Weight loss is a multi-billion dollar industry. Most people who enjoy a standard Western diet are also carrying around a few extra pounds that they continue to struggle to remove. Even with all of the media attention on the necessity of eating a well balanced diet, full of fresh fruits, vegetables and raw nuts and seeds, most people struggle to eat the requisite 8 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.
Couple this struggle with the high levels of stress and negative emotions that are rampant in a society who draws comfort from airbrushed images of stick thin models and you have a recipe for disaster.
Enter the weight loss industry which has developed every potential answer to this problem under the sun. There are pills, exercise programs, day spas, week-long spas, starving, eating only one or two types of food, taking herbal supplements, acupuncture, structured support groups, counting points, weigh ins, weigh outs, and any number of other options that will make the whole process easier.
Unfortunately there aren\’t too many programs that try to solve the question of why we eat the way we do; why we don\’t exercise and why we are so opposed to the idea.
Enter Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT, which addresses the stress, anxiety and negative emotions in our lives that are at the root of many of today\’s medical problems, including obesity. People eat for a number of different reasons, not the least of which is hunger. However, hunger doesn\’t cause us to become obese. Instead, when people eat because they want to gratify cravings, cover emotions, are bored or are feeding a habit, they can gain weight at a phenomenal rate.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has three remarkable benefits that sets it apart from other methods designed to help you lose weight. In the first place it helps to reduce or eliminate immediate cravings you experience 80% of the time. If you can eliminate grabbing that donut 80% of the time you will lose weight and won\’t feel deprived. (1)
EFT can also help to eliminate overeating because you are trying to cover emotional hurts from past experiences. We all have experienced relationship hurts, job related stress and financial fears. EFT helps to bring about more peace that leads to better eating habits and subsequently a more normalized weight.
Weight loss is a matter of calories eaten vs. calories burned. If we burn more than we eat we\’ll lose weight. But if we are eating more and exercising less because of emotional pain or cravings then the balance is tipped in other direction and we gain weight. Using EFT individuals are able to stay motivated to lose the weight and lose the fear that they\’ll re-gain the weight that they\’ve lost.
People who have used EFT to gain control of their eating habits have found freedom in the ability to eat the foods they enjoy while maintaining or losing weight. They are free from eating and weight issues for the rest of their lives – and isn\’t that a great gift!
According to the FDA there is an estimated 50 million Americans who will go on a diet this year and only 5% will keep the weight off in the long run. These aren\’t great odds! Anyone who has tried restrictive diets, massive exercise programs and willpower will tell you that it\’s a recipe for failure. When you decide that a permanent change is in order with your nutritional intake and not a restrictive diet it is time to give yourself the other piece of the puzzle that will help you to lose and maintain that weight loss. And that factor addresses your emotional needs and hurts.
Using EFT can not only help you to lose weight but you\’ll also gain the other benefits of reducing your weight such as lowered blood pressure, decreased risk of heart attack and stroke as well as reducing the possibility of other weight related illnesses such as sleep apnea, arthritis and gastro-esophageal reflux.
The best part about EFT is that once you have learned how to use it you can use it any time of the day or night that you need the extra help and you can use it for other stress related conditions. There is no risk that it will interfere with other medications you are taking or underlying medical conditions.
Try it today!
(1) Emotional Freedom Techniques University: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Meridian-Based Intervention for Food Cravings with Six Month Followup
Resources
Emotional Freedom Techniques University: Clinical Benefits of Emotional Freedom Techniques on Food Cravings at 12-Months Follow-up: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Emotional Freedom Techniques University: The Effect of a Brief EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Self-Intervention on Anxiety, Depression, Pain and Cravings in Healthcare Workers
Meridian Therapy: EFT Research Published in Peer Reviewed Journals or Presented at Professional
Conferences.