If you dream of the body of a Greek god or goddess, you do not have to battle one-eyed monsters or hurl thunderbolts - simply eating like the ancient idols can help you get a body that members of the opposite gender will worship.

The Mediterranean way of eating, which is a diet meal plan that includes a great deal of fresh fruits and vegetables, olive oil, fish, whole grains and red wine, can help you arrive at the ideal figure. The Mediterranean diet has also been linked to a healthier heart and a longer life span. Fatty dairy products, red meat, and foods with refined sugar are rarely consumed, if ever.

Centuries after the physically powerful gods shook things up, the Mediterranean style of eating still makes great sense as a diet because you get full on large amounts of high-fiber, low fat foods that leave you feeling sated for much longer. The fruits and vegetables eaten as part of the Mediterranean way of eating are naturally low in calories, and are chock full of antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids, nutrients your body needs to create new and healthy cells.

The Mediterranean way of eating lets you have a higher fat intake than most weight loss meal plans, but it's healthy fat that comes from nuts and olive oil, which are rich in beneficial monounsaturated fats, and low in unhealthy saturated fats, like those found in beef, ice-cream or cheese.

Just bear in mind that for higher calorie foods, like the whole grains, olive oil and red wine, you still must focus on serving sizes and overall calorie intake. The key to any successful weight loss meal plan is taking in fewer calories while still feeling full.

When you feel full, it makes it a little easier to defeat cravings that many people who are trying to follow a weight loss diet endure. What good is a diet if you cannot remain on it because your appetite is out of control? Before you start any weight loss diet, you'll need to find a safe, effective technique to eliminate your urges, cravings and appetite to overeat. Lose weight hypnosis is a wonderful tool to help you curb your cravings.

The average person experiences cravings and an urge to eat for two central reasons:

A. When you combine eating with any other behavior, the other behavior will trigger cravings and a compulsion to eat.

B. When you feel stress, you feel compelled to put something into your mouth for relaxation and pleasure.

Let's examine Part "A" first. More than 70% of the population learns much more quickly and easily by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it: If you feel an urge to eat when watching television, it's because your mind recorded the video image of food in your hand, and then associated that image with the image of the television. From that point, every time you watch television, your unconscious flashes the image of the food in your hand, and you get a corresponding urge.

You've actually "programmed" your unconscious to make you feel cravings and urges as a "conditioned response" to watching television. The same thing happens when you eat in your car or while on the telephone, etc.

Lose weight hypnosis will erase the conditioned responses simply by reprogramming your mind to have it trigger unconscious images of you watching the television without eating, and that will eliminate the urge to eat. It will also give you an urge to reject food in that scenario!

But what about Part "B"? Our feelings of anxiousness are produced by our thoughts. If you think negative thoughts, you feel anxious and upset. If you think happy thoughts, you feel peaceful and relaxed.

If you think an upsetting thought while you are sitting at your computer, your mind can associate that thought with the computer. Thereafter, when you sit at your computer, you have a conditioned response; your mind flashes to that negative thought and you feel stress. Self hypnosis techniques can help you conquer these patterns almost immediately.

The techniques used in the most effective hypnotherapy programs are based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This technology works based on the utilization of a person's existing thought processes instead of post-hypnotic suggestion.

Video weight loss hypnosis can program your subconscious mind to use stressful thoughts as a trigger for calming thoughts. So if you start to think of something that is upsetting, your unconscious will automatically change to a relaxing thought in a millisecond. You become calm, so there are no feelings of stress to cause your cravings. And without an appetite to overeat, it's much easier to lose weight and keep it off permanently.

Adhering to a sensible weight loss meal plan, like the Mediterranean style, along with weight loss hypnosis means you can finally conquer your cravings to achieve the body of a Greek god or goddess.

Alan B. Densky, CH pioneered the use of video weight loss through hypnosis and received a U.S. Patent on the technology. His hypnotherapy site offers several different weight loss hypnotherapy CDs designed to fit every personality. Visit for Free hypnosis articles, videos, and newsletters.