Bach Flowers can help you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight by dealing

with any emotional issues that could cause you to overeat and sabotage your
weight loss attempts. These 5 Bach Flower Remedies for losing weight will not
eliminate the need to make some changes with regard to diet and exercise, but
they will improve your chances of losing weight and keeping it off permanently.

Agrimony – for comfort eating – using food to soothe emotional upsets . A

person who will benefit from Agrimony will look emotionally balanced,
cheerful and in control on the surface but will, in fact, be hiding sadness, grief
or some other emotional turmoil. They are normally unaware of the negative
emotions they are harbouring having found many ways of avoiding them,
overeating being one of them.
Signs that you may benefit from taking Agrimony
You are unhappy with your weight AND

 You eat compulsively especially after emotional upsets

 You would rather go home and eat alone than talk about your problems
or face them
 Others describe you as always happy and helpful
 You are easily distracted from your weight loss goals and find yourself
overeating, and yo-yo dieting
Taking Agrimony will help you to begin acknowledging your negative
emotions, and releasing them, rather than attempting to suppress them by eating
food. Weight loss is inevitable and easy when you are no longer driven by a
compulsion to over-eat

Cherry Plum – One of the Bach Flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating kit,
Crab Apple helps with compulsive or binge eating and yo-yo dieting. Cherry
Plum relieves feelings of inner tension, but unlike Agrimony the negative
emotion is acknowledged and feels more extreme, so that there is a feeling that
you might just lose control completely and undo all your good work by
bingeing. These feelings are just the natural result of tension that has built up
over time from your attempts to control your eating through will-power. Cherry
Plum will help you to release the tension and leave you feeling your calm and in
control self. Once you have regained your composure it is time to get to the root
cause of your Cherry Plum state. Consider the possibility of easing up on your
diet a little, because the fact that you are feeling so uptight about it is an
indication that you are being too hard on yourself. Holding yourself to an overly
high standard nearly always backfires and results in behaviour that takes you in
the opposite direction. You can avoid this rebound effect by having more
realistic goals and expectations to begin with. It may take a little longer than
you would like but you stand a much better chance of reaching your weight loss
goals when you are kind to yourself AND you will have more fun along the
way

Cerato – Do you look to others to guide you to your perfect weight? Do you
have a mountain of information gathered over years of searching for the perfect
weight loss plan? Are you still overweight after trying them all? Then Cerato is
the Bach Flower Essence for you. Cerato will give you confidence in your
ability to make good decisions regarding your diet and exercise. It will help you
to make sensible food choices wherever you are without being influenced by
those around you, advertising or any other factors. It will also help you to resist
the temptation to try extreme diets for the sake of quick results, and to feel at
ease with your weight – no matter what that is.

Chestnut Bud – One of the Bach flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating Kit.
This is the Bach Flower for those who try the same sort of approach to weight
loss over and over, and still fall into the same old traps that lead to “failure”.
Unlike Cerato, Chestnut Bud is unlikely to look to others for guidance, but will
tend to rush into action without thinking things through. When attempts to lose
weight fail, instead of taking stock and trying to gain insights from their
experience Chestnut Bud types prefer to forget about it immediately and move
quickly to the next action. Perhaps it is trying too hard and then ending up
bingeing and rebounding; perhaps it is not planning ahead so that you have the
food you need; perhaps it is joining the gym again and then not going, perhaps it
is buying those diet pills that didn’t work last time hoping that this time might
be different – if you make the same “mistake” repeatedly then Chestnut Bud is
the essence that will help you break that self-destructive cycle. While it is never
a good idea to dwell on your failures, it is good to learn from them, and then
move on. Chestnut Bud will help a person to slow down enough that they can
learn from their experiences and no longer make the same mistakes.

Crab Apple – the physical and emotional cleansing remedy. Crab Apple is one
of the 3 Bach Flowers in the Bach Emotional Eating kit.
It is so much easier to lose weight or maintain your ideal weight when you feel
comfortable with yourself as you are rather than fighting against feelings of
unworthiness. You may not think that it is possible to love yourself at your
current weight, but until you make peace with where you are you will always
find weight loss a struggle. Crab Apple will help you to release any negative
thoughts and feelings you have about yourself and restore you to your natural
feelings of self-love and self acceptance allowing you to move towards your
ideal weight with ease, loving where you are and who you are, every step of the
way.