Weight & Eating
Hypnosis for sugar cravings
Free from the sugar pull. Tastes calibrate.
Sugar Cravings is a practice for that moment of reaching out on autopilot before the choice is really made.
It spends the quiet time watching a sweet pull rise and pass, without fighting it or fixing it, and settles attention on food that leaves the body feeling well.
The packet is open before you have really decided to open it. It is not about hunger, but the short break that requires no thought and gives you a quick lift before the afternoon drags on again.
Afterwards, there is a familiar feeling of having let yourself down, but the pull returns before the day is done.
What’s in it
Let the sweet pull rise and pass on its own, and let your taste recalibrate toward food that leaves you feeling well.
Why do it
A few quiet minutes here puts you back in charge of the choice, so reaching for sugar stops running on autopilot.
- Theme
- Weight & Eating
- Delivery styles
- 3
- Lengths
- Quick ~10mStandard ~20mDeep ~45m
- Ends
- Calm and present
- Stages
- 4
- On this shelf
- 11 sessions
Timeline: Start to Finish
The build spends the middle section rehearsing the urge as a passing wave. This imagery is the core of the practice, letting you watch the pull rise and fall without acting on it.
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
Sugar Cravings — Balanced
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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
Three ways to say it
The same goal, written three ways. You pick the one that sounds like something you would believe — and you can hear a different one tomorrow without rebuilding anything.
Balanced
Let the sweet pull pass like a wave, take back the choice, and let your taste settle toward what nourishes you. The default.
Future self
Meet the version of you who is light, clear, and easy around sweet things.
New identity
Step into being someone calm and free around sugar now, with the choice already yours.
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.
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 a useful tool, but it is usually tired by the time the afternoon arrives. This works on a different level, using rehearsal and imagery to let the urge rise and pass without you having to fight it.
It is not a battle, but a way of letting the sweet pull go by while you watch it.
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)
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