Weight & Eating
Hypnosis for late-night snacking
End the kitchen-at-midnight loop.
The kitchen light is often the first sign that the evening has slipped. This recording focuses on the seconds before the fridge opens, playing through that moment of stopping and turning away.
It offers a way to close the day without eating, and the quiet is left undisturbed.
The day ends and the house is quiet, but the kitchen still pulls at you. It is not hunger that sends you in there.
It is the need for something to do, and the habit of walking to the cupboards when the mind finally stops running. The packet is open before you have really thought about it.
What’s in it
A calm close to your evenings, where the late reach for food loosens and the night becomes for resting instead of raiding the kitchen.
Why do it
When the pause between the urge and your hand becomes your own, the midnight loop quietly breaks, so a few settled minutes here softens the habit from the inside.
- Theme
- Weight & Eating
- Delivery styles
- 3
- Lengths
- Quick ~26mStandard ~27mDeep ~29m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- On this shelf
- 11 sessions
Perfect use-case: Late-Night Snacking — hypnosis session
Late-night snacking often happens when the day settles and the mind slows down.
What you’ll hear in the Late-Night Snacking session
The session targets the familiar pull toward the kitchen at night, focusing on the pause before reaching for food to soften the habit.
The kitchen waits quietly at the edge of the night, a familiar space holding a different kind of stillness when the house is dark
You know that pull, the gentle but persistent urge that seems to arise just as your mind begins to settle, calling you toward the light and the promise of something to fill the quiet moments
This session is dedicated to that very moment, to the space between knowing the kitchen is there and deciding to walk toward it, and we will work together to soften that old pattern from within
You notice this feeling as it begins, a subtle murmur beneath the surface of your thoughts that suggests a small trip might bring comfort
This is the signal, the very first flicker of the old loop beginning to form, a habit woven from many nights just like this one
- The kitchen waits quietlythe scene is set, familiar and still
- the gentle but persistent urgethe pull is named, not avoided
Timeline: Start to Finish
The middle of this session spends its time on the gap between the urge and your hand. Rehearsing that pause is the only job the build is doing.
3 of the 4 stages are named techniques with a published origin, credited under each.
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InductionStage 16 min
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
A classic head-to-toe relaxation. Tense and release, or simply soften, each muscle group in sequence.
After Edmund Jacobson PMR (1929); Dave Elman Hypnotherapy · what progressive muscle relaxation is
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DeepenerStage 23 min
Staircase Descent
Visualized stairs descending into a deeper level of trance. Each step takes you down.
After Ledochowski, Deep Trance Training Manual
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Suggestion ScriptStage 310 min
Late-Night Snacking — Balanced
The session focuses on the moment before reaching for food, introducing a pause to soften the habit from within.
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AwakeningStage 42 min
Calm Alert Awakening
Awake and present, but calm rather than energized. Good for evening or pre-meeting use.
After Yapko, Trancework
Why this works — and what the research actually says
Group-level, not session-level: no study has tested this exact session, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every source below was opened and read on 2026-08-25 before it was quoted.
Why do it as hypnosis?
Willpower is usually gone by midnight. That is why a session that does the work of pausing for you is useful here. The build is entirely about that specific gap between the urge and the movement of your hand.
It rehearses that pause again and again, so the mind recognises it when the lights are out.
The closest study to what we actually sell — and it found nothing
Most hypnosis research studies a person in a room with a therapist. This one tested a 15-minute audio file, listened to nightly — which is almost exactly what a session here is.
Over three weeks the hypnosis group lost about two thirds of a kilogram and the placebo group lost none, and that gap was not statistically significant. Neither was the main thing the trial set out to measure.
- 46 people, a 15-minute audio file nightly for three weeks
- Hypnosis group −0.63 kg, placebo group 0.0 kg — not a significant difference
- The trial's own primary outcome also came out null
Worth knowing: The authors are direct about why this is not the last word. "The study's low sample size is one of its most significant limitations."
And "based on the actual achieved sample size, the achieved power is 49%" — roughly a coin-flip chance of detecting a real effect even if one existed.
They also note COVID-era recruitment problems, a predominantly educated female sample, and that it "does not generalize to other forms of hypnosis".
The exact wording and figures
In a randomised, double-blinded controlled trial, 46 participants listened nightly for three weeks to either a 15-minute audio self-hypnosis file or a structurally identical placebo file.
Mean weight change was -0.63 ± 0.43 kg in the hypnosis group against 0.0 ± 1.5 kg in the control group (p = 0.148, not significant).
The primary outcome, progression through Transtheoretical Model stages, was also not significant (X²(2,46) = 1.909, p = 0.580).
Published in PeerJ. Included because it is the closest published test of the format this app actually uses, and because a null result in the most relevant study is exactly the thing a reader deserves to see.
Antoun J, El Zouki M, Saadeh M (2022). The use of audio self-hypnosis to promote weight loss using the transtheoretical model of change. PeerJ.
open access (CC BY 4.0)
Three ways to say it
The same goal, written three ways: letting evenings close without the midnight reach for food.
Balanced
Break the kitchen-at-midnight loop, find the pause between the urge and your hand, and let evenings close in peace. The default.
Focuses on finding the pause between the urge and your hand.
Future self
Picture the version of you whose evenings are calm and settled, with the midnight loop long behind them.
Introduces you to the version of you whose evenings end in calm, not cravings.
New identity
Step into being someone who lets the evening be for rest, with the kitchen quietly closed at night.
Helps you step into being someone who lets the evening be for rest.
Questions people ask about Late-Night Snacking
Will this work if I’m not convinced?
It focuses on the habit loop itself, not on belief or willpower.
What if I fall asleep during it?
The session works even if you drift off — the pause is rehearsed unconsciously.
How is this different from just trying to stop?
It targets the automatic moment before you move, not the willpower to resist.
Is this safe if I’m already dieting?
It’s not about restriction, but about finding rest instead of reaching for food.
Where it sits
Appetite, habit and body image, worked as behaviour rather than willpower.
Before you press play
Hypnosis is not for everyone. If you have epilepsy, a psychotic illness, or you are under psychiatric care, talk to your clinician before using this — here or anywhere.
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