Weight Loss With EFT Lose Weight And Regain Control

To lose weight, all you have to do is eat less and exercise more.

Easy, isn't it? So why can't you?

There are many emotional and physical reasons why we put the weight on in the first place. Having said that, many of us that are overweight manage to keep it on for longer than makes sense.

Take my friend Hannah (not her real name). Well-liked for her hospitality, she feeds you plenty whenever you go to visit. Her kitchen is full of cakes and snacks. Her living room is scattered with chocolates, biscuits and cookies. She tells you of all the meals she has cooked for her family that week and gives you new recipes that she's found. She's tried them and they're delicious.

Can you imagine if Hannah had been a heroin addict?

Take my friend Hannah the heroin addict (not her real name). Well-liked for her hospitality, she makes sure she has a good supply whenever you go to visit. Her kitchen is scattered with burnt spoons and discarded bits of aluminum foil. Her living room is full of the sickly-sweet smell of brown. She tells you of how the social services have taken the last remaining child off her that week and gives you the number of the new dealer that she's found. She's slept with him and he's given it to her cheap.

Not so homely and cuddly anymore, is she now?

Overeating is an addiction. Many people who overeat also over-exercise. Some both overeat and deliberately under-exercise. And every time I think I have heard all the excuses, I hear another, even more inventive one. ?I'm too fat to expose my body in a swimsuit?; ?I have a slow metabolism? said as she tucks into the 17th chocolate bar that day; ?Gyms are full of slim, sexy people? [no they're not, and how would you know anyway if you've never been?]; ?This isn't bad for you? said about the 14th fast-food snack that day; ?I need comfort food?; ?This is too good to waste?; etc. But the excuses are not the work of a lazy person or someone with no will-power. Quite the opposite. It takes a lot of hard work and determination to maintain excessive weight.

With EFT, we define those excuses as the work of a psychologically-reversed mind. The mind of someone whose body's ?energy? system is against their recovery. EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques addresses the psychology and the ?energy? aspects of the condition at the same time. We use tapping to stimulate acupuncture meridian end-points whilst applying some clever psychology to free us from these excuses and allow us to be happily slim, attractive and healthy again.

EFT can be used as a motivator for your exercise program, removing the emotional blocks that are in the way of your success. It can unravel all those emotional root causes of the comfort eating.

EFT is also a very neat tool that literally changes the taste of foods. What is good for you ends up tasting delicious and what is bad for you ends up tasting unbearably disgusting. You literally tap the EFT sequence on your face, body and hands as you repeat a special phrase and look at, smell and taste the food. The food stays the same, only your perception of it changes. Fatty foods taste like petrol jelly. The average chocolate bar tastes of artificial flavourings, wax, hydrogenated vegetable fat, and sickly-sweet sugar. The average bread takes on the strong taste of yeast. Chocolate pudding tastes like hair conditioner. Cookies and cakes are hard to dissolve in your mouth, that is if you can get yourself to put them there. Gradually or all of a sudden, a new phrase that you are saying as you tap on the EFT points changes the smell, taste, and texture of the food. You really have to experience it to appreciate the full effect.

No matter what else is going on, people usually overeat because they feel out of control somehow in their lives. EFT allows you to take control by being proactive in getting the control back in your life. Try it, what do you have to lose but weight?

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