Battle of the Bulge

"I really feel like I am winning the war on weight."

The total weight loss of my patients is the equivalent to two 16ton tanks!

Working as a hypnotherapist has given me a kick out of life; not only do I get to witness change in a patient’s health and lifestyle; but to be with them from the very beginning and to help them succeed in their weight loss is utterly satisfying.

But it’s not losing the weight which people struggle with, it is having the right mindset to keep it up and stay that healthy weight. I have helped almost 3,000 people shed a minimum of 2,000lbs in sessions, when totalled up is 61,000lbs – which is the equivalent of two tanks.

I am so proud of all of my patients of what they have achieved from their weight loss and am pleased to be there in the process.

Patients in a recent survey have recorded since their weight loss they have noticed: reduced blood pressure and blood sugar levels, an increase in confidence, self-esteem, happiness, more enjoyment of exercise, stress reduction, loss of anxiety, sleep improvement, increased mobility, a loss of depression and in several cases, an increased libido.

Are you struggling to lose weight? I am fully trained in the virtual gastric band click here for more information. For other enquires about my services email me or visit my website



Sheila x

Hypnotherapy Saved My Life

"I cut out pictures of skeletal-looking models from magazines and pinned them on my mirror for thinspiration."

Diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia at the age of 14, Mellissa Laycy, now 24, under-took hypnotherapy to cure her eating disorder. Now she has learnt to love her body and has even become a plus size model and an inspiration to other girls.

Naturally tall Mellissa was told often that she should be a model; at the age of 13 she visited a London talent agent excited to start her modelling career. Mellissa was measured 5ft 9, UK size 8 and got turned away as she needed to lose her "puppy fat".

Determined to pursue her dreams, Mellissa knew that the only way to be accepted into the business was to lose weight. Cutting down her daily calorie intake to a maximum of 600, she would track her weight in a personal notebook. Learning "tricks" on her way Mellissa would leave empty crumbs on a plate by the toaster, feeding the dog under the table "Ill eat dinner in my room, I told Mum, before flushing it down the loo."

Before (left) 7st UK size 4 ______ After (right) 12st UK size 16

Mellissa then went onto obsessing over exercise in order to lose the weight quicker. This included a morning run before going to school - combined with laps around the football pitch during her lunchtime. "You’re losing weight, my friends remarked giving me a rush of satisfaction."

As time passed Mellissa was noticing not only physical changes to her body. Her bones started to ache when she lay down and prevented her from sleeping. The compliments stopped from her friends as her school uniform hung off her skinny frame; she became that weak that she would pass out on the way to class. "With no insulation I was permanently cold and downy hair grew on my face. My periods stopped. You are damaging yourself, Mum wept. But I didn't care. As long as I was losing weight... "

Eventually, at the age of 16 Mellissa's GP diagnosed her with anorexia nervosa; she was UK size 4 and weight 7st. Instead of focusing on getting better, Mellissa began comparing her body to the other patients. "They are all so thin, I thought, jealous. They must think I’m so fat." 

Moving away from home to continue her drama course Mellissa found herself becoming homesick and began comfort eating. However due to her skinny frame and her eating disorder she would then vomit all of the food she ate back up, later to be diagnosed with bulimia. One day Mellissa knew it was time to stop when she was vomiting blood. She booked herself in with a hypnotherapist to help cure the eating disorder she had developed. After a few months of sessions Mellissa noticed a massive change in how she saw and reacted towards food: "I felt a physical shift inside me and I knew my eating disorders were a thing of the past. Food was no longer the enemy. I began enjoying cooking healthy meals and trying different tastes without being sick afterwards."

Mellissa is now a plus-sized model for Hughes; she has worked for Evans, been a cover girl on magazines and even appeared on Channel 4's show "How to Look Good Naked"

 "My rejection from modelling agencies as a young teen nearly destroyed me. Now, a size 16 and weighing just under 12 stone I’m a successful model and couldn’t be happier."

If you have any issues with weight or feel like you need help. Why not contact me via my email or visit my website.

Sheila x

Free worldwide online hypnotherapy session to help shed festive fat

It’s not uncommon to overindulge at Christmas, in fact it’s almost par for the course for most people.

But this year I'm giving you the chance to get help to start the New Year diet with greater conviction. I will be holding an online hypnosis session on January 4 to mark World Hypnosis Day, giving away some secrets behind the success of my Virtual Gastric Band.

Everyone over indulges, that is not a shocking revelation by any stretch of the imagination. And people always begin the New Year with great expectations and extreme commitment to making a positive change in their life. The problem is this usually lasts until the middle of January and things start to slip back to how they once were. The hypnotherapy I offer helps people the correct mind-set for losing weight and keeping it off.

The 30-minue long session will take place from 7pm GMT on Friday January 4th, where I will offer hints and tips for losing weight and making sure people can continue to stay slim and trim.

For further information and to register for this FREE Live Webinar, please visit www.sheilagranger.com or complete the form below

Register for FREE Live Webinar

Email Address *

Sheila x

Lorry Driver Undertakes My Virtural Gastric Band

Peter Smith, 42, is a lorry driver who realised it was time to lose weight when he was 21st 1lb earlier this year. After trying various diets and not succeeding, Peter was determined to find a way to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. Peter was then introduced to me after he had heard about my Virtual Gastric Band on the radio, and after four sessions he had noticed a massive change. Peter had gone from his 21st 1lb to 12st 4lb!
"It has definitely changed my life. I haven't felt this good for as long as I can remember." Peter told Hull Daily Mail.
Peter is still doing regular exercise, enjoying his meals and living a healthier lifestyle. "I feel so much better and happier and I am extremely thankful to Sheila."

To read the full story click here.
For more information about my Virtural Gastric Band click here.

Sheila x

FREE Virtual gastric Band treatment

I know this is very short notice but I urgently need a volunteer to be available for this Saturday / Sunday (17th/18th March) and able to travel to Kings Cross, London where I am teaching at a Virtual Gastric Band workshop.

The volunteer should have a desire to lose weight and be happy to undergo hypnosis in a controlled environment in front of other people.

If you know of anyone who may be interested in receiving this FREE Virtual Gastric Band treatment, please contact me on think@sheilagranger.com for further information.

Many thanks
Sheila

Sheila featured in My Weekly Magazine

My Weekly magazine has recently featured an article about one of my clients, Sonia Kelly, who has lost 7st (98 lbs / 44 kilos) using my Virtual Gastric Band hypnotherapy technique.

Read all about how Sonia has gone from a dress size 30-32 to a 22-24 by clicking this link to read an enlarged pdf article.

Virtual Gastric Band Training in Ireland

I am due to visit the Emerald Isle to help train Clinical Hypnotherapists to use my Virtual Gastric Band Technique.

This is being organised by the Hypnotherapy Association of Ireland and all members are invited to attend a FREE intensive one day certified training in the Virtual Gastric Band where you will receive a training manual, all scripts, MP3 recordings and certificate of training and a bonus ‘Build a successful practice’ manual, so you have everything you need to get going immediately. 

Full details are below:

FREE Members Training Day Intensive One Day Virtual Gastric Band Training -

When: Sunday, February 12th

Where: Bewleys Hotel Leopardstown

Time: 9am - 6pm

For further details see: Hypnotherapy Association of Ireland

Virtual Gastric Band Teleseminar

There will be a tele seminar tonight at 11 pm UK / GMT time to answer questions about the virtual gastric band technique.

The Call in Details are:

Enter Access Code - 281358*

Date: Tuesday January 17, 2011 Time: 6 PM Eastern Time - 3 PM Pacific Time - 11PM GMT

International numbers: * Austria - 0820 4000 1552 * Belgium - 070 35 9974 * France - 0826 100 256 * Germany - 01805 00 76 09 * Ireland - 0818 270 021 * Italy - 848 390 156 * Netherlands - 0870 001 920 * Spain - 902 886025 * Switzerland - 0848 560 179 * UK - 0844 58 191 02 * US - 712 432-1600

I hope to hear from as many of you as possible

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year

It is at this time of year that we tend to reflect on the year gone by, and I am personally so very grateful to have met some very special people, both clients and Therapists who have touched and helped me in so many ways.

I owe particular thanks to the one and only New York City Hypnotist, Marc Carlin, who has helped organise some great Seminars in the States and co- authored our book ‘The Virtual Gastric Band Workbook’, Leslie McIntosh in Canada for showing me the wonderful sights of Vancouver and making it such a memorable trip and Antoine Matarasso ‘down under‘ in Australia for two amazing visits, and to all the Hypnotherapists I have met a long the way who are really making such a difference to so many peoples lives. 2011 for me can only be described as a ‘Journey’ because I seem to have made so many of them. I certainly know Manchester airport like the back of my hand!

2012 promises to be even more exciting as I continue with my personal mission to help more people to benefit from this powerful tool of ‘Hypnosis’, to raise the awareness of Hypnotherapy as a credible therapy and to make it made available to more people through the NHS in the UK.

Clinical Trials are due to commence early February as Ethical Approval is now in place, and data gathering from Therapists will begin in January. I am also pleased to announce that the Practitioner Forum will be officially opened on 5th January 2012! For those of you who signed up for this, I very much look forward to offering further support and ideas with all of you on there. Marc and I are also planning a number of Teleseminars to help you along the way.

Further Virtual Gastric Band Lectures and Seminars are already planned for the following locations, and more venues and dates will be posted on my site early in the New Year:

14th January, Oslo, Norway (Lecture)
24th to 26th February, Tampa Bay, Florida
2nd March Chester University (Lecture)
30th to 31st March, Dubai
16th to 22nd May, Hypno Expo, IMDH Conference, Daytona Beach.

Some of you may also be aware that I have been doing a considerable amount of research over the past ten months on a product that aims to improve more people’s lives through the benefits of Hypnotherapy and Lifestyle Engineering. The product is completely new and innovative and there is nothing else like it on the market at the moment, so I am quietly quite excited about it that after all these months of product testing that I finally have the finished product in my hands and am currently in talks with some well known retail giants with a view to it being sold in their outlets. In my New Year newsletter I will finally lift the shrouds of secrecy, and share it with you with an opportunity for you to also help more people.

Wishing you all a very happy, peaceful Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Sheila xx

Going to University?

I'm finally getting the chance to go to University ........... even if it's only for 1 day!

I've been contacted by the Nutrition and Dietics department at the University of Chester and hopefully I will be attending as a guest lecturer at the beginning of March to talk about the success of my Virtual Gastric Band with the aid of weight loss.

Watch this space for further details ..........

Tele-Seminar with Sheila Granger & Marc Carlin

On Tuesday 9th August at 7pm (EST) / 12pm midnight (GMT) I will be speaking with Marc Carlin on the anniversary of my Virtual Gastric Band, it's success and it's future.

If you wish to listen / take part please find Dial-in numbers below:

For USA:
Dial - (712) 432-1600
Enter Access Code - 281358#

International Dial-in Numbers:
Austria - 0820 4000 1552
Belgium - 070 35 9974
France - 0826 100 256
Germany - 01805 00 76 09
Ireland - 0818 270 021
Italy - 848 390 156
Netherlands - 0870 001 920
Spain - 902 886025
Switzerland - 0848 560 179
UK - 0844 58 191 02

We hope you enjoy the seminar!

NEW Hypnotherapy Website

I'm pleased to announce that my new revised website has just been released.

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Lifestyle Engineer, the work I've been doing over the last year has pulled me in so many directions that I decided that I needed to have a new focus on the services I can offer. The last 12 months have been incredibly busy with the promotion of my Virtual Gastric Band as an alternative to surgery and weight loss diets, that there have been several other things arising which hadn't received the attention they deserved.

Therefore we have decided to focus on the following areas which, when you visit my new site, are better clarified than before:

- Virtual Gastric Band; training and support

- Private Consultations

- Courses to train people to become a fully qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist

- Full details Seminar & Workshop Dates throughout the UK, North America, Australia and Europe

- Networking & Peer Support

- Innovative ground-breaking products to help people lead a better life.

I hope you will enjoy the new website which can be found at www.sheilagranger.com but it you have any questions I'd love to hear from you at think@sheilagranger.com

Virtual Gastric Band Workbook now for sale on Amazon

I'm really excited that the Virtual Gastric Band Workbook is now for sale on Amazon.com.

Although at the moment it's not available on Amazon in the UK we're working hard on it to get everything available as soon as possible.

You can find full details of the book by clicking on the following link:

The Sheila Granger Virtual Gastric Band Workbook.

Here is the synopsis of the book:


This workbook outlines the basics steps to Sheila Granger's Virtual Gastric Band Weight Loss Program. While this book shows the basic program it is best done in conjunction with the mental training that sets up an environment of freedom. The mental training aspect of this program provides the support to free the individual of the deprivation and the restrictions that most feel when they are required to follow a diet.

What do Hypnotherapists do? (Daily Mirror article)

In a recent article in the Daily Mirror, Miriam Stoppard wrote an article explaining exactly what Hypnotherapy is:

"Rather than putting people into a deep trance, hypnotherapy works on the theory that when you’re deeply relaxed you’re susceptible to suggestions that can help you do something positive, like giving up smoking or overcoming a phobia.

A hypnotherapist will teach you how to get into this state of deep relaxation through breathing techniques. Once there, you can use visualisation to help you achieve your aim, like flying without fear.

You need five or six sessions to help you learn these techniques."

It's good to see a major UK Newspaper explaining in the simplest of terms what we, as Hypnotherapists, are trying to achieve. In my opinion, Hypnotherapy is the safest method of losing weight on a long-term permanent basis and studies of my Virtual Gastric Band have demonstrated a 95% success rate.

Speaking at the Australian Hypnotherapist Association

I have just returned from Australia where I spoke at several seminars on the success of my Virtual Gastric Band therapy.

This proved to be a really successful trip and rose awareness of the therapy to such an extent that we were even featured in the Australian press. You can read all about it in these clippings from the Melbourne Observer.

My visit was so successful that I've been asked to return and the following dates have been pencilled in:

8 / 9 October - Sydney
11 / 12 October - Adelaide
14 / 15 October - Perth

More information will follow in due course. I was also fortunate to have received the following video testimonial from The National President of the Australian Hypnotherapy Association, Antoine Matarasso:

Do Men not recognise the risks of being overweight?

Too many men are failing to recognise the health risks of being overweight, according to Men's Health Forum chief executive Peter Baker.

He says that by not acting to tackle the problem, the NHS is making "a rod for its own back".

Women face a lot of cultural pressure to be slim. This is largely not because of health concerns and can sometimes to quite have tragic consequences. It does mean though, that many women often have a good understanding of the factors that affect their weight.

The majority of men on the other hand, appear are not to be as bothered about their weight as they maybe should should be. Neither are health services.

A significantly greater proportion of men are overweight or obese (66% of men compared with 57% of women).

The full article can be read here.

For information on how successful hypnotherapy can be as a weight loss alternative, please feel free to contact me.

Virtual Gastric Band Training

Are you a registered Clinical Hypnotherapist looking to learn how to help people lose weight through my Virtual Gastric Band?

If so, please contact me or visit my website page on Gastric Band Alternatives - here is a short video from one of my courses:

Guest Speaker at the Virtual Gastric Band Training seminar - New York 8 / 9 / 10 April 2011

I will be a Guest Speaker at the next Virtual Gastric Band Training event organised by Marc Carlin in Manhattan, New York in April. If you are interested in attending this event further information can be found out by visiting Virtual Gastric Band Training - USA.
 
This program is designed to make your hypnosis business the thriving business it is meant to be. And with 60% of the population in need of weight loss help, there will be plenty of people interested in helping you build your business while you help them reduce their waistlines. A great Win/Win training.

Private Hypnotherapy Weight Loss - New York - 7th & 11th April

Whilst visiting New York, I hope to also be available to see people on an individual basis who are interested in losing weight themselves using Virtual Gastric Band Hypnotherapy.

If you have tried different weight loss techniques and found that diets just do not work, the Virtual Gastric Band will help you to stop dieting and begin to lose weight naturally and safely without putting restrictions on what you can and can't do. It will help you to eat more healthily and make you fitter, slimmer and much more confident in yourself.
For further information, contact think@sheilagranger.com

Here is a short video from a previous event: