I have been asked from time to time what exactly a "Chew Tamer" is and I have pondered that question. I realize a Chew Tamer is a person who is concerned with much more than weight. A Chew Tamer is one who wishes to live his or her life as joyfully and fully as possible.

Being concerned about your health and well-being and being the best you can be requires maintaining a positive attitude as much as possible. We attract positive to us when we think positive thoughts and feel positive feelings. Of course we cannot feel and be that way every single minute but we can strive to feel as well as possible as often as possible. But we can not do it perfectly every time.

I will address some causes and effects of perfectionistic self-expectations in a minute but first I want to alert you to three new features that are proving helpful to Chew Tamers.

The first is a brand new Bach Flower Essences kit known as The Emotional Eating Kit. Recently Bach introduced an Emotional Eating Support Kit to help manage emotions and stop mindless eating. The kit contains three remedies that address emotional eating, is convenient to carry anywhere.

These remedies will help you stop emotional eating: Cherry Plum allows you to stay in calm control, even when you feel like grabbing extra cookies. Crab Apple, the cleansing remedy, helps you feel better about yourself and your body, especially when you feel embarrassed by tight clothes or disgusted over how you've been eating. Chestnut Bud helps you change negative behaviors, making you more self - observant so you notice changes to make to break the cycle of overeating. The remedies are simple to take, just 2 drops of each remedy straight from the bottle or into any beverage 4 times per day.

Once you begin using these amazing essences to avoid anesthetizing yourself with your customary food fix, you will be able to attend to your internal guidance system - your feelings. As you heed the messages your emotions are communicating, you will become better at meeting your true needs and choosing what you really want. This will help you manifest perfect health, achieve ideal weight and bypass those extra snacks.

Next I have just received the 2 CD set we have all been waiting for entitled Hidden Weight Gain Factors. These CDs are loaded with practical information about factors that can cause weight gain, even if you're doing everything right! Hormones, including excess insulin, liver toxicity, food sensitivities and stress are some of the culprits. Dr. Denise and Dr. Ann Louise Gittleman, both renowned experts in the field, join forces to give you great tips for balanced, successful, permanent weight loss.

Finally, I want to encourage each of you to join me on my brand new blog, www.ChewTamers.blogspot.com . I will be posting to this blog every Tuesday morning with exciting new content and you will be able to comment and respond to me. I am really excited about this new interactive aspect of the internet and am eager to hear from all of you. Please do join me there!

Now. let's get back to the issue of expecting yourself to be perfect. One reason we may battle difficult feelings is because many of us imagine that we need to be perfect. We may think that being perfect is achievable and that only when we reach this state of perfection will we find happiness. Well, being perfect is definitely not possible for any of us so you might as well give up that idea!

Many of us live in a near constant state of disappointment. Life hasn't dealt us the hand we wanted. We didn't attract and marry the perfect prince (or princess) charming. We don't have perfect children or jobs or homes. We didn't have the perfect parents or attend the perfect schools. Many of us haven't figured out how to arrive at, or remain, at our ideal weight. Perhaps our teeth are crooked or we have a pimple on our face.

What you see is what you get. There it is. You have a life. It is yours. You have a body to use while you are living this lifetime. It is yours and it is up to you, in the here and now, to do with it as you wish. Life was and is perfect as it is. You have perhaps been dealt what you perceive as a "bad" hand. Each painful or difficult experience, however, holds its own teachings. You could not/would not be the wise, wonderful person you are without every bit of your life experience.

Now it is time for you. Sit quietly every day and think about what you want. That's all there is to it. Be still, go inside and dream of what you desire. That's how you can move away from the heaviness of the past into the lightheartedness of the present. These dreams will help you feel happy and joyful. These positive feelings will attract more positive thoughts and feelings. Then watch as the future unfolds brilliantly before your very eyes!

I'll be back in July - Meanwhile, please join me at www.ChewTamers.blogspot.com and don't forget to check out Hidden Weight Gain Factors and the new Emotional Eating Kit.

Many Blessings, Dr. Denise