Weight & Eating
Hypnosis for keeping weight off
Settle into the body you have reached, so maintaining it stops feeling like a diet that never ends.
Keeping It Off is a session for the time after a diet ends, when the real work begins and holding on feels harder than losing it did.
It repeats the feeling of living in your current shape without the constant watchfulness and the fear of returning to the start. The practice moves the focus from effort to simply being.
Reaching the number on the scale was difficult, but staying there feels like a second job that never ends.
Every meal arrives with a calculation, and every day is spent waiting for the moment when the control breaks and the old weight comes back.
It is hard to feel at peace in a body you treat like an opponent you have to keep beating down.
What’s in it
A steady weight that holds without constant vigilance, and freedom from the fear of it all coming back.
Why do it
A few quiet minutes move you from effort to identity, which is what actually makes it stick.
- 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: Keeping It Off — hypnosis session
The hardest part is not reaching the number but the months after, when every day feels like a test you could still fail.
What you’ll hear in the Keeping It Off session
The session shifts attention from constant effort and watchfulness to the feeling of having arrived. It frames the body as a home rather than a project, letting the old calculations fade so stability becomes familiar.
You notice a quiet steadiness beginning to form within you, an anchor of certainty deep in your core
This feeling represents a profound shift, moving from the constant effort of reaching a goal to the peaceful reality of having arrived
Your body is no longer a project to be managed but a home you have built, a place of strength and comfort
The energy you once spent striving for change can now be redirected toward simply living fully and joyfully within this settled form
The old mental calculations begin to fade away, their numbers and rules losing their power over your daily thoughts
You feel a deep sense of release as the habit of constant watching slowly dissolves
Your mind quiets, no longer needing to track or measure, allowing a spacious calm to take their place
This freedom feels vast and restful, like a heavy burden gently set down for good
- an anchor of certaintya physical feeling to ground the abstract, turning effort into an anchor
- the habit of constant watchingthe old fight is named clearly, then allowed to dissolve
- allowing a spacious calmthe mind gets space it was denied — calm is a side effect
Timeline: Start to Finish
The middle of this session settles you into the body you have reached. It focuses on what it feels like to live there now, repeating this sense of stability until it feels like a fact you already know.
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
Keeping It Off — Balanced
Rehearses the feeling of living at a steady weight so the body becomes a settled fact rather than a temporary state held by effort.
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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?
Holding a line through willpower alone always runs out, because it is a fight that requires you to win every single day.
This builds the sense of the body you have reached as a settled fact rather than a temporary state.
The rehearsal is aimed at how it feels to live at this weight, letting the stability of it become familiar without the constant vigilance.
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
Same goal, written three ways: pick the voice you would believe when the diet ends and the real work of staying begins.
Balanced
Settle into the body you have reached, so maintaining it stops feeling like a diet that never ends. The default.
Lets the feeling of living at this weight become familiar, so the vigilance stops feeling necessary.
Future self
Picture the version of you who is someone who simply lives at this weight now.
You picture the version who no longer checks or calculates, because that is simply not what they do anymore.
New identity
Step into being someone who simply lives at this weight now, starting now.
Steps straight into being someone who lives at this weight, skipping the gradual adjustment.
Questions people ask about Keeping It Off
Will this work if I've tried other things before?
It doesn't rely on willpower or new habits, but on shifting how it feels to be at your current weight. It may feel different to other approaches.
How soon will I notice any change?
Some people feel a difference after a few sessions, others take longer. It depends how unfamiliar it feels to be at ease with your current weight.
Do I have to believe in hypnosis for this to help?
No. It works by letting you rehearse the feeling of being settled at this weight, not by needing you to believe in the method.
What if I fall asleep during the session?
The session is made for relaxed listening. If you drift off, you can replay it when more alert.
Is this just positive thinking about weight?
No. It's practice in the physical sense of living at this weight without the constant effort, not just telling yourself it's fine.
Where it sits
Appetite, habit and body image, worked as behaviour rather than willpower.
Before you press play
- Not the right session right now if any of these are live for you: eating disorder history; under clinical dietary supervision.
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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