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Book Offers Steps to Permanent Weight Loss

Many of you may have already met Rena Greenberg. Her company, Wellness seminars, provides stop-smoking and weight-loss hypnotherapy seminars for St. John Health Systems, St. Joseph Mercy and Crittenton Hospital .

Originally from New York , she started offering her seminars in Florida in 1990 and soon they were being given at 70 local hospitals.

In 1998, she started offering the Wellness Seminars in Michigan . “ Michigan is my second home now,” she says, noting she has a home in Ann Arbor .

But her journey to success and a healthy lifestyle wasn’t a straight one. “I was sick at a young age, facing death,” she recalls. “My eating habits and lifestyle were endangering my life.”

She decided she had better make some significant changes and headed off to the City University of New York where she earned a degree in bio-psychology. She also learned the strength of hypnosis in changing habits and took some courses at The Eastern NLP Institute and the National Guild of Hypnotists.

In the end, Greenberg became a bio-feedback therapist. She likes it because “this is a way to change our own physiology through the power of the mind. I help people break longstanding habits by tapping into the power of the mind.”

Now, she says, it was time to write a book. New on the shelves of Borders and Barnes & Noble is “The Right Weigh: Six Steps to Permanent Weight Loss.”

It will take you step-by-step to the root causes of your unproductive behavior and help you learn how to change them for good. Greenberg calls it “weight loss from the inside out.”

She admits that she was a severe sugar addict. “That kind of ruled my life,” she notes. But she had to learn to eliminate sugar, and lead a more balance life.

“No matter how frustrated we are, we can always change,” she stresses. “Oh, we will have doubts and fears and they will make us think we can’t do it, but we can, if we learn to reprogram our thinking.”

Greenberg isn’t a diet advocate. She says it’s only a short-term solution for most people. Rather, we have to change how we see ourselves, how we think of ourselves and our preferences.

If we do that, Greenberg says, “The struggle will be gone. Take a candy bar for example. We build a case for it: it tastes good, it helps us relax, and it gives us energy. We build a good case.”

“But an hour later or a day later, the craving is back. We’re asking: why did I eat that? And, we feel guilt because we want another one.”

“You have to break the cycle before you eat the food. That’s what “Right Weight” will teach us. You’ll reprogram the mind so you don’t continue to sabotage yourself.”

She’ll help you develop preferences that are in line with the results you want to achieve. Perhaps just taking a walk can relieve the craving and help you get in shape at the same time.

You can check out her work at http://www.easywillpower.com/and if you reserve a space in a coming seminar on the website, you save $10. There is a 45-minutes orientation and two hypnotherapy sessions as well as a take home tool kit to help you stay the course.

The next seminars at Crittention Hospital (use the main door to enter) is Monday, Feb. 13 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm and on Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. For details, call 1-800-848-8288.