You are not eating because you are hungry.
The diet is not the problem. The relationship to food is the problem. MTP™ addresses the psychological driver — so the body can do what it already knows how to do.
The diet industry generates trillions by treating a psychological problem as a nutritional one. If the problem were information — what to eat, how much — it would have been solved. The problem is not information. It is the emotional function that food is serving.
Emotional eating is a learned coping mechanism. Food provides comfort, stimulation, numbing, or reward that the nervous system has come to rely on. Until that emotional function is addressed, dietary intervention produces temporary results at best.
Eating in response to emotion — stress, boredom, loneliness, reward
Knowing what to eat and eating something else
Diet cycles — lose, regain, lose — without lasting change
Using food to manage feelings that have no other outlet
Weight that does not shift despite genuine effort
Shame and self-blame that make the pattern worse
MTP™ for weight and emotional eating addresses the psychological driver directly. The hypnotherapy component works with the subconscious associations — food as comfort, food as love, food as control — that maintain the pattern below conscious choice. The meditation component builds the capacity for emotional regulation that reduces the reliance on food as a coping tool. Psychotherapy addresses the original experiences that made food necessary in this way.
Peer-reviewed evidence supporting MTP-aligned interventions for Emotional Eating & Weight.
"Hypnotherapy added to CBT for weight loss produced significantly greater weight loss and psychological improvement than CBT alone, with effects maintained at 6- and 24-month follow-up."
Kirsch, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, meta-analysis"Mindfulness-based eating awareness reduced emotional eating and binge eating significantly in a randomised controlled trial."
Kristeller & Hallett, Journal of Health Psychology"Hypnotherapy for habit change and appetite regulation showed significant improvements in food relationship and reduced binge eating behaviour in multiple clinical studies."
Multiple studies, American Journal of Clinical HypnosisMTP™ is a complementary intervention. It does not replace medical assessment or treatment. Dr. Maruti Sharma works collaboratively with medical professionals where appropriate.
Real clients. Real outcomes. Shared with full consent.
All transformations are real clients who have given explicit consent to share their experience. Individual results vary. These outcomes are not a guarantee.
Good fit
Emotional eating that is the identified driver of weight difficulty
Weight that has not shifted despite genuine dietary and exercise effort
Diet cycling — the pattern of lose, regain, lose again
Binge eating or compulsive eating as the primary presentation
Willingness to address what food has been solving
Not the right fit
Eating disorders — anorexia or bulimia — requiring specialist eating disorder treatment
Weight difficulty with a primary medical cause — hormonal, metabolic — requiring medical management
MTP™ is unlike most things you have tried. It helps to be clear about what it is not — so there is no confusion about what you are stepping into.
Not a diet plan.
There is no food group to eliminate, no eating window to maintain, no prescribed meal structure. MTP™ does not tell you what to eat. It changes what you want to eat — which is a different problem entirely.
Not a workout regimen.
You will not be given an exercise programme. Movement begins to happen naturally as the identity shifts — clients consistently report that not exercising starts to feel uncomfortable, which is the reversal of the experience that brought them to clinical work in the first place.
Not calorie counting.
Logging meals and tracking numbers creates an anxious, monitoring relationship with food that is itself part of the problem. MTP™ does not add surveillance to an already burdened relationship with eating.
Not supplements or medication.
No external substance is introduced. The change is neurological and psychological — it happens inside the person, not through something added from outside.
Not surgery.
Surgery addresses the container, not the conditioning. Without psychological work alongside it, the patterns that produced the original relationship with food reassert themselves — sometimes in different forms.
Not generic mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a component of MTP™, not the whole of it. Standard mindfulness programmes build awareness of eating patterns. MTP™ uses that awareness as a starting point, then goes beneath it to the conditioning layer where the patterns are installed.
Not a group programme.
The depth of personalisation that produces lasting change is incompatible with a standardised group format. This is one-to-one clinical work, tailored to the specific person — their history, their pattern, their essential identity.
Will I be put on a diet? +
No. MTP™ does not prescribe dietary plans. The work is psychological — changing the relationship to food and the emotional functions it serves. When that changes, the eating changes as a natural consequence.
How is this different from weight loss hypnotherapy programmes I have seen advertised? +
Most commercial hypnotherapy weight loss programmes use suggestion and willpower. MTP™ addresses the underlying emotional and psychological driver. Suggestion without addressing the driver produces temporary results. Changing the driver produces lasting ones.
The food is not the problem. Let's find out what is, and address that instead.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. No commitment. No pressure. Just an honest exchange to understand whether this is right for you.
Dr. Maruti Sharma · RCI Reg. A100310 · Clinical Psychologist · 25+ years · 100+ countries