{"id":359,"date":"2010-04-06T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T14:12:19","slug":"think-yourself-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Think Yourself Thin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Public release date: 8-Feb-2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Laura Oates<\/strong>, CBS 11 News Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Eating healthy is a good start if you&#8217;re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Beth Fredericks&#8217;s story is a familiar one. She was 30 pounds overweight and tried every diet under the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing ever worked. Nothing ever worked,&#8221; said Fredericks, Hypnosis Patient.<\/p>\n<p>So she opened her mind to a more unconventional approach: hypnosis.<\/p>\n<p>During a session, hypnotherapist, Jean Fain puts Fredericks into a trance-like state. Fredericks says it kind of feels like being half-awake.<\/p>\n<p>Then Fain starts feeding healthy suggestions into Fredericks &#8216;s subconscious.<\/p>\n<p>So does it work?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look at fruits and vegetables more. They are much more appealing to me,&#8221; said Fredericks.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn&#8217;t hocus-pocus. Studies have shown, when used by a trained therapist, hypnosis can help patients lose weight and keep it off.<\/p>\n<p>Fain teaches other psychotherapists at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston. She says hypnosis is only part of the ongoing therapy. The other part is helping a patient understand why they&#8217;re overeating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important first lesson is learning that it&#8217;s not an instant cure&#8211;that they have some responsibility for their change,&#8221; said Jean Fain, Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>Fredericks believes the conscious therapy helps her learn how much to eat, while the subconscious suggestions help her make good choices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suggestion is in my head. I don&#8217;t have to do it so much, it&#8217;s kind of automatic,&#8221; said Fredericks.<\/p>\n<p>As for the results, here&#8217;s some food for thought: Fredericks has slowly lost around 15 pounds, and says she never felt like she was on a diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public release date: 8-Feb-2006 By Laura Oates, CBS 11 News Reporter Eating healthy is a good start if you&#8217;re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight. Beth Fredericks&#8217;s story is a familiar one. She was 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,3,5],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hypnosis","tag-news","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallyhypnosis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}