Top 10 New Year Resolutions – Are Yours On The List?

Do you make a resolution on New Year’s Eve? If so, you’re in good company! Forty five percent of Americans make New Year’s Resolutions, and there are a few repeat offenders every January first!

In fact, as we go through the list of the top-10 New Year Resolutions, if you are like most folks, you will most likely notice a handful of resolutions that you (either with or without success) attempted to accomplish in the past.

10) Finish that around the house “to-do” list.
9) Read more.
8) Get organized.
7) Save Money.
6) Volunteer.
5) Better work/life balance.
4) Quit smoking.
3) Learn something new.
2) Drink less alcohol.

and the #1 resolution is:
1) Lose weight.

Now - the nice part about a new year resolution is that if you didn’t get around to something last year, you get to add it to your list for this coming year.  However, the problem that most people have is that they keep adding the same exact things year after year or worse yet – they failed at it so many times in the past that they don’t even bother trying anymore.

So how can you accomplish your goal(s) this coming year?

Back when I managed a marketing firm, the company I worked for loved management training.  I took management courses and training every month or so. To be honest, some of what we learned was pretty worthless, but one element has stuck with me, and that’s how to create an reachable goal. A goal – or a New Year’s resolution – is much more likely to succeed if it is FAST:

Flexible – If you’re not able to meet your goal, how will you adapt?
Attainable – How are you going to achieve this? Do you have a plan?
Specific – With a specific goal you know when you’re on the right track.
Timed - Set a time limit or better yet - set smaller mini-goals every few months.

So, how can you use "FAST" to make your New Year’s resolutions successful? Let’s look at the #1 resolution: Lose weight:

• Make it flexible – The main thing to understand about goals is that they should be adjustable - so this part might happen on-the-fly.  For example, if you hurt your ankle in February, you might be off your feet for a while.  Therefore, you can be flexible by adjusting your goal for the year or trying to make up the lost time by exercising more once you’re on your feet again. Flexibility stops real life problems from derailing your whole plan.

• Make it attainable – Losing 100 pounds by January 15th is not very realistic.  Therefore, set a goal that you can truly live with.  For example, - "I will lose five pounds by March 1st, and I’ll do that by walking for 30 minutes a day."

• Make it specific – Losing weight is not really a goal because it is wide open to interpretation.  For example, are you looking to lose 1 pound or 100 pounds this year?  Instead make it specific - "I want to lose 20 pounds by by 2015."

• Make it timed –  While the ultimate goal may be 20 pounds in a year, you need to break up the timing for how you intend to reach this long-term goal - "I want to lose five pounds by March 1ts, five more by June 1st, five more by September 1st, and five more by December 1st."

So as you can see, when you approach your New Year resolution with a plan of action, you are more likely to reach your desired goal.  One final thing to remember is that while most people want to go it alone, there’s no shame in asking for help.  After all - when you quit smoking with the patch, you’re getting help.  When you lose weight by joining a food program or gym, you’re getting help.  When you save money by using a finance balancing software or money management company, you’re getting help.

Therefore, if you need a little help with reaching your new year goals, be sure to contact us to see if we can help cross that resolution off your list - forever!

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Manage Your Holiday Eating Habits

Thanksgiving will be here before you know it. And although we all enjoy the holiday parties, dinners, and festivities, it’s also a great time for a little personal preventive maintenance.

While we can certainly help people lose weight with hypnosis, remember that it is so much easier to manage your weight gain beforehand than it is to actually take the weight off once you’ve gain it.

If you’re the type of person who gains weight during the holidays, then tries to lose it afterwards, you might want to consider hypnosis BEFORE the holiday season gets here:

How can Hypnosis help?

Automatically control your food cravings

Naturally reach for and crave healthier choices

Have more power to "Stop" when you want to

Have more power to say "NO" to hight calorie foods

No mystery diet pills, drugs and products to worry about

No dangerous crash diets that can be harmful

No cravings or feelings of missing out

The best part about our hypnosis programs is that all of your thoughts about food, eating and snacking change automatically so you don't have to rely on doing anything or taking anything to see results. 

So remember, this is no such rule that says you have to wait until you have gained weight to take care of yourself. Sometimes preventing a problem before it gets out of control is the better option.

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Winning The Weight Loss Battle

If you've already made a decision to lose weight...congratulations! For many people, making this commitment is the hardest part. But despite this burst of self-motivation, many people find they don't know what exercises to do for weight loss.

There are three major types of exercise.

Aerobic exercise, such as walking, running and biking

Flexibility exercises such as yoga and other forms of stretching.

And strength training, including weight lifting and resistance exercises.

Out of all three, aerobic and strength training will help you burn the most calories. Since weight loss is dependent on either taking in fewer calories or burning more, it's best to focus on these at first to ensure your self-motivation continues as you drop pounds.

Most fitness experts generally agree that 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week should be your initial goal, but it needn't be continuous. For example, two 15-minute blocks works equally well and you can build up the time and frequency as you progress.

One of the most important things to keep in mind is that self-motivation is what compelled you to begin your quest in the first place. And many people have a difficult time sustaining the pace. Therefore, figuring out what motivates you is imperative to sustaining commitment to weight loss, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise consistently.

And that is where Hypnosis can come into play. Hypnosis doesn't actually really make people lose weight. Rather hypnosis is used to create exercise motivation while as it reminds the people using it to eat healthier. It’s a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think. So although you might have a strong desire to exercise for weight loss, over time that desire by itself probably won't be enough to keep you going. So exercise hypnosis motivation treatment will help.

Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer, and computers don't reason with logic. The input simply controls the output. So logic has nothing to do with belief. In fact things don’t have to be logical for you to believe them. And because the NLP techniques used in exercise hypnosis motivation treatment can make you believe almost anything, what you believe...is what will end up happening.

So when you visit a professional hypnotist, the first step he or she will do is to help you figure out the most important things are in your life. We call these things highly valued criteria. The next step is to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to exercise more or reduce you calorie intake.

Finally, the hypnotist will hypnotize you so that your mind now processes this newly input data and outputs the results of a new healthier think you who is totally motivated to keep things going.

More Weight Loss Information

53 Pounds!

Congratulations to our office manager Gretchen. She has officially lost a total of 53 pounds so far with our weight loss hypnosis MP3. Great job and way to go Gretchen!

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The Elves Are Hard At Work...

With the holiday season among us, many people are searching for the perfect gift idea.

Here at Positive Change Hypnosis, we are jumping into the holiday celebration by offering our holiday gift certificates. We only offer these during the month of December. Our gift certificates make a perfect gift for the special someone who is looking to lose weight, stop smoking, and manage pain and more. Best of all, our gift certificate covers our complete 3 Step Hypnosis Program so your whoever you give it to won’t incur any additional cost or fees.

In addition to our holiday gift certificates, many people are downloading our Stop Smoking and Weight Loss hypnosis MP3’s. There is no waiting for delivery, you can simply download it from our website, burn it to a CD, wrap it up and you’re done!

Now, I suppose that some people are also downloading our MP3’s in preparation to New Years eve. This way they can be ready for when they make that New Year resolution to stop smoking or lose a few pounds.

Whatever the reason(s), we just wanted to quickly remind our readers that Positive Change has a few great gift ideas that many people are taking advantage of and that can help ease your shopping a little this season.

And remember that when you give the gift of hypnosis you're really giving the gift of a better, healthier and happier life. We are not aware of any store that currently sells or offers that as a gift.

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Our Survey Results

As part of our live hypnosis service for the month of July, August and September we sent all of our clients a satisfaction survey and the results are in.

We are proud to announce that we had an overall 99.6% "extremely satisfied" response from our clients!

We are also happy that some of our clients provided great helpful feedback as this truly does help us ensure that we serve all of our clients to the best of our ability.

We also want to report that we have brought back the ability to download our weight loss and stop smoking hypnosis programs via instant download from our website. Today was officially marked as day one and we had a terrific response, especially from people outside the New England area that may not have the ability to visit us for hypnosis.

In closing we are looking forward to continuing this extraordinary momentum.

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39 Pounds and Counting!

We wanted to provide a quick update for our office manager Gretchen. To date she is up to a 39 pound weight loss! We are very proud of her accomplishment and we are even more proud that hypnosis was able to play a role in her success.

If you do not read our blog on a regular basis, we wanted to take a moment to reinforce the fact that she is not on a diet, she has not joined any workout center or gym and she is not taking any diet pills or drugs. The key to her all-natural weight loss consists of simply eating a little healthier and staying motivated to remain active.

She also wanted to mention that she really hasn’t had to give up any of the foods that she loves and she does no calorie counting whatsoever. But the best part is that this is not some quick fix that is only temporary. She feels a natural change in herself and because of this, it will last a lifetime.

Congratulations Gretchen!!

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30 pounds and counting…

As a regular reader of our blog you might already know that when our own office manager decided to lose some weight, she obviously turned to hypnosis to get the job done. And if you are a regular reader of our blog you already know that we have been tracking her progress throughout her journey.

Now, if you do not regularly read our blog and you did not already know this…well…now you know.

Anyway, we are proud of Gretchen. As of last week she has lost a total of 30 POUNDS!!!

So while we congratulate her on her success so far, we again want to emphasize that this weight loss has all been accomplished with NO workout centers, NO special diets other than naturally having the desire to eat healthier, NO personal trainers and NO pills or drugs whatsoever!

It can’t hurt to visit our website today and call her directly so she can talk to you first hand about how easy it has been so far. BTW…congratulations Gretchen!

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Our Own Success Story!

We are often complimenting our clients for achieving their goals and accomplishing more with hypnosis.

However, we want to take a moment to congratulate our own Office Manage Gretchen for accomplishing her goals with hypnosis.



Approximately two weeks ago Gretchen began using the very same Weight Loss hypnosis MP3 that we offer on our website. And as of today (June 08, 2011) we are proud to announce that she has lost 13.5 pounds!

Gretchen says "I feel more motivated to eat healthy, exercise and just take better care of my health in general. The best part is that I really didn’t have to give up any of the foods that I enjoy eating. I simply eat smaller portions and being more active takes care of the rest."

Nice job Gretchen!!

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Natural or Herbal Weight Loss Drugs

Natural or Herbal Weight Loss Drugs and Supplements - Contaminated and Dangerous!

Have you considered taking so-called natural or herbal weight loss drugs or supplements? You may not be aware that not all weight loss pills are considered safe, much less effective. That's been true for many years, but beginning in late 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called attention to 28 brands of weight loss drugs that are considered dangerous.

Why are they dangerous? Because they are contaminated with materials that are not tolerated by the human body and may cause debilitating side effects, even death. Those ingredients are undeclared, meaning, the packaging doesn't mention them. They may be counterfeit. They all claim to be "herbal" or "natural" and because they are considered "dietary supplements," they don't fall under the FDA approval process.

The FDA has determined most, if not all of these so called "natural" or herbal weight loss supplements, are manufactured in China. The dangerous ingredients include sibutramine, rimonabant, phenytoin, and phenolphthalein. These illegal weight loss drugs contain at least one, and sometimes more than one of these ingredients.

Sibutramine is a controlled substance, and is found in Meridia which has been approved to be sold in the United States by prescription. However, the amounts found in the illegal drugs and supplements are up to three times the amount found in Meridia. Because of the high levels of sibutramine, those who take any of these illegal versions may be subject to increased blood pressure, tachycardia, palpitations, or seizures.

Rimonabant is a drug that has not been approved in the United States, and has been responsible for a handful of deaths in other parts of the world. It has not been approved because it has been found to cause increased risk of neurological and psychiatric side effects - seizures, depression, anxiety, insomnia, aggressiveness, and suicidal thoughts among patients.

Phenolphthalein used to be found in laxatives until it was removed from them in the late 1990s when it was found to be a carcinogen (meaning, causes cancer) and was also found to be responsible for changes in DNA.

Phenytoin is found only in trace amounts in some of these illegal supplements. It has been used in the manufacture of Dilantin which is an approved anti-seizure drug, but which is not indicated for those who do not have seizures.

The FDA makes it clear that since natural or herbal weight loss drugs are considered to be "dietary supplements" they do not fall under the FDA's purview. You can check the most current list of banned weight loss drugs at the FDA website.
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

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Why Diets Fail Us

Ever try to lose weight with a trendy, so-called "diet" or weight-loss gimmick only to experience frustration and failure? You're not alone. These types of plans often set you up for failure...but why? Here are the 6 main reasons:

1. Diets deprive us: Many diets involve eliminating certain foods or even whole food groups. This is not only unhealthy but also unrealistic for the long term weight loss.

2. Diets are temporary. Once they have reached their goal, most people go back to "normal" eating, so the weight comes back.

3. Diets often don't fit into normal life. Weighing and measuring food may help you lose weight, but aren't practical as long-term strategies for most people.

4. Diets can be expensive. Buying special foods can rack up a big bill quickly.

5. Diets can actually lower your metabolism. When you drastically cut back on calories, your metabolism tends to slow down. You burn fewer calories and the diet becomes less effective.

6. A diet is only half of the equation. Lifetime weight management is not just about what you eat. It requires a long-term plan of action.

And there you have it. If you are looking to shed a quick pound or two on a short term basis a diet may help you, so long as you understand that a diet will NEVER actually change your life. Accept this reality and you won't be so let down in the end when your weight goes right back to where it was before the diet.

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