Now spring has arrived, and I receive many questions from many people about how to lose weight more easily, healthily, and permanently. Of course, weight loss has many parts. I want to talk about this from many angles both as a physician and as someone who is interested in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. Of course, choosing good foods is important. Managing stress is important, sleeping well is very important. There are many reasons. The most important part, by getting to know our mind, our brain better, and especially by managing what is called the unconscious, more commonly known as the subconscious, by changing our perspective on foods and by noticing the emotions behind our eating behaviors, I think we can lose weight in a healthier, permanent way. In the background, when they get angry, when they get irritated, when they experience emotional reasons, they find themselves eating. And this causes them to break the diet program they are following. It is important for us to turn inward and think about why we turn to foods. Understanding what is in the back is very important. Our emotions are coded in the part we call the unconscious. If we think of the cortical part of our brain like the peel of an orange, the peel part is our conscious mind. We call all the areas under the peel the subconscious. And in the middle of the subconscious, the place we call the hypothalamus is the place that manages our automatic activities. The places that manage our emotions are in the unconscious. That is, if when we get irritated, when we get angry, when we feel lonely, when we are disappointed, we find ourselves eating automatically, we need to think about this and work on our emotions. And this is in the unconscious. One of the most effective ways to reach the unconscious is hypnotherapy. Psychotherapy. These solve the meaning of that emotion in the back. They help you lose weight permanently. And we need to find what that emotion is. Now, in a car, you know, if a fuel indicator is on, we do not put oil in the car. We put fuel. If when we are irritated, angry, we do not solve these emotions and we eat, then it becomes exactly like putting oil in the car while the fuel indicator is on. I want to talk a bit about our brain. In this cross-section, as you see, the forehead part, the skull, the bone part, and under this there is the membrane of our brain. We call this the cortex. The conscious mind is concentrated in this part. We call the parts under the membrane of our brain the unconscious. The part that is more commonly known as the subconscious. Especially this part we see in the middle is the part we call ours. Outside of consciousness, the areas under the peel work automatically. In the hypothalamus there is the center that manages our emotions. The part we call. The hunger center, the satiety center, the center that automatically adjusts our body temperature, the center where memory records are. For example, the place shown with ten is the center that runs our heart. Or the center that runs our intestines. We cannot stop our mind, our heart. That is, a very large part of our brain works automatically. Our emotions are also in the automatically working parts of our brain, and behind eating behavior, mostly our emotions exist. Solving these emotions can make our job much easier. And hypnotherapy can help us progress faster by reaching deeper into our brain, into the unconscious, solving the emotions behind our eating behaviors. Some people get up at night and eat, some people join a gym but cannot continue. They constantly postpone. Because these are related to our emotions and to this becoming a habit in the subconscious. In the past, our ancestors, you know, used to say if we say it forty times it becomes smart. Research says it needs to be repeated twenty-one times. We call it the 21 rule. With hypnotherapy, there may be no need for these twenty-one. In a few sessions, in a few meetings, by going down into the unconscious and solving the real emotion behind eating behaviors, the meaning behind our perspective on foods, and by making the person experience this under hypnotic trance, we can make the change easier. Because we need to experience it. Just knowing is not enough; many people know what they should do. They know they should eat healthy, but they cannot activate it. They cannot put it into action. We may know how to make rice. But if every time we do it it turns out mushy, that means there is a problem. Of course, at first maybe it can be mushy. I am sure after trying a few times we will master it. Hypnotherapy, when integrated with psychotherapy, can help us lose weight more effectively by rearranging the emotions in the unconscious, correcting behaviors, defective learnings, wrong information. Of course, healthy and permanent nutrition has many parts too. What we eat is very important. Our emotions are very important. Whether we move or not is very important. Because as a creation we are a structure made of hundreds of bones and muscles, and we are a structure created to move. That is, we were not created as a panda. We cannot stay motionless for hours. We need to move. Eating in accordance with our creation is very important. In biology, by looking at the jaw structure and tooth structure of living beings, we can say which food group they are in. And if you notice, we have canine teeth and we have molar teeth. We are in the group of carnivorous and herbivorous living beings. Some living beings are carnivorous, some living beings are herbivorous, we are in the intermediate form. Since we discovered fire thousands of years ago, because we do not use our canine teeth, they became smaller. Our canine teeth show that we are carnivorous. Our molar teeth also show that we are herbivorous. In our maybe two hundred thousand-year history, maybe in an older history, in the last five to ten thousand years, wheat, wheat is a food substance created for birds with beaks. In the past, we used to go with spears, hunt deer, bring it to the cave, eat all of it, then later we settled in villages, we discovered wheat, and this affected our system a lot. Wheat, as I mentioned, is a food more suitable for birds with beaks. We are carnivorous and gatherers. Protein and salads are much more suitable foods for us. The best proteins. Fish, eggs, meat, white meats of course on condition that they are organic, and greens, fruits, that is, the things we collect. The things we collect in nature, legumes, we know that there is no cake in nature. We know that there is no bread in nature. I especially recommend that we stay away from things that are not in nature. And eating in accordance with our nature, our creation, I think is very important in this respect. Sugar is talked about in the West as the sweetest and cheapest drug in the world. Instead of sugar, we can consume healthier foods, legumes for example. In legumes, already eighty percent is starch, but the good side is that it is processed in the digestive system after five or six hours and only then can it mix into the blood. I recommend that we stay away especially from simple sugars, from packaged foods. Because they mix into the blood from under the tongue, the brain perceives them like a kind of drug. Now there are MRI images about these. It was shown that the MRI images of a person who has taken intense sugar and a person who has taken cocaine resemble each other. We can use healthier sugars. With this industrialization and additives, sugar also changed and now more corn syrup, fructose syrup is used instead of beet sugar. Because it is cheaper and because it is sweeter, I especially recommend staying away from these. One of my clients mentioned that they constantly ate chocolate. While talking about the emotion behind chocolate, they could not tell something. Then I did hypnosis, under hypnotic trance. While working on the meaning of chocolate, they went to a memory in childhood. At nights, their father would come late due to an intense work pace and would come with chocolate. He would wake them up, love them and give them chocolate. Now when they linked chocolate with longing for their father, love, communication, in fact they linked many father figures they saw around later with chocolate and they noticed that they ate chocolate to satisfy their emotional need behind it. When they solved this and with hypnotic suggestions given to them, with suggestions like “instead of eating chocolate you can remember your father. You can call him. You can think nice things about him,” they broke the connection with chocolate.