Weight, eating & relationship with food
Weight loss hypnotherapy,
a kinder, lasting approach
No diets, no willpower battles, no shame. Just real change in how you think about food, your body & yourself, in New Plymouth, & online across NZ.
Why diets keep letting you down
Maybe you're great with exercise but not so great with food choices. Maybe food's under control but it's hard to stay motivated to move. Perhaps sugar or alcohol have crept in, or life has simply been too busy, too stressful, or carrying too much from the past for any plan to stick.
Diets fail because they're a fight against yourself, and willpower is the smallest part of the brain. Underneath sit decades of habit, emotion, comfort-seeking and identity, and that's where weight comes back from, every time.
Weight loss hypnotherapy works at that deeper layer. We change how you feel about food before we change what's on the plate, so eating well stops feeling like deprivation and starts feeling like care.
Virtual Gastric Band, hypnosis weight loss, no surgery
The Virtual Gastric Band (VGB) is a proven hypnotherapy programme that uses vivid suggestion to convince the subconscious that a gastric band has been fitted. Portions naturally shrink, hunger settles between meals, and you eat to satisfied rather than full. No surgery, no recovery, no side effects.
It's not a diet, it's a long-term change in how you think and feel about food, learning to listen to your stomach rather than your head. You keep eating the foods you enjoy, and over time naturally drift toward healthier choices.
Sheryl combines Sheila Granger's original Virtual Gastric Band NZ programme with additional hypnotic tools that address emotional eating, binge eating and past mental blocks, for an all-round shift in mind and body.
Hypno Fasting & curbing sugar cravings
Hypno Fasting is for people drawn to intermittent fasting but struggling to hold the windows. We make fasting feel calm and easy rather than white-knuckled, and pair it with subconscious work on cravings so the urge to snack quietly fades.
Sugar shows up everywhere, coffee, sauces, cereals, the after-dinner treat. For many people it's become something closer to an addiction than a choice. A little subconscious intervention can change how you think about sugar so your body becomes healthier and far less dependent on those quick-hit carbs.
Emotional eating & nutritious eating
When food has become a way to manage stress, boredom, loneliness or reward, no meal plan will hold for long. We gently unpick the link between feeling and food, and give the underlying need somewhere better to go.
For steady, sustainable change, the Nutritious Eating approach retrains the mind to genuinely prefer the foods that suit your body, useful if you've hit a plateau, have specific cravings, or simply feel tired and low on energy. It works beautifully alongside the Virtual Gastric Band programme.
Virtual Gastric Band programme
A focused five-session hypnotherapy pathway for lasting weight change, without dieting, deprivation or willpower battles. Available in clinic in New Plymouth and online across NZ.
What to expect
Your first session is a relaxed two-hour conversation covering your history and association with food, the things in life that affect your eating habits, and anything that may be getting in the way of feeling at home in your body. From there we move through hypnosis sessions that settle stress, build confidence, and shift how you eat and move, and you'll leave with simple self-hypnosis tools you can use any time.
Ready to take the first step?
Pick up the phone for a no-pressure chat, or send a quick message and I'll get back to you within one business day.