Reduce Food Cravings

Food cravings lead to consumption. Consumption leads to more food cravings. Alcohol craving and consumption works the same way.

 

‘Tis the season for eating, drinking and otherwise celebrating with others we are connected to. It can be a great time of enjoyment, love, generosity and generally good feelings.

 

Yes, good feelings accompany eating. And a great deal of time we eat for those good feelings associated with foods we ate in the past. We don’t need a second helping of turkey for the nutrition. We don’t eat that third mincemeat tart because we are hungry. We turn to these foods for the good feelings associated with them. And we end up eating too much.

 

Someone offers me a piece of Christmas cake from a plate of Christmas cake. I accept and eat it. It tastes good and I have a good feeling about the cake and about the person who offered it to me. I want more of that good feeling, so I have another piece of cake… and another… and another.

 

I was not craving Christmas cake before I ate the first piece. Once I had the burst of good feelings that came with the first piece, I began to crave more, and seeing the cake there on the plate stimulated more craving. The more I craved the more I ate.

 

Food associated with good feelings tends to stimulate cravings. Situations associated with those same good feelings also tend to produce cravings. It doesn’t matter whether you crave turkey stuffing, mincemeat tarts or brandy. What matters is the good feelings that come with them.

 

 

I have been teaching people for years how to use meridian tapping (EFT) to reduce food cravings. It works. It works extremely well. When I first learned how to do it, I eliminated a chocolate craving.

 

However, there is a big problem. Although meridian tapping is very easy, it does not give me the good feelings associated with eating the chocolate or having a drink.

 

Many times I have felt a craving for French bread with butter, recognized that I was not really hungry, thought about meridian tapping to eliminate my craving, but in the end went to the kitchen and had a slice of bread and butter.

 

I always knew tapping would have stopped the craving, but eating was more fun.

 

 

A colleague of mine, Dr. Patricia Carrington, came up with the idea that people would use the meridian tapping to reduce cravings, if it were more fun and if it produced the same good feelings that eating the food would have produced.

 

Brilliant! She and her colleagues, Carol Look and Sandra Radomski, devised a computer game where you get to drool over pictures of unbelievably tempting foods, all the while doing your meridian tapping. In the end, you get the good feelings that would have come from actually eating the foods and you reduce the cravings at the same time. You do this before you eat, so that when you eat, you may only want a small quantity of food in question, or perhaps none at all.

 

 

She is now offering her game “ZAP Food Cravings” on the net. (I have been an affiliate for some of her other offerings for some time.) I bought ZAP Food Cravings yesterday and have been playing with it. It’s easy to use, it’s fun, and it works. It’s hard to believe that salivating over pictures of food can reduce food cravings, but it does.

 

The one-time cost of $79.97 is nothing, when compared to what you can spend on diet programs. It works on a PC or a Mac, and you can order the download or have the CD shipped. (I purchased the download version for PC.)

 

By the way, Dr. Carrington is offering an introductory 25% discount on all orders before midnight EST December 21.

 

Click on the picture below to look at some of the pictures of tempting foods. If just looking at the pictures makes your mouth water, then the game will work for you.

Have fun. And have a great holiday.

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