Abracadabra: A Curious Thought About the Words We Live By
23 October 2026
Perhaps you know exactly what you are “supposed” to do.
You have read the advice, made the plans and promised yourself that Monday will be different. For a while, it is. Then life becomes stressful, lonely or exhausting, and you find yourself returning to the same habits you were determined to leave behind.
The hardest part may not be the food itself. It may be the shame that follows: “Why can everybody else manage this? Why do I keep undoing my own progress?”
Weight is influenced by many factors, including health, hormones, medication, sleep, stress, environment and genetics. It is not a measure of character or willpower. Yet food can also acquire an emotional role. It may become comfort at the end of a difficult day, relief from pressure or one private pleasure when you spend most of your life meeting other people’s needs.
Rapid Transformational Therapy for lasting weight management does not begin by asking what is wrong with you. It begins with a kinder question: what has this pattern been doing for you?
For some people, eating offers a few minutes of calm. For others, it interrupts boredom, softens loneliness or creates a reward after a day of holding everything together.
Perhaps food was closely linked with love when you were young. You may have received treats when you were upset, been expected to clear your plate or learned that refusing food disappointed somebody. Later, dieting may have introduced another painful pattern: restriction, loss of control, guilt and another promise to be “good.”
None of this means that one childhood event explains your weight. Human behaviour is more complex than that. It simply means that present habits can carry old meanings.
When those meanings remain unseen, advice about portions and exercise may feel like an answer to the wrong question. You do not need more criticism. You may need to understand what happens in the moment between feeling something and reaching automatically for relief.
RTT uses hypnotherapy within a personalised therapeutic process. During hypnosis, you enter a relaxed, focused state while remaining aware, able to speak and in control.
Together, we explore the experiences, beliefs and emotional associations connected with the pattern you want to change. The intention is not to force you to remember a dramatic “root cause” or to treat every recalled detail as unquestionable fact. Instead, we look at what food, weight and self-care have come to mean to you.
The underlying belief might sound like:
Once you recognise the belief, you can begin to respond from the life and understanding you have now. The transformational work may help you separate comfort from food, loosen all-or-nothing thinking and build a more respectful relationship with your body.
After the session, you receive a bespoke recording to listen to daily for at least 21 days. The recording reinforces the insights and supportive beliefs developed in your session. It does not replace nutrition, movement, medical treatment or practical change; it helps emotional change work alongside them.
Progress does not always arrive as a dramatic moment when cravings disappear.
Sometimes it is quieter. You notice the urge to eat and pause long enough to ask what you actually need. One difficult meal no longer becomes permission to abandon the whole week. You choose movement because it helps your body feel alive, rather than using it to punish yourself.
You may still have stressful days. The difference is that stress no longer has to make every decision.
A helpful daily question is: “Am I physically hungry, emotionally hungry or both?” There is no wrong answer. If the need is emotional, try naming it before acting: tired, lonely, angry, overwhelmed or in need of comfort. Then choose one small response that meets the feeling more directly—a conversation, a shower, fresh air, music, rest or a proper meal eaten without distraction.
This pause is not a test of discipline. It is an opportunity to stop abandoning yourself in the very moment you need care.
RTT hypnotherapy for weight management works best as one part of a wider, realistic approach. Health conditions, medication and nutritional needs deserve proper assessment. If your weight has changed unexpectedly, you have concerns about your physical health or you want advice about losing weight safely, speak with your GP. The NHS guidance on weight management explains available support and treatment options.
If eating involves bingeing, purging, severe restriction, intense fear around food or a sense that it is taking over your life, please seek specialist help. The NHS information on eating disorders is a helpful place to begin. RTT is a complementary approach and should not replace medical, dietetic or specialist mental health care.
There is also no need to stop prescribed medication or change an established care plan before RTT. Share relevant diagnoses, medication and current support during your consultation so that we can consider suitability and work safely.
Lasting weight management is not built through humiliation. Shame may create urgency, but it rarely creates safety. Sustainable change becomes more possible when you no longer treat your body as an enemy or every setback as evidence that you have failed.
The aim is not perfect eating. It is greater freedom: the ability to make choices without punishment, respond to emotions without automatically silencing them and care for yourself without waiting until you have earned it.
Perhaps your body has carried years of pressure, comfort, protection and criticism. It does not need another battle. It may need you to listen differently.
I am Mariola Mirtaleb, an RTT practitioner and hypnotherapist offering personalised sessions online and in person in West London. My approach looks beyond the surface habit with warmth, curiosity and respect. We explore the emotional patterns connected with food and self-care while keeping your wider health needs firmly in view.
If you feel caught between knowing what to do and finding it difficult to sustain, you can arrange a free consultation. It is a calm opportunity to tell me what has been happening, ask questions and explore whether Rapid Transformational Therapy may be a suitable part of your support.
You do not have to hate yourself into change. You can begin from understanding—and let care, rather than criticism, lead the way.
Book a free discovery call now and let’s start your journey together. Your path to personal growth begins here.
