Weight Loss

Managing Christmas Stress Eating

by Dan Regan | Dec 7, 2025 | Weight Loss

Managing Christmas Stress Eating

Christmas is a time when it is easy to pile on weight from all the food and drink that is always so nearby. Hypnotherapy can help you stay calm and in control around food and with managing Christmas stress eating.

Emotional and stress eating can happen at any time of year. Yet, during the bubble of Christmas, everything can feel magnified and intensified. There’s the planning, socialising, expectation and rush to get everything done and to please everyone. As I’ve covered in previous articles, this time of year can bring holiday social anxiety, December sleep anxiety and festive exhaustion and overwhelm. Your stress builds and that’s when stress eating can kick in.

I’ve helped many people throughout the year who use food to manage how they feel. You feel stressed, angry, low, happy or any other feeling or emotion. You then habitually reach for food irrespective of whether you are hungry. You eat too much and your weight and well-being suffer. With emotional and stress eating it will usually be unhealthy things and too much of them. You can get a sugar hit that may make you feel a little better for a bit. Yet it never lasts and you probably feel worse from having eaten the junk and added to your waist line.

Using external means to manage internal feelings can happen in any number of ways. When food is how you routinely manage feelings, this time of year can become challenging. There will be more food, particularly sweet treats and calorie loaded snacks, that make Christmas stress eating something that can get out of hand. Add in the extra stress and pressure of Christmas, and you really do need to be prepared for managing Christmas stress eating. You can enjoy food but you don’t want to reach January feeling despondent with your weight.

If you find yourself reaching for food to cope with festive tension, then hypnotherapy can help you to break the cycle and feel healthier, calmer and more in control throughout the season.

Festive Eating Without the Guilt

by Dan Regan | Dec 2, 2025 | Weight Loss

Festive Eating Without the Guilt: How Hypnotherapy Helps You Stay in Control at Christmas

Festive eating without the guilt? Can it be done?! It can with weight loss hypnotherapy to help you stay in control over your eating this Christmas.

Christmas can be a wonderful time of the year. It’s filled with family, friends…and plenty of delicious food. In fact, often there is too much food. There can be big meals, treats, snacks and grazing with sweets and chocolate in front of the TV. There is always so much food around and plenty of opportunity to eat much more than you usually might.

It can all lead to a repeat of the boom and bust of weight loss. You work hard to be healthy and lose some weight, only to undo all that effort over the festive period. You can end up entering the New Year feeling fat, bloated and disappointed that it happened again.

Festive eating can come with guilt. There’s the guilt of undoing your previous efforts. The guilt of indulging when you know you don’t really need to eat it. The guilt if you are miserable from missing out by not eating. You try to battle with yourself yet ultimately fail. And once you’ve started, the festive eating can rumble on and on.

Christmas can bring anxiety, guilt and a sense of losing control around eating. You find yourself reaching for some more or those chocolates just because it’s Christmas and it’s there. You feel bad if you ‘deprive’ yourself and you feel guilty if you eat too much.

If you struggle with eating at Christmas, hypnotherapy can help you navigate the festive season with confidence and balance.

Weight Loss Jab Support with Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Aug 14, 2025 | Weight Loss

Weight Loss Jab Support with Hypnotherapy

If you’ve been using the weight loss jab then you may benefit from weight loss jab support to help you maintain your progress.

You may have enjoyed success using the weight loss jab but now you want to make sure that you don’t end up losing all that progress and piling the weight back on again. You’ll have done diets and other weight loss programmes before that brought great initial results. Yet you still ended up back with the old unhealthy relationship with food and unhealthy eating habits. This time you want things to be different and to keep the weight off for good.

As reported by the BBC, health experts are advising the need for ongoing support after weight loss jobs to make sure you keep the weight off. People often regain some or all of what they lost once they end any weight loss programme. Your focus and motivation slip, life returns to normal and those underlying habits resurface. On top of that comes all the frustration and disappointment that all of your hard work has been wasted.

Guidance from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence), who advise the NHS, has suggested that you may need support, guidance and a post jab plan to keep you healthy. After all, you know that weight loss is not a short term fix. It requires change to your relationship with food, mindset, attitude and habits.

This is where weight loss jab support through hypnotherapy can help you. You can take control over your long term eating habits and relationship with food to support you in being thinner, healthier and happier.

Weight Loss Service in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Jul 17, 2025 | Weight Loss

Weight Loss Service – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

Are you looking for a weight loss service that helps you to naturally take back control over your eating habits?

In a climate of weight loss drugs and jabs, it is still very possible to naturally and successfully take control over your relationship with food. Most people know what they should be eating, but their habits, cravings, thoughts and behaviours around food consistently get in the way. You have the knowledge over what to do but still find yourself not doing it. And all the while your weight creeps up and up and your self-esteem and well-being suffer.

It may be that you eat emotionally. Whenever you feel sad, bad, low, happy or good, you reach for the unhealthy snacks as part of how you feel. Your emotions and the food hit become inter-twinned and an ongoing, self-maintaining pattern. Once your emotions subside, you feel bad for having eaten too much or the wrong things.

For others, it is all about the habits and behaviours they have learnt about food. You learnt that you can make whatever choices you like. You learnt to eat too much and always clear your plate. You learnt that, even when you’ve had enough, there should be no waste and that sweet things follow meals. The sugar cravings can hit you at any time and you struggle to resist. Or maybe you’ve just been snacking in front of screens for so long that it seems normal now.

I often get a surge of weight loss service clients in the summer. You can no longer get away with the baggy clothes to hide your body. You want to go out socially but you feel like you look awful in your clothes (if they still fit). And you may berate yourself, be critical of your weight or compare yourself negatively with others.

You know you could go for another quick fix diet to try and get a bit of a better beach body you are more comfortable with. Yet maybe you are tired of the short term success, followed by long term even greater weight gain afterwards. You want to change your relationship with food and take back control over your eating habits so it becomes your new, healthier, lifestyle.

How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Jun 18, 2025 | Weight Loss

How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off with Hypnotherapy

Do you struggle with knowing how to lose weight and keep it off?

You’ve probably followed diet after diet and diet you lose some weight. But slowly and surely all those pounds creep back on again. Every time you go back on another diet it seems harder and harder to shift the weight and to stick with it. You’re probably tired of the yo-yo dieting and constantly draining your willpower to try and lose weight and keep it off.

You want to lose weight so that you feel healthier, happier and more comfortable in yourself. You want to feel good when you look in the mirror, feel more confident and enjoy life more.

Yet those eating habits keep holding you back. It all seems like hard work, effort and a struggle. Maybe it’s the eating habits, maybe you are emotional eating and maybe you’ve done the same things with food year after year and now you don’t seem to be able to take back control over food and eating. You eat when you aren’t hungry, make unhealthy choices, snack too often and use food to manage your feelings.

You probably know what you need to do to lose weight but your mind sabotages you. Weight loss hypnotherapy can help you to take back control over your own thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions around food. You can take control over your eating habits, feel motivated and enjoy eating the right amount for you.

If you need some help to successfully lose weight then hypnotherapy can help you to move forward towards a slimmer, healthier, happier you. Getting your mind in the right place is how to lose weight and then keep it off.

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

by Dan Regan | Mar 4, 2025 | Weight Loss

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Hypnotherapy for weight loss is one of the most common things that people come to see me about. You’ll have tried multiple times with various diets and fads and probably be heavier now than when you first started. You can get short term results but nothing that really lasts. You want to lose weight, make long lasting lifestyle changes and have a healthy relationship with food. You know it’s your mindset and habits but still you struggle to make, and stick to, the healthier patterns that you keep promising yourself you’ll achieve. You want to be slimmer, healthier and happier but somehow it just seems like such hard work.

Only today I came across a story in the BBC about how more than half of all adults and a third of children, teenagers and young adults are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2050. That is a lot of people carrying excess weight. And, of course, with this comes the increased risk of all sorts of physical health issues that can well be debilitating.

I remember when, years ago, I struggled with my own weight. It made me miserable and I even felt a bit isolated from everyone else. I would be self critical about my weight and appearance. And, as often happens, I then used food to try and cheer myself up a bit. I knew there was an issue but I pretended that there wasn’t and just carried on doing the same old things over and over.

Eating habits, like other habits and patterns, have a way of gaining a seemingly unstoppable momentum. By the time you realise that your relationship with food is not that great, it feels like you are already too stuck to change it. Maybe it is emotional eating and using food as an external means to change how you feel when stressed, anxious, bored or down. Maybe unhealthy food has even become part of what you do to celebrate things and an integral part of happier moments.

For other people it is snacking and over-eating that are the problems. So many people eat when they are not even hungry. And even more people eat excessive portions that are way beyond what their body needs. These eating habits may go all the way back to childhood or they could have started later when you had more freedom or when settled in a relationship.

Whether is it emotional eating, unhealthy habits or negative associations with food, it is very possible to make beneficial and effective changes with weight loss hypnotherapy.

Why You Should Get Dancing For Weight Loss

by Dan Regan | Jan 25, 2024 | Weight Loss

Why You Should Get Dancing For Weight Loss – Hypnotherapy Ely and Newmarket

You should be dancing, yeah! Dancing, yeah! So sang the Bee Gees, whose songs, alongside those from Showaddywaddy, are guaranteed to get me up on the dance floor at any party. I’ve still got all the moves! You’ll just have to trust me on that one!

And who doesn’t love a good dance to a good song at a party. My moves are nothing like those rehearsed, synchronised things you see on TikTok or the copy and paste my kids sometimes do to a just dance video on You Tube. I know a lot of people love the dancing on Strictly but I’m more of a freestyle type guy!! Or ‘no style’ if you ask my kids!

There’s no doubt that exercise and movement are good for you. Being active supports both your physical and mental health, and there are a whole load of health risks associated with being too sedentary. I’ve written before about the mental health benefits of exercise and how it can help with things such as anxiety, depression and stress. And, as you’ll already know, burning some calories through moving also helps with weight loss. Sure, you need to be eating the right amount and in control over your eating habits (which my hypnotherapy sessions can very much help you with) and exercise certainly helps with weight loss too.

Regardless of the science, I’ve always subscribed to the view that the best form of exercise for weight loss (and your mental health), is to do something you enjoy. If it is fun and enjoyable then you’ll stick with it and get more from it instead of trying to make yourself do something when you heart isn’t in it (and any excuse to not do it starts to seem like a good one). As long as you are moving and your heart rate increases a bit then all is good.

And whilst we already have evidence for the benefits of strength work and cardio, there is now the evidence around whether you can get dancing for weight loss. Now, before we get onto the evidence, of course I think we can all guess the outcome of moving and being active if you want to get fitter and healthier. Yet if you’ve been thinking that to lose weight you have to force yourself to the gym or run a marathon even though you hate running, then this may be the inspiration you need to get dancing more.

And so, is dancing an effective intervention for weight loss?

Control Eating Habits and Weight Loss Hypnotherapy

by Dan Regan | Jan 3, 2024 | Weight Loss

Control Eating Habits and Weight Loss Hypnotherapy

A major component of any successful and sustainable weight loss programme is always learning how to control your eating habits.

Rather than dieting and restriction, you can reach your ideal weight and still enjoy all the tastes, textures, smells and tastes of healthy and nutritious food. You simply learn to enjoy consistently eating the right amount.

So many of us learn eating habits that are less than ideal and then get stuck in a cycle of repeating them. Even if you make some changes for a while, without addressing the underlying psychological and behavioural issues, you soon find yourself back where you started. You may have been told when you were young that you needed to clear your plate (perhaps through the guilt of starving people in the world). You may have always eaten quickly, over-eaten or made less than healthy choices. And it’s quite common that once you had the freedom to make your own eating decisions then the calories came thick and fast (and perhaps sweet too).

Many eating habits get ingrained without you even realising until your weight is an issue. And, as with all habits, your brain is designed to repeat the same patterns, regardless of whether they are helpful or not. And so you eat too much, make unhealthy choices, crave certain foods, find it impossible to stop once you’ve started and mindlessly snack. You get stuck in a rut and, no matter how many diets you’ve tried, you can’t break free.

If your weight is an issue for you, you may already be trying to summon the motivation and inspiration you need to try and start yet another weight loss programme of calorie counting, restriction and deprivation. It’s a depressing prospect of struggle and likely failure.

However, with weight loss hypnotherapy it certainly is possible to take control over your eating habits and so to then successfully lose weight.

Weight Loss Motivation – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Dec 4, 2023 | Weight Loss

Weight Loss Motivation – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

A lot of people struggle to believe me when I tell them that when I was younger I was very overweight and hated all exercise with a passion. Up until my mid-teens, I considered P.E. to be a form of mental and physical suffering and unpleasantness. And my unhealthy snacking meant I was probably the biggest kid in a school of about a thousand students. I had no interest in sport or being active, I was eating too much rubbish and I was often the brunt of fat jokes, jibes and insults. I probably wasn’t too happy with how I looked and felt but I could go home and forget about it because we didn’t have social media or messaging.

At some point in my mid teens (or thereabouts) I started doing something about it, but mainly just because my mates all played football after school and I didn’t want to be left out. I can also vividly remember at some point being so depressed about my weight that I would bike ten miles on an exercise bike at home most evenings. Then I ditched most of the rubbish and started enjoying football with mates and a little bit of running. For someone with anxiety and low self-esteem, i found that eating a bit healthier and exercising made me feel better in myself. I’ve written elsewhere on my website about the science and evidence for running and exercise benefiting your physical and mental health.

After getting a bit fitter and healthier, running became something enjoyable that I actually wanted to do, a mindset that still continues.

I work with a lot of people seeking help with their weight loss motivation and consistency with exercise. At the heart of all eating is learning how to be in control over your eating habits, rather than food running (and ruining) your life. You increase your weight loss motivation, take control over eating habits and then, feeling healthier and happier, you can continue to tweak and nudge things forward. When you have a healthier relationship with food, everything gets easier.

And sometimes people want help with exercise motivation. Maybe they’ve not done any exercising for years, or they’ve lost their motivation for it and want to enjoy being active again. And that comes from building a little bit of motivation and perseverance and then positive habits set in.

If you are desperately seeking some weight loss motivation then hypnotherapy can certainly help you with your thoughts, feelings, habits and behaviours around food and eating.

Weight Loss Strategies – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

by Dan Regan | Nov 23, 2023 | Weight Loss

Weight Loss Strategies – Hypnotherapy in Ely and Newmarket

The weight loss strategies that you consistently adopt will determine whether you achieve your weight goals or whether you struggle to lose weight and keep it off.

For many people even the thought of yet another weight loss attempt can feel pretty depressing and defeating. If you’ve lost in the past and then put it all back on, then the idea of doing it all over again after all that wasted previous effort can sap all of your motivation and persistence. You want to lose wight yet you don’t want to have to deprive yourself. You may enjoy food and worry about everything to do with eating becoming boring and pleasure-less. You know what you should be eating and what you should be doing yet somehow you can’t get going or make it a seamless part of your healthy, slim, lifestyle.

Sadly, the fact remains that despite more and more weight loss approaches and diets being available, more people are overweight and the majority of people attempting weight loss struggle to implement effective and workable weight loss strategies for the achievement and maintenance of long-term weight loss.

However, no matter where you are right now with your weight, or what you may have tried before, it is possible to make positive, sustainable changes. You can change your mindset and relationship with food. And, just like my other clients, you can take control over your eating habits, feel healthier and happier and consistently make progress towards being the size, shape and weight that you desire to be.

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