Evidently poor Oprah is going through a really rough patch with her weight. Last week, she bravely shared that information with her viewers. She said that she had fallen off her program, was eating to feed her emotions again, didn’t want to exercise, felt unmotivated and needed to get back on track. Wow! That was brave and that makes her a role model in my book. I can really relate to feeling the danger of letting go and losing control. It’s so easy to fall back into patterns of emotional overeating.
Since I’ve been leading the Juicy Woman Craving Zapping calls, and using Emotional Freedom Technique and tapping along with the other women on the call, I have been doing so great. My
clothes were fitting more comfortably, I was eating smaller portions, tapping each week with my clients, tapping before meals and releasing tons of stuff.
But through it all the scale was not budging and I have this thing about the scale. I worked on that with my NLP coach and had the realization that my body would catch up whenever it was good and ready to do so and as long as I was doing everything that I needed to do, it was just a short matter of time until I saw a change on the dial. That worked for awhile and then…
Well somewhere along the way, my body said, “B— S—, I’ll never lose these last 20 pounds and I may as well eat because it will make me feel comfortable and safe. So I started eating again after I returned home from a really successful seminar in Albany.
Feeling bloated, ugly and stupid, I dragged my butt to the gym this morning to meet my trainer, Nicki for an 8:00 training session. I really didn’t want to go but it was something that I set up last night to assure that I would get back on track.
As I was driving, I noticed that I was really in a very bad place, filled with anger and resentment for so much including the fact that I was going to be late for our appointment. I’m a stickler for being on time. Feeling under pressure, I realized that I’d feel better if I tapped so that’s what I did.
I held on to the steering wheel with one hand, while I rubbed on the sore spot with the other. I noticed that it was extra sensitive due to all the added toxin build up. Since I had privacy, I threw caution to the wind and starting screaming the following set up statements:
Even though I hate myself for eating like a pig, I still deeply and completely love and accept myself, no that’s a load of crap, I hate myself period.
Even though I feel like a fraud and think that I have no right to talk to or help other women if I can’t first help myself, I still deeply and completely love and accept myself.
Even though I can’t fit into my size 6 charcoal gray suit and I desperately want to and feel like I never will again, I still love and accept myself, ah bologna!
Even though I hate this f——— situation and myself and everyone else for putting me in this spot and putting so much pressure on me to lose more weight now because I feel compelled to be a professional speaker and need to do lose the weight in order to be credible I still deeply and completely love and accept myself
Even though I hate my body and I’m a fat pig and will never reach my goal weight, I still deeply and completely love and accept myself
Even though I’m so ashamed of myself for losing control and I really don’t want to meet my trainer today and feel worse than I do now I still can choose to accept myself anyway.
Even though I’m so f—— disgusted with myself for being so weak and giving in to my old habits, I still deeply and completely want to forgive myself
Even though I know that this work is so f——- powerful, powerful enough to heal Tania’s daughter’s skull, I’m afraid that noone will believe me and they’ll think that I am full of crap. Even so I’m still willing to take the next step to share this work with others.
There I was with all those feelings and the tears were streaming down my face, Over those few minutes of tapping and screaming, I was getting to some real big roots. By the time that I reached the parking lot, I felt ready to take on the challenge of training and giving it my all.
Feeling like a new person, I gave myself the suggestion that “this is going to be so much fun and I’m going to really enjoy being with Nicki today.” And best of all, it worked. I swear by the importance of hitting the psychological reversal point to get maximum impact.
How about you? What do you do when you slip up? How long does it take for you to recover? Please use the tapping as a tool to get you moving and motivated. It really works. I’d love to hear from you. What works for you after you lose control?
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