What causes emotional eating, and what can be done to eliminate it? Some people eat for emotional reasons other than stress. It can be complicated. So it's going to take a slightly complicated explanation to help everyone understand how this works. In order to understand emotional eating, you'll need to understand some of the rules that govern human behavior.
We have two mental levels, conscious, and unconscious. Some people call the unconscious, the subconscious. The conscious mind is our rational, thinking mind. It reasons things out based on our perceptions and previous experiences. As you listen to me now, you are listening with your conscious mind. The unconscious mind is the body's computer. It doesn't reason like the consciousness does. It's much more of a machine. With a computer, the input controls the output. One of the rules of human behavior is that there must be a positive intention motivating all behaviors. Let's take a look at a textbook case. A person gets their heart broken in a relationship. This might happen only once, or it might happen several times. The input to the unconscious computer is, "If I'm in a relationship, then I get my heart broken." Since there is a positive intention behind all behaviors, and one of the unconscious mind's jobs is to protect us, the unconscious motivates us into a behavior that will stop us from getting our heart broken again. And that behavior for many people, is to get fat. But you must understand that the actual intent of the behavior is not to get fat; the intent of the behavior is to prevent suffering from a broken heart. So being fat is just a means to an end. It’s not the end itself.
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When a person eats emotionally, they find that they lack the motivation to stick to their weight loss program. Sometimes they are able to get started and lose a few pounds, but after a short while they find that they feel compelled to overeat and put the weight back on. It's almost as if there are conflicting parts of the person. One part wants to lose weight, and the other wants to gain it. And the part that wants to gain it usually wins. And that's why NLP Practitioners often call this type of therapy, "Parts Therapy." Up until now, this type of emotional eating had to be treated in an NLP Practitioner's office using an NLP technique called a six step reframe. And therapists typically charge $200.00+ per hour The good news is that I've developed an interactive NLP CD. It contains the NLP six step reframing techniques that will reprogram your unconscious to automatically substitute other more consciously acceptable behaviors in place of being fat, which eliminates that source of your appetite and compulsive eating behavior. In the textbook example I used above, the intent was to keep the person from getting their heart broken. But it's important to understand that this is just one example of how a person could benefit from being fat. There are as many different examples of this, as there are people who have a weight problem. And most people will never recognize these behaviors in themselves. They can even be behaviors that have been present since childhood. My "Reframe Emotional Eating" Program can help! It is designed to be used in conjunction with either I Lost Weight!, Vaporize Your Appetite! or the Lose Weight In A Flash! program. If you find yourself conflicted; in other words, you want to lose weight but never seem to follow through with what you need to do to lose weight, including listening to your other hypnosis weight loss programs on a regular basis, then this is probably the "missing link" in your self-therapy. You can overcome emotional eating and lose weight. You can look good. You can feel happy. And you can feel great about yourself!
