Food addiction is characterized by loss of control over eating, habituation to food, possible physical dependence on food, and negative consequences in any major function, such as health, work, intimate relationships, friendships, moral and spiritual development, or in relation to the law. Loss of control can be over the types of food chosen.

Drugs don’t become addictive until they are extracted and concentrated by modern industrial processes:

• Cocoa leaves ~ Cocaine
• Poppies ~ Opium
• Grains, fruits, potatoes distilled ~ Alcohol
• Dried tobacco ~ Nicotine

Nature                     Extracted                 Concentrated
Whole foods      >      refined/concentrated     >         Addictive?

When whole foods are processed, refined and concentrated, large quantities of them may lead some people to compulsively seek and consume them.

Much as classic drugs of abuse highjack the brain, accumulating evidence suggests that chronic consumption of refined, highly palatable foods can have a similar impact, but with weaker effects.

A healthy daily food plan is plant-based. Eating real food, food that looks like it was dug out of the earth, picked off a plant, a bush or a tree – food that looks like God made it, will naturally support your recovery from the addiction to processed food. If you can’t put the fork down, hypnosis and whole, plant-based food can help you end food addiction. Learn self hypnosis and be in complete control of the food that you eat.

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Happy people create their own reality.

It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years — we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Happiness does boost your immune system and you can choose to be sad or happy. Learn hypnosis and discover how you can control your capacity for love and happiness. With self-hypnosis you really can change your life and change your reality. BE HAPPY!

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I have never eaten another Hostess Cupcake. But from time to time, I do think about finding one. Fortunately, that sort of desire is a huge wakeup call. It’s an alarm buzzer screeching at me to pay attention, to be mindful, to be conscious of what I am feeling and to allow myself to feel it. When I allow myself to feel the pain, I can grieve, I can hurt, I can be fearful and angry. I can cry and move on to what is next in my life. I no longer have to carry the weight of that pain with me. When I come out on the other side, I again discover the love and joy that’s always been available to me. I tell clients that the self-hypnosis suggestion I give myself most frequently throughout each day is: I am present and conscious in my body.

That simple suggestion reminds me to be aware of my feet on the floor, my butt in the chair and my breath as I exhale. From this place of consciousness and mindfulness, I’m aware of what I’m experiencing physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. From this space of awareness I will only eat when I’m physically hungry. If I’m truly physically hungry, I make healthy choices and I only eat enough to meet my body’s needs.

My prayer for you is that you create a new relationship with yourself that is based on this moment—not on some story you lug around from your past. By being in this moment and realizing it’s your own self-limiting beliefs holding you back, you learn to love YOU and learn to treat your body with the grace, compassion and dignity it so richly deserves. This is what Becoming Slender For Life is all about.

My best wishes,

Roger Moore

Prologue To The Second Edition

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If  someone tells you that they have Weight Loss Magic, RUN! They are selling snake oil. There is no magic when it comes to weight loss. You have to burn more calories than you take in. Simple, yet confounding 65% of the population. Are you wanting to lose weight? Seattle hypnosis clients know that with self-hypnosis, weight loss can be easier. How? Using hypnosis you can create a new relationship with yourself and a new relationship with food. The magic is within you. Put that magic to work with hypnosis for weight loss.

Mark Babineaux, a Slender For Life™ weight loss coach in Louisiana, recently told me about an article in USA Weekend. Learn hypnosis and put this simple advice to work for you.

The Simplest Piece Of Advice For Weight Control Ever

Eat twice as often, eat half as much and chew twice as long. Everything you need to know about how to stay at a healthy weight is in that sentence.

Eat twice as often. Eat three meals and two or three snacks a day and space them three hours apart, to keep your metabolism stoked and your blood sugar stable.

Eat half as much. Our average daily consumption of calories has shot from 2,234 to 2,757 since 1970. Cutting our portions in half would return our average daily calorie count to what it was in 1970. In fact, if you’re overweight and you could make only one change in the way you eat, this is the one to make.

Chew twice as long. Chewing food longer makes each bite last longer. The longer it takes us to eat, the less likely we are to overeat and the more likely we’ll finish our meal feeling satisfied.

Read The Simplest Piece Of Advice For Weight Control Ever

If you are ready to lose weight, Slender For Life™ can support you in your weight loss journey. You learn how to hypnotize yourself so that you easily make healthy food choices, only eat when you are hungry and have an increased desire to exercise.

Self-hypnosis can help you make these simple pieces of advice part of your life. Hypnotherapy gives you the control to eat twice as often, half as much and chew twice as long. Learn hypnosis and put the weight loss magic within you to work.

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Maybe it is just part of the human condition but I have noticed that both with myself and my clients that once I have dealt with an issue in my  life I want it to be done. For too many years I fought when issues recycled back round for greater healing. I just felt like I was a failure and wondered why I didn’t get it the first time it came around.

It’s a process. Diseased trees were cut down. A few days later, rounds were split and pieces of firewood were thrown into a pile. A week later, each piece was picked up, thrown into a wheelbarrow, wheeled up to the pile and like a giant multidimensional jigsaw puzzle stacked stacked 8′ wide, 12′ long and 5′ high and then covered with a blue tarp and then a brown tarp over the top. The sides are all exposed and pallets hold the wood off of the ground so the wood can dry for winter. Then piece by piece it will be wheeled down to the house and stacked on the deck – eventually to be carried in to keep us warm for the winter. And then the ash has to be cleaned out and of course the chimney swept.

So with all those steps to heat a house, why is it that we seem to think that issues like anger, fear, hurt or sadness should just poof go away and never reappear? Why is it that I am OK with pitch on my arms and legs that are bloodied and bruised from pieces of wood falling on them and yet we seem to avoid the pain that can come with healing. Why is it OK to have wood cure for months to be burnt later and yet we just want to stuff our issues and never take them on again?

Here is what I think about healing anger, hurt, fear and sadness. It’s a process! We heal to the extent that we can heal and then set it aside until we are ready for a deeper cut. We recycle. It is not a failure to again take on issues we have dealt with in the past – it is recycling.

What I know from personal experience and having used hypnotherapy with clients for many years now is that hypnosis can be a powerful change agent and a powerful tool for healing. If you have issues in process seek out a qualified professional hypnotherapist to guide and support you. Treat yourself with compassion, forgiveness and love. Embrace your healing process. Learn self-hypnosis and keep the process of your growth and healing in motion.

Read Self-hypnosis and Your Wood Pile and  Moving The Wood.

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Think you know the facts about getting fit? You may be surprised to learn how many are really fiction according to WebMD.

Top 9 Fitness Myths – Busted!

Fitness Myth No. 1: Running on a treadmill puts less stress on your knees than running on asphalt or pavement.

Fitness Myth No. 2: Doing crunches or working on an “ab machine” will get rid of belly fat.

Fitness Myth No. 3: An aerobic workout will boost your metabolism for hours after you stop working out.

Fitness Myth No. 4: Swimming is a great weight loss activity.

Fitness Myth No. 5: Yoga can help with all sorts of back pain.

Fitness Myth No. 6: If you’re not working up a sweat, you’re not working hard enough.

Fitness Myth No. 7: As long as you feel OK when you’re working out, you’re probably not overdoing it.

Fitness Myth No. 8: Machines are a safer way to exercise because you’re doing it right every time.

Fitness Myth No. 9: When it comes to working out, you’ve got to feel some pain if you’re going to gain any benefits.

Of all the fitness rumors ever to have surfaced, experts agree that the “no pain-no gain” holds the most potential for harm.

While you should expect to have some degree of soreness a day or two after working out, that’s very different from feeling pain while you are working out.

A fitness activity should not hurt while you are doing it, and if it does, then either you are doing it wrong, or you already have an injury.

Want the answers? Read Top 9 Fitness Myths – Busted!

Do you have problems motivating yourself to exercise? Hypnosis can help for exercise motivation.

Thanks in part to Hollywood and hypnosis stage shows, there are also many myths about hypnotherapy and its practical day-to-day benefits for living a happy, healthy and productive life. Hypnosis is safe and it is the ultimate display of self-control

Learn self-hypnosis and get up and move. Be sure you also read Hypnosis Demystified.

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