| This is the holiday season. It’s a wonderful time of year and you get invited to lots of holiday parties with lots of food. Today you are at a holiday party at your neighbors. They have a buffet of food you really like to eat. There are several kinds of appetizers, lots of chips, a couple of dips, salads with different dressings, bread, cheese, turkey, ham, roast beef, creamy potato salad, other vegetables and several kinds of luscious desserts. It all looks great. You have had a couple of drinks. You’re feeling great. Everyone else is eating all the wonderful food. You can hardly wait to dig in. You want to eat a lot of everything. Wait a minute! You weigh 30 pounds more than you want to weigh. Why do you want to eat enough food to keep you weighing what you don’t want to weigh? You know you will regret it if you eat as much as are thinking of eating. What is it that is compelling you to eat as much as you do? Is it putting the food in your mouth? Is it the taste? Is it the chewing? Is it the swallowing? Do you like to have the food in your mouth? Does it make you feel better? You know it’s only in your mouth for a little while. What is it about having the food in your mouth that you really need so much? You have to find out. Don’t eat any food until you ask your ENF that question and your ENF answers you. What is your ENF telling you? What is the real reason you are planning to eat so much food? After your ENF tells you why it wants you to eat the food, tell yourself you’re not going to eat any of the food. How do you feel about not getting any of the food in your mouth? It’s important that you feel your emotional reaction to not eating any of the food. After you are satisfied that you know how you would feel if you didn’t get to eat any of the food, eat what you want. When you are eating, tell yourself exactly why you are eating the food you are eating. You will find that by engaging in this experience, you are better able to understand the emotional reasons you eat as you do and weigh what you weigh. Emotional understanding is part of “divorcing” your ENF. |
