Weigh Less With Words (EFT digital program)

If you're like 80% of women you HATE your body when you look in the mirror ...

That's right, research has shown that 8 out of 10 women won't look at their reflection in the mirror, and more than half see a distorted image.

And it's no wonder...

Society puts a tremendous amount of pressure on women to be thin and beautiful. When we watch TV, read newspapers, magazines or surf the web, we're inundated with pictures of thin women. These images of so-called "beautiful" women do not represent the bodies of the average woman.

In fact, according to a recent study, top models today weigh 23% less than the average woman and, to add to it, most of the images we see are airbrushed and photo-shopped, with the goal of creating the perception of "perfect" women to sell more products.

Our society has developed an unrealistic perception of what a healthy weight and healthy body is...leading women to feel stressed and discouraged about their own weight and body, regardless of how they actually look.

The problem with this is that these negative emotions and beliefs about our bodies trigger hormones that prevent us from losing weight and actually lead to additional weight gain .....

At this time in our culture when we are the toughest on ourselves about our weight, we also happen to have bigger issues with weight than ever before...

What's especially surprising about those numbers is that since 1960, the percentage of obese people has nearly tripled.

In 1960 the obesity rate was only 13.4%!

So the question is, with our weight loss industry having topped billions of pounds (85% of which is driven by women), why are we not getting thinner?

Let me ask you this… Have you ever been stressed out because of work, or because of a relationship, or about your weight and how you feel about yourself, or anything else…and reached for comfort in the form of food?

You know…stuff like crisps, pasta, biscuits, pizza or whatever that is for you. Whatever food you know isn’t a part of the healthy “diet” you want to be on, that you ended up reaching for out of comfort…

Or have you ever skipped exercising, even for weeks or months at a time, because you felt you were too busy, or because you felt unmotivated, or because you just felt too overwhelmed by life to get yourself to exercise?

Yep! I think we all have!

The truth is that we don't struggle with a lack of information on what to eat and how to exercise. What we struggle with is what's going on internally, deep in our unconscious minds, that's making it difficult to make good eating and exercising decisions; as well as biologically triggering fat gaining hormones in our body that prevent us from losing weight.

You see... When something stressful happens, or you start thinking about something stressful, within seconds, the part of your brain called the amygdala (the almond-shaped part of your midbrain) tells your body to release specific hormones.

Adrenaline and cortisol (often called “the stress hormone”), floods your body, shutting down the creative problem-solving parts of your brain. And this causes two very big problems for somebody trying to lose weight…

#1 – It slows down your digestion. And anytime you slow down your digestion it makes it harder to…you guessed it…lose weight!

#2 – It constricts your blood vessels along with a few other key biological changes that control how you think, how your body and brain function, how strong your food cravings come on, and how quickly your brain can react to a given situation.

These two things combined mean that when you’re stressed you make worse decisions about what to eat, breaking your eating and exercise habits, and then you struggle to digest quickly, putting on more weight!

Have you ever had it happen that you’re stressed out and all of the sudden you find yourself ½ way through something like a box of chocolate chip cookies, and suddenly you think to yourself…why did I do that?

And you feel like you lost mental control of what was going on?

That’s because…you did.

The stress took over your body and inhibited your ability to think clearly and make good decisions. And the foods we crave during these stressful times don’t help either.

Why do we tend to be attracted to and overeat sugary carbohydrates?

What's that all about???

Carbohydrate rich foods increase brain concentrations of an amino acid called tryptophan, which is the building block for serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, which, when released, brings about feelings of calm, happiness, peace, and satisfaction.

We overeat because our brain is looking for pleasure. Overeating in the moment serves a great purpose. It makes us feel great until the side effects set it. Shortly after your sugar rush, your insulin levels drop and you feel exhausted, which triggers a craving for more sugary carbohydrates to get us back to the sugar high.

It’s a vicious cycle! No wonder so many people in our modern society struggle with weight loss.

Another thing that prevents women from losing weight is deep unconscious traumas, patterns and beliefs about our weight, our bodies and ultimately about who we are...

When you stop to think about it...what beliefs do you have about your body?

Take a second to finish these sentences...

When I see other women and compare my body to theirs, I feel that my body is _____________.

When I think about wearing a swimsuit on a beach I feel _____________.

When I think about my body and my weight I feel _________________.

These are just a few of the many questions that can help you to figure out some of your beliefs about your body

And what about patterns that you've established? How would you finish these questions...

I can't stay on a diet because ______________.

When I'm on a diet I feel ______________.

I can't lose weight because I'm ________________.

And what about traumas from your past? How would you finish these questions...

If there was an event, situation or experience from my past that made me feel most uncomfortable about my body, it would be ____________________.

When I think about the part of my body that I most dislike, the words I use to describe that part to myself are _________________.

When I think about feeling vulnerable, naked or intimate with a partner, the emotion that comes up for me is _________.

The answers to these questions and questions like these can help you to begin to discover the unconscious blocks preventing you from losing weight.