written in my fb notes in August

I selected and went to a hypnotist in June. I was 283 lbs and was heading quickly to 300 lb mark and no insurance to get my stomach done. My health was terrible and I had tried everything and it failed. I had no self-control at all and the thing that brought me to the point where something had to be done no matter what, was when I thought of my GS saying "wake up Grandma" like he does most mornings and him finding me gone.

In hypnosis they access your inner mind all you have to do is concentrate and listen. It helps to close your eyes. The session lasts for an hour, 1/2 of this he spends just talking to you about your problem and the other half is the hypnosis which is recorded on a disk for you to replay every day. (This reinforces what he is trying to do for you).

My first session was for him to do something about my biggest weakness, pastry, ice cream, chocolate and the like. He also wanted me to start a little exercise. I won't walk but I have a recumbent bike and with the hypnosis everyday like clockwork I exercised twice a day My urge for sweet things went. Pounds began to fall away. The next session was to increase my exercise, reinforce the sweet thing and as I had turned to salty things, to restrict salt and my bike riding was 20 minutes a day. A month later my weight loss started to plateau and I realized the night time eating had to go. This was my worse habit, going back to the days when my father and I used to eat junk food in front of the TV when I was young.

The last session I had, was to reinforce the idea of light (I suffer from SAD every year) and to stop my eating after 6pm. Nothing to eat, just water, tea and diet soda all night. It is working!!

I have been doing this for 2 weeks now and the weight loss is much better. During the day I pretty much eat what I want inside the guidelines (no sweet, plenty of water .....oh yeah I forgot to say that in the first session he told me I have to drink plenty of water) I eat supper and after 6pm nothing, just like when you fast for blood work.

Now I bike-ride 1/2 hr. twice a day, drink a lot of water, eat what I want during the day, and don't eat after 6pm. I don't know how much better I can do except for riding a little longer with greater resistance on the bike, or something. I eat a lot of light yogurt and diet jello and when I make a sandwich I use brown bread, stuff like that.

I feel so much better already and my clothes are loose and I am hoping this keeps working so I can get under 200lbs at least...dream weight would be 150lbs or so, so that I can wear normal clothes and not shop in the 3X size. Wish me luck!!!

(the above is from an older blog of mine that I don't write in anymore. I love Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series and this is one of the characters)