Lose Weight By Hypnosis?

In this eight-part series, we follow the fictional life of Daniel, a software engineer who is in search of the best way to reverse his obesity.

Chapter 1: THE FLESH IS NEEDING BUT THE WILL IS WEAK

DANIEL is a software engineer at a prestigious Information and Communications Technology (“ICT”) consultancy house. “Incoherent Convoluted Thinking”, his colleagues would often make light fun of the acronym that is much revered in certain industries, especially after gulping down more than a few mugs of good beer at a dinner of usually greasy franchised fastfood or even greasier traditional hawker fare.

This is typical of Daniel’s work style and life style; long hours at work that is only briefly interrupted by quick meals of fastfood, both the Western franchise and Asian hawker-by-the-roadside styles, before scurrying back to his workstation, to continue working into the late hours of the night. So, it is no wonder that Daniel, at 95kg, and most of his colleagues, range from the chubby to the obese.

To make matters worse, spotlighted in the brightest corner of the office pantry is a vending machine filled with the most heavenly assortment of snacks: candies, chocolate bars, nachos, potato and tortilla chips, cookies, etc., etc., etc. Seemingly harmless, but yet each time Daniel and his colleagues take a break from their workstations, it would call out to them like a Siren of Greek mythology and they are hypnotically drawn to it like the Argonauts, mechanically plugging in the coins, pressing the selection buttons and watching in a hypnotic trance as the spiral rings turn, pushing the candies, chocolate bars and bags of chips off the shelves onto the catch tray below.

Continue reading about Daniel's weight-loss program.