‘Uggh…How did it get to this?’ you think to yourself as you step on the scale and you’ve gained yet another 10.

And then we cycle into a round of self-criticism, frustration and self-blame, “I’m just lazy, undisciplined, unmotivated!”

And then we scramble to find a solution: join a gym, join a program…and it’s hard, it takes focus and motivation, and we struggle and it works for a time. But eventually, we lose motivation and we’re right back to square one.

It’s not that you failed the diet – it’s that the diet failed you! Diets don’t work research shows.

You’re not alone in your frustration.

In a study at Stanford, researchers followed dieters and found that 92% gained all the weight back plus more within just 2 years! 

The old cycle of dieting and depriving yourself will continue UNLESS you get your BRAIN onboard!Other dieting programs aren’t addresssing the REAL reasons we gain weight – YOUR BRAIN!

If you are tired of counting calories, restriction and depriving yourself to lose weight…

If you are ready to engage the power of your mind for easier, natural weight loss….

….then you are ready for A Lighter You Hypnosis Weight Loss System.

You might think you’ve tried everything before, every diet, every exercise plan….But you haven’t tried this!

With A Lighter You Hypnosis Weight Loss System, you can curtail the old “willpower” and restriction approaches, you can bypass the old mind traps of self-blame and shame, and start building momentum into your upward spiral.

I know what it takes. Let me share how I dropped 40 pounds and 6 dress sizes in just a few months and I’ve kept it off for 18+ years!

I didn’t use: dieting, counting calories or starving myself – NO KIDDING!

I didn’t punish myself at the gym with exhaustive exercise either.

I didn’t use boxed meals, shakes or food police – Just REAL Food and my BRAIN!

In teaching healthy lifestyle classes over the last 20 years, using my own experience plus advanced trainings in Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP & Hypnosis to address the MOST important piece – YOUR BRAIN!

The REAL reasons we gain weight are wired into your BRAIN, that’s why its so hard to change!

It’s really your Subconscious Mind that holds the code to the old habits, cravings, mental blocks, emotional eating, lack of motivation and self-sabotage.  And these are patterns wired into your BRAIN!

Wouldn’t it be great if you could…

• FEEL better in your body
• Have more ENERGY
• Experience more inner calm and well being
• RELIEVE stress
• Boost your CONFIDENCE
• Reduce the need for medications
• Improve your health
• Feel better in your skin

The REAL Key is in Your BRAIN! Discover HOW to shift your unconscious programming to change habits, cravings and sabotage!

“I don’t have cravings anymore, I easily cut out wheat and dairy and sugar and it healed up my colon. I no longer have to spend $500 on medications for my colon. I’m finding progress with losing weight, but really feeling healthier.” –Susan Lynn,  Salt Lake City, UT

A Lighter You System covers 3 Essential Pillars for lasting weight loss success, so you can stop yoyo dieting!

Over the last 20 years working with clients in rewiring the brain, and also experiencing the skills for myself. I know what works and what it takes to get to the place where you can stop obsessing about foods, calories and find your easier, natural and even intuitive balance with the whole process. It’s about nourishing your MIND as well as your BODY!

Learn the  BRAIN skills to change habits, cravings, mental blocks and sabotage. And experience the magic of NLP and Hypnosis to shift your mind into willpower, focus and even finding greater ease with foods and your body.

Pillar 1: Hypnosis to Rewire Your Brain

Discover the BEST strategies  and practices for EASY weight release, and finally learn what you need to know, plus the BRAIN SKILLS to step into your lighter you!

Hey I know it works, I did it – and you can too! But don’t take my word for it, here’s what others are saying about the program:

“Honestly I wouldn’t have believed it if someone told me I could change my hot chocolate addiction that quickly.  Every night for the last 2 years, I would have 2 big cups of hot cocoa before going to bed. If I didn’t have it, I would default to diet soda. We did a session, and I haven’t had to really think about it, it was just easy.” Sonya Corbett, Salt Lake City, UT

Yep, you’ll learn the cut cravings skill. This allows you to still enjoy foods, but you won’t feel compulsions around food.

“I truly appreciate about what you are doing is that you are not offering a one size fits all approach to conquering weight loss. You have a way of presenting that makes each person think about their own triggers with food. In addition, I was impressed with your teaching skills. Since I am a Master Teacher I can tell you that you did a great job conveying the information in a way that was easy to follow and relate to. Keep up the great work and thank-you again for coming to our group.” – Mikeila, Vancouver, WA

“Why should I be relaxing when I need to get motivated and moving?” Some clients have asked me. I know it can seem counterintuitive to relax and enjoy listening to Hypnosis when we’ve all been so trained to do and strive. “No pain, no gain” the going says. But just pushing your body without feeding your mind can cause cycles of frustration, self blame and continued struggle.

Hypnosis Naturally Alleviates Stress, the Hidden Factor in Weight Gain.

Hypnosis naturally relaxes your mind and your body, causing some powerful and practical benefits.

There is a surprising link between stress and weight gain. Think of the things that cause us stress: coworkers, worries, family.. Research shows that when we think stressful thoughts, it causes the body to physically respond to our “imagined” stress by releasing stress hormones, one of which is cortisol.

Cortisol actually increases our appetite and particularly for high-calorie and quick energy foods, causing us to eat for emotions or stress eat. Cortisol also promotes abdominal fat storage and it can slow your metabolism leading to increased body belly fat. And because there are multiple hormones in the body that work counter to each other, when one is high, it causes others to be low, chronic cortisol can actually lead to hormonal imbalances and insulin resistance, making it harder to lose weight once you’ve gained it.

Relax Your Way into Your Healthier Habits and Slimmer Body With Hypnosis:

So you can feel great about relaxing with Hypnosis while you rewire your brain, change your habits and even increase your well being and your energy. Here’s a sample of the Hypnosis audios included designed to rewire your brain:

• Step Into Your Healthy You: Get your subconscious mind aligned with your goals.
• Curb Your Cravings: Give your subconscious mind the directions it needs to curtail cravings.
• Motivation for Fitness: Feel better about fitness and engage your mind to move more.
• Boost Your Metabolism: Messages for your subconscious mind to increase your energy and harmony within your body’s systems.
• Enlighten Your Body Image: Let go of the old self-criticism and embrace appreciating your body and building a new relationship.
• Automatic Weight Loss: Yep, just that, let’s get the changes running almost automatically!
• And More!

Pillar 2: Neuro Linguistic Programming & Strategies to Clear the Mental Blocks

In the Masterclass Video Series, you’ll learn even more about HOW to set your brain and get it onboard with your motivation, focus and goals and even break free of the old sabotaging patterns.

It’s more than just weight loss, we really need to uplevel our thoughts, attitudes and feelings in how we approach healthy eating, foods and working with our bodies in a kinder, gentler way.

Through the Masterclass series, we’ll bring to life the Brain Rewiring, New Perspectives and deeper understanding of the Mind-Body Connection and HOW to actually harness all of this for your benefit.

A Lighter You Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body:

From my years of experience both with myself and working with thousands of clients, and advanced trainings in Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming (how the brain codes information),  I developed a  break-through approach and created  A Lighter You! It’s all about undersanding and even decoding the default patterns of your brain.

When we update these patterns to better ones, you’ll discover easy wayst to stop procrastinating, get motivated, and even more than that, get inspired with your healthy lifestyle!

“For the past several years, I had struggled with developing a more healthy lifestyle. I had begun to develop negative associations with exercise and had difficulty controlling my weight.  Holly Stokes helped me identify and formulate solutions to these problems. Using various techniques, Holly guided me through processes that allowed me to replace my negative associations with positive ones.  We also set up realistic, personalized goals.  Holly taught me techniques, such as an anchor, that I can use when I feel I need extra support.  Throughout the process I have gained confidence in who I am and have finally realized that I am worth it and I can change!” –Kim B., Registered Nurse, Portland, Oregon

Discover practical strategies, skills and know-how to make your slim, fit body even easier:  

• Set Up New Habits Quickly
• Keys to De-Stress
• Short Circuit Cravings
• End Emotional Eating
• Quickly Clear the Mental Blocks
• Stop Self-Sabotage
• DeMystify the Weight Loss Process
• Find your LASTING weight loss success

Pillar 3: Quick n Tasty Recipes & Food Hacks

“Dieting means eating chicken and broccoli, I just can’t do it long-term,” I’ve hear clients tell me things like this. Or maybe you think healthy eating is bland and boring. If you’re healthy eating plan is boring and tasteless, you need to upgrade.

Admittedly I’m a foodie, and I love food and believe that it shouldn not just be good, it should be delicious! Many people think they don’t have time to cook or it takes so much extra work to plan and stay on track. I know we are all so busy and it can seem dauntings. That’s where these easy food trick and hacks come into play.

I’ve made it easy and simple with Food Systems Strategies and Quick n Tasty Recipes.

A Lighter You Nutrition Guide: The first book gives you the powerful strategies and BRAIN skills to address the mental blocks and finally find your LASTING weight loss success. The second gives you indepth nutrition information, you’ll learn HOW foods affect your body, dispel the myths that ‘a calorie is still a calorie’ – no foods affect our body differently! You’ll learn to navigate the bad information and deceptive food labeling. But you’ll also learn easy substitutions – how to still enjoy food, be satisfied and find eating habits that really work for you.

“We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the levels of our systems.” Jim Carr, Atomic Habits

But the good news is, when you have easy habits, strategies and yes even Food Systems in place, healthy eating can be delicious and easy, and still be wonderfully tasty and satisfying.

I’ll share my go to recipes, and quick and easy food hacks. Learn how to keep your body in the fat-burning mode (without keto crash diets) and more.

Find out HOW weight release can be EASIER and more NATURAL with Hypnosis and NLP Brain Training & Quick n Tasty Food Hacks

Enjoy your way into your lighter, slimmer you without “dieting,” depriving yourself and starving yourself.

I’ve found over the years, people not only needed to know how foods affect the body and how to make healthy choices, they also needed to know some of the tools and quick hacks for eating healthier. I post Quick n Tasty Healthy Recipes in the facebook group, get dinner going in 15 minutes or less.

You don’t have to be perfect in your journey, you just have to have the tools to get your subconscious mind onboard.

“Weight loss is all mental.Working with Holly helped me to recognize what those mental barriers were and overcome them. I found that you can create your own messaging for yourself (rather than continue the messages from parents and childhood” –even to the unconscious level, that was really powerful for me. I feel truly thankful and appreciative for what we have accomplished together (with new mental strategies and changing how I think and feel about food.” –Bev W, Portland, Oregon

Plus get Community support in the A Lighter You Community

You’re not alone. Connect with others, ask questions, and discover food tips, tricks and easier systems and strategies to make your healthy lifestyle easier and sustainable. It’s not about a diet. It’s about a healthy lifestyle that you can live with – and that your body loves.

You don’t have to be perfect, eat like a rabbit – and food should tast better than good, it should be delicious!

And there’s a TON of EXTRA Amazing Health Benefits along the way:

“I don’t have cravings anymore. I learned wheat and dairy caused extra inflammation. I cut them out and it healed up my colon. I no longer have to spend $500 on medications for my colon every month. I’m finding progress with losing weight and I’m feeling healthier.” Susan L, Salt Lake City, Utah, retired sales manager.

• Boost your energy
• Feel better in your body
• Experience a new relationship to food
• Experience a new relationship with your body
• Improve your health and balance your blood sugar
• Reduce joint pains and body aches: Body aches and pains are related to inflammation, when you curb the inflammation response, your body automatically feels better.
• Reduce the need for insulin and other medications
• Diabetic – friendly principles: Help you easily manage your blood sugar.
• Manage or improve a chronic condition: Many of the principles, skills and guidelines are what I used in overcoming an autoimmune condition. Within 10 days of whole foods eating, my joint aches reduced by 50%

Plus, Your Family Will Benefit:

It’s not only good for you, it’s great for your family! Could your spouse or children benefit from healthier cooking options? Of course they will. As this course is based in whole foods eating and natural health principles, it’s all about how foods affect your body and what your body was meant to eat for fuel.

Discover FAST and EFFECTIVE Habit changes as we “rewire” the brain with Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming. Enjoy healthy and tasty recipes that taste delicious.

And Learn HOW to save money easily with Quick n Tasty Healthy food options. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort to prep good food deliciously.

Plus adaptations for singles too. So whether you are cooking for yourself or family, discover the tried and true kitchen secrets while also getting your brain onboard with easy ways to keep your body in the fat-burning zone, balance your blood sugar and more!

Isn’t it time for A Lighter You? Here’s what’s included:

• A Lighter You Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body book
• A Lighter You Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition book
• A Lighter You Mind Body Weight Loss Hypnosis mp3s
• Self Paced program with 24/7 Access for 90 Days
• 6 Weeks of Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body Masterclasses
• 6 Weeks of Healthy Eating Made Easy Skills
• New Hypnosis Class each Month
• Community Support through Facebook
• TOTAL VALUE = $989!

Get Your Brain Onboard with Your Slim Healthy Body. Next Online Live Series: Starts Sept. 9, 2025 6:30 pm Online

 

About Holly Stokes

Holly Stokes The Brain Trainer, Master NLP Health Coach, Cert. Thought Pattern Management Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, has worked in the field of applied psychology for more than 20 years and has taught weight loss and healthy lifestyle classes for more than 11 years. She found that most people knew what was healthy, but what REALLY gets in the way are old habits, mental blocks, cravings, lack of motivation and self sabotage  – which are patterns stuck in the Unconscious Mind and that is why they are so hard to change!

She created A Lighter You System to help people change the old pattern of the dieting cycle which includes two books, A Lighter You! Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body and A Lighter You! Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition in Action, plus created the 6 Hypnosis CD set A Lighter You! Mind Body Weight Loss. She loves teaching classes and empowering clients to take charge of old patterns for greater health, well being, vitality and living fully with brain skills for life. Holly has been quoted by Shape Magazine, Active Times and Chicago Tribune and has appeared on Portland radio shows and ABC’s Good 4 Utah.