How did Kathy lose 120 pounds with Hypnosis [LIVE on The Doctors Show]

Do you long to live at your ideal weight—healthy, confident, and energetic? How did Kathy Kathy Lose 120 Pounds With Hypnosis?

Like so many people who come to me for weight loss, Kathy had tried everything before even considering hypnosis.

She had tried every possible diet out there. Over and over again, she had the frustrating experience of losing weight only to put it back on again, plus more. 

She would not have even considered hypnosis, except that she had seen one of my clients on a local TV news story, with me, and something inside her told her to reach out to me.

I’m so glad she did. 

When Kathy told me all she had been through in her struggle with her weight and in her life my heart went out to her. 

Kathy, like so many of us, was trying to lose weight using only the conscious, rational, part of her mind, so naturally her results were going to be limited.

We can’t force weight loss even if we are doing all the right things—like eating less and trying to exercise more.

We can only lose weight permanently when we are able to remove the obstacles in the subconscious part of the mind.

This made sense to Kathy because she knew that the problem had to be in her own mind.

Something was blocking her, since no diet could work for her over the long run.

Kathy realized that for her, the obstacles were the habits that had developed in her life over time.

Raising kids, running a business, divorce—had led to a pretty consistent pattern of overeating, binge eating, snacking, night eating and emotional eating (in between dieting).

She asked me,

How did Kathy lose 120 pounds with Hypnosis: How she breaks the habits?

I told her that though we can’t force new habits, we can allow them to develop naturally by introducing into the subconscious a brand-new image of being healthy at her ideal weight, and embedding this new image deeply in the mind, through hypnosis. 

This process can over-ride the unwanted “bad” habits that were ruining Kathy’s health and robbing her of happiness.

She was thrilled to hear that as one of her biggest concerns was the impact all that excess weight was having on her health. 

Kathy wasn’t sure that she could be hypnotized. I assured her that hypnosis is a natural state. It’s not like the crazy way hypnosis is depicted in movies or even on a stage.

I told Kathy that every morning when we wake up and every night as we fall asleep, we are naturally passing through a state of hypnosis.

It’s that very pleasant in-between state, where you are completely aware of the sounds and smells around you—maybe a phone ringing, or breakfast cooking, but you’re just so relaxed, nothing bothers you.  

She could relate to that.

Another example would be watching a movie or getting absorbed in a great novel.

You’re completely drawn in to the drama and may not even hear someone in the same room calling your name! Or missing your exit when you’re driving down the turnpike and fall into “highway hypnosis.”

Why do we hear people say,

 “I couldn’t be hypnotized?”

You have to want to be hypnotized for it to work.

No-one can force someone else to be hypnotized.

Why would someone block hypnosis?

Perhaps because they weren’t comfortable in the situation.

It’s very important that you feel comfortable. Just like if you were going to get a massage, you most likely couldn’t relax very deeply if you didn’t feel comfortable with the therapist. 

Hypnosis is a natural state of deep relaxation and focused concentration and in that state the subconscious mind is more available for suggestion.

The suggestions I give in all my programs are super positive, and while your mind is in a heightened state of awareness, and your body is deeply relaxed, you can start to see and feel yourself as healthy, happy, more confident, at your ideal weight and in control of your life and your habits.

Kathy really resonated with the idea that she is already hypnotized.

She realized that a lot of her food choices and habits were based on habits that were very old and the unintentional “brain-washing” about processed junk foods that she had inadvertently accepted earlier in her life. 

My job was to “un-hypnotize” her from the mass hypnosis of the food industry, the advertising industry, the diet industry and society’s dysfunctional attitudes and messaging about food, weight and body image. 

If you don’t hypnotize yourself, someone else will!

The reality is that we are being hypnotized all the time by the media, politicians and even the voices in our own head, from the past.

Hypnosis is always happening.

The issue is, are the messages going into your subconscious mind the ones that you are choosing?

Are they for your highest and greatest good?  

I want your answer to be, yes!

Thankfully, Kathy got it and was very open to the idea. 

I explained to her that the subconscious doesn’t know the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined, so it will accept the new image we give to it, through hypnosis. 

It literally sends out new impulses through your brain to want to eat smaller portions, healthier foods and increase activity.

This is exactly how Kathy and Julie and many more made the changes she needed to make to drop 120 pounds of fat from her body.

Kathy told me that the process felt easy and effortless, which is what so many of my clients have told me.

I’m truly grateful that I’ve had the privilege of guiding so many people through this incredible procedure. 

It works because once your subconscious mind is running on a new program, you feel like a new person, because your behaviors and thoughts are different than they were before. 

gastric bypass hypnosis or going under the knife?

Kathy wanted to learn more about gastric bypass hypnosis. She was intrigued with the idea that your mind can think you had a surgery that you really didn’t have.

Her doctor had told her that she would be a good candidate for the actual gastric bypass surgery, but she was very hesitant to go under the knife.

Kathy was concerned about the trauma to her body and the possible side effects, based on some of the research she had done about bariatric surgery.

In other words, if a person would never have the surgery in real life, they probably wouldn’t be a great candidate for gastric bypass hypnosis, because the subconscious mind has to believe that you are going through a surgery.

If surgery isn’t even a consideration for you in your real life, then weight loss hypnosis would be a better option.

Kathy insisted that the process would be very believable for her, since she actually had discussed the bariatric surgery option with her physician. 

preparing for the virtual “surgery”

The first hypnosis session of my Gastric Bypass Hypnosis Program prepares you for the virtual “surgery” and gets you used to going in and out of hypnosis with me, comfortably and easily.

It helps you to get “psyched up” about the amazing positive changes that are going to occur for you.

My goal is to make the entire experience very positive and uplifting.

So many people who have struggled with their weight for a long time are conditioned to expect to have to suffer, to have to “give up” their favorite foods, starve themselves or push themselves to do really tough exercise.

But my approach is much more gentle.

It’s about getting your subconscious mind to work for you and not against you.  

I have found that you can get the weight loss results that you long for through self-love, not by hating on yourself.

So many people have come to me through the years and it’s been heart-breaking to see how they only think they can get results through self-disgust and feeling badly about themselves. 

That’s what I love about hypnosis as a method for permanent weight loss.

So the first hypnosis session with Kathy was getting her ready to do the gastric bypass hypnosis surgery together. The next day, we did the “surgery” session.

There Kathy met the doctor, the nurse and the anesthesiologist.

She felt very comfortable through the whole experience, almost like she was “floating on a cloud.”

When she came up out of the surgery hypnosis, Kathy remarked that she had never felt so relaxed in her whole life.

Though she knew she had been in a hypnotic “trance” the surgery experience felt very real to her.

She said her stomach felt smaller! The power of the mind is truly incredible.

The real transformation happened next...

 After the “surgery,” Kathy followed my instructions by practicing her self-hypnosis on a daily basis, reinforcing the “surgery” session over and over.

So, every day the idea of herself being thin, smiling, happy at her ideal weight, preferring healthy food and being turned off to the junk, fitting into her clothes easily, loving how she looks and feels, was becoming more and more her new reality, through the re-conditioning process.

Her mind was being reprogrammed, easily and effortlessly!

It’s just like if you told yourself a lie often enough, you would believe it.

I had given Kathy suggestions for choosing smaller portions, eating healthier foods, looking in the mirror and loving her reflection looking back at her, enjoying exercise, and feeling young, beautiful and healthy. 

She started to see oily, greasy, buttery food as disgusting. All of a sudden, she didn’t want the chips that used to call her name.

Cookies tasted bad to her.

Soda had been a regular beverage for her, but now Kathy only wanted to drink water (and Slender Cider).

The weight was dropping off and Kathy couldn’t be happier. The best part was that she loved listening to the hypnosis and affirmation reinforcement recordings.

In fact, she told me that listening and going into deep hypnotic meditation with me was her favorite time of day.

Kathy confided in me that in addition to wanting to lose weight for so many decades, she had also tried to meditate in the past, but never successfully, because her mind was always jumping around with thoughts.

Finally, now with the hypnosis, her mind felt quiet. She loved the “mental movies” in the hypnosis that were basically guiding her new life.

“It’s so peaceful,” she said. “It’s hard to describe the incredible feeling of confidence, strength and calm that I’ve been experiencing since I started this.”

When Kathy and I appeared on The Doctors Show together where we were interviewed by Dr. Travis, Kathy had lost 120 pounds and looked and felt like a new person.