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Managing Cravings with EFT
By Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP
There are several ways to manage cravings. You can:
Attempt to stop eating the food you crave entirely (out of sight out of mind).
Modify your eating habits around a particular food, i.e. cut back on the
quantity or how often you indulge. Use EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to
end the attachment you have to this particular food.
1. Stop Eating the Food you Crave Eliminating the offending food entirely is
rarely successful. We can only limit ourselves for so long before we go crazy,
eating everything in sight to make up for the deprivation. This also introduces
deprivation and control issues, which many have trouble with leftover from
childhood. Would it be better to learn to enjoy your favorites without losing
control around them?
2. Modify your Eating Habits Modifying your behavior can be successful, but it
can also be difficult because even though we want to change, it seems that
despite our best efforts, we still find ourselves craving the same things, day
after day. It is the "how" that stops us. How can we change a behavior that is
a habitual response? How can we stop doing what we don't want to do?
There are literally thousands of diet and weight loss books and most offer
nothing more useful than the "eat less, exercise more" advice. If it were simply
a matter of doing what we know we should do, there would be no obesity epidemic,
but it's not that simple. We need to know HOW.
3. Use EFT to end the Attachment to a Particular Food EFT is often helpful to
diminish or demolish the cravings. It can be your HOW. How to change habits that
you want to be rid of, how to create new, better habits, that support what you
want, instead of what you don't. EFT is simple to learn, and effective.
If you don't yet know how to do EFT, read this brief explanation, then download
and print the worksheets, instructions and reminders all in one convenient PDF packet.
4. Stop Talking Yourself Into It
You've said you are going to stop nighttime snacking, and then the voices start,
"I've been good all day, I deserve a treat, just one won't hurt..." You're basically
talking yourself into it, and then you're off and running to the kitchen. Most
of us find that once we say yes to that voice, there's no holding ourselves back.
As soon as you realize you are doing the "talk myself into it" routine, start
using EFT immediately. Catching yourself in the act is difficult at first, but
if you keep an open mind, you will start to notice. No matter where you are or
what you are doing, you can instantly perform an EFT procedure on yourself,
and get quick results. You don't need to wait until later, until the atmosphere
is just right, or until you are alone or somewhere you can relax. You can do it
while driving, you can do it in a crowd standing on the corner.
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