I can't believe it but it is true and it does work. I know it has only been just over a week but I'm feeling good about this.
I have to admit I felt a little freaked out by the guy who was performing this "auto suggestion" thingy on me but it bloody worked so I don't care that I had to feel a little uncomfortable for a while.
Basically what happened was I went to meet him in this hotel and was glad to see there were about four others waiting too. I waited my turn, getting more and more nervous and eventually it came to my turn. I walked into the room and John (a gentleman in his late 60's with white hair and a big smile) welcomed me in and gestured for me to take a seat. He stood in front of me and held my wrists he explained briefly what he was going to do and also said, and I quote "I want to see you again in about a months time and we'll get rid of that meat off you". Bear in mind I have only just met this man not much more than two minutes previous. I am a sensitive sort and usually any type of remark that might be remotely related to the fact that I am very over weight causes some sort of emotional break down in me, but instead I just smiled at him and nodded. It wasn't until I left that I realised how rude it was of him to speak to me in that way.
Anyway after explaining the method and finding out how much I smoked and my reasoning behind wanting to give it up, and the same about my weight. What seemed like mid-conversation he began to walk around to the back of the chair where I was sitting and placed both his hands on my shoulders and told me to close my eyes. He told me that I was to repeat everything he said in my head. The reason for this is that telling yourself something in your head has 200 times the power of saying it out loud. I found this a little incredible but I followed his instruction anyway. The general gist of what he said to me was that from that moment I was a non smoker, being in the presence of smokers or the smell of smoke would not bother me or entice me to smoke, I would not acquire any bad habits to replace smoking, there would be no withdrawal symptoms, no irritability, no replacing cigarettes with food and so on. This went on for about 4 minutes and then I was told to open my eyes. I felt very relaxed and happy somehow. He then told me that I might find it difficult that evening but that when I woke in the morning I would be fine.... and he was right.
My biggest test was the weekend as it was a bank holiday and the birthday of one of my friends. I was out Saturday night and Sunday night and spent the majority of both nights in the smoking area with the smokers puffing away and was pleasantly surprised to find it didn't bother me in the least. I drank like a fish but couldn't get drunk and had no hangover to speak of on either Sunday or Monday morning.
It bodes well for me staying off the blessed things. You guys will be among the first to know if I fall off the horse!
Oh yeah just to let you know I am going back to him on the 11th July to try and deal with this weight problem. 7 stone is nearly a whole (small) person that I have to lose! Anyway I'll let you know when the time comes how this goes too.
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Basically the program is weigh yourself and write it down first thing every morning - I don't like doing this because my weight stayed the same for 5 days but it's supposed to motivate me! Three meals a day only & absolutely no
snacks, not even fruit. If you want fruit you have to have it with or at the end of your meal but no longer than ten minutes after you've finished. Also if you drink tea or coffee (I don't) you have to have it with your meal. Twenty minutes fast walking twice a day with at least a 7 hour break between both walks and no eating after 7pm.
I thought that I wouldn't be able to manage the two walks but it's working out fine. I go for a walk at work while everybody is at their morning tea break and another one in the evening when I get home. Not eating after 7pm is hard but I've just been drinking loads of water.
I saw my first result this morning! I appear to have suddenly lost 3lbs! I think my scales is a bit wonky.
7 stone seems like a lot of weight to lose. That would bring me down to 10st. Your man said he thought I should be 9st. I told him he was mad that I hadn't been 9st since I was 12 yrs old! Everybody who knows me also said that I would be anorexic looking if I lost that much weight.
So that's basically it. He used the auto suggestion technique again, as I mentioned but after he had done that he went over all the basic rules again. He said I shouldn't stress if I want to go out for a meal and it's after 7pm because I won't have had anything to eat since lunch that day and just to enjoy it. Also if you take a drink he said that's ok as long as you don't eat crisps or nuts or go for take away afterwards! No more taco fries for me :(
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)