Ideas for a Craving Conquering Workshop

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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on December 11, 2009 at 2:13pm

Hugh,

Halloween was always a killer, but now I live in one of those 55+ adult communities and no kids come to the door, so that's one less problem to deal with.
As for those "individually wrapped" pieces, it's certainly not foolproof, but I make sure not to keep the bag in plain sight (tuck it away in the pantry), and just allow myself to take one in the morning and one after dinner.
Once in a blue moon I'll sneak in an extra piece, but then I'll do an extra hour of exercise to make up for it.
I simply HAVE to have my chocolate and ice cream every single day, but as long as it's confined to a relatively tiny portion (and I also burn it off with daily exercise), then I can actually "have my cake and eat it too"...; - )

Saul




Hugh Cole said:

Saul ... Its those small individually wrapped pieces that trip me up every time. My wife always used to take care of the halloween candy. Now when Halloween comes I buy a bunch of it for trick or treaters so they don't think I am Scrooge. I wind up eating way too much of it when I don't get enough gobleins coming around to take it. This year I wound up taking all the left over bags to my neighbors house ( Three little candy eating machines) but not before i'd nailed a half a bag myself.

Hugh Cole
The Pretty Goodest Hypnotist on the Planet

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Permalink Reply by Dave Strayer on December 11, 2009 at 3:53pm

I hate throwing away anything my clients do well. In this case, they know how to crave things. Why not disconnect the craving from the things that are not useful and re-associated it to things that are useful, such as healthful foods in appropriate quantities, exercise, etc?

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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on December 12, 2009 at 7:25am

Dave,

Sounds good in theory (nifty re-framing!), but I'm afraid that my own efforts weren't terribly successful.
The problem is that the "healthy" foods I tried substituting, such as various nuts, fruits, avocado, etc. are
ALSO chock full of calories! It's true that those are "good" calories and as such are FAR better than the
empty calories found in ice cream, cookies & chocolate- but a "craving" for such healthy foods will ALSO
manage to pack on the lbs.
The notion of "appropriate quantities" is paramount to success, but is diametrically opposed to the concept
of "cravings".

What ultimately worked for me was resigning myself to the fact that self-discipline was the key, and that if
I stuck to my exercise regimen and "portion control" I could eat pretty much everything I "craved" as long as
it was in SMALL amounts...

Saul




Dave Strayer said:

I hate throwing away anything my clients do well. In this case, they know how to crave things. Why not disconnect the craving from the things that are not useful and re-associated it to things that are useful, such as healthful foods in appropriate quantities, exercise, etc?

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Permalink Reply by Dave Strayer on December 12, 2009 at 4:25pm

Saul,

Saul,

I've used it successfully with both weight management and smoking cessation by creating a hypnotic construct (for which the client must be in somnambulism -- my preference is eyes open but it's probably only a preference) within which the client physically disconnects the emotion/energy of the craving from the unwanted behavior and reconnects it to the desired behavior. That way, they have all of their senses involved in the transformation which, I believe, makes it much more effective than a simple verbal reframe. I sometimes follow up with a squash pattern (done with the client sill in somnambulism).

Dave

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