A Templeton Finn Coaching Case Study:

STAYING SLIM BY CHANGING YOUR BELIEFS

Kate wanted to feel different about food

Kate couldn't stop thinking about food!

Kate came to us for personal coaching, in particular hoping to have a more positive experience of food.

Kate explained that she thought about food almost all the time, even when she wasn't hungry. Certain foods would trigger this more than others and sometimes she would find herself so desperate to eat (even though she wasn't hungry) that she would devour large quantities of unhealthy foods.

Kate managed to maintain a normal weight but only by limiting what she ate very severely.

Discovering unconscious beliefs

These battles are almost invariably won by the unconscious mind!

We established that Kate had some unconscious beliefs about food which had been created when she was a very young child. During a family conflict involving her older brother, her grandfather and a plate of food that her brother didn't want to eat, she had formed the beliefs that it was good to be fat, that you absolutely had to eat everything on your plate, and that problems and conflict could be solved by eating.

Kate's beliefs were causing her unconscious mind to make her feel desperate to eat. Because the beliefs were completely outside her conscious awareness, Kate had no idea why she was so desperate to eat, and was fighting a constant battle within her own mind!

These battles are almost invariably won by the unconscious mind, and it was a credit to Kate that she had managed not to become fat, but it was at great personal cost.

Changing beliefs

It is surprisingly common for people to have strange beliefs about food.

It is surprisingly common for people to have strange unconscious beliefs about food, particularly those who grew up during or shortly after the war and the children of that generation. Dieting can never work in the long term when you have these kinds of beliefs, as it only makes your unconscious mind all the more determined to keep the weight on.

In Kate's case we removed the harmful beliefs using neuro linguistic programming techniques. This caused an immediate change in Kate's feelings about food and since the session she has been amazed to find that she eats when she's hungry and (even more amazingly) stops when she's full!

These kinds of beliefs can be changed quickly, although we usually only do this kind of work as part of a day long, intensive breakthrough session.

Kate recently reported that since our breakthrough session six months' ago, she has lost a stone without dieting, and is now a trim eight and a half stone.