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August 28, 2009, Issue 23

In this Issue:

Hello to everyone in the Food & Joy community and welcome to all our new subscribers. If you love food and hate dieting this is the newsletter for you!

Feature Article:  Emotional Eating - Give Your Body What It Wants
Liz Recommends: Conquer Emotional Eating Forever Starter Pack
Teleclasses & Programs: How to Get Beyond Emotional Eating
About Liz: Liz bio

Day dreaming your way to a better future

Welcome all new subscribers to your first issue of Food & Joy’s “No More Rabbit Food” and hello! to all returning subscribers.

So now we are all winding down the summer and thinking of autumn. Perhaps you have all the back-to-school stuff to organise (and if so, ‘September’ may be a very comforting word for you). Or perhaps September means getting back to work after a relaxing summer. There is definitively an end-of season whiff in the air, particularly as we (in London) watch the days shorten.

So the next teleclass will help set you up for the coming season – it’s kind of a ‘back to basics’ on emotional eating.

Best wishes and the best life to YOU,

Liz

Liz Copeland
The Food and Joy Coach and Creator of the Food & Joy Coaching Process
info@tranzformations.co.uk
www.tranzformations.co.uk

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How to Get Beyond Emotional Eating

Our next teleclass is on Thursday September 17^th, 6pm UK time and 1pm Eastern/NY.

The topic this month is how to get beyond emotional eating.

So this teleseminar will be packed full of information on...

• Finding the emotional eater in you

• Loving yourself and feeding your emotions

• Enjoying food without guilt

We’ll also cover the truly transformative topic of discovering the magic you have inside yourself - and this can really free you to enjoy your food, love yourself and be the size and shape that feels wonderfully the “you” you were meant to be.

Based on the information YOU gave me I have put together a whole list of topics designed to help you reform your life and give you the size and shape you want.

Note: If you have already signed up for the June teleclass you will automatically get details of the other teleclasses in the series - there is no need to sign up again! 

And if you can’t be on the call the recording will be available as an mp3 if you are signed up for the teleclass series.

Based on the information YOU gave me I have put together a whole list of topics designed to help you reform your life and give you the size and shape you want. We began on the the 18^th June with a teleclass on the juicy subject of dealing with food cravings. This teleclass was packed with information and there were tips that you could put into practice straightaway.

**Sign up for the whole series and you’ll be getting tons of info over the next few months. I’ll be doing one teleclass per month and those of you who join this very special list will be the first to know about special offers and fantastic new programs.**
 

Emotional Eating -  Give Your Body What It Wants
by Liz Copeland
The Food & Joy Coach

Just recently I’ve been thinking about Nantucket. I don’t know why, except my life is in the in-between dream state where one phase is ending and the next phase hasn’t yet begun. So in a way, anything is possible, and I set myself the task of day-dreaming about what I might like.

Which, when you are stuck in no-man’s land and you don’t know what you’d like, is very difficult. But I allowed myself to relax and asked myself what do you really want?

And the answer popped out. Nantucket.

Now I have to say I don’t even know where Nantucket is... well I do now because I looked it up for this article. But when Nantucket popped into my head I just had a vague New England feeling of painted clapboard houses, beaches and seagulls. And it felt good.

So I don’t know why, but Nantucket is saying something to me.

Oh, and I found out it’s an island (yes all you New Englanders, you can laugh, bet you don’t know where the original Boston is!) and my vision of painted clapboard houses with seagulls and beaches is reasonably accurate.

Now the same day that the vision of the north-eastern seaboard of the United States came to me, I also thought about avocadoes. And cream and salmon and olive oil. Every meal I had, for several days, had to be oil rich. With cream on the breakfast cereal, avocado salad for lunch and grilled salmon for supper I craved fatty foods. Then the fat yearning went away just as suddenly as it had arrived.

But for a few days, that’s what my body wanted. And as I am trying to be kind to myself this month, I decided to go with the flow and give my body what it wanted. I do like avocado and oily fish, though the cream craving was a bit of a surprise. But while I was feeding myself this way my body felt loved and cared for and I didn’t crave a lot of food, I just wanted those particular flavours.

And it was right. The avocado was right just as, in a way I really don’t understand, Nantucket is right. I’m going to follow my instincts on this one and keep Nantucket in mind, in a one-day-I-might-get-there sort of a way. Heck, I don’t even know if I like chowder, but I’m willing to give it a go!

So, what are your dreams? And can you listen to your body when it is telling you what to eat?

Try this exercise to get to the heart of what you want:

1. Relax and empty your mind. Just allow your brain to go into that day-dreamy state that means relaxation to you.

2. As you enter the dream state, check in with your body. How do you feel? If you are truly relaxed you may feel a definite sensation such as comfortable warmth somewhere within you. Or you may feel enveloped in warmth. Or coolness. Identify your comfort feeling.

3. Now ask ‘what would I like?’, relax further and note whatever pops into you head.

4. Whatever ideas you have are right. Ask yourself what these things mean to you, especially if it is food. You need to know what the food means, not in an existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre sort of way, but simply, are you hungry? Or is it the taste of the food? Or what it represents to you? An ice-cream cone with a chocolate flake on top might mean summer beach holiday (yes, I know, back to Nantucket again) rather than food.

5. Use these ideas straightaway if they appeal to you, or put them to one side for use in a future life, and not in the too distant future.

And feel free to day dream and enjoy whenever you want to get in touch with what you really want!

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• An hour long audio of the live teleseminar

• A guide to the process

and...

• A workbook with exercises to get you started!

This is Food & Joy’s introductory product to help you conquer emotional eating, gain control over food and ditch the diet.

Go to http://www.tranzformations.co.uk/ceefstarterpack.php and start your journey to a new you right away!

Liz Copeland is the Creator of the Food and Joy Coaching Process