| Re: Nlp and Overeating Hi Fortis,
I don't think coaching/therapy by forum works that well but here are some things that might help.
First, I noticed you said you've used visualisation to keep yourself from overeating. Maybe that's just an accident of the way you typed it up but that sounds like visualising what you don't want rather than what you do. (Similarly, you tell yourself to stay away from the fridge.) I don't know if you've learned any NLP, however it's more useful to think about what you do want rather than what you don't.
Second, it seems to me that the pictures/movies you make that build the desire only run as far as the pleasurable bit of chewing it. How about if you run those movies on to the bloated feelings you'll have after, the regret, the looking and being overweight and all the things you don't want but get. Maybe that'll take the edge of.
Third, the problem isn't that you eat or even that you eat things that are nice. The problem, probably, is that you just eat too much of it. I definitely recommend you take on the 4-rule system described in Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Thin.
Fourth, the imagination is more powerful than the will. If you imagine how nice something will taste while saying to yourself, "I shouldn't" or even "I mustn't", you'll give in. If you tell yourself "I can" but imagine somebody's been sick on it, flies have been defacating on it, there's hair in it, etc, then probably you won't.
Finally, if you're eating to suppress feelings you don't like, well Paul McKenna's programme deals with emotional eating, but I recommend you actually book some time with someone to re-pattern your feelings.
One or more of those might give you something to do.
Cheers
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