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Losing weight is a difficult process; naturally, most overweight people are always searching for fast ways to lose weight. The Cabbage Soup diet program is known to many people as a popular “fad diet” that offers a simple way to shed excess pounds, but does it actually work? The diet program is explained here, along with the keys to permanent weight loss.

The Cabbage Soup diet involves, as its name implies, eating cabbage soup for a seven day period. During this time, dieters only consume low calorie cabbage soup and a few other specific foods for weight loss. The diet is not a life plan like many other popular diet programs, and requires no long-term lifestyle changes beyond the seven days of the diet program.

There are numerous versions of the recipe for cabbage soup. Most contain spices, cabbage and other vegetables, such as bell peppers, onions, celery, mushrooms, and tomatoes. Some people enjoy adding spicy flavorings to enhance the soup. Other people monitoring their sodium intake try to prepare a reduced-sodium recipe. Many recent versions of the diet include healthy sources of protein to make the diet plan more balanced.

Besides cabbage soup, there are highly specific guidelines for what other foods are permitted on each day of the diet. As a general guide, dieters can eat cabbage soup every day, along with fruit on day one, vegetables on day two, vegetables and fruit on day three, skim milk and bananas on day four, tomatoes and beef on day five, vegetables and beef on the sixth day, and vegetables, fruit juice, and brown rice on day seven. Those using the diet then revert to their normal eating habits, hopefully now weighing a few pounds less.

Is the Cabbage Soup diet really the answer for losing weight? Although no official scientific study has studied the diet conclusively, dieters who have used the weight loss plan report mixed results. For many people, the diet resulted in weight loss (up to ten pounds, typically less), but only temporarily, as the pounds gradually came back as the dieter resumed normal eating habits. Some people experienced fatigue, light-headedness, and lack of focus while following the Cabbage Soup diet. Other people did not feel any effects at all, seeing no weight loss, but no illness either.

The Cabbage Soup diet plan is just one of countless “fad diets” that people can try. However, because this plan may not work, for many dieters it just adds to the difficulty of being overweight. A better method of losing weight does not use gimmicks or short-term dieting. It takes dedicated effort and long-term health commitments to maintain healthy weight loss. For most people, this means eating healthy and getting plenty of physical activity.

Unfortunately, many people fight to maintain the healthy habits needed to lose weight. Lots of active dieters cannot seem to lose weight because of their intense cravings, out-of-control appetites or eating habits, or a simple lack of motivation. Hypnosis is ideal for resolving these obstacles and providing the motivation necessary for losing weight.

Among the many reasons weight loss hypnotherapy is excellent as a weight loss tool is because weight loss hypnotherapy can be used for natural appetite suppression. Many overweight people suffer from uncontrollable appetites because have a habit of emotional eating which makes them have an unconscious impulse to eat and eat even when they aren’t hungry. Weight loss hypnotherapy helps reprogram the unconscious mind to end the unconscious drive to eat too much, resulting in appetite control without the use of drugs.

Another way hypnotherapy techniques can work to help you take the weight off is by removing the anxious thoughts that give you the urge to overeat and destroy your motivation to go exercise. When you begin to think negative thoughts, hypnosis taps into your unconscious mind to automatically think positive, which reduces stress and tension.

Your motivation to exercise can be dramatically increased through hypnosis therapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). First, you ascertain what the most important aspects of your life are. Then you use techniques in NLP to guide you into feeling that the things that are most important to you will become enhanced when you exercise, or placed in jeopardy if you do not. Thus, it becomes very easy to stay motivated to get physically fit and stay physically fit.

Anyone can be able to learn hypnosis and NLP techniques from a good weight loss hypnotherapy CD program. The techniques in hypnosis CDs use the power of unconscious thoughts to help dieters stop their cravings. By extinguishing cravings and urges, the appetite is suppressed or eliminated entirely. Hypnosis also keep you strongly motivated to get physically fit.

By reprogramming your unconscious mind, hypnotic therapy makes losing weight a natural process. It is a superb tool to keep you inspired and naturally focused on healthy habits. So before trying another fad diet, consider a healthier approach to losing weight through exercise, healthy eating, staying positive, and using hypnotherapy to achieve your goals.

Alan B. Densky, CH has worked for over 30 years specializing in weight loss. He offers several ways to lose weight, including lose weight CD and NLP for weight loss DVD. Visit his CD for self-help site for Free hypnosis downloads, videos, and newsletters.

- Alan B. Densky, CH