Eating Mindfully: How To End Mindless Eating & Enjoy A Balanced Relationship With Food

An expert on eating disorders shows readers how to end mindless eating and enjoy a balanced relationship with food. Here, she introduces concepts of awareness of eating behaviors, exercises for healing negative patterns, and a means for restoring tranquility to meals.

This book introduces and adapts the concepts of mindfulness and acceptance to the observation and management of eating habits. The result is a series of exercises and meditations that reinforce healthy habits and lead to greater tranquility at meals.

The book describes the four foundations of mindful eating: mindfulness of the mind, the body, the feelings, and the thoughts. It doesnit encourage a diet of deprivation, but instead provides a checklist for the wide variety of mindless eating approaches, which include fasting, dieting, and restricting certain foods, rapid eating, eating when not hungry or when tired, and food rituals.