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If dieting was an effective long term strategy to lose weight, people would be able to use one diet and lose all the weight they wanted. Simple, move on. So why is it that that people often jump from diet to diet? Do diets actually work?

In fact, there is evidence that dieting can actually be harmful. Most people who go on diets seem to put the weight back on once they stop. The sad news is that they usually put on a few more pounds than they started with, compounding the original problem. The April issue of American Psychologist reports on a university study conducted by Traci Mann, PhD. Dr. Mann, associate professor of psychology at UCLA, analyzed a group of dieters who had dieted and lost weight over the last year. Dr. Mann was interested in the percentage of dieters who, over time, gain back more weight than they lose.

The study reports that “We found that the average percentage of people who gained back more weight than they lost on diets was 41%.” Dr. Mann also stated that “This is actually bleaker than it seems, even though most people would find that 41% number to be pretty depressing. We have strong reasons to feel that this number under represents the true number of participants who gained back more weight than they lost.”

So why is it that don’t diets work? Some researchers suggest that the biological and hormonal changes associated with dieting prompt the body to perceive a threat to survival in the lack of food intake. A natural, instinctual mechanism kicks in and we over eat again. In the UCLA study, Dr. Mann suggests is that it’s just plain hard for people to change their eating behavior. It requires constant vigilance and motivation and, over time, determination falters. Essentially we slip back to the same behaviors that caused the weight problem in the first place.

To effectively lose weight and keep it off, it is necessary to change the behaviors that lead to the weight gain in the first place. Use of a good hypnosis weight loss program can assist you with changing unwanted behaviors. When you use hypnosis for weight loss, it is easy to make subconscious shifts in the way you act and think about food. Repeated use of the hypnosis programs reinforces healthier eating behavior. There is no struggle, no boot camp discipline, just results!