Offers women a better choice. This book uses tapping to help tackle the stress that leads to weight gain - including the personal stresses of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence.

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Jessica Ortner is a New York Times best-selling author and the co-founder of The Tapping Solution, a company dedicated to promoting the scientifically supported stress relief technique of EFT Tapping. She also spearheaded the creation of The Tapping Solution App, now the leading digital platform for guided tapping meditations, making this powerful stress-relief method accessible worldwide.

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Jessica Ortner, producer of the highly successful documentary on meridian tapping, The Tapping Solution, offers women a better choice. Why not lose the weight and create the life you''ve always dreamt of? In this groundbreaking book, Jessica uses tapping to help tackle the stress that leads to weight gain - including the personal stresses of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence. Using her own struggles with weight loss, along with success stories of some of the thousands of women she''s worked with, Jessica walks readers through the process of discovering their personal power and self-worth. Her programme is based on extensive research into the benefits and success of tapping and the hormones involved in stress and weight gain and it covers everything from the emotional aspects of overeating and cravings, to how to find joy in exercise, the power of pleasure, and how our families and friends may inadvertently add to the problem.

Leseprobe
Introduction
For many years, I was sure that losing weight was the answer to all my problems. Once I could fit into that dress or those jeans, I'd be happy, my career would take off, and I'd start dating. But only after I'd lost the weight. Only when I no longer looked like this.

Until then, I'd continue to panic every time someone took my picture, strategically placing my hands over the parts I hated. Or cropping the picture so only my face showed if my hands weren't big enough to cover those parts.

Until then, I'd cancel plans. I'd shrink emotionally so people wouldn't notice how big I felt physically. I'd continue to buy books on weight loss, exercise equipment, and diet food. One day I'd be happy, but not today, not until I lost this weight.
Does this sound familiar?

Losing weight has become a cultural obsession, made apparent by the fact that weight loss has grown into a billion-dollar industry. My guess is that if you picked up this book, it probably isn't the first time you've paid for something to help you lose weight.

Why does nothing seem to work? Why, when you have such a strong desire to lose weight, do your many attempts to shed the weight for good fall short? There's clearly something missing, some hidden key to having a body you can feel proud ofbut what is it? Is it exercising more, or doing a certain kind of exercise? Should you eat all carbs, or none at all? Vegan? High protein? In a world that's constantly overwhelming you with contradictory information, what will finally make the difference in your quest to lose weight?

It can be summed up in two words: your emotions.

Your emotions control your beliefs about yourself, your weight, and your worth. They also control your actions. Have you ever made a plan to eat healthy only to find yourself halfway through a box of cookies, thinking, Did I really do this again? Your emotions are the driving force behind every action you take. You may know exactly what you should be doing, but you're not doing it because your emotions sidetrack you.

Emotions such as anger, fear, resentment, and guilt that are hijacking your best intentions are also impacting you on a deep biological level. Talking about this is an essential conversation that we're not having. We hear so much about food and exercise, but what about the overproduction of cortisol, known as the stress hormone, that is directly linked to abdominal obesity? The research is out there, but we've been conditioned to believe that weight loss is only about eating the right foods and exercising more. If we don't succeed, we blame our genesor worse, we believe that there's something inherently broken about us.

During many years of yo-yo dieting and unsuccessful attempts to keep the weight off, I, too, felt broken. I masked it with my smile and my desire to please everyone around me, but behind closed doors I was crumpling up clean paper towels and placing them in the garbage to cover the wrappers of the multiple candy bars I'd just eaten.

Like so many women who feel ashamed of their bodies and their weight, I was a closet emotional eater. It started when I was young. I remember my first solo binge so clearly. I was only seven, and I was faced with an entire plate covered rim to rim with chocolate chip cookies. I sat on the downstairs couch and ate the entire thing while listening closely to make sure no one was walking down the stairs. Even when I was that young, I already had the belief that what I was doing was shameful.

That plate of cookies was the beginning of a years-long love/hate affair with chocolate and other sugary, and occasionally salty, treats. For me the cravings were very real physical sensations that quickly overwhelmed my ability to reason with myself, or remember how sick I had felt last time. They came on suddenly and felt like a physical need that I had to fulfill. As that habit followed me into puberty, I found myself gaining weight, and then panicking and making desperate attempts to lose it.

For brief periods of time, I devoted my every waking hour to dieting and extreme exercise. Starving myself and working out were my punishments for being fat. After losing a few pounds, I began to relax. Then, as if suffering from amnesia, I turned back to food. I've been so good. I deserve this! I told myself. I'm so stressed out, let me just eat this one thing, I said to myself. Before long, I found myself looking at my reflection in the mirror, feeling defeated and heartbroken, overwhelmed by hatred, disappointment, and anger.

As Einstein so famously said, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Simply put, I was insane. My diets were insane. Belittling myself, shaming myself, and using guilt in an attempt to help me get my act together were all insane.
Fortunately, in 2004 my oldest brother, Nick Ortner, introduced me to tapping, also called EFT tapping, a stress relief technique that involves tapping on acupressure points. Tapping would eventually bring an end to the insanity that had ruled my weight loss and body confidence journey up to that point. To be quite frank, though, when I was first introduced to it, it was tapping itself that seemed insane to me.

The first time Nick showed me what tapping was, I was so sure he was playing a practical joke on me that I refused to play along. When I finally gave in and tried it, I was shocked by how quickly I got results. After just ten minutes of tapping, a sinus cold I had at the time, which had been so severe that it had kept me in bed for two full days, disappeared. I remember being shocked that after tapping I could breathe through my nose again. It seemed like a mini miracle; after I tapped through my physical symptomsand then through my stress and frustration that my career seemed to be going nowheremy sinus cold symptoms vanished. It was the first time I realized how severely I had been underestimating the impact of emotions and stress on the body.

A couple of years later, Nick and I, along with his close friend, Nick Polizzi, began making our documentary film, The Tapping Solution, which shows real people's results with tapping. The making of the documentary was not only a big risk financially, it also continuously tested the strength of our dream. With zero film exp…