I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

How Katie, Suffering with PCOS, Lost Weight With CBT

Katie had been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, and Hyperinsulinism. Following her 100 pound weight loss her story was featured in the Daily Mail and Daily Express Newspapers.

PCOS can often make it very challenging for the sufferer to lose weight. She lost 7 stone after working with Martin and Marion; Katie attributes most of her success to the CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy part of her treatment and is now a healthy weight for her height, which she has maintained. Katie went on to lose 100 pounds following her treatment.

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

At school, I always thought of myself as being big but looking back on photos I think this was because I was tall. I really started to gain weight quickly when I went to university. This was a result of too many cheese toasties and an over reliance on cheap pasta and tomato ketchup!

Katie 100 Pounds Lighter

Katie’s weight reached 17 stone 8 pounds, then she started to look at ‘extreme’ ways of losing weight – this included diet pills on the internet and the costs of a surgical gastric band. “For me weight loss was crucial, I didn’t want to die early as a result of my ‘lack of control’. I knew the health implications, but didn’t really understand why I couldn’t lose weight. I even started reading a number of pages on various forums around the gastric band surgery option, but I didn’t like what I read.

Award-Winning Treatment

So, I contacted Martin and Marion after I’d seen a TV programme that was exploring all weight loss solutions (presented by Dawn Porter). She had tried a hypnosis session for weight loss and felt that it was the only thing (out of all the weird and wonderful diets) that offered something sustainable.

Katie 100 pounds Lighter

A few people had recommended CBT (not just for weight loss but for other areas of my life). I read every page of their website, because I was so intrigued. The treatment mix of both Clinical Hypnosis and CBT that they offered seemed to be an interesting way of combining the benefits of both therapies. I thought I’d give it a go. Nothing ventured, nothing gained! Looking back, I think I knew within five minutes of meeting them that their treatment was going to work. They knew what they were talking about….

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

I was very sceptical before I arrived for the treatment – but really wanted to try something that I thought would be sustainable, addressing bad eating habits, rather than providing a short term ‘sticking plaster’ approach. That hasn’t worked for me before. I know that yo-yo dieting is unhealthy, not to mention the impact it has on my self-esteem in the past. Everything about their approach was so professional, I felt safe in their hands.

Weight Loss With CBT

At the outset I had the odd doubt, as I had tried so many things, over so many years. When I left their clinic, I was feeling confident, and completely convinced I would lose weight, I could not work out where the change in my thinking had come from, but something was different. I didn’t want to weigh myself immediately, as I didn’t want to become obsessed with scales. It was more about how I felt that was important.

Award-Winning My Weigh Less

After 4 weeks had past I got on the scales. I had lost an amazing 12 kg, over 25 pounds. To say I was blown away would be an understatement. The incredible weight loss definitely provided a huge confidence kick! After that I lost around two pounds a week on average. And it was just so really easy!

I found that no willpower was needed at all. Just concentration, to make sure you incorporated all the mental tools they gave me during the treatment. That was especially when I identified areas in my life that are normally ‘high risk’ . As soon as I applied rational thinking to situations, willpower was no longer required.

Katie 100 Pounds Lighter

With Martin and Marion’s therapy you can eat almost whatever food you like – As long as you are only eating when you are hungry. And ensuring you stop when you are satisfied. They explained that, because of my PCOS and Hyperinsulinism, I have to be really careful about the amount of carbs I eat. This was because whenever eating eat carb-rich foods, my body has to produce a lot more Insulin, compared with people who don’t have this problem, in order to regulate my blood sugar.

However, after making some lifestyle changes and losing 100 lbs, Katie managed to successfully reverse her condition to the extent that her ovarian cysts are now virtually non-existent. You may also like to read our page “Weight Loss Tips for PCOS“

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

I feel a lot more in control now – not just about my weight, food and alcohol, but all other walks of life. The process taught me to identify areas in my life where I had a ‘low tolerance threshold’ – where I was being irrational. I then use their twist on CBT, Pause Button therapy to stop and consider the consequences of my actions – putting the argument to ‘the jury’ to sense test my decision. It’s been super useful at work!!

I Effortlessly Lost 100 Pounds !!!!

I would never have believed it possible that I could have almost effortlessly lost 100 pounds. It became obvious that a lot of time I just wasn’t hungry – I realised that I often ate when I was tired. As Marion simply asked ‘Why do you think eating will stop you feeling tired? Isn’t rest a better solution?’ This was a huge ‘penny drop’ moment for me.

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Before completing the treatment with Martin and Marion I realise now that my mind was overruling signs of feeling full. So much so I would leave almost every meal feeling overstuffed, and, very often, guilty. The proof has been keeping the weight off; Martin and Marion have provided great support so far. I often listen to the recordings that they gave me. The maybe unexpected impact on my health has been a real positive incentive too. My PCOS is so under control now that the cysts have almost disappeared completely!

Before it Was Scary

It’s a great feeling to be able to shop in ‘normal’ clothes shops now. I’ve reached my target weight now. Nowadays, I feel in a lot more control of my eating and I realise that when I thought I was hungry, I really wasn’t. I look back on the way I ate before, and the amount I was eating, it was scary. Now I notice that I eat much more slowly. I realise exactly why I was overweight now – I wasn’t listening to my body at all.

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Of all the different parts of the therapy it was the CBT part that piqued my attention, it all just made so much sense. After the treatment I quickly realised that when I thought I was hungry, I really wasn’t. For me, their treatment was incredibly empowering – the results go beyond weight loss. I feel a lot more in control in many aspects of my life, and controlling my eating habits is just one area. In the end I went on to Lose 100 pounds of fat.

I Told the World

After I had lost the weight, as expected I was asked a lot of questions, most friends thought I had undergone weight loss surgery. I sat down and explained the therapy to them in detail. At first I think a few of them didn’t believe me, but slowly they started to understand the concept. I now have a large group of friends that have been to visit Martin and Marion and completed the weight loss treatment, so not only did I turn my own life around, but also that of a number of my closest friends.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy For Weight Loss

So just how can CBT play a part in losing weight. We released early on that a new and upgraded version of CBT was required for the treatment of weight loss. Our new version subsequently became a core component of the Gastric Mind Band permanent weight loss treatment. The GMB therapy has since become something of a global phenomenon. Now our all new My Weigh Less treatment has it at its core, along with a number of other therapies, including NLP and Clinical Hypnosis.

I Lost 100 Pounds With Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Some of the top psychology university professors in the world have endorsed Martin and Marion’s new version of CBT. It is now the subject of the bestselling book, published globally by Hay House ‘Pause Button Therapy’. An example of the use of CBT in weight loss involves using a sort of Neuro Plasticity to change a person’s thinking. So, following the treatment, when you hear someone ask: do you want extra fries with that? without thinking, you will automatically hear: do you need extra fries with that?

Take Control With CBT

The Results Have Been Incredible

I was sceptical before I started as I had never had ‘therapy’ before, neither CBT nor Hypnotherapy. I found the process enjoyable, eye-opening and the results have been incredible. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy was I feel life changing, it was my first experience, it just worked, seamlessly…, For more information, please read our blog post “Can CBT Help with Weight Loss?” Like many others, people struggling with weight loss consider weight loss surgery, do take a look at this page. Gastric Band, Sleeve or Bypass.

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