GEORGIE - it's all in the head and not because someone puts it there!!

So I liked this story I read today - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1294631/Company-director-drops-stone-hypnotist-convinces-gastric-band.html

Hypnosis, its believers say, can work wonders. I have friends who've stopped being heavy smokers thanks to a few sessions so I'm really interested in the idea that you can lose weight using your mind.

But really - doesn't it really come down to just one thing - the belief thing? Whether you believe you're thinner or less hungry then you were before OR you believe you are worth looking and feeling better it's all the same in the end - it just comes down to our desire to do it really easily. That's how the media deals with weight and diets - journalists make us envious of the fact it's SO easy for some people to shed the pounds or get a kiss-ass body...

I guess what I am trying to say is that gaining belief rather then PAYING someone to instil it surely must be much more rewarding. That girl, who looks great and no doubt feels much better, lost weight by cheating her body into thinking it was full. But I feel like she also cheated herself a little. She paid someone else to help her with her weight problem instead of getting her head around her own issue and dealing with it head on. Not having the self belief to get your fat ass off the sofa in the first place and lose some weight without the help of a hypnotherapist smacks a little of an easy way out to me. Call me old fashioned but I would like to feel like I'd done something myself - without the help of anyone else. That's why getting healthy is so hard and so rewarding too.