• Hypnotherapy
• Weight Management
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Weight Management

I am a Weight Management Specialist.  The extremely effective Weight Management Course I have developed and now use is tried and tested - not least on myself. At only 5'3", I used to weigh a hefty 18 stone 3lbs (I have the grim photos to prove it) - now I don't, and have maintained my weight reduction for ten years.

The system I devised to successfully lose my unwanted excess weight is the same one I'll be using with you, regularly updated and revised to ensure you benefit from the best I can offer.

I have also benefitted from training with Tom Nicoli, Director of the New England Institute of Hypnosis, and  internationally-acknowledged Weight Loss expert.

The Course is absolutely not about dieting: we know, to our cost, diets don't work. It is primarily about addressing your attitude to food and eating; your underlying issues, and giving yourself permission, at a subconscious level, to get rid of your excess weight.  You can then successfully move on from that point.

It is also about discovering how to eat healthily, and exercise, in way you can easily sustain in your daily life. This allows you to not only successfully lose your excess weight, but maintain that loss indefinitely.

Here is what Diane Taylor of Plympton, and Zoe Steer of Ivybridge, say of my Weight Management course:

"I have tried every diet known to man and they all failed. Penny the Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist - and my determination - changed my life. The evidence is me: the happier and skinnier me!" (Diane)

"You were lovely, very kind, caring, non-judgmental and so easy to talk to! You made me feel very at ease and have shown me how to control my eating habits and not let the food control me. It has also helped me to look at other things differently too. I would hugely recommend you to my family/friends." (Zoe)

In addition to the obvious dietary and exercise advice, the Course incorporates the use of several very effective therapies: hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and psychotherapy, together with a generous dollop of old-fashioned common sense.

My Course consists of four lengthy sessions at fortnightly intervals, three of which are a combination of hypnotherapy and NLP, and the first of which is helping you to literally change your mind on a conscious level, before changing it on a subconscious level. The most important thing is that we discover the reason(s) why you not only gained the weight, but are keeping it on.

The use of hypnosis can help you discover the cause of your excess weight and deal with it, so you can get rid of the excess weight once and for all - and keep it off, permanently. And you also need to give yourself permission to get rid of the excess weight, which I know sounds odd when that's the one thing you really DO want to do!

In addition to the one-to-one sessions, totalling 8 to 10 hours, I provide a number of useful tools for continuing development, including:

• a 30-page booklet* which includes a great deal of helpful information
• a Food & Mood Diary
• a handbag/wallet reminder note, so you can make wise choices whilst shopping at the supermarket
• a Promise Certificate
• an information sheet about the Compulsive Eating Cycle
• an information sheet about sugar
• a Measurement & Weight Chart
• an easy-to-use Portion Control Chart **
• a Tai-Chi DVD

I offer these additional aids free of charge because I am committed to your success. I ask just one thing of you in return: that when you come to see me to help you shed your unwanted excess weight, you too are committed to shedding, and maintaining, that reduction.

I also offer, should you need them, a range of Inner Talk CDs. These amazing CDs are about training your mental perception towards the positive and away from the negative in a totally effortless and sustainable way, using an amazing technology. The patented science behind Inner Talk operates quite simply on the understanding that to change current thinking and thus behaviour, you first have to change the information stored in the subconscious part of the mind. Hypnotherapy has been doing this for years, but Inner Talk works by using technology on a CD, and by using peripheral perception of the senses.

The Inner Talk CDs are priced at £22.99 RRP each. The titles available are:

Weight Loss Now
Using Metabolism to Melt Away Fat
Forever Thin, Fit and Healthy
Joy of Exercise and Keeping Fit
Walking for Health
I Love My Body
Junk food, Freedom From
Sugar, Freedom From
I Drink Water
Substance (Food) Abuse, Freedom From

The Weight Reduction Course requires effort and commitment from you to succeed as I know it can.

*  The free 30-page booklet is a highly condensed version of the full 301-page book I have written, Penny Samuels' ‘Ultimate How to Win at Weight Loss Personal Training Course'.  If you would like to purchase the full book, it is available from my Online Shop.

**  I have available, from my Online Shop, the excellent Diet Plate (Female, Male and Child versions) and Diet Bowl, which make portion control simplicity itself. 

 Hypnotic Stomach Stapling now available!

100% safe, and extremely effective, Hypnotic Stomach Stapling (and the Hypnotic Gastric Band) has caused many column inches in the national press over recent months.    You can now experience this painless procedure in the privacy and calm of my practice.  Please contact me to see how this procedure could benefit you.