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Mindless Eating: Stop The Habit Of Mindless Eating

Carol Solomon — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:50:58 +0000

Has mindless eating become a habit?

Has mindless emotional eating become a habit?
Is it hard to stop eating once you start?
Do you reach for food automatically?
Do you get so exhausted you don’t even enjoy what you eat?

Mindless eating is the exact opposite of what you want when it comes to losing weight. Even more important is feeling in control of your eating and yourself.

Mindful eating is ideal, but just being able stop mindless eating would be a tremendous help to stop this weight loss saboteur.

Habits can be tricky to deal with. Some habits are beneficial to us, but others are unwanted and unhelpful. Habits are by definition “mindless” and some habits are great and we need them – we can’t consciously think about every single thing we do or we would go crazy. But when habits involve mindless eating, then it tends to be quite frustrating and even harmful. We all have mindless habits we’d like to change.

As difficult as it may seem, a habit is just a series of steps that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It’s like a program that starts running on your computer. Something triggers it to start, and it can run automatically. It can feel like you have very little control. This technique is designed to put more control back into your hands.

Join me to learn how to use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to break mindless eating habits.

Get mindless eating tips, learn about mindless eating products, a mindless eating ebook, and download the mindless eating pdf (details to come in the mindless eating summary to follow the podcast.)

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Carol Solomon

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Psychologist, Master Certified Coach and Certified EFT Practitioner, Dr. Carol Solomon is one of the world’s leading experts in using Emotional Freedom Techniques to help people lose weight without dieting, stop binge eating, and reduce anxiety and stress. She is the author of 4 Books on Emotional Freedom Techniques, the EFT Tips Newsletter, the Binge Eating Teleseminar and the EFT Weight Loss CD. Carol has a thriving coaching practice and is passionate about helping others succeed.

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EFT Tapping Helps Weight Loss

Carol Solomon — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:05:42 +0000

EFT Tapping Helps Weight Loss:

Watch this quick EFT tapping video that shows one of the participants in the Feed Your Hungry Heart tapping film project discuss the changes she notices from daily tapping.

Listen for what changes “Missy” is noticing in her everyday life. Even small changes can add up to big results in the long run.

See if you can find all the different EFT tapping benefits that Missy is experiencing!

The EFT tapping technique is an incredible tool for all aspects of weight loss. Consistent and targeted EFT tapping can affect:

1. How you feel about yourself. Worthiness is a control center for every aspect of your behavior in every area of your life.

2. Tapping for Emotional Balance: Your emotional balance affects your food cravings and food choices.

3. What you choose to eat on a daily basis. Over time, the amount and type of foods that you choose makes a difference in your weight.

4. Reduce weight loss sabotage: Regular EFT tapping helps you to stop sabotaging your weight loss. After all, what good is weight loss if you keep sabotaging it?

5. Use tapping to make your diet and weight loss easier and more effective. Tapping to lose weight just makes sense!

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Tapping For The Weight Scale

Carol Solomon — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:50:42 +0000

Tapping for the weight scale: If you avoid weighing yourself because you don’t like what you see on the weight scale, then watch this short video to see how I recommend tapping to desensitize yourself.

Many people don’t like to weigh themselves because they feel bad if they don’t like what they see on the scale. I personally DO weigh myself almost every day just to make sure that I’m staying on track. It doesn’t bother me if I see my weight go up a lb. or 2 because I know that there are normal fluctuations, and I can usually trace it back to something I have eaten, so it teaches me about how my body responds to the foods I eat. And to me, it’s just feedback. That is the attitude you want to have.

But if it bothers you to step on the scale, then you are missing out on valuable feedback and you may have to desensitize yourself to it. Avoiding it does no good, because then you wait too long and you don’t realize how far off track you can get in a short time.

So here’s what I recommend. Before you step on the scale, tap for anxiety and use this affirmation:

Even though I’m anxious, I choose my response with love.

Then step on the scale and no matter what it says – tap:

No shame – no blame.

Then step off the scale and tap:

I release unhealthy behaviors and dissolve them into light.

I love and forgive myself completely.

My weight is not my worth.

Continue to tap “no shame – no blame” throughout the day if it helps. And remember, whatever it says on the scale is just a number. It doesn’t have any meaning, except to point you in a direction. And it certainly is not a measure or your worthiness or unworthiness. So take it for what it’s worth and don’t give it any power to change your mood or ruin your day. If anything, it should motivate you.

I think it’s great for accountability – not for judging yourself, just for learning –and there is nothing worse than seeing your weight creep up on the scale. Avoiding seeing that does no good – that’s just resistance and fear. This series of videos will help you to use tapping to develop good habits, so sign up if you want to get more great video tips in your inbox.

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EFT Weight Loss Film – Feed The Hungry Heart

Carol Solomon — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:08:25 +0000

EFT Weight Loss Film! Here’s a special sneak peek about a new EFT Documentary that I have been working on with Eric Huurre and EFT practitioner, Kay Phillips. In this interview, you’ll hear from Judy, one of the participants in the film, about her experiences so far.

It takes courage to tell your story, and to tell it on film for the world to see, it takes a lot of courage. In the interview above, you’ll hear from Judy, one of the participants in the upcoming film.

Judy has had a lot of trauma in her life.

She’s also had a lot of therapy …and been on a lot of diets.

None of them ever worked.

The missing piece of all those attempts was what she is learning now… how to deal with emotions.

Judy has a ways to go and her life isn’t perfect (whose is?)

She’s dealing with a painful relationship issue right now.

But this time, she’s not eating to mask the pain.

Hearing Judy’s story will encourage you.

She’s not done yet, as you will hear in the interview.

But after a few tapping sessions, she finds herself not finishing food she would have gulped down unconsciously in the past.

She feels healthier.She feels better about herself.

She feels more *connected* to life and to other people, and more comfortable in her own skin.

Weight issues can make you want to both isolate yourself and *insulate* yourself from a world that can be harsh.

You can feel really alone.

When you lose weight by dieting, the reasons you overate are still there.

When you deal with your emotions and stress, often the numbers on the scale are the last things to change.

This can be frustrating, of course, but I think getting a permanent upgrade in how you feel about yourself is worth the wait.

We’re all walking around with undigested feelings. Weight loss is often the end result of processing and managing those feelings in a better way.

That takes some skill and a lot of support.When you start to feel better, you do better, and then things start to change.

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3 Emotional Eating Coping Skills

Carol Solomon — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:55:27 +0000

3 Emotional Eating Coping Skills: Consider these facts about emotional eating:

Almost all diets are broken because of “emotional distress.”
Most overeating occurs in the state of “tense tiredness.”
The highest predictor of obesity is an environment of “uncertainty and insecurity.”

Emotional Eating can be disastrous to your body and to your confidence. In order to make progress, coping skills for eating disorders need to be firmly in place. Coping without food is not always easy at first. Tapping can help you curb emotional eating, but there are other skills you can add as well.

Managing negative feelings and stress is an essential skill for weight loss. Whether you use tapping or not, you simply can’t keep weight off without being able to manage stress! Luckily, emotional eating coping skills are a set of skills you can learn, practice and improve over time.

If you often wonder “Why an I an emotional eater?” or “Why do people eat emotionally?,” listen to this audio to learn about the triggers for overeating and ways to cope without turning to food. You’ll learn to build eating and coping mechanisms right into your day.

Join me as I share 3 essential emotional skills for weight loss that can help make your tapping more effective.

Boost your emotional toolbox!

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EFT Tapping And Complaining

Carol Solomon — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:20:53 +0000

Watch this episode of the TV show “What Matters Most” as EFT Expert Karin Davidson is interviewed about how to use tapping. Toward the end of the video, she talked about how you can use tapping while you are whining and complaining to clear all the little daily stresses and annoyances that we all feel. Karin is an excellent EFT Trainer.

You may remember that I interviewed her on my EFT Weight Loss radio show here.

Please share this important video and let me know what you liked best in the comments!

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Self Hate To Self Acceptance With EFT

Carol Solomon — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:14:31 +0000

So much of weight loss is about how you feel about yourself…

Are you overeating because of the overwhelming need to please others?

Are you ready to release the beliefs that keep you stuck, like “I am bad”…or “I am not worthy?”

Does your inner critic need to be retrained (or retired)?

Would you like to stop thinking there’s something wrong with you and stop giving yourself such a hard time?

Join me and my guest, Andy Hunt, to learn to change those limiting beliefs. Andy is author of “Getting Out Of Your Own Way: Finding and Releasing Unconscious Blocks with EFT”

WHEN: Thursday, March 7
TIME: 12 noon Eastern Time
CALL IN NUMBER: (347) 215-6833

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Night Time Tapping

Carol Solomon — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:50:34 +0000

Here’s a quick video that has a tapping script to use at night for setting good intentions and feeling calm and peaceful. It’s from the EFT Night Eating CD.

You may need to turn your speakers up!

Here’s the script ~ Enjoy!

The intention to be consistently and consciously grateful for all the wonderful blessings in your life is an intention that does not go unnoticed by the universe.

What you attract to you . . . always matches your level of ease, flow and appreciation.

The universe thanks you for every thankful thought.

If you focus on gratitude and fulfillment in the evening, that energy is returned back to you. Focus on consciously choosing the thoughts and feelings you want to end your day with.

This practice shifts your focus from anxiety and fatigue to energetic and positive expectation. This energy will be broadcast into the universe even as you sleep. When you live the intention to create, value and appreciate life’s blessings, your life becomes a moving meditation.

Tapping Statements

I choose to be confident and resourceful
I choose to remember the eternal spirit within me
I choose to remember that I don’t need all the answers
The energy I give to others is what I also give to myself
Today I choose to live with patience, compassion and kindness
As I go to sleep, I affirm that my life is full of blessings
Instead of worry, I choose peace
I am creating a heart-centered consciousness
I value what I have and who I am
And who I am is enough
I embrace the belief that I am worthy of having a blessed life.
I let go of attachments to how I think things should be
And I trust the universe to provide what I need
I know that my energy expands in the world,
and I choose to expand the peace within me.
I am releasing all urgency and inviting trust.
I feel a sense of fulfillment right now
I am more and more aware that I have what I need and I am resourceful
I release all feelings of deprivation, and I connect to the part within me where nothing is lacking.
I embrace my ever present connection to spirit and I choose to live in the energy of an unlimited, loving universe.

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Tapping Summit Bonus

Carol Solomon — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:40:14 +0000

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How To Use Tapping To Stop Eating

Carol Solomon — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:49:46 +0000

Many people have difficulty stopping eating, once they start. The mind doesn’t like to take no for an answer. So if you are constantly telling yourself no, you are not only using up your willpower, but you are also reinforcing the problem.

Research has shown that if you tell yourself you can have it later, it operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree, and can be more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually having the treat.

It takes willpower to turn down dessert, but apparently it is less stressful on the mind to say “later” than to say “never.” In the long run, you end up wanting less and consuming less. And ultimately, you have to get to the point where you want to eat less, because forcing yourself and depriving yourself will never work.

Negotiate with yourself. This is just being open to the idea or the possibility that even though you are thinking about food (and you can tap for the food thoughts too), or have the urge for something (i.e. you get triggered), doesn’t mean you have to have it right now. That equals less resistance, without fighting yourself or trying to control it.

Tapping Script: Here’s a script that I wrote for my Tapping Summit Workbook:

Use this script for strong urges to eat or difficulty stopping. It’s a way to acknowledge your feelings and offer yourself an alternative.

KC: Even though it feels like I have to have this, I love and accept myself anyway.
KC: Even though I want this _____________, I’m open to the possibility of letting it go for now.
KC: Even though I’m thinking about ________, I could choose to pass it up for now. (You don’t want to be locked in. You always want to feel like you have a choice.)

EB: It feels like I have to have it.
SE: This urge is so strong.
UE: I keep going back to the same old thing.
UN: I’m so mad at myself.
CH: It seems like I’ll never get over this.
CB: I must be getting something out of it.
UA: I keep doing the same thing.
TH: The urge feels so strong.

EB: What if I could interrupt this cycle?
SE: What if I could relax about this?
UE: What if I could do something else instead?
UN: I’m open to the possibility that this could be different.
CH: I’m open to the possibility that this could change.
CB: I may not quite be there yet, but that’s ok…
UA: I’m open to the possibility that I could let this go.
TH: Easily and without struggle.

Take a deep breath.

Rate your intensity on a 0-10 point scale: ____
Continue tapping, if needed.

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Above all else, be kind and gentle to yourself…Enjoy!

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