Tapping Script: “I’m Embarrassed to Eat”

Step 1

Truth Statement (Read aloud and rate how true 0 to 10):

• I’m embarrassed to eat

Step 2

Set Up Phrase (Read aloud three times while tapping on side of the hand):

• Even though I’m embarrassed to eat I love and accept myself.

Step 3

Read the following phrases aloud while tapping on the prescribed spot with your dominant hand:

• Even though I want to eat quickly so nobody sees me eating, I completely and deeply love and accept myself.
• Even though I’m embarrassed to eat when I’m still overweight, I completely and deeply love and accept.
• Even though I just want to get this overwith, I completely and deeply love and accept myself.
• I shouldn’t be eating this.
• I’m overweight, I shouldn’t eat anything.
• I should not have another bite until I’m thin.
• It’s embarrassing to eat.
• I feel guilty eating because I’m not perfect yet.
• If I am going to eat, I should do it quickly.
• Then I’m not embarrassed for that long.
• And other people don’t’ realize that I actually eat.
• I don’t’ want them to know that I eat.
• Because then it will be my fault for being overweight.
• I want it to look like I barely eat anything and being overweight is not my fault.
• So I want to eat this very quickly.
• Then these feelings will stop.
• I just want to wolf this down.
• It makes sense, lots of people do it.
• Eat very quickly.
• I understand why I do it.
• But I wonder if there is another way.
• Eating it really fast doesn’t mean I eat less.
• In fact, maybe I eat more that way.
• Maybe there is another way of looking at this.
• That just maybe I could eat my food and allow myself to enjoy it too.
• That maybe I deserve to enjoy my food.
• That I deserve to have enjoyment in my life, even if I’m overweight at the moment.
• Just because I’m overweight doesn’t mean I don’t deserve to taste my food.
• I do deserve to enjoy my food.
• And my food deserves to be enjoyed.
• Food is a gift and it is meant to be enjoyed.
• Otherwise it could have been made all the same taste.
• But we are given the gift of all these flavors and smells and textures.
• So that we can fully enjoy it.
• And I release any guilt I feel about enjoying food.
• I release any shame about eating and enjoying food.
• It would be a shame to NOT enjoy the food.
• I am honoring this food and the energy and resources behind it by taking my time to enjoy it.
• I feel so grateful that I have this food before me and have the opportunity to enjoy it.
• I feel great about enjoying this food.
• I enjoy eating consciously and eating this food.
• I choose to enjoy my food and savor it.
• I choose to allow myself to enjoy my food and savor it.
• To allow this nice thing in my life.To allow it as one of the many nice things in my life.

(take a deep breath)

Step 4

• Truth Statement (Read aloud and re-rate how true 0 to 10): I’m embarrassed to eat.
• If the statement is still true to some level, return to Step 2.