I am on a diet, I'm walking past the baker and I smell the delightful smell of bread baking, and I look in the window and notice the cream doughnuts.  I love cream doughnuts!  The smell of baking bread is making my mouth water.

I hear a voice in my head that says "Wouldn't you just love a doughnut? Just one?  Then, I hear another voice or thought "You can't do that, you will never lose the weight that you really want to this week". You will never be able to fit in to that new dress or suit!

Gary writes:

The weight loss industry is huge in America and that is largely because people don't get long term results.   Thus they go from plan to plan in hopes of finding the magic answer ... spending lots of money in the process. To me, long term weight loss is unlikely to happen as long as people have unresolved emotional issues that show up as personal unrest and cry out to be tranquilized by food, food and more food.  This article displays this idea beautifully

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As is so often the case, efforts at losing weight MUST focus on unresolved emotional issues.  Otherwise, people spin wheels by using will power to get temporary results through diet and exercise.  It is only when the angers, guilts, fears, traumas and anxieties are resolved that permanent loss can take place.  That's because they are often the drivers behind overeating.

This story aids us in this regard by showing how emotional eating issues can be effectively resolved with EFT.

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Sue was a binge eater who seemed to sabotage herself at every turn. She tried everything and lost weight many times, only to gain it back and more. She described her eating as being “like a runaway train”. She ate to relieve stress. She ate to celebrate. She ate for every emotion she ever felt. And she felt like a failure.

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From Gary Craig's Website:

Carol Solomon, PhD recently conducted a teleclass wherein one of the participants identified many hurtful comments about her weight. Such comments, of course, are often internalized and, until resolved, can cause the type of internal unrest that causes one to overeat. Carol describes many EFT Setup phrases for these comments that can be generalized to many other cases. Very useful.

During a recent teleclass on how to lose weight with EFT, I was helping the participants identify specific events. One woman identified several negative comments that her parents had said to her while growing up.