If you read magazines, or watch television, or use Google or Facebook you are being assailed by weight loss products, powders, pills, shakes, special foods and the list goes on. But none of these are the true key to weight loss.Nobody has a deficiency in protein bars or tablets promising to blast your fat. Our bodies aren't craving artificial sweeteners or magical diet teas.The number one block to you losing weight is stress. We gain weight because we eat too much, when we are stressed.We don't exercise enough when we are stressed. We crave foods because we are stressed and try to use food to change how we feel.Diet foods cause stress because the artificial sweeteners are neuro toxins. Many diet foods reduce the fat but add extra carbohydrate to create bulk and texture. The net effect in some cases is even more calories.Over exercise is a strong stress to your body. When people get fired up about dieting they often leap into exercise. Then overdo it, feel stiff and sore and then let it slide. The first two weeks of exercise is always the hardest. Then your body becomes accustomed to it and you start to enjoy it.The problem with starting a programme every few months is that you are always in the first two weeks phase. And it always seems to hurt, and you are mystified by those crazy people who seem to love working out.Many diets reduce too many calories too quickly which causes a stress response in the body. You will subconsciously fight the process and seek to protect yourself. Diets which claim that you can lose 5 kg a week are misleading, dangerous and only set you up for failure.Past dieting failures lock more stress and negative beliefs into your subconscious. These feelings and beliefs are compounded with each attempt by yourself or others to lose weight.The trick to stress is realising it's impossible to be stress free. Life will ensure that is the case. It's about taking daily action to relieve the builds up of stress and not trying to solve all stress but keep our energy for the things that matter. As the book says, Don't sweat the small stuff.Rapid Change weight loss hypnosis can easily and gently alter the way you think about food. A simple change in the way you think about stress and food can have a profound effect on your weight loss.
