Insurer Trims Premiums for People Who Lose Weight and Keep It Off

The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Illinois printed an Associated Press report: When you lose weight and keep it off, a new program started by an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut gives people discounts on life insurance. Phoenix Cos. Inc. offers discounts up to 20 percent on life insurance policies to customers whose BMI is verified by a doctor to be 19 to 25.

While your Body Mass Index or BMI is not a reliable way of measuring body fat, it is used by doctors and insurance companies to easily and conveniently define whether someone is overweight or obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines obesity as a BMI of 30 or more; people between 25 and 30 are considered overweight. BMI is a ratio that’s based mainly on height and weight, and this number doesn’t take into account other factors.

What’s more important than your BMI ratio is percentage body fat, nutrition and physical activity. Obesity is a sign of someone’s lifestyle and self-image. These can be changed without medical treatments. Hypnosis is much more effective in changing lifestyles and self concepts than existing medical treatments according to researchers.

The American Medical Association said there’s not necessarily a correlation between good health and BMI ratio.

There are many weight loss mistakes people make that end up causing them to gain weight. Here are only three of the five most serious mistakes people make when trying to lose weight:

• Taking diet pills, teas or drinks to reduce appetite and ‘burn off’ fat… (There is not such thing as “liposuction in a bottle”.)
• Skipping meals or reducing the size of meals so you feel hungry. Often people feel so hungry at the end of the day that they have uncontrollable cravings and binge.
• Using fad diets talked about in the news–who lives like that all the time?

When you want to avoid repeating these mistakes (whether you’ve made them before or just know other people who have made them), just call 608.288.7865 now to schedule your free hypnosis screening.

When you’re suffering from the hassle of being overweight, the pain overeating has caused you, and you have been embarrassed long enough–what are you going to do to change all of that? Don’t you want to stop the negative thoughts going around in your head? Do you know what to do, but just aren’t doing it? Have you ever lost weight and then gained it back, plus more?

End the cycle of despair over your size and change your thoughts, your feelings and take action now by calling (608) 288-7865 now for your free hypnosis screening.