SHIFT WEEKLY: Whose Kool-Aid Are You Drinking?

 Sophia B. lost 30 lbs. since January’s Shift Process

"The hypnosis gave me the tools to create healthy new habits resulting in an amazingly easy weight release."

Anastasia C “SHIFT is the first program that really addresses all components of why I struggle w/ my weight. I am back in my skinny jeans!”

April 27^th is the next Shift Weight Mastery Process from 9-5 at the Crown Plaza LAX.
For a free consult to find out if this is a good step for you call 323 988 4574
To learn more visit: http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/ShiftSeminar.html

Whose Kool-Aid Are You Drinking?

When it comes to weight release—whose Kool-Aid are you drinking?  Is your inner belief system causing you to either gain weight or release weight?  Is this “Inner Cult Leader” that you follow having you believe in your ultimate weight success or ultimate weight failure?  Are you drinking the Kool-Aid “I am becoming a successful master of weight release” or the Kool-Aid “I am destined to always struggle with my weight”?

You can try to lose weight all you want but until you really BELIEVE that you will be successful in the long term and weight release attempt will ultimately return you to the predictable struggle cup of Kool-Aid

As a clinical hypnotherapist I occasionally get people who fear that hypnosis is going to brainwash them.  This is understandable because over the years the subject of hypnosis has been shrouded in mystery. I assure them hypnosis is a powerful tool for them to SHIFT their inner beliefs system from that of old “Fat Thinking” to “Thin thinking”. 

What Hypnotic Suggestions Have You Taken On?

I remind them that they actually have been being hypnotized all their lives into the beliefs, thought, and habits that have created their weight struggle—by their upbringing, by magazines and Hollywood and the fashion industry, by junk food companies that have seduced them into believing they are “Lovin’ it” or they “Can’t eat just one”.

I tell them that ultimately hypnosis isn’t a magic bullet but that hypnosis can unlock the powerful weight release coach from within that can allow them to BELIEVE they can succeed and then lead them to success.  You have the ability to be your own “magic bullet”.

I would like to share an inspiring email I received from a client who Shifted from drinking her Kool-Aid of “Weight Struggle” to drinking the “Kool-Aid of Success”.  I hope her SHIFT can inspire you to believe that your own inner shift is possible.

Dear Rita                                                                                

How can I thank you enough for creating the Shift?  Shifting finally did what I’d hoped for all of my life – I now think and behave and BELIEVE like a thin/slim person.  Pre-Shift, my thoughts of food were that there was never enough, that I had to eat everything I saw, that I had to clean my plate no matter how high the restaurant piled it, that I had to pile my plate high myself.  I believed that I’d always behave in that manner and that I’d be obese for the rest of my life.

 And, then into my life came the Shift.  Wow.  And then, the wonderful Shift session that put gave me the inner tools to change from someone who’d given up on ever removing excess weight into a 63-year-old woman who has removed 57 lbs in the last 48 weeks.  Wow.

I’ve changed from being someone who lived to eat, to a person who eats to live.  Right now, I have on my shelves: four chocolate truffles, two small-sized bags of Fritos, two containers of cashew and chocolate chip cookies, and a dark chocolate bar with nine pieces remaining.  Prior to Shifting, all of that would have never seen a shelf or a freezer; it would have been eaten immediately.  Some of those items would never have made it into my apartment, because I knew I’d just eat them when they arrived here.

Today, I am able to live comfortably with those foods in the house.  I know that if I want to eat them, or a portion of them, I will be able to do that without having to exercise “will power” (that fantasy state where I believed that I could ignore the “eat that” chatter in my head and still be sane.)  I think like a thin person.

I’ve told you that I haven’t stopped eating out, but I don’t know if you realize how much that socialization means to me and how wonderful it is to have removed 57 lbs while going to my usual restaurants every work day for lunch, and while eating breakfast out on both Saturday and Sunday every week.  I’ve had BBQ ribs, pulled pork, Louisiana links; Chinese, Mexican and Italian food.  I’ve eaten in high-class restaurants and diners and dives. Shifting has given me the tools to pick and choose from menus to fill my need for good food while being able to manage my weight removal.  I can eat in any restaurant—and I love that.

Since Shifting, I can recognize the events, the wonderful odors, and often, the view of a 40-foot long buffet table set-up outside of my office with wonderful home-made goodies on it, and not feel compelled to dive in immediately.  I can wait my turn in line and then can choose what I really want to eat and not take everything simply because it’s there and available.

I am thinking like a thin person.  And, it’s wonderful.  My life before my Shift was never like that.  I always dreamed about thinking like that.  I wondered whether it was a fantasy that someone could say, no, I’m full and you can take what’s remaining away, or, yes, I’ll take the remainder in a box, and wind up with that box of food in the refrigerator for more than one day.  It isn’t a fantasy, it’s real, and your Shift has given me the ability to think like a thin person.

I know when I’m full.  I know when I just can’t put in another bite – not because I’m feeling stuffed, but because I can actually feel that I’ve had just enough.  It’s wonderful.

I’ve been asked how I’m removing weight, and after I describe your Shift approach three out of four people ask me whether I am ever tempted to “go off” the “program”.  How can I do that, when I don’t consider it to be a program, but a way of life?  I’ve just gone through six weeks’ worth of holiday eating and I actually lost a half-pound a week during that time.  I don’t think I could stop Shifting now if I forced myself.  This is a permanent change, and I like it.

I’m happier just Shifting off weight by concentrating on the food I eat than I have ever been when I’ve tried “working out” and “dieting”, and even the time when I spent 22 months working out with a trainer three times a week and only lost 16 lbs at the end of that time.  I didn’t have a handle on my food intake and obviously that was the wrong approach, since the 16 lbs came back immediately after I stopped going to the gym. 

I’m thinking and believing like a thin person.  I recognize when I’m full.  I can have food in my apartment that just sits there until I experience a definite “taste” for it.  My closet is losing clothing I’ve had for 15 years, and I’m “shopping” in my overflow closet where I’d stowed stuff I wore nearly 20 years ago.

Thank you so much! K.B. Los Angeles

Everything begins with your belief.  I hope you have a week filled with the belief that you are your own magic bullet and that the Kool-Aid jug you are drinking from is the one labeled SUCCESS.  Have a great week.
oxoxRita
Sophia B. lost 30 lbs. since January’s Shift Process

"The hypnosis gave me the tools to create healthy new habits resulting in an amazingly easy weight release."

 

Anastasia C “SHIFT is the first program that really addresses all components of why I struggle w/ my weight. I am back in my skinny jeans!”

April 27^th is the next Shift Weight Mastery Process from 9-5 at the Crown Plaza LAX.
For a free consult to find out if this is a good step for you call 323 988 4574
To learn more visit: http://www.shiftweightmastery.com/ShiftSeminar.html