Conference calling has been utilized by the world of business for great effect for years, but it has also been helping women and men lose weight with excellent results. Like a specialist Cognitive Behavioural Therapy counsellor focusing on the LighterLife 2U programme, Personally, i support around 100 women per week by doing this – not meeting personally but ringing in a select few business call having a pin number. Already, over the last 2 yrs whenever we happen to be trialling conference call mentoring and therapy, 100s of clients reach their set goals and gone onto maintain how much they weigh loss.
Each session, which is scheduled for convenient points during the day, evenings and weekends, lasts an hour and includes up to 10 people at any given time.
The aim would be to help people realise why they overeat and what they are able to do to change their attitudes and behaviour.
The group dynamic is helpful for several different reasons, including the proven fact that you're with others who understand what your situation is and therefore are supportive. Wider society can be very judgemental when it comes to those who are overweight and obese there is commonly lots of blame and even hostility directed towards those people who are above average weight for their height. Gentle peer pressure can also help people maintain their commitment and reach their goals. Additionally, it enables the audience to pick up learning points through hearing the experiences of others.
One typical group includes a businesswoman who regularly calls in from rooms in hotels all over the world as well as mums who require to get rid of babyweight, and cant visit a face2face group, and the dangerously obese who have been told that they need to lose weight when they wish to extend their life expectancy. We welcome everyone who wants to lose weight and there are different programmes for those who have more or less weight to lose in various timeframes.
The conference call model works really well since it allows people to participate and benefit from the group dynamic without having to come in a place in person each week. It does not matter there isn't in person interaction although I do have a tendency to visualise an organization circle during our discussions.
Every week, we focus on a subject. Recently we looked at techniques for raising self-esteem – a significant issue underlying weight problems. Individuals who feel below par or guilty about being overweight will frequently turn to food as a way of comfort. There are also people who have falsely think that they were 'born greedy' or 'born fat' and cannot change this. What we should try to do is return to basics modify their perception they will not help being overweight.
And internationally published studies have shown the weight reduction is equally as good in 2U groups as in face2face groups, the average weight reduction being about a stone per month for women, and 1