How To Control Holiday Overeating

Now that the holidays are fast approaching, are you getting anxious about holiday overeating and putting on more pounds? Do you get nervous and uncomfortable when there is a lot of food around, and/or in social situations? Do you want to eat everything in sight, or go for the rich foods that you keep telling yourself you shouldn’t eat?

If so, let’s tap on it. Start tapping now and you may just have a whole different experience with holiday overeating this year. For best results,  tap on it every day from now to the New Year.

If you’ve never tapped before, please download my Quick Start Guide first and find out how to tap.

Give this challenge a SUD level. How anxious and concerned are you about overeating during the holidays? Then let’s start tapping at the karate chop point.

Even though I always overeat during the holidays, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I get especially anxious about food during the holidays, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I can’t control my eating with all this extra food around, I accept who I am and how I feel.

Top of Head: I’m worried about gaining weight over the holidays.

Inside the Eye: All that rich food is talking to me.

Outside the Eye: I just can’t control my eating with all that good food around.

Under the Eye: I get anxious in social situations.

Under the Nose: And that makes me eat even more.

Under the Mouth: Sometimes I eat because I’m happy being with family and friends.

Collarbone: I gain weight every year at the holidays.

Underarm: And I don’t expect this year to be any different.

Top of Head: I just love all the holiday sweets.

Inside the Eye: No matter how much I tell myself not to eat them, I always do.

Outside the Eye: There’s just too much food around.

Under the Eye: It’s impossible to control what I eat. And also what I drink.

Under the Nose: Once I start I just can’t stop.

Under the Mouth: Nothing seems to help.

Collarbone: It’s the time of year where I really get off track.

Underarm: Once I get started I keep craving more and more.

KEEP TAPPING THE SAME THING FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS. WHEN YOUR SUD LEVEL HAS DROPPED AND YOU ARE FEELING BETTER ABOUT THIS CHALLENGE, THEN GO ON TO THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE.

Top of Head: I do have a bad track record for the holidays.

Inside the Eye: But I really, really don’t want to gain any more weight.

Outside the Eye: I’m already discouraged that I haven’t lost the weight I wanted to this year.

Under the Eye: But maybe this holiday season will be different.

Under the Nose: This year I want to get through the holidays like a naturally slim person.

Under the Mouth: One thing I can do is decide in advance how much of a food I need to eat to feel satisfied.

Collarbone: Then I can take that amount and stop.

Underarm: I don’t have to deprive myself.

Top of Head: I can even enjoy the food without feeling guilty.

Inside the Eye: Chewing food well is another way to slow down.

Outside the Eye: I can also imagine beforehand how I’ll feel if I eat a certain food. Then I can choose the foods that leave me feeling good.

Under the Eye: I don’t want to make myself miserable, either physically or emotionally.

Under the Nose: I choose to find a way to eat in moderation and enjoy what I eat.

Under the Mouth: I can make believe I’m a naturally thin person.

Collarbone: I can follow the behavioral patterns that a thin person follows.

Underarm: I really want to change things up – even before the New Year.

Also write down whatever comes up for you when you tap, and also tap on that.

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