Core You Hypnotherapy

Core You Hypnotherapy Jacquie Whur MSc Psychology
Clinical Hypnotherapist, specialising in weight loss, anxiety & self esteem. Habit - Behaviour & Mindset Change

Take back control, banish sugar cravings, build a new relationship with food. Core You Hypnotherapy is about helping you to become the person that you want to be. It’s about helping you to find peace, calm, acceptance, change, happiness at your very Core. Along with being a Hypnotherapist, I am a lowcarb/keto Nutritional Advisor with Nutrition Network and an Ambassador with the Public Health Colla

boration, working to change obesity, type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes with weight loss and diet changes. I have a full weight loss program. My aim is to help my clients not only lose weight but to change their relationship with food, change habits and behaviour and build self esteem.

Do you believe in signs ? 🪽
23/06/2026

Do you believe in signs ? 🪽

With the mind in the right place…you can do it! 👊
09/06/2026

With the mind in the right place…you can do it! 👊

Beliefs don’t just sit in the mind. They shape biology.Research shows that belief can alter the body’s ghrelin response,...
01/06/2026

Beliefs don’t just sit in the mind. They shape biology.

Research shows that belief can alter the body’s ghrelin response, this is the hormone associated with hunger and appetite regulation.

This was demonstrated in the famous Mind Over Milkshakes study.

Participants were given the exact same milkshake on two occasions. The only difference was what they were told about it.

When participants believed they were drinking an indulgent, high calorie shake, ghrelin levels fell much more sharply after consumption, indicating a greater feeling of satiety.

When they believed they were drinking a low-calorie, sensible shake, the ghrelin response was much flatter (lower satiety levels).

Same milkshake.
Different beliefs.
Different physiological responses.

Food noise isn’t just biological, it’s also psychological.

The expectations we have about food, hunger, and our ability to manage our weight can influence how we experience our appetite.

So if you’re coming off the jabs and constantly telling yourself, I’m going to be hungry all the time, that belief may become part of the problem.

The brain is not separate from the body.

What we expect can influence what we experience.

Before even considering antidepressants, 62% of people mistake hunger and thirst signals. So before you reach for the cr...
26/05/2026

Before even considering antidepressants, 62% of people mistake hunger and thirst signals. So before you reach for the crisps 🥵

We are currently in the midst of a heatwave, so If you suddenly find yourself craving snacks or feeling a hollow hunger, your brain might be playing a trick on you.

A landmark study in Physiology & Behavior found that 62% of the time, people mistake thirst for hunger, reaching for food when their body is actually begging for water.

This neurological mix-up can lead to heat exhaustion as the brains wires get crossed:

* Shared Brain Space: Both hunger and thirst are regulated by the exact same control center: your hypothalamus.

* Twin Symptoms: Mild dehydration mimics hunger perfectly. It causes low energy, brain fog, irritability, and a hollow stomach.

* The Food Trap: Your brain knows food contains water. When dehydrated, it triggers a food craving to desperately pull fluid from whatever you eat.

⚠️ The Antidepressant Zone

If you take antidepressants (like SSRIs, SNRIs, or TCAs), this heatwave requires extra caution. These medications create a double-whammy side effect:

1. They blunt your thirst: They disrupt your internal thermostat, and can blunt thirst even when your body is overheating.

1. They amp up hunger: They can block specific receptors, turning off your “I’m full” switch and triggering carbohydrate cravings.

When it is blazing hot outside, a food craving is very often hidden dehydration.

💧 The Heatwave Rule
Don’t trust your appetite right now. Next time you feel an unexpected craving, use the 20-Minute Rule:

* Drink a large glass of water or use an electrolyte.

* Wait 20 minutes for your hypothalamus to register the fluid.

* If you are still genuinely hungry, eat. If the craving vanished, your body was desperate for cooling hydration.

Can we just stop for a moment… it’s 9.55pm in the uk, it’s not completely dark, I’m taking the dog for a quick trot befo...
24/05/2026

Can we just stop for a moment… it’s 9.55pm in the uk, it’s not completely dark, I’m taking the dog for a quick trot before bed…and I’m just wearing a sun top…and it’s a bank holiday weekend ❤️thank you 🙏

24/05/2026

Neuroscience shows that positive experiences need sustained attention before the brain truly begins wiring them in.

The brain is hard wired for a negative bias, it’s your job to train it for joy and happiness.

Noticing beauty for 2 seconds changes very little.
Staying with it for 20 seconds can.

Savouring isn’t just mindfulness rebranded.
To savour requires the anchoring of attention.

A quick thought like:
“Nice sunset.”
isn’t usually enough.

But if you pause… breathe… and fully absorb the colours, sounds, sensations, and feeling for 20 seconds, things happens:

🧠 Repeated firing across the same neural pathways begins strengthening those circuits.

🧠 Positive emotion chemicals can naturally flow for up to 90 seconds if you don’t interrupt them.

🧠 Longer activation in the brain’s reward centres is linked to greater overall wellbeing later in the day.

This is why tiny moments matter.
The smell of fresh coffee.
The sound of the birds singing.
The warmth of the sun.
The taste of something delicious.


When you truly stay with those moments you are quite literally training your brain toward happiness.

Thank you JAMA 💪A brand new longitudinal study of 38,000 pre & post menopausal women, monitored over 12 years, found whe...
21/05/2026

Thank you JAMA 💪

A brand new longitudinal study of 38,000 pre & post menopausal women, monitored over 12 years, found when comparing diets, a low insulin diet significantly prevents obesity and weight gain. 💪💪

This compliments another new paper just released in PubMed that draws from the understanding of the role of insulin within diabetes. ‘Fat breakdown happens under conditions of low insulin’. They recommend this understanding when considering obesity.

This is weight loss & weight maintenance with the understanding of metabolic health, not calories.

What’s important to understand is that this isn’t just relevant to women or to those that are pre/post menopause.

Insulin resistance is the door not just to obesity but to disease.

When you learn how to close that door, you take control of your health.

20/05/2026

There’s nothing like a smoking cessation session to really grasp the power of the mind. 💪

In fact this power is evident on fMRI

Research shows that former smokers, when compared to current smokers and those that have never smoked, have ‘super-normal’ levels of activity in the areas of the brain that are involved in controlling behaviour.

When you stop smoking, you grow your brain. You’re not using up your will power your building it.

When I work with smoking cessation clients, I ask them to bring me their biggest cravings. We then use the power of the mind to get rid of it.

It’s like watching magic in real time.

Your mind is more powerful than you think.

🧠

Elsevier. “Brain imaging demonstrates that former smokers have greater willpower than smokers.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 27 April 2011

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