I picked up lots of pointers on this show. The tapping technique was very interesting. I followed up by going to Dr. Gary Craig's site to learn more about the tapping exercise. You can join and get a free email starter kit, including details on doing tapping exercise.



Check it out:

http://www.emofree.com/default.htm



Having tools to work this program is great. Was motivated by success stories. Emotional eating is my downfall.



Some things I picked up from the show:

- Smaller bites taste better.

- Compare yourself to yourself. "Do I feel better?"

- Use tapping exercise to change how you are feeling and to fight cravings.



Food just being food.....oh my...such a life-changing thought.

Thought it was good and I liked that he did an overview of the whole program from last week.

As for the tapping I havn't had the chance to really use it yet so I am reserving judgement on if it works for me.

I also liked his question

Do you feel better this week?

Thanks for the emofree link, I'll check this out. The tapping technique does work (or I should say, I've seen it work). My son had some anxiety issues that a doctor taught him to do a very similar method and it really helped him out. I never thought about using something similar to that for emotional eating. With taxes and some bills coming due, I'm probably going to be tapping a lot the next couple of weeks



For me, I really liked the show. The guy from England really hit home with me and hearing that he lost 185 pounds in like 13 months gives me SO much hope. All the questions he said he had have went through my head also.



I watched the show really late last night, so I'll probably watch it again later this week to reinforce it. I have my TiVo set not to remove these programs and will probably spool them off to DVD so I can keep them and refer back to them when I want / need them.

Honestly, being mindful of what you eat and how much is only 33% of the battle, even if executed with perfect knowledge and perfect technique.



This is still dieting. Studies show that people on diets who adhere to it strictly for a year lose 10% of their starting weight. If you weigh 220 lbs, you'll weigh 198 after a year -- nowhere close to the figure you hoped for, and this is for people with strict adherence to commercial weight loss programs!



The other 33% is cardio. I'm a big fan of Stronglifts.com but I disagree with them on that point -- from my own experience I think cardio is necessary for a balanced fitness program that not only targets how you look, but underlying health issues like cholesterol, blood pressure, and general cardiac/arterial/pulmonary health.



The last 33% is weight lifting. I would actually put this above cardio -- so if you had to cut one or the other for time reasons, I'd drop the cardio and go with weight training first. But a long term plan should include cardio, so I'd add it back in down the road.



So you have a 3-factor program: Diet, Cardio, Weights. If you're missing any one of them, you can still make do. If you're missing two of these factors then you'll likely make only marginal health gains.



It also doesn't bode well that EFT (and it's parent technique, Thought Field Techniques) are on the QuackWatch list. Some of the behavioral therapy techniques can be useful, but to market it as an all-you'll-ever-need program is just plain wrong.

I'm definetly not an emotional eater so the program wasnt very helpful to me at all. I wish he would have went a little more into the exercise component of this program. I did try the tapping thing a few times at work for stress reasons that had nothing to do with eating. Didn't seem to amount to much for me. I agree with the above post that exercise is very imortant. Although the study you quoted on only losing 10% of body weight in a year seems alittle ridiculous.