You don't necessarily have to "feel" hypnotised for hypnosis to work - the subliminal messages and programming don't rely on you "going under" or going into some kind of a trance to work. It's worth a shot.
I don't think I really fully appreciated the reasons for my overeating until I started talking on these threads. Like Sue, a lot of my eating problems come from my mother - but in a very different way to Sue's. For a number of reasons, my self-esteem is on the floor - and a lot of that is down to my mother. I've gone on ad nauseam about her abusive nature, and I have spent my entire life trying to please her because nothing I did was good enough for her when I was a child. Part of my emotional eating comes from the lack of self-esteem, which in itself stems from abuse - there was abuse of a different kind from my grandfather too - and I continue to abuse my own body by overeating because I don't value myself. I'm trying really hard to change that mindset though, but it's very hard.
The one thing my mother did do was feed us - her philosophy seemed to be that if you love something, you feed it. Don't show it, don't tell it, just feed it. And I find comfort in food because that was the only thing I could find in my mother that gave comfort - she fed us. So food equalled love, and still does.
I know that I'm my own person, and that I can't blame her forever for my choices, but she set the pattern which defines my choices. And while it's me who controls what I put in my mouth, too often the "me" that does the controlling is the 6 year old girl who is desperate for love and comfort from the mother I am still desperate to please.
And now we all need cheering up a bit ... sorry, that was all a bit maudlin