Weight Loss, Weight Control & Weight Management

Peak Performance Therapy & Coaching helps you to reach and maintain a healthy weight naturally and without effort. You get to the bottom of your weight issues and throw them off.

Imagine how it would be if you were free of all those weight worries... how much time would you free up for more enjoyable things?

Becoming overweight was unplanned and happened without effort. Reversing this should be just as natural.

The food you eat is important but equally important are your thinking habits because these drive your behavioural activities.

Diets focus your attention on what you cannot have and if you fall into the on-off diet cycle, the long-term effects can be damaging to your health.

Healthy eating and physical activity should be a natural and enjoyable part of your everyday lifestyle. Peak Performance Therapy & Coaching helps you to make this happen. You can create a life where YOU are center stage as opposed to the food you eat.

 

NLP, EFT, CBT, Clinical Hypnotherapy

We apply a powerful and potent blend of therapy and coaching techniques to help you identify and resolve the emotional and psychological blocks to your weight issues. These include EFT, NLP, CBT & Clinical Hypnotherapy.

The best way to understand the benefits is to experience it for yourself. Please ask for a free consultation: Phone 01296 426413 or complete the online form.

You can take the free session by telephone or in person. It's a great way to ask your questions and find out how this process will benefit you - not only in the area of weight management, but also in the rest of your life.

 

Three Problems with Diets

The concept behind dieting is a sound one. Consume less calories than you use and you will lose weight. In principal this should work. But in reality, dieting to lose weight has three major flaws:

1) The food you consume, together with the "diet" pattern of eating, works against your body and actually leads to more fat storage

2) You think about food all the time and this creates misery and a hunger for more food

3) If your lifestyle and attitudes remain the same, you don't burn enough calories to offset the increase in fat reserves from point number 1.

Dieting to lose weight is not a natural activity and as you have probably discovered for yourself, the effects you see are often only short-term.

 

Four Things to Consider Before You Start a Diet

1) How diet foods fool the body into working against you : A Brief Overview

The body and its digestive and life processes have not yet adapted to processed foods. The body is designed to help you survive. Processed foods (including those marketed as "Light" or "Diet") with their artificial sugar, fool the body into thinking you have eaten a huge meal and the body responds by trying to digest a huge meal.

The body wants to store as much of your "large" meal as it can. In nature, the sugar you get from a processed snack is equivalent to quite a lot of heavy eating of natural foods. The body can't tell the difference between real sugar and artificial sugar and when it senses sugar, it releases a quantity of insulin to act on it. It cannot recognise that a processed snack bar is just a small thing and does not need as much insulin as a large meal.

The insulin works on the sugar and transfers it into your muscles via the insulin receptors in the muscles. The insulin also shuts down the ability of the body to burn fat for a while because it wants to store this extra energy as FAT. Remember your body wants you to survive and if it thinks you've eaten a large meal, it wants to store the energy for you.

However, because what you have eaten is processed food, perhaps just a chocolate bar, there is no real energy to store. Your stomach is still empty and the insulin is swishing about lowering your blood sugar levels by working on every scrap of food it can find. It's already stopped you from burning fat because it thought you had ingested a lot of food so now your empty stomach and low blood sugar cause you to have that familiar after-snack crash. Do this often enough and you can suffer mood swings, headaches and even depression.

The body is now effectively in starvation mode and wants to conserve energy. Muscles use up a lot of energy so the body taps into the protein in your muscles for energy. For anyone trying to reduce weight, losing muscle mass is a tragic waste because muscles burn calories.

However it gets worse, muscles do not like to be force-fed sugar by insulin in sudden and large doses. Over time what happens is that the insulin receptors in the muscles become slower to respond to the insulin and this causes more insulin to be released in the body in an attempt to "push" the muscles into accepting it. In turn, the insulin receptors become even slower leading to even more insulin being produced. Constant lifestyle abuse like this can lead to Type II Diabetes.

If you do nothing else, snacking throughout the day and cutting down on your intake of processed foods and artificial sugars are probably two of the kindest things you can do for your body.

 

2) Food becomes a huge problem

Going on a diet makes you think constantly about what you can't have. And when you think about what you can't have, it becomes the main focus of your life and affects you in other areas too.

Portion control is often a big concern for people who are overweight. Guilt at throwing food away, the need to finish your plate, not knowing when your next meal will be so you must eat it all now.

Going on a diet does not address these concerns because even if you logically know there is food in the fridge for your next meal, emotionally, you may still be uncertain that there is enough and maybe you will go hungry. You may go through your day in a constant state of agitation.

 

3) Psychology & Lifestyle

Food is an essential requirement for life but through dieting, you train yourself to think of your enjoyment of food as a guilty secret. Something you should not be having in your life. When you do this, you blinker yourself to the choices you have.

You think in terms of "Good" and "Bad". You identify with being fat forever and sometimes, the vision of your ideal self is beyond your imagination. If you can't see or believe in yourself achieving your ideal weight, it becomes that much harder to reach.

You may find that you slave away for ages losing that weight and as soon as you stop watching every calorie, it all piles back on. This is because the underlying factors are still there and they push you towards familiar behaviours that you are used to.

 

4) Free your mind and the body will follow

Obesity and related conditions make headlines every year. With every headline, there is guilt and blame being dished up and served in huge helpings.

Most people recognise the psychological factors behind eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, but there is less acceptance of those behind weight gain and obesity.

Most people who diet in order to reduce weight have a suspicion that there are psychological factors and emotional issues driving their behaviour but often they are unaware that they can do something about these issues.

Therapies such as hypnotherapy, NLP and EFT address the root issues affecting you.

Once these have been resolved, you effectively have a clean slate and your current eating behaviours and lifestyle choices change from within - your thoughts about yourself become kinder and as this happens, your lifestyle and eating habits gently change - often this happens automatically without you having to count calories, eat special diet food or weigh yourself everyday.

 

Some of your frequently asked questions

My friend and I started Weightwatchers together and now we'd like to do this together.

Many people like to do therapy and coaching for weight loss with a friend or as part of a group. It works well alone or with someone else. As some of your blocks and limitations can be personal, in group sessions, you have the option of doing parts of the therapy "content-free". This enables you to achieve the results without actually having to divulge anything you'd prefer not to share with your friend.

Will my family sabotage my results afterwards with their eating habits?

Once you have had the number of sessions that you need, you will find that your eating habits and lifestyle choices become your own and you take ownership of them. This means that your family will not sabotage your good results because your personal priorities and values kick in to stop you from over-indulging. You will still be able to enjoy a good feast from time to time, but you will choose when to do this and instead of being a guilt-ridden indulgence, it will become a social pleasure.

If there is a weight issue with your family, consider booking family sessions where you can all experience coaching and therapy. Due to the special dynamics in a family group, the sessions are a combination of being seen together as a family unit and also individually.

Can you help children?

Children are very receptive to these therapies. Sessions for children do not involve hypnotherapy. Children aged 16 or under should be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

What are the charges?

A summary of rates and charges is listed here.

NEW: Weight loss therapy being offered under the reduced rate Project Sunrise programme. Weight Loss Therapy Offer

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