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Hypno-dieting could well become the weight loss craze of the 2009.  It involves no restrictive eating, rigorous exercise plans or any planning.  Sound too good to be true?  Well lets have a look at how it works.

Hypno-dieting has been brought to the fore by UK hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn, who claims to have a 98% success rate, including celebrities such as Geri Halliwell and Lily Allen.  Hepburn claims that she “doesn’t like diets. They mess you up. What I do isn’t a diet”.  Her methods work in a subconscious way and maintains that “if you want to exercise or make healthy choices, I simply put that into your subconscious mind: I make you believe you can do it."

So in essence Hepburn is simply giving people the will power and belief to lose the weight.  When you look around in society it is observably so, that people achieve amazing things through self belief.  Many dieters have tried so many diets in the past that they virtually give up before they start and have trained their brain to believe and identify with failure.  With Hepburn’s method, she “deletes files” in the subconscious that hinder your mindset and maintains that “you don't need to analyse – you just change your behavior."

Her session, though sounding unorthodox, works by initially lying in a vibrating chair, accompanied by relaxation instructions.  Once relaxed, she turns off the chair and begins reinforcing comments about only eating when hungry, to stop when full and to embrace exercise.  She then asks you to envisage your goal body.  Once complete you receive a daily self-hypnosis book to reinforce the session and continue working on visualisation. 

Essentially, this is something you can do right here and now, without the help of anyone else.  This is all about you believing you can lose weight.  You need to visualise what you choose to look like and how that will make you feel.  The mind is incredibly powerful and this type of self belief and visualisation is inherent in almost all successful people.  Start off by spending 5 to 10 minutes every day, practising visualisation of you achieving your goals.