Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell (left) and singer Lily Allen (center) have admitted they see hypnotists who convince them to work out. In a recent interview, actress Olivia Munn (right) credits hypnotism for her fit physique.
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Still reeling from a painful breakup, Elena Gluhova realized that the damage caused by her lousy ex-boyfriend went far beyond a broken heart: Her emotional eating had caused her to balloon to her heaviest weight of 130 pounds.

“Quite frankly, I felt fat, ugly and not attractive,” recalls the petite 32-year-old West Village resident, who stands 5-foot-4. “I got a membership to New York Sports Club, but I only used it once a month.”

Unable to find the motivation to hit the gym, Gluhova began researching other tools to help her slim down — and after hours on Google, she stumbled upon a possible cure: hypnosis. Though it may sound like a subject offered at Hogwarts, hypnosis is a treatment approved by the American Psychiatric Association that’s used for quitting everything from smoking to biting your nails. Read more →

Olivia Munn has her hypnotist to thank for her new fitness drive after he used one of their sessions to convince the actress she really enjoyed working out.

The Mortdecai star claims she once complained about her lack of motivation to exercise to the therapist, and he promptly put her in a trance to give her the boost she needed.

She tells Good Housekeeping magazine, “I was going to a hypnotist to help me with my OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) and trichotillomania (pulling out hair). One day I told him I didn’t work out, and he said, ‘What do you mean?’ I replied ‘I don’t know. I just kind of don’t’. He said, ‘You have to! It’s good for your anxiety and depression’. So during one of our sessions, he hypnotized me.”

Munn continues, “That was on a Friday, and by Monday I was working out every day at 6am. If I missed a session, I’d double up and do it the next day. Now I feel so much stronger. I remember running up the steps one day and thinking, ‘This is strange. I could do this a hundred times and be totally OK’.”

Now the actress has found a new source of inspiration to help her stay in shape – her boyfriend, American football star Aaron Rodgers.

She says, “My boyfriend’s healthiness inspires me. Aaron is different than every other man I’ve ever met… there’s so much I could say. Everything a good person can be, he is. “He’s in such great shape, and especially lately, he’s been eating so well and working out. Having somebody in your life like that is so motivating.”

Sources

Toronto Sun

Wenn.com

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