Susan came in to lose weight.
What she got was a renewed relationship with her family, more energy, better sleep, and freedom from depression.
Here’s how it happened.
The Pattern
Like most people struggling with weight, Susan had tried everything. Every diet program. Lost weight, gained it back. Repeat for years.
She called herself a “carb-o-holic” with no willpower. The cycle felt endless: lose the weight, put it back on, hate herself, try again.
She wasn’t lazy. She wasn’t lacking information. She was stuck in a pattern she couldn’t break through willpower alone.
What We Did
We didn’t start with a meal plan. We started with the question: Why?
Why was she on this self-destructive roller coaster? What was underneath the cravings? What was food doing for her that nothing else could?
From the first session, we worked on the root cause, not the symptom. The symptom was overeating. The root was something deeper: stress she couldn’t handle, depression she was managing with food, low self-esteem that kept her stuck.
The Results
From day one, the cravings for carbs and sweets disappeared. Not suppressed. Gone.
But that was just the beginning. Here’s what else shifted:
- Sleeping through the night (hadn’t been able to before)
- Handling stress better (not turning to food when overwhelmed)
- Self-esteem returned (feeling good about herself again)
- More energy (not dragging through the day)
- Desire to do things (not just surviving, but living)
- Depression lifted (no longer managing emotions with food)
And yes, she lost weight. But the weight was never the real problem. It was the symptom of everything else.
The Mechanism: Why This Worked
Most weight loss programs treat the symptom: what you eat, how much you move.
But if you’re eating to manage stress, depression, or low self-esteem, no diet will fix that. You’ll lose weight, then gain it back the moment life gets hard again. Because you’re still using food the same way.
Hypnosis addresses the root cause. We figured out what food was doing for Susan that nothing else could. Then we gave her better tools.
Once the root cause was addressed, the cravings disappeared. Not because she was white-knuckling through them, but because she didn’t need them anymore.
Food stopped being her stress management system. It became just food.
What This Means for You
If you’ve lost weight and gained it back multiple times, you don’t have a willpower problem. You have a root cause problem.
The weight is the symptom. The real issue is underneath: stress, depression, self-esteem, unresolved emotions.
When you address the root cause, everything else changes. Sleep improves. Energy returns. Stress becomes manageable. And the weight comes off naturally, because you’re not using food the same way anymore.
This is why diets fail and hypnosis works. We’re not treating the symptom. We’re updating the system.
