How hypnotherapy helps after weight loss injections

Weight loss injections (GLP-1 receptor agonists) are being seen as a miracle drug for weight loss. They reduce appetite, help manage blood sugar, and support significant weight loss, often where other approaches have failed. For those who meet the medical conditions to be prescribed and who have struggled to control their weight, these injections can be life-changing. People who simply cannot shift excess weight are seeing positive results, and given increasing levels of obesity in many countries, there is much excitement about how this could turn the tide of weight-related health issues.

However, what we are seeing now is that as soon as patients finish their course of injection, the weight starts to pile back on, and the old eating habits and cravings return. This is where hypnosis can step in.

The missing link in medical weight loss

GLP-1 medications are effective in reducing appetite and cravings. But they don’t address the underlying issues of:

• Why is food your ‘go-to’ when you feel stressed, lonely, or bored?
• Why do you self-sabotage progress just when things are going well, or as soon as you let your guard down?
• Underlying feelings about self-worth or deep-rooted associations with food.

As a result, many people find themselves quickly going back to old behaviours as soon as they finish the treatments. The cravings return with a vengeance, the bad habits reappear, and the weight soon comes back on. 

This is where Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) can build the bridge from the medically induced weight loss to a long-term healthier relationship with food that keeps the weight off.

RTT: Dealing with the root cause of weight issues

RTT combines the best of hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, and neuroscience to access and rewire the root cause of unwanted behaviours.

Using RTT and my experience of helping with lasting weight loss, we:

• Uncover the emotional drivers behind food cravings and bad habits.
• Let go of the beliefs that fuel the need to overeat, eat the wrong things or use food as comfort.
• Install new habits of thought and action that will make lasting weight loss easier. I work to make your desire to be healthy and slim stronger and reduce the desire to eat too much or eat the wrong things.

Because RTT works on changing how you think and feel about food, weight loss will not feel like a sacrifice. You can truly come to enjoy eating less and prefer eating healthy food to eating junk food. Imagine walking around the supermarket and feeling drawn to the fruit and vegetable aisle while having no interest in filling your trolley with biscuits or chocolate.

This can make RTT an ideal companion to weight loss injections. While the medication can help those who can’t easily lose weight to lose the excess, RTT helps create lasting change from the inside, to ensure that you don’t go back to where you started.

Through my practice, I’ve supported clients who were initially thrilled at how weight loss injections helped them shed the excess pounds, but were left feeling devastated as the treatment stopped and back came the cravings and weight. 

To help them get back on track, we use RTT to understand and address the underlying issues, such as:

• guilt and emotional eating
• habits formed in childhood
• unhelpful beliefs such as “I have always struggled with food”

When these mental and emotional blocks are understood and addressed, the reasons behind the overeating or other destructive habits are more easily controlled.

Hypnotherapy and RTT are a foundation for lasting change

If you are considering hypnotherapy or RTT, whether you're still on GLP-1 medication or preparing to come off it, RTT can:

• strengthen your resolve to keep the weight off
• reduce emotional dependence on food
• help you maintain your progress - without relying on willpower alone

Your body may lose the weight with medication, but getting control of your thoughts, feelings and habits around food can help the weight stay off.

You don’t need to be taking weight loss medications to change your relationship with food for good. Imagine if you could lose the weight without medical intervention and then keep it off. RTT and hypnotherapy are safe and powerful treatments that could help you wherever you are on your journey.