The hypnotherapist who hypnotised himself to lose nearly 5 stones

COVENTRY, U.K. - March 20, 2013 - PRLog -- A COVENTRY hypnotherapist has given himself a dose of his own medicine and hypnotised himself into shedding more than four and a half stones.

Russell Hemmings has dropped from over 18 stones down to 14 and has become one of his own greatest success stories!

For many years he battled with his weight, and like many, his weight issues began as a teenager.

“We all know it’s an emotionally fraught time and I was really skinny and felt weak and intimidated. It had a drastic effect on my self-esteem and so I began to gain weight as a kind of protection.

“By the time I had reached my thirties, I was reaching for the double XL clothes and, obviously, it was taking its toll on my health”.

Then two years ago things changed.

“I took a long, hard look at myself and my lifestyle and decided enough was enough.

“As a hypnotherapist, every day I was telling people how they should and shouldn’t eat their food, how they should fill their life with exercise, drink water, cut out the crap, live better.

“I have worked with many people over the years helping them to improve their lives and their health and decided it was high time for me to take some of my own advice!”

Mr Hemmings has been a hypnotherapist for more than 10 years and over the past two or three years has specialized in weight loss therapy. He has had great successes with clients keen to turn their life around and lose weight. As well as weight loss therapy, he also developed his own gastric band hypnotherapy, which has seen clients lose four or five stones simply by using the power of their minds, and being ‘tricking’ into believing they had a gastric band fitted to their stomach.

Mr Hemmings’ success stories have been featured in the press and on TV all over the world – “and in every story, there was me on the sidelines! But now it’s my turn – I have radically changed my lifestyle, using my own therapy”.

In early 2011, Mr Hemmings  decided to launch weight loss CDs and MP3 downloads on his website. “I have had such highly publicized successes with helping others that I was in huge demand. And clearly I can’t be everywhere at the same time so I wanted to produce something, which meant I could offer help to those I couldn’t physically see.
“As the downloads were being produced, I started listening to them most nights, to ensure they were up to scratch and that I was happy with the end product.
“Which, of course, meant I was getting a taste of my own medicine!

“I listened to all the tracks – including Motivation for Exercise, Healthy Eating and Weight Control – every night and since starting I found I just wasn’t that hungry any more and I CRAVED exercise; the way that most people crave junk food.

“The changes started to happen quite quickly and so I just kept listening to one of the tracks every night. It’s only 30 minutes or so out of your day – so instead of sitting in front of the computer I would just put my earphones in, lie back, relax and listen.

“I look completely different now. I feel completely different. Food no longer rules my life and, if I don’t go to the gym because of work commitments, I am so disappointed”.

Mr Hemmings’ says his typical diet before hypnotherapy was pretty hit and miss. He would skip breakfast most days, lunch would be a baguette and a cake afterwards and dinner would be a curry with lots of rice.

“I would make the excuse that I was busy and that I didn’t have the time to ‘think’ about what to eat. Which I now know was just an excuse. Because I am probably busier now than I have ever been and yet I eat so much better.

“I’m 6ft tall so can carry a bit of extra weight, but at over 18 stones I was constantly being asked if I had been running when I answered the telephone.

“All of my family was obese. I guess I just accepted it. And at 52 I guess I also became quite set in my ways. My father died of diabetes when I was a baby and my mother and two sisters brought me up. I just remember that they were always on a diet.

“But then I realized I had to start taking my own advice. I needed to get back to regular exercise, eat healthier, stop sitting in front of the computer and MOVE. I needed to start putting myself first, not last”.

Now his typical diet is radically different - porridge with fresh fruit for breakfast, a salad for lunch and whatever he fancies for dinner. “I don’t see junk food as real ‘food’ and so I never want it”.

He adds: “From wearing XXL clothes I’m now a 33’’ waist. I feel younger and as I have been working a lot in Dubai, I love shopping in the malls – I’ve replaced my whole wardrobe by shopping there!

“I feel so much more energized and know that I can take this change and feed that through to my clients. They can see that I’ve done what they want to do and I think that has a massive impact on our sessions.

“I truly believe that hypnotherapy has a powerful role to play in helping people with weight loss. So many people lurch from one faddy diet to another, trying to find the secret to successful slimming, but more often than not any success is short lived.

“I want to change that. I want people to lose weight and keep it off for good. I want them to have the life they deserve.”

Russell Hemmings is based at The Bridge Hypnotherapy Clinic, in Earlsdon, Coventry. Visit www.russellhemmings.com or www.facebook.com/bridgehypnotherapyclinic

The MP3 downloads are available via the website and prices start at £29.95.