During this holiday season, the average person will gain 10 pounds.

So many people believe this is normal that they overeat year after year. But you can avoid holiday overeating so you don’t gain a single pound!

I put together 5 practical tips for you that will make all the difference.

Holiday overeating happens most often at family gatherings and social events. That’s why my tips focus on little things you can do right before, during, and after your next holiday party.

Plus, nothing will help you avoid holiday weight gain better than consciously setting an intention to create a supportive experience with food. (Remember, you create what you want by being in energetic alignment with it!)

So watch the video for some great intentions and Tips 1 through 5 to avoid holiday overeating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RG2ZDOslLY

Try out these tips to avoid overeating during the holidays. And leave a comment! Share your own tips or positive intentions.

Lock in a New Pattern

One of the best ways create a new pattern of experience is some clearing with temporal tapping. You saw in the video how this is done. Use these affirmations and the others in the video to help you:

• I am no longer overeating.
• I am no longer gaining 10 pounds during the holidays.
• I am no longer battling with food during the holiday season.

• I am successful this holiday season in maintaining my weight.
• I am even losing some weight this holiday season.
• I am enjoying myself and food is in its proper role.
• I am successful, I am successful, I am successful.

Now revisit that visualization of January 2nd I shared in the video. No 10-pound holiday weight gain for you this year!

One Last Thing to Think About

If holiday weight gain has been a struggle for you in the past, you might be using food this time of year as a counterfeit energy for love, fulfillment, satisfaction, or wholeness.

Consider the possibility that your focus on food and overeating sometimes helps you avoid other emotions that you need to recognize and clear.

Get a copy of my CD, Clearing the Emotional Issues That Are Keeping You Fat! This audio resource will take you through several easy-to-understand energy clearing techniques to release your emotional self from food and overeating.

PS. Overeating isn’t the only pattern we fall into this time of year. Tune in next Monday for some tips to help you avoid overspending!

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a fall chill…and that means people are starting to talk about the upcoming “cold and flu season.”

You know what? You don’t have to catch that cold!

I want to share two easy tips and a video to help you experience health this season instead.

“Cold Season” Health Tip #1: Uncover your beliefs.

Next time you worry you’ll catch someone’s cold, stop for just a second. Notice how much that fear gives your power away. Do you believe your body is vulnerable, just because of the time of year?

As a culture, we’ve dedicated an entire season to illness. No wonder so many people experience poor health at this time of year!

Not sure what you believe? Listen to yourself—which leads me to this season’s tip number 2…

“Cold Season” Health Tip #2: Really listen to yourself.

Watch what you say (even in your mind) next time someone coughs around you.

Do you say things like this?… “I sure hope I don’t get your cold,” or, “I’m always the one that gets sick.” Those words express your inner belief more than you may realize.

You only acquire a negative health condition when you come into vibrational harmony with that condition. Statements like, “I bet I’ll catch that cold,” put you in vibrational harmony with that experience. What happens next? You catch the cold or flu you keep saying you don’t want.

So what beliefs and words should you use instead? Watch the video for some great suggestions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_csNAB6UuBE

What do you think? Please share a comment. I would love to hear your tips for staying healthy, too.

Practice the positive thoughts and words I shared here to experience optimum health. And come back if you need a reminder, so you can create an experience of vibrant health and wellness this season.

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Here’s the story.

I recently met a man that included in his introduction of himself that he was “an insomniac.” I thought to myself, Wow, his body just heard that. And it will be glad to continue to give him that experience.

He’ll probably continue the experience of being an insomniac as long as he says he is one. Why is that?

Because your physiology is an intelligent system that hears what you say about it. It responds to what you believe and feel about it. You create more of whatever you put your attention on in thought or feeling. Doesn’t matter if you don’t want it. By putting attention on it, you bring more of it to you.

What Do You Think and Say About Your Health?

Like the man who says he’s an insomniac, you might be taking on health conditions as part of your identity. And your health reflects that belief back to you. Even saying “I am getting a cold” will invite the cold to come on and become a part of you.

Does this man’s story seem familiar to you? Do you continue to experience recurring health conditions that you don’t want? What health conditions do you take on as part of your identity?

How You Can Create Great Health

I want to share some affirmations to help you bring more positive life force energy into your experience with physical health. Put your hand over your heart and say these in your mind or out loud. Come back to them as often as you need a reminder:

• I am grateful for my strong, healthy body.
• My body continues to heal and manifest more wellness.
• Everyday I am feeling better and better I am comfortable in my body. It likes me!
• I am loving my body as it makes the changes I desire.
• It is good to be me, body and all.

You Can Do It!

You create your life with every thought you think and feeling you feel. You can choose to think different thoughts about your body and start creating more health, even if you are not sure yet what optimum health looks like for you yet. Your higher self knows and that is good enough.

Consistent support is the key to releasing limiting patterns and beliefs that create poor health in your life. One of the best places to start receiving this support is my Home Study Course, Energy Healing 101. You can also click here to take advantage of all the other amazing resources I’ve created to support you in your journey to physical and emotional health.

Ever seen weight loss as a struggle? You might be carrying around more than just extra pounds.

What’s really keeping you from losing weight?

When I met today’s guest, Kathy, I noticed a habit I’ve seen in women everywhere who are uncomfortable about their size:

She consistently apologized and joked about her weight.

To all of you who do that, I want to say, Stop! It’s not okay. Your body wants to be loved. And you can’t support your body in feeling loved when you shame yourself with jokes and apologies.

Yes, you need to exercise and eat well. But first, you need to get rid of any shameful illusions you believe about yourself. Those illusions make it impossible for your body to lose weight.

Join Kathy and me in this easy exercise and let go of the story you’ve been telling yourself for too long. Here’s a brief summary of the exercise. Watch the video to see how these four steps can be so powerful in helping you let go of unwanted pounds.

1. Close your eyes and see the childhood version of yourself.
2. Take that child out of the setting where she was shut down or belittled. Create a special place for her to exist safely as her true self.
3. Tell her that you insist now that she live her life completely free, exactly the way she is.
4. Bring in angels to honor and mentor her, reminding her that her true self is safe.

Repeat the affirmations and intentions that help you feel safe to be yourself. Write them down and use them daily. Let’s watch…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rdUniAXZ8

What was that exercise like for you? Did you feel a shift in your perception of yourself? Have you been focusing on secondary issues—like Kathy focused on carbs—instead of the core issue that hangs onto that extra weight?

Please share a comment, telling me what surfaced in your memory and your feelings.

You are powerful and I am excited for you to embrace that power to create the amazing body and life you want. I can help you open up what’s blocked in your life so you can receive and honor your true self. Visit youremotionalhealing.com to access an entire library of video and audio sessions like this to help you.

Just as Kathy’s judgment of her true nature affected her weight, your beliefs about your own nature can affect your body. If you don’t know your Energy Type yet, find out with my Energy Profiling Bundle. Embrace your true nature and live your best life!

If losing weight were just a matter of counting calories or reps, anyone could do it—and more people would. Then why is it sometimes so hard to drop those extra pounds?

Find out as I talk with Michelle, who has struggled for years with this. In this mini-healing session, she discovers the surprisingly emotional reason her body has hung on to unwanted weight.

Pay attention to your own reaction and you may be surprised by what’s holding you back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wGJtcEUKk

What insights did you discover here about your own struggle with weight? Please share your comments.

Does this video remind you of someone you know who might welcome this message? Feel free to pass along the healing.

Are you ready to release the limiting beliefs you are literally carrying around in your body? Visit the Carol Tuttle Healing Center and let me help you: http://www.youremotionalhealing.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uY3dlD5NhY

Heather joins me in this session for help in clearing her body of pain which she experiences in her joints. This makes it difficult for her to move though life joyfully. What stressful emotion is your body carrying for you? Let me help you release it. If you like this video, you will find more help like this at The Carol Tuttle Healing Center. Just go to http://www.youremotionalhealing.com

Question:

Hi Carol.
I am a type 4.  I can’t seem to get my body to the perfect physical state I want it to be, and have struggled with that since I was young.  When I weighed 120 lbs. I wasn’t happy.  When I weighed 130 lbs. I wasn’t happy, and now that I weigh more than that I am really sad about it all, and sort of angry.

I work out, I watch what I eat, I ride my bike for an hour every day in the summer, but nothing changes.  I don’t get firmer, I don’t shed any weight, I just stay the same.  I visualize what I want to be and make affirmations, but it’s like I don’t really believe my visualizations and affirmations are or can be true.

After my last baby was born (he is now 25), I spiraled into deep depression and became very thin, weighing only about 95 lbs.  I was sick and weak.  I don’t want to be sick and weak and thin, just thinner so that I’m not aware of my body every minute.

I am so stuck and I can’t even see my way out and back to wholeness in that aspect of my life.  Everything else seems to be good, but that area is not.

Thanks
Susan

My Answer:

Dear Susan,

I am noticing a couple of things in your question.  First I notice that no matter what size you were, you were unable to appreciate your body.  When you cannot appreciate your current experience, we are blocking ourselves from appreciating another experience.  It’s good to ask ourselves, “Why do I think I would appreciate myself anymore if I lost weight, I never have yet!”

Start appreciating your body exactly the way it is, right now.  It is feeling ashamed and confused, like it just keeps letting you down.  The body feels like an abandoned child that can never do what you want! It feels hurt and sad, and just wants you to find something good about it.  How motivated would you be to change if no matter what you did was not good enough and you were always being sent the message you are no good the way you are! I think you get my point!

My second observation is your Type 4 tendency for perfecting is looking only at an outcome rather than a process.  Try and be perfect in your process of loving your body more and thanking it, try perfecting your process of allowing and letting go of any old beliefs that you are not lovable unless you are a smaller size.  Let go of the need for a “perfect body,” trying to get it to change.  Love yourself more, right here, right now. Be perfect in that.

Thank you for the question and God Bless YOU! I see you succeeding in this!

Carol Tuttle

For more support letting go of limiting beliefs and patterns held in the body I highly recommend the healing video sessions at The Carol Tuttle Healing Center.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WCS62hIulk

In today’s session I am joined by 3 sisters who grew up in a family where sharing emotion was not allowed. When this is the case in our childhood, it is common to store negative emotion in the body. Each of these 3 sisters share their experience of what it was like to hide their emotions and how their bodies are still suffering from this habit they developed in their childhood. Have you taught your body to store your discomfort? Is your body out of balance due to your repressed emotions? Get help with this right now at The Carol Tuttle Healing Center to help you release the emotional discomfort your body no longer has to carry for you! Just go to http://www.youremotionalhealing.com

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Rene joins me for this week’s healing session to let me help her with her limiting beliefs that are causing her body to hang on to extra weight: the need to hide, family issues that need to stay hidden, and hiding behind the weight. Rene really opens up this energy to let her body get healthy. Watch and open your energy so you can get fit and healthy too! For more online video clearing sessions with me, go to http://www.youremotionalhealing.com

Overeating can reach epidemic proportions during the Holiday season. Are you a victim of your own patterns of indulgence? Are you part of the statistics of the average American gaining 7 lbs between Thanksgiving and New Years? Carol will give you specific steps to avoid and all-together eliminate this self-defeating, unhealthy pattern. Create a balanced, healthy Holiday season. For more help get a copy of Carol’s best-selling audio CD Clearing the Issues that are Keeping You Fat!