To expect someone paid to help me lose weight not to be a porker?

[whomovedmychocolate]

I decided to see a hypnotherapist to help me lose some of my baby weight.

Now don't get me wrong, hypnotherapy has worked for me in the past, including hypnoconception and self hypnosis. I'm studying NLP so I know a bit about it too.

So I booked in to see our local hypnotherapy at the alternative dangly crystals and lentil centre (it's not called that but you get the idea what they are like) and in walks the therapist.

He's at least five stone overweight and has a COMBOVER. I know this is hugely shallow, but I could not concentrate on someone giving me suggestions of how to lose weight without thinking 'clearly this doesn't work for you then'.
As well as 'oh FFS CUT YOUR FRICKING HAIR YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS'

As it happens I am pretty sure I can do this weight loss thing on my own now I've worked out that I have to think thin to be thin. (duh!) But would you advertise yourself as 'specialisms include weight control' when clearly you don't do practice what you preach?

Feel free to call me a shallow cow. But honestly, you don't go to the gym and hunt out the trainer eating the cakes do you (except maybe to nick one).

you BITCH!!!

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both my consultant at slimming world and my present cambridge diet person are bigger than me -but it's all relative - perhaps your man doesn't care but likes to help people that do!!!i believe weightwatchers sack their leaders for weight gain!

Funnily there was a mirror in the room and I was wondering if I could scoot his chair round to face it during the session

For some reason I'm not surprised that the weight-loss guy needs to lose weight. Sounds just about right for this crazy world.

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It does sound a bit shallow. You are judging his competence by his looks

Have just PMSL at your OP .

Luckylady - yes and actually when you are at a Slimming Club it can be helpful not to be surrounded by stick thin people right - because you recognise that you are all on the same plan and working together.

But he was really badly groomed too.

I dunno. You just expect things. In NLP we concentrate on the positives and making sure things are congrous (ie if you wanted to lose weight you model yourself on those that find it easy to be slim and learn from them) and it's completely incongruous to have someone sitting them telling me how thinness was easy to achieve, while the chair creaked under his weight.

AND HIS STOMACH WAS RUMBLING!!!!

Paulaplumpbottom - yes I am being shallow. But also his competence wasn't great.

For example, he used ten negative statements during his hypnosis (which didn't work obviously if I was able to count them). Hypnogogic suggestions should always be stated in the positive if at all possible because the brain works in the affirmitive.

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Dior - yes and shockingly it's your original goal weight. Mine was eight stone something in 1993. Umm think today that's a BMI of about 18 for me!!!!

Dior - PMSL - he probably ate the last client!

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But you didn't put that in your original post.Obviously that fat thing bothered you more.

This thread title has made me and dh laugh.

A friend of a friend is a hypnotherapist and apparently has a fabulous success rate with people who want to stop smoking. But she has never managed to give up smoking herself. I think hypnotists can't self-treat easily.

That said, if you feel that you don't like him then find another practitioner. I quite sceptical about hypnotism myself, but I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable about being hypnotised unless I really trusted and felt a connection with the therapist.

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Dior - oh I agree. In fact I'd say that if you've got used to routinely eating too much (as I have) then you get hungry MORE OFTEN because your insulin receptors become overstimulated and needly like small sugar filled toddlers.

Paulaplumpbottom - actually it was the comb-over that did it for me in terms of bad first impressions.

have you tried a personal trainer? Exercise is really the key to losing weight. The majority will be in exceptional shape which hopefully will be the motivation you need.

Bran - but isn't it like counsellers, where you have to have therapy yourself to practice?

Ironically it seems to have sort of worked as well, I'm now determined to do it in spite of this experience.

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Yogimum - yes I LOVE exercise. I've just started running again, three times a week so I'm already losing weight and I don't need a trainer because I'm already addicted to the endorphins. I was just throwing the whole kit and caboodle at it to make sure my efforts paid off!

Dior - it does, you just have to put the chocolate biscuits further away and walk to them... somewhere like Sweden

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