Lighten up this Easter

Do you give up decadent treats and naughty tipples for Lent? According to a recent poll by Bach Emotional Eating Kit, high calorie, comfort foods and drinks top the list of vices to be shunned. 48% of those who ‘give up’ choose to go without chocolate for 40 days and 40 nights and 25% pass up cakes and sweet treats. 25% of dedicated abstainers decide to give alcohol a wide berth in the run up to Easter compared to 11% who ditch caffeine. Takeaways are seen as a bad habit to be avoided by 18% of those who observe the tradition of giving up, whilst only 6% treat meat as a vice.

Lent is the period when we attempt to give up a vice or two, but there is a way to give our willpower a helping hand well past the Easter season, helping us feel virtuous all year long.

Bach Emotional Eating Kit is a set of three 10ml flower essences to give a helping hand with diet and healthy living regimes. It is the first product available in the UK to help with emotional eating. You can create your own individual combination and adapt it to suit your changing moods. The essences are alcohol free and suitable for the whole family.

Bach Emotional Eating Kit includes the essences:

Crab Apple – When you feel unclean or dislike something about yourself, Crab Apple can help you accept yourself and your imperfections. Self acceptance means you are less likely to rely on food to make you feel good. 

Cherry Plum – When you fear you might lose control of your diet, Cherry Plum can help you to think and act rationally. 

Chestnut Bud – When you find yourself repeating the same dieting mistakes, Chestnut Bud can help you gain knowledge from your experience. This means you are less likely to fall into your old bad habits, for example reaching for food when things get tough.

Bach Emotional Eating Kit costs around £11.00 and is available from Boots, Holland and Barrett and all good independent healthfood and pharmacy stores. For more information, visit bachremedies.co.uk.