Is EFT your missing link to natural weight loss?

What keeps you (and 95% of all dieters) from staying at your natural weight?
For many people, emotional eating is the culprit.

Emotional eating is not about a lack of willpower, nor does it indicate a character defect. It's more often about comfort and avoidance.
It's about quieting fears and easing pain.
It's about getting numb, getting away and getting back.
We calm down by filling up.
Food helps us feel better- at least, as long as there's one more bite.

Does a disagreement with your spouse or boss send you running for your favorite Krispy Kreme?

Do you frantically snarf down potato chips and chocolate chips to zone out from a stressful day?

Does your spoon hit the bottom of the Cherry Garcia pint before you can say, WHERE DID IT GO?

Do you have Fat Pants? Fat Days?

Does natural weight loss seem like a fairytale?

It's enough to make you eat!

Eating when you're not hungry enables you to temporarily avoid your feelings and has served you well in some ways.

What about stress relief? The chemistry of your body changes when you eat, soothing your nervous system and giving you that relaxed, warm-all-over feeling.

How about rewards? Food is a socially-acceptable reward for a job well done.

Then there's the gratification factor. Food can always be depended on for immediate gatification.

Food doesn't talk back. It doesn't lie, hurt your feelings, disappoint or leave you.

Food fills the void.

Since emotional eating works so well to quiet and numb painful feelings and avoid problems, why would you willingly walk away from it?

Of course. Because you know it's NOT working...because the feelings you are avoiding are still there-even if you don't know what they are.

The void can never be filled with food or any other substance because the void is your life speaking to you. Your life is trying to get your attention!

The Emotional Eating Cycle goes something like this:

* Your inner self (subconscious) knows something is wrong
* Dealing with the problem leads to uncomfortable feelings
* Uncomfortable feelings call for a comfort/avoid strategy
* The comfort/avoid strategy of choice is emotional eating (eating when you're not hungry and/or eating past full)
* Emotional eating leads to new problems (‘I hate the way I look/feel’, clothes don’t fit-again?)
* New problems are stacked on top of the original problem

The results? Eroded self esteem, painful self-talk, feeling powerless, hopeless, helpless, and finally, numbness.

Finding a natural weight loss method that works? Oh, sure.

Last week you resolved to stop your destructive eating behavior. Yesterday you were still "white knuckling" your way through as you came face-to-face with your feelings. Without the food, there is just too much feeling going on. Today, the deprivation is just too much as you plunge yourself into the food... and into the numbness once more. Tomorrow will be different. Tomorrow you'll be happy.

Did you see, hear or feel yourself anywhere in the above description?... or do you suspect you could be heading in that direction?

Whether you want to make a few minor adjustments or more deeply explore your eating behaviors, you will need a solid tool to work with, a technique that can be adapted to your unique way of thinking and feeling.

What is Emotional Freedom Technique(EFT)?

EFT is based on revolutionary discoveries about the body's subtle energies and how they impact every facet our well-being including food and weight issues. It releases negative feelings whether they originate in the past, the present or reach out into the future.

EFT is based on the following statement: The cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the body's energy system. EFT will assist you in clearing disruptions and rebalancing your body's energy. How?

First and foremost, EFT will help you identify specifically the nature of the problem as it shows up in your body's energy and form a statement to address it. This negative Setup Statement creates the energetic target for EFT to aim at.

Next, you will use your fingers to gently tap certain places on your hands, face and torso while repeating a customized phrase. Each tapping sequence brings gentle relief and takes only a few seconds to complete.

Weight No More

EFT works because it restores the flow of disrupted energy and releases the negative feelings that drive you to eat when you're not hungry. Subtle changes will begin to emerge as cravings are disconnected and disengaged...(yes, even chocolate).

Natural weight loss is not completely effortless. You will need to learn EFT and use it often. You may call on it for sudden and immediate cravings. And you will use it to change long-standing habits and even core beliefs.

Because you will be dealing with the root cause of emotional eating, you will notice your old destructive habits beginning to fade. The frantic feelings of I DON'T WANT TO FEEL THIS! begin to recede, giving way to choices, control and natural weight loss.

So, if if you're ready to begin your journey to natural weight loss, start by learning my 5 Steps of EFT now.

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