Chocolate Addiction - Hypnosis, Unbelievable It Worked, Now What?

Ms_Chocaholic

As you can see by my username, I'm pretty addicted to chocolate and this is not helped by the Christmas season when I MUST buy in boxes of chocs etc (though I've cut down this year massively).

Anyway I could easily eat 5 or so choc bars a day (mars bars, bounty etc) but I don't. I have been dieting though and am now a size 12 ish (bigger on top than bottom half). To curb my addiction, during the diet I allowed myself one After Eight per day, sometimes two and I seemed to be able to manage on that.

I've been thinking about hypnosis, I didn't want to pay for it but just wanted to see if it worked. A friend had a few sessions but needed "topping up" every so often as the urge came back.

I've found a hypnosis session on You Tube, I was very skeptical at first and wary for the first one, wondered if I would go in a trance that I wouldn't be able to get out of but it's not like that. So I tried it again. Unbelievably it worked, I can't believe it, I haven't had the urge for chocolate for the past 2 days.

Now my problem, there's something missing, I sit at the PC of an evening and have a cup of coffee and keep wanting "something nice" to go with it. Before that was chocolate, or a custard cream. I guess it's similar to smokers who don't know what to do with their hands when they give up smoking.

Any ideas anyone to overcome this part.

Regards
Ms (Overcoming) Chocaholic x

belfastgirl23

Wow that sounds great, you must be delighted.

To be honest I'd say that you need to just let this phase settle in. I read somewhere that the thing to do with a feeling like this is to step back and observe it or visualise it as a cloud passing through you and then dissipating.

You have made a really healthy change to your life. But you're only two days in so you want to keep reinforcing the habit. Unless you want to add in something like a few yoga stretches or a glass of water that would be good for you, I'd say just let time do its work.


But seriously, well done!! You've freed yourself from a craving - even if you only had a small piece of chocolate a day I bet you were holding yourself back from having more. Now you don't need to!

flissh

Well done... Now, please post a link to this, I want a go too:T

Seriously though, well done, kicking any craving or addiction into touch is blummin tough. I had hypnosis to help me give up smoking and it worked, now a non smoker for years. I'd like to try this to stop the compulsive nibbling I do in the evening.

LE3

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Now my problem, there's something missing, I sit at the PC of an evening and have a cup of coffee and keep wanting "something nice" to go with it. Before that was chocolate, or a custard cream. I guess it's similar to smokers who don't know what to do with their hands when they give up smoking.

The problem you have is "association" - you are trying to do the same activity as you have always done but without one of the elements ... you need to change your habit (just as a smoker who has always had a cigarette after dinner will find something new to do at that time instead such as walking the dog or doing the washing up to break that "association"

Can you switch to a cold drink instead of the coffee? Read a book instead of sitting on the PC? Go on the PC at a different time of day?

Ms_Chocaholic

flissh wrote: »

Well done... Now, please post a link to this, I want a go too:T

Seriously though, well done, kicking any craving or addiction into touch is blummin tough. I had hypnosis to help me give up smoking and it worked, now a non smoker for years. I'd like to try this to stop the compulsive nibbling I do in the evening.

Here you go, this is what I listened to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyK3dMPQPbw

There's a range of hypnosis sessions by the same people; from stop smoking to premature ejaculation, as they say, something for everyone :eek:

Ms_Chocaholic

LE3 wrote: »

The problem you have is "association" - you are trying to do the same activity as you have always done but without one of the elements ... you need to change your habit (just as a smoker who has always had a cigarette after dinner will find something new to do at that time instead such as walking the dog or doing the washing up to break that "association"

Can you switch to a cold drink instead of the coffee? Read a book instead of sitting on the PC? Go on the PC at a different time of day?

You've got it ! That's what it is, association. I don't have a dog so that won't work, maybe I should have a cold drink instead of a coffee.

Still no urges, day 3.

bellathecat_2

This is a very encouraging story and worth reading. You need to scroll down the page past the product.


http://www.selfhypnosisuk.com/chocolate-and-sugar-addiction.html