Change Your Body by Changing Your Mind By Erin Del Toro, ACHE Clinical Hypnotherapist
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Each of the millions of people anxiously seeking weight loss each year do so for a multitude of life-improving reasons. They want to have healthier hearts, feel better in their bathing suits, have more energy and less pain, enjoy better sex lives, feel confident in the clothes they wear, or avoid a wide range of debilitating diseases.
Starting in the early 1900s, when reducing salons promised to roll away fat and cigarettes were marketed to women as a weight loss tool, dieters have been promised an easy solution for getting rid of their extra pounds. Popular diets have included the bananas and skim milk diet, the cabbage soup diet, the sugar diet, and the wine and eggs diet (which is exactly what it sounds like). Over the years, dieters have been told to reduce caloric intake to starvation levels, eat only one type of food, nix the carbs, cut out all fat, eat mostly protein, and finally, with the keto diet, eat high fat. Keeping track of the best way to lose weight can certainly be confusing and disheartening. Today, except for a few extreme points of view, most of the expert advice has leveled out; whole grains, balanced protein, and fresh fruits and vegetables are recommended, with caloric intake matching activity level. However, most people who’ve ever tried to lose weight know that having the knowledge about how to create a leaner, healthier body doesn’t necessarily mean that poor eating habits will be easy to curb.
