relaxing thought in a millisecond. You become peaceful, so there are no feelings of stress to produce your cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it is easy to lose weight and keep it off forever.

Staying on a sensible weight loss meal plan, like the Mediterranean style, along with self hypnosis means you can finally overcome your cravings to attain the body of a Greek god or goddess.

Alan B. Densky, CH invented the use of video hypnotherapy weight loss and received a U.S. Patent on the technology. His self-hypnosis site offers several different weight loss hypnotherapy CDs designed to fit every personality. Visit for Free hypnosis newsletters, videos, and articles.

- Alan B. Densky, CH