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EFT for Weight Loss

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One of the reasons I came to you, Liz, was to help me with my carbohydrate addiction - bread, white rice and white pasta. Knowing it wasn’t good for me was one thing – having the ability to say “No”, or at least have a choice as to whether or not to eat it when I got the urge (which was often), was quite another.

 

So when you asked me how I had got on after our EFT session which had focused on white bread, I was delighted to be able to tell you that I had only had 2 or 3 slices of bread over the full week, that it had been a choice, not a need, and that I hadn't had any urges around bread. 

 

You then asked whether I had had any rice or pasta, and on searching my memory I was astonished to realise that I hadn't had any pasta at all and the first rice I had had was the night before.  I couldn't believe it.  No urge - and we hadn't even done any EFT around them - amazing!  
 
G. Singer
EFT provides two remarkable benefits for weight loss that sets it apart from other methods:

EFT Can Quickly and Easily Reduce or Eliminate Your Immediate Cravings:
Using EFT for 1 or 2 minutes can stop your cravings in an estimated 80% of the cases. Thus, you may no longer need to "eat when you are not hungry." or be a slave to your "passions". This feature surprises and delights most newcomers, but managing cravings is just that - a management strategy; often more is needed so that we automatically make healthy choicses around food.
 
EFT Can Reduce or Eliminate Emotional Overeating:
If you have been using food to "tranquilize" years of past emotional hurts, then you may find EFT to be your best friend. EFT can bring you more emotional peace which, in turn, can lead to more sensible eating habits. This emotional contributor, which EFT is designed to address, is the missing piece in most weight loss programs.
 
Weight loss can be a complex issue as it differs from other addictive behaviours in one key way: we have to eat to survive. Whereas we can survive and indeed thrive without most other addictive substances or behaviours such as smoking, alcohol, gambling etc. we need to eat. EFT helps remove the emotional links that drive our food choices and frees us to make spontaneously healthier choices.
 
Most other weight loss strategies require you to use large amounts of willpower to consciously remember and stop yourself from eating "forbidden"foods. If you have to use willpwer for a long time, the strain can eventually become too much and you fail, settingup a nasty self blaming cycle which only compounds the problem. When we use willpower we are effectlivëly setting up an internal civil war" between the part that wants the satisfaction from the unhealthy foods and the part that want to be slimmer and healthy. EFT effectively resolves the inner conflict so willpower is no longer required and we can freely choose what we eat.
 
Some useful questions to explore the possible emotional drivers behind your weight problem are included in the weight loss questionaire on the Resourse page.