Gastric Band Blogs
Jan 2012
William Jukes from Hamilton.. Weight loss since Oct 2011 37.4 lbs
Its been over a month now since I last blogged about my weight loss journey. Since then I have contended with Christmas & New Year. It has also been some time since my last hypnotherapy session so if anything this period would be my biggest challenge.
Going back to Christmas. I was off work the week leading up to Christmas and did not go back until 30th Dec. I decided to visit my family over this period so I was away from own home and my new routine. Add to that the extra eating I would historically do over this period and I was unsure of how it would pan out. I must admit I was very positive about it and felt encouraged as I know I have been given the tools to keep to my newly found ways.
I did find it challenging at times as I was out for Christmas parties and invited out for dinner but due to the gastric band hypnotherapy I did keep feeling full and stop eating when this happened. When Christmas came round and it was time for dinner I was thinking about how I always feel as if I’m about to burst after it. This time I found myself still eating the full meal but as my portions have been reduced and I know my limits I felt great after it. Also I did not find myself picking at all the things that lay around the house that can be eaten over Christmas.
I asked all my family to get me gift vouchers for Christmas as most of my clothes are too big for me now.
I never weighted myself until after new year as I wanted to see just what happened. I was amazed. I usually put on at least half a stone over this period and this time I stayed the exact same weight.
Through January I did not move much past the weight I was and was kind of static so I revisited my hand-out’s and started listening to the CD’s which were supplied. Again I started to lose weight and have now dropped 2 jean sizes. My delight when I could get a 34” jeans on in Debenhams. I was so happy I told the cashier when I was paying for them. We had a good laugh about it but mostly she was amazed.
To think at one point I could not even button up my 38” jeans.
To date I have now lost 37.4 pounds and I feel fantastic for it, and it only took now just under 4 months. I could never have dreamed of losing it so easily. To date I have not really done much exercise so I have lost all this weight just by changing my belief’s and habit’s. I have now started to exercise so this last bit of fat that I am hanging onto is going to go.
Up to 19th Dec 2011
Its been 3 weeks since my last blog and I have had a what I though were a few wobbly moments but when stepping on the scales I was totally wrong. Once again it has been more weight loss. I was on holiday and with being on holiday come more eating and drinking. I had 2 nights out to dinner and a couple of nights out with my friends. I thought I have blown it and was falling off my progress. Once I had returned home I fell straight back into the routine I have been in with ease and continued with the way I was going. ( This is something I have never been able to do before )
When I thought about it a bit more, I was eating less and smaller portions and as my diet had changed I was eating different kinds of food. So without even realising it I was still eating sensibly. I was still only eating when I was hungry and stopping when I was full. This seems to be totally stamped into my sub conscious.
People have really started to notice my weight loss and are telling me how good I look and asking me how I am losing so much weight. They ask me what diet I am on. I keep saying ‘ I’m not on a diet’ needless to say nobody believes me. But the truth is that I’m not on a diet. I have just made some basic alterations to the way I eat.
I felt like a packet of crisps the other day and as I was hungry I decided to get a packet form the vending machine at my work. The crisps did not drop out but a bar of chocolate did. I would have usually eaten the chocolate straight away. The new me didn’t even want the chocolate and I put it to the side. Its sat there for 3 days and I ended up giving it away. That is amazing for me. I seem to have kinda gone off chocolate now. I still have the odd bit when I feel like it but I never crave it anymore. I love that fact that if I feel I want something then I can have it but only if im hungry. I never feel deprived of any kind of food like I would have if I was on a diet.
I am not that far away from the goal I set myself at the beginning of the process and going the way I am going I should reach it in Feb 2012. I am currently the lightest I have been for as long as I can remember. I have changed my wardrobe and love wearing loads of new clothes that make me look and feel good. So far I have never felt as if it has been hard nor have I found it a massive change to my lifestyle. I am loving my food now as I am eating lots of different things and I appreciate the taste more I don’t find myself thinking about meals ahead of me being hungry or planning meals in my head all day. I no longer need to associate food with celebration, anger or anything else like that. My sessions are coming to an end soon with Johan and I feel as if I have to tools now to keep on this path and just eat the way we were intended to do so.
Looking forward to my next weigh in as I just know that it will be good as it has been every time and I know im on the right track. Will Jukes
Update to my Blog Up to 19th Nov 2011
I have now been doing the sessions since early october and in this time I feel as if I have made some real significant changes now to my thought process towards food and eating. I had a session on my beliefs and was given a cd to back this up to be done at home. I feel that this area has really stuck with me and helped me change the way I think about food. I no longer feel I need to have certain things. I no longer feel as if im missing out on something if I don’t have it and I have lost the craving that I had for the things I would over indulge in. I used to eat because I was angry, sad or just a bit done. It was a way of compensation other things that were going on in my life.
Now I have come to realise that I am only hurting myself and truly belive that it is not a cure or a remedy. Working through this stage of the process has given me the tools to deal with what challenges me and not need to resort back to food. I have found a shift in my eating habits and have started eating much more healthily and only eating when Im hungry. I don’t eat in between at all. Not even a snack. If it is a snack at all I seem to be always opting for fruit. Before I started this process I was terrible for eating all the bad things like sweets and crisps but I don’t really feel I want them now. I have had a couple of times where I have had a night out or been out for dinner with friends and thought to myself that I had been naughty but as I still followed my new process it did not affect me at all.
Along the way I have been very inspired by Johan and the way she helps you along the way. I find it rewarding to tell her of my new ways and habits. Then the weigh comes in and it is all good. I have lost more weight and not just a liitle but much more than expected. I attend with my mother and my sister and every week they both say ‘I have not lost any weight this time’ but when they step on the scales they have lost loads and are chuffed to bits. I have now lost over 2 stone and I feel fantastic for it. Its not even been hard to do.
Oct 2011
William Jukes from Hamilton.. Weight loss after 2 session -1 stone
My experience so far about doing the gastric band course. I have had 2 sessions so far
I hate being overweight and it gets me down. I also have Health issues due to my weight. I have tried dieting loads of times but it never worked. In the long run I ended up putting more weight on.
Over the last few years I have struggled with many weight loss methods and found myself getting heavier and heavier. I was starting to become very dependent on junk food as if I was addicted to eating rubbish all the time. I was encouraged by my mother to try hypnotherapy and along with my sister we decided enough was enough and decided to give it a try.
I had never done anything like this before and was pretty sceptical about it. I decided that I would put every effort into it and follow the sessions. The initial kinda fact finding part I found very comforting as sharing my experiences and bad habits with my mother and sister led me to understand that I was not alone and we have all done the same.
I found it easy to be honest with myself and others as the environment was very relaxing. The more I got off my chest the better I started to feel already. During the hypnotherapy session I felt myself going into a trance like state. Although I was completely aware of what was going on, I was very relaxed and peaceful I pictured myself very clearly being the weight I would like to be and have been able to focus on that since.
During the second session I found it very rewarding as I talked to others in the room about my success. Johan makes you feel very at ease and likes to share a few laughs.
I think that as Johan has shared all the same challenges it is easy to talk to her about how you are feeling. I wasn’t sure about how the second hypnotherapy would be but once again I ended up in trance and when coming back around felt really energised.
How have you benefited so far?
I keep using the phrase that ‘ I’m in the zone’
For me this has been an overnight transformation. I have totally changed my eating habits and have completely stopped eating any junk food at all. I have not been getting hungry at all and when eating a meal I have been getting full up and knowing when to stop eating. It’s weird leaving food on the plate but it is easy to do now. I still get some cravings but I can stop myself from thinking about them. I have managed to go out for dinner with friends and not have to eat a massive meal. I used to drink pints of cola but when I went out for a recent meal I didn’t even finish a small cola.
I feel like a new person and since my first session I have not found it hard at all. I’m not on any sort of diet as I have still had the odd biscuit or beer but I am doing it in a sensible manner now. My second session was 2 weeks after I was first hypnotised and when I stepped on the scales I was 1 stone lighter.
