Within the last few years many training schools have sprung up all over the country to teach people how to do a ‘hypnotic gastric band ‘operation”. This training is usually done by someone with no medical qualification or experience and the information is usually passed onto someone with no medical qualification or experience. The course is usually a few hours long and at the end the person is “qualified” to conduct the ‘operation’.

Surgery Is Regulated But Gastric Band Hypnotherapy Is Not

The people who perform hypnotic gastric bands often charge hundreds and hundreds of pounds for the proceedure which is intended to immitate the actual gastric band operation but there is no after-care and no medical expert help with this option.

The imitation of actual gastric surgery only extends to the surgery itself. There is a poor imitation of the pre-surgery process as the vetting for hypnotic surgery is often a pale immitation of the real process in a hospital.

The imitation of the after care is also very different with hypnotic gastric bands. Often once they have your money they don’t care about you whereas a hospital will spend a lot more time helping you transition from being obese to being slimmer and will often provide expert nutritional advice and support which is often lacking with the hypnotic option.

This imitation of an actual operation is seen as a good thing but is it really? Doctors are very selective about who qualifies for a gastric band operation but for the hypnotic version there are no actual rules. These eligibility criteria for actual surgery are designed to ensure that people have the best chance of benefiting from the proceedure but with the hypnotic version there is not the same standards.

There is also a big question as to whether hypnotic gastric band ‘operations’ are even necessary in the first place or if they are any better than other methods like ‘regular’ weight loss hypnotherapy. There has been no scientific research that I am aware of that has shown that hypnotic gastric bands are proven to be effective and produce healthy long term results. My searches for this information only bring up lots of people asking if the ‘surgery’ is safe and lots of hypnotic gastric band practitioners saying it is safe.

How ‘Normal’ Hypnotherapy Can Help You Lose Weight

The majority of hypnotherapists who don’t do hypnotic gastric bands work to help an individual to lose weight by focusing on areas such as: controlling portion size, reducing the speed food is eaten at, being more aware of one’s body and what it genuinely needs rather than what you have become used to wanting.

These are the kinds of things most of us know can have a dramatic effect on our weight but we either over-look or we hope there is some magic diet which means we won’t have to do these things. But these kinds of factors are usually enough for most people to change their attitude to food and to empower them to make the changes they have desired for so long.

This process is often slow but steady and empowers the individual to take control of their diet and their life in a way that they previously thought impossible. This kind of change has the potential to last a lifetime and make a huge difference.

Hypnotherapy To Lose Weight Should Be Empowering Not Restrictive

Hypnotic gastric bands are not empowering. A proceedure is done to an individual to make them stop eating the volume of food they used to. The procedure does nothing to change attitudes about the types of food that have been eaten or the reasons why that eating pattern developed.

Added to this is the fact that a gastric band can be worked around. A hamburger can be liquidized and ‘drunk’ by someone with a gastric band and they can then have the food they still crave but ingest it in a slightly different way. There is nothing stopping someone with a hypnotic gastric band doing this.

If you have a hypnotic gastric band there is the potential to suffer from malnutrition and deficiencies in essential minerals and vitamins but because the hypnotherapists doing these virtual gastric bands are not medically trained and are not providing on going support, advice and care you could be making a big mistake in getting this kind of treatment.

Is Hypnotic Gastric Band ‘Surgery’ Necessary At All?

Many virtual gastric band practitioners say that they also do work on changing the unhealthy relationship with food that has lead to behaviours that have contributed to these poor eating habits developing. If that approach is recognised as being useful and effective then why bother with the surgery side of things at all?

A hypnotherapist should look for the most effective way to help an individual to make the changes they desire. It has been shown time and time again that by helping people change how they think about food and to make sensible changes to what they eat and the amount they eat that weight loss can be possible in a steady and safe way without the need for hypnotic gastric bands.

Gastric Band Hypnotherapy Is Flawed And Unnecessary In Many Cases

By combining hypnotherapy with a popular (but flawed) surgery option it is not empowering individuals to make healthy choices. Because of this defining charateristic hypnotic gastric bands could be recognosed, in time, as being ineffective at producing the results desired and could affect the perceived value of hypnotherapy as a whole. In the mean time though many hypnotherapists are making a lot of money on the back of something that may not be effective or even necessary.

If you would like to try an approach that helps you to change your relationship with food and the way you eat then ‘regular’ hypnotherapy for weight loss could be all you need. This approach has worked with many many people I have worked with and it is a safe and natural approach. It empowers you to take control of your own diet and lifestyle so you can be slimmer and happier.

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