Real Gastric Band Surgery or Gastric Band Hypnotherapy?

So you are overweight and you have been for years and no diet seems to be helping. You have tried all the usual diet companies, you have cut out food groups, starved yourself and even tried fasting but after an initial weight loss you find that the pounds just pile straight back on. You know that there is the option for surgery and yes it is costly but surely it is guaranteed to work? Then you hear about a new treatment called gastric band hypnotherapy and you wonder if that can that help.

This is a dilemma that so many of my clients speak to me about. They ring for an initial free consultation and they are scared of drastic surgery but they also feel it is their only hope. They want to know about the Hypno-Band because they have read about it in the press but they can't see how it can help them. So what are the facts.

My first discussion with them is usually about the surgery and I do everything I can to persuade people not to have it. Not just because it is very expensive and risky but because most people are unaware that it doesn't always work. In fact gastric band surgery has quite a large failure rate. What the expensive cosmetic surgery clinics don't tell you is that five years after surgery a third of people who have had the operation have not lost a significant amount of weight. After ten years this figure rises to two thirds of people who have had the operation. To make matters worse a third of patients who have the surgery require the operation to be redone because of complications.

So why is this? Simply put weight loss is all to do with your mind. Yes you can have expensive surgery but if your mind is not in the right place you can cheat the band. This is why hypnotherapy is often a better option because it can help you to find out why you are overeating. When you understand what your problem is then it is much easier to fix the problem. Surgery doesn't help change your mindset it just offers a quick fix.

Remember you need to understand why you are overeating to have any chance of making the changes that you desperately want. This can be accomplished through hypnosis or other forms of talking therapy taking place over a period of months. When your mind is in the right place then nothing can prevent you from achieving your goals.

Martina McKeough is a Gastric Band Hypnotherapy Specialist and does her Hypnotherapy Hertfordshire can help clients to lose weight by finding the root cause of their problem. Click here to find her latest Hypnosis Downloads.