The Juicy Woman

Permission Eating Approach Helps To Banish the 'Bad Girl' Blues After A Binge

Last week I had received an email from one of the women registered in my Losing Weight Without Dieting Program.  We’ll call her Sally. As Sally faced the first challenge of the program, "Legalizing All Foods: Welcoming Back the Former Forbidden No-nos, she went shopping and bought her favorite cake. She brought it home and waited until she got hungry.

Attempting to follow the second principle of the program which is to pay attention to your hunger and eat when you are hungry, she ate and enjoyed the taste so much that she didn’t stop until she felt overfull and bloated. She was beside herself with disappointment and guilt. She wrote to me saying that she fell head first into a binge. Just to clarify, by definition a binge is characterized as eating a large quantity of food over a discrete period of time.

Naturally Slender Eating Strategy Creator, Connirae Andreas Shares Hope For Women Who Are Emotional Eaters

Connirae Andreas shared many great insights with me in an interview that I did with her recently. If you are a woman who has lived the majority of your life yo-yoing between diets and enslaved by food, take heart. There is hope. You can learn to eat like a naturally slender woman and lose weight naturally without dieting.

Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. is the mother of three. She has been a therapist, leader and innovator in the field of NLP for over two decades. She is well known for her groundbreaking work developing Core Transformation, and her contributions to the field in areas including Advanced Language Patterns, Timelines, Grief Resolution, and Shame.

Connirae Andreas' "Naturally Slender Eating Strategy Secrets Soon To Be Revealed"

Connirae Andreas, well known therapist, trainer and co-developer of Neuro Linguistic Programming has graciously agreed to allow me to interview her tomorrow, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 to discuss her Naturally Slender Eating Strategy. Connirae has always been slender and realized back in 1979 that this was no genetic accident. She recognized that she actually had acquired a strategy that enabled her to maintain her natural slender body/mind connection. Over the next couple of weeks, I will be attempting to model her way of eating intuitively.

You can read her strategy in the book that she co-authored with her husband, Steve Andreas. The title of the book is, "Heart of the Mind: Engaging Your Inner Power To Change With Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Attracting More Daily Joy With EFT

The Law of Attraction states that we draw towards us that which we think about most often. What things do you think about? Sometimes our thoughts are clear and focused and other times they just appear to be a mixed jumble of images, sounds, feelings and conversations. The following short exercise might be useful to you the next time you find yourself feeling blue.

I just finished reading a very inspirational article in the latest EFT newsletter. It was written by Dr. Patricia Carrington. In the article, she demonstrated a simple method for applying EFT to anchor in positive emotions and memories in our daily lives.

Use the Temporal Tap To Attract Your Ideal Weight

Last week I was approached by one of my new clients. We'll call her Barbara. She said, "Andrea, I can't believe this Losing Weight Without Dieting Program can ever work for me. I've tried nearly every diet and over the past twenty years, I've had nothing but failures." I even did hypnosis for a year and watched enviously as all my other friends melted down to their ideal weight, I only lost 7 pounds in one year. I'm doomed to failure."

As I listened to Barbara, I heard so many things beyond what she was telling me. For the most part, it seemed that she had begun to think of herself as a 'fat woman' and despite all attempts at dieting and hypnosis, nothing worked for her.

Has this ever happened to you? It's so common and incredibly frustrating but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. By changing the way that you see yourself, you can get thinner without dieting. The following exercise is called The Temporal Tap and it was actually used by Gary Craig, the creator of Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. This is the exercise that Gary credits to his 40 pound weight loss without dieting.

Interrupt the Pattern Of Overeating: Take Up A New Hobby

You’ve had a healthy balanced dinner and you ate until you felt satisfied.  You’re comfortable.  It’s an hour later and you’re looking for something.  Your brain conjures up images of the evening’s leftovers, or you see something that reminds you of a flavor that you love, perhaps chocolate is on the kitchen counter.

All of a sudden you feel empty and want to nibble on something.  Those Peanut M&Ms look good, so you reach for those.  How about those cookies left over from yesterday’s party? You eat those too.  Pretty soon, you have lost control and you are just scarfing down anything you can get your hands on.

Anchors Aweigh! Carry Your Joy With You Everyday!

Have you ever drooled when you saw a piece of chocolate cake or swooned when you heard a favorite song play on the radio? Perhaps every time you see an image of the American flag, you think of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. In Neuro Linguistic Programming, we call those anchors.

Anchors are representations that we can choose to create for ourselves that can lead us into being and feeling a certain way. That's right. You can choose how you want to feel. Anchors stir our brain to remember something. Unfortunately, advertisers use this all the time. That means that people can easily install anchors in you without you knowing it. Yet you can easily collapse them when you realize that for some reason you’re feeling bad and don’t know why.

Losing Weight Without Dieting For Busy Gals: Free Article

Hate Diets! Tired of struggling along eating pretending that the broiled chicken breast and 1/2 cup of boiled string beans and steamed rice is a delectable delight worthy of your culinary attention?

Who are you kidding? It's not! The sad fact is that most diets don't work. Eventually you'll get disgusted realize that you can't stand another minute of deprivation and all the demons from diet hell will haunt you with a mental parade of every forbidden fruit fantasy that you can think of! Cakes, pies, cookies, junk food galore! Cravings hit you right between the eyes, leaving you powerless.

No more! Take back control and reclaim your power over all foods. Find out how by getting my freebie article, "Losing Weight Without Dieting"

Can you imagine losing weight eating the foods you love? Find out how.

An Inconvenient Truth: A Powerful Documentary On Global Warming!

Global Warming is affecting our lives whether we like it or not. Our world is changing and it takes awareness to save ourselves. A couple of months ago, I had lunch with a colleague named Dalita. She told me that she had just seen the movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Dalita explained that she had attended a Shamanistic Retreat and the focus of it was to discuss Global Warming. She described that many representatives of the U.N. as well as many of our current thought leaders like Deepak Chopra spoke on the matter and offered their wisdom and guidance.

I'll be honest. The details of their discussions that she shared with me scared the pants off of me. She asked for my support in spreading the message. I hemmed and hawed and didn't make a commitment to her, telling her that I'd think about it. I haven't gotten it out of my mind since we last spoke. 

Procrastination and Perfectionism Pummels Your Progress: Take A Leap Of Faith and Get Started!!!

Procrastination and its cousin, Perfectionism! Do you know them well? Yesterday on one of my Juicy Woman calls, one of the women shared that she had a dream that she wanted to do some writing. Her challenge was that she was easily stopped by feeling that she had to make all the decisions at once. She wanted to dot all her i's and cross all her t's. "It had to be perfect," she said. Another gal on the call, agreed that she was also stuck in this "p" rut. She wanted to do some writing and didn't have the right stationery or pen. It frustrated her and she soon gave up!

That got me thinking about a situation that I had a few weeks ago. I am revamping my free ecourse. It will soon be two different products, an ehandbook and a workbook. I've been working with a copyeditor. In fact, if you want to jump in and get it while it's still a freebie, do it now. There's less than a month to take advantage of this offer. It's a ton of information that teaches the basics of how you can shape your body by changing your thoughts. If you've got beliefs to bust, then snag this freebie now!