Hypnosis was, imho, the biggest waste of £150 I ever spent. But maybe I didn't listen to the tapes enough. You would get the same effect I am sure downloading ones that are available on ITunes....
RE the addictiveness of carbs/bad foods in general.... I've posted elsewhere on here recently about my (skinny) friend. on Saturday night when we met up with another girl, lots of gossip, fun evening, however subject of CD came up, she (being a medical student and therefore knowing EVERYTHING or so she thinks) said it was a silly idea, and that when fat people are in her hospital they have to go to Chester Zoo to have CT scans which she found funny, I said awww how humiliating, she said 'well it doesn't shame them out of eating'. ARGH! Made me so (internally) mad. People without a weight problem just don't understand! You don't just CHOOSE to get fat! (well, not in the majority of cases).
I'll get down from my soapbox. Apologies.... x
LOL. You rant away (she says, knowing it's Jo's diary - come and rant in mine too, if you want to
). 'Bout the only thing that keeps us (relatively) sane some nights.
I was equally dubious about the hypnotherapy thing, but funnily enough, I have downloaded quite a few of the iTunes apps and find some of them really helpful, particularly the relaxation ones. They don't work every time though, which I guess is more down to my state of mind than anything else. Which brings me to my next sort of point - I guess hypnosis could work if you want it to work, if you see what I mean. I guess it takes a bit of blind, unquestioning faith, or at the very least, a logical argument - well, it would for me, anyway. So I guess
who you choose to do the hypnotherapy would be vitally important. It would need to be someone whose opinion / couchside manner you can believe in, I suppose.
As for medical students - and the medical profession in general - they might know the theory about nutrition, but they tend not to be so hot on why diets just don't work. I've often said that if it really was a question of eating less and moving more, I'd have been stick thin years ago. But it isn't that simple. The reasons we eat are complex and deep-rooted - and I don't think anyone really gets a handle on staying slim without at least trying to figure out what their personal reasons might be.
Most fat people are simply perceived by many (usually slim people) to be greedy. It's not like that. I can restrict my eating for weeks, sometimes months at a time - and then lose the plot completely. It's not greed - it's something else. But I for one am not done with trying to figure out what that something else is yet. For me personally, I think it's a combination of carb addiction and using food as a coping strategy (a pretty cr*p one) for dealing with the stress in my life. Eating has got me through some very hairy moments in my life, so of course I'm going to turn to food when the going gets tough. Learning to turn to other things takes time, and I'm going to slip up from time to time.
But you can't fail if you don't give up - and I'm a long way from doing that.
Sorry to hijack your diary with my own soapbox rant, Jo!
