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Everyone knows that the key to achieving your ideal weight is to eat a healthy, balanced diet and take regular exercise, but for a person suffering from a weight problem this elusive task can be a nightmare. Failure to lose weight can lead to despair, causing them to seek comfort from further overeating, leading to more weight gain and more despair. It then becomes a vicious circle that can be very difficult to break.
Diets only have a short term effect, if any, because as soon as they stop dieting, they revert to their old eating habits and the weight piles on again. In fact, someone who has a weight problem has programmed their subconscious to eat in a particular way, and it has nothing to do with normal eating satisfaction.
When someone with normal eating habits gets hungry their subconscious sends a message indicating that fact. When that hunger has been satisfied, the subconscious sends a feeling of satisfaction, so the person no longer feels the urge to eat. If that feeling of satisfaction is overridden, it is because of the need for an extra satisfaction.
This extra satisfaction is a comfort or protection, either to compensate for something that was missing from their life, or an unhappy experience, at the time they first developed their overeating habit. Of course, if the client has been overweight since childhood, it could just be a case of developing overeating habits at a very young age, possibly from parents, so it becomes a matter of breaking the old ingrained habits.
To change the behaviour pattern, we have to get to the source of the problem at a subconscious level, and then persuade the subconscious that the current overeating habits serve no useful purpose. The subconscious can then transfer the satisfaction derived from overeating onto something that is more advantageous and beneficial for the client, and a new, healthier lifestyle becomes the norm.
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