I live with an emotional eater. I know when he's had a bad day by the empty pint of Ben & Jerry's. I know he's had a God awful day when there's empty pints. So I was intrigued by the title of last week's "I Can Make You Thin".

If you've watched any of the commercials for the show, you've probably seen people tapping themselves on different spots of their body. It looks ridiculous. Absurd, actually. Well, that's the technique Paul McKenna teaches to overcome emotional eating.

I finally got a chance to watch it last night. My emotional eater and I sat on our respective couches, he with his bowl of Edy's Limitted Edition Thin Mints ice cream and me with my glass of merlot. We didn't know what to make of it. McKenna said the technique is used to help trauma patients cope and that tapping on certain spots releases energy. He also said its not just a distraction that takes your mind of your craving, but rather clears your emotional energy and helps you heal so you won't want to medicate with food.

I'm willing to try just about anything to lose weight, so when it comes to this sort of thing, I'm pretty easy to convince. My other half isn't so willing. To say he's skeptical about the tapping plan is an understatement. At the same time, emotional eating is one habit he is desperate to conquer. And really, it may seem silly, but it's free, so what have you got to lose?

You can learn more about it here. Basically, you'll use your fingertips to tap (about 10 times or so) on your cheekbone, then collarbone, then cheekbone again. Then tap on the side of your hand, tap on the back of your hand, close your eyes, open your eyes. Without moving your head look down to the right, then down to the left (while still tapping the back of your hand). Then roll your eyes clockwise in a circle, then counterclockwise in a circle. Close your eyes, hum a few bars of any song, open your eyes, count to five, hum a few more bars. Tap your cheekbone again. Or something like that.

It sounds wacky. It looks wacky. It feels wacky. But for some crazy reason, it seems to work. My husband will tell you that it's just the power of suggestion. He could be right. McKenna is also a hypnotist. But if it seems to work, who am I to argue. I just hope I don't start clucking like a chicken at the sound of a bell.