Forget Diets Plant Tomatoes

37 Exercises, 7 Steps to Stop Emotional Eating, Book 4

By: Joanna Cameron, Rachel Weisman

Narrated by: Joanna Cameron

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

Do you eat when you are stressed, bored, or when you feel less than magnificent? Is food an escape? Did you gain weight during the pandemic?

You are not alone.

According to a Harvard study of people's medical records, 39 percent of patients gained weight during the pandemic. Gaining weight is known to impact health in many ways including physical mobility, heart health, and diabetes. It is scientifically known that stress and inflammation increase the chance of chronic disease.

"Trance Lady" Joanna Cameron's wellness guide, Forget Diets Plant Tomatoes, takes listeners on an unforgettable metaphorical, hypnotic journey to stop emotional eating and live a happier life. With the help of 37 exercises, anecdotal evidence, poetry, NLP, and Time Line Therapy™—Cameron asks dieters who are tired of dieting to take a leap of faith and stop eating to their hearts' content so that they can achieve their hearts' desire.

You will be kept mentally and physically busy with this audiobook. There are written assignments and seven steps to take. You will learn how to meditate and even tone your vagal nerve. Joanna describes chakras, tapping, values conflicts, and how it's never too late to have a happy childhood. This book will change your beliefs. People don’t fail diets. Diets fail people because they do not address the underlying emotional causes of overeating. Ultimately, this guide shows listeners how to free their mind of what weighs it down in order to shed unwanted weight.

I first published this book in 2011, and I decided to rewrite it as so much has changed. We have had a pandemic forcing us outside our comfort zone with food. I have changed, grown spiritually, and will teach you how to become calm inside and see abundance every time you open your eyes.

I challenge you to listen to audio 2 everyday for 30 days, and watch yourself increase abundance in your life. You can reach a calm state of focus where you feel satisfied and see abundance everywhere. You'll realize you have let go of a “never enough” mentality, which has caused emotional eating. You’ve effectively changed your beliefs.

With regards to the scientific discoveries in the last 10 years, we have learned so much more about the quantum nature of our DNA, brain waves, the neuroplasticity of our neurons, the mapping of our brains, and the value of meditation.

Recent research on DNA has shown that meditation increases the lengths of the telomeres on your chromosomes. It’s as if your DNA has shoelaces with caps. The caps are protective like the plastic ones on your shoelaces. They prevent the shoelaces or the DNA from unravelling and being damaged. Damaged cells cannot reproduce. Telomere length is related to aging in human beings. Lifestyle factors including smoking, lack of physical activity, obesity, stress, exposure to pollution, etc. can potentially increase the rate of telomere shortening, cancer risk, and pace of aging. Epigenetics is now the study of how your environment influences the genetic code of your DNA and its expression. We have also learned that we have set points for our metabolism, appetite, and stress level, and that these can be changed with intention and the alpha trance state.

Saying yes to the meditative state is surrender. Surrender is not a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of strength. It is accepting life moment by moment. Whatever happens, you don’t judge the moment. You don’t react. Thoughts may arise. However, you do not judge those thoughts, engage or log into them. You accept life as if you chose it. At some level, you absolutely created this moment. This is the shift to a higher consciousness.

©2011, 2022 Joanna Cameron (P)2022 Joanna Cameron

Disappointing

I had high hopes for this audio book. In the end it was a mishmash of concepts, although hypnotherapy is the main theme. There is some really flawed old dietary advice about calorie intake, fats and proteins thrown in, some light touches on meditation, closure, chakras and emotional freedom technique.

The narration was just awful - sound quality and background noise got intolerable - doors creaking, dogs barking and I think a lawnmower at one point.

The key message was if you have any limiting belief that might impact your life/emotional eating go to a hypnotherapist - there saved you 6 hrs of your life and 15 bucks!