Weight Loss Hypnotherapy
Researchers from Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK, looked to see whether hypnotherapy was effective for weight loss. A randomized, controlled, parallel study looked at two forms of hypnotherapy - one directed at stress reduction and the other at intake reduction, as compared to dietary advice alone, in 60 obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
Weight loss was measured at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months after the intervention, as well as assessing the percentage of weight lost from original body weight.
All three groups lost 2-3% of their body weight at three months. But at 18 months, only the hypnotherapy group which focused on stress reduction continued to show a significant (P < 0.02), but small (3.8 kg), mean weight loss compared to baseline.
Analyzed over the whole time period, however, the hypnotherapy group which focused on stress reduction achieved significantly more weight loss than the other two treatment conditions (P < 0.003), which were not significantly different from each other.
The study concludes that stress reduction hypnotherapy, as an adjunct to dietary advice, produces statistically significant if modest weight loss.
Citation: Stradling J, Roberts D, Wilson A, Lovelock F. Controlled trial of hypnotherapy for weight loss in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders. 1998 Mar; 22 (3): pp. 278-81.
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