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Summary: Assistance with Weight Loss
Review: When I was pregnant with my son in 1981, I gained 105 pounds in the last trimester. The birth was horrendous and I had a number of traumas from which to heal.I didn't bother much about weight loss over the years, because most of the diets I knew about involved being hungry, or eating in a way that I didn't like. I was also too busy to bother. None of this stopped me from feeling the usual loss of self-esteem and self-hatred that most overweight people feel in our culture. In 1991, I had seen a psychologist who helped to heal the birth traumas to the point where I was able to start exercising regulary and feeling better about myself, but I still did not tackle the extra weight through diet. When I got a copy of "Emotional Freedom" in 1999, I decided that my weight might be an issue that the technique would help with since I knew it did not represent a serious trauma, and Dr. Flint warns about starting with serious issues in the book. As per his instructions, I sorted through the emotions attached to my weight and decided to see what would happen if I worked on my anger, which I felt might be blocking me from action. I tapped on all the areas indicated, in the order indicated, and went to sleep. The next day when I woke up, I remembered a diet which I had used years ago as a teenager to lose weight which I had gained on birth control piils. I decided to give that diet a whirl and lost 40 pounds in 5 months. I did not need to use Dr. Flint's methods to deal with anything else in this area, but was amazed at how easy it was, after not thinking about diets or weight loss for years, to move on with my life and start losing weight. My feelings about myself became far more accepting and less negative. I have since had occasion to use the techniques to deal with anxiety and grief and find them very helpful. Sometimes it seems to work directly on my feelings, and at other times it seems to remind me of solutions which have worked in the past. I am very happy to have this book, and very grateful to Dr. Flint.
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