Eating Mindfully How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food
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Eating Mindfully How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food
Healthy eating is conscious eating, according to eating disorders specialist Susan Albers. In this book, she introduces concepts of acceptance and awareness of one’s eating behaviors, new exercises steeped in Buddhist practices for healing negative patterns in this area, and a means for restoring tranquility to meals. Albers does not encourage a diet of deprivation, but instead provides a checklist for the wide variety of mindless eating approaches, from eating when not hungry to faddish diets to food rituals. Practical exercises grounded in cognitive behavioral research reveal the forces that drive unconscious eating. These step-by-step instructions help readers cut through the mind’s chatter and reach a new level of understanding of their relationship to food, weight, and health. This, finally, is a sound weight loss program that uses mindfulness techniques to break the patterns of unhealthy eating.
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5 Stars need more bks like this
One of my FavS!!! bk is informative and captivating. couldn’t put it down. short chapters/lessons explaining the basic concepts and tools. very helpful and life changer! recommended to those who want to learn how to eat consciously for the rest of their lives (in contrast to dieting).
4 Stars Worth the read
I found the book well written, easy to read and understand the content. It provided helpful information concerning why/how we make choices about food and how we approach eating in general.
5 Stars Lifesaver
This book was very helpful and actually changed my life in a way that no other book has! I recommend it to anyone who is an emotional eater!
2 Stars But Here’s a Better Book For You
The information in this book is vague, hazy and totally non-motivating. Please, before you spend $$$ on Eating Mindfully purchase The Seven Secrets of Slim People. It is focussed, dense with wisdom and EXCELLENT exercises that develop your sane sense of how, why and when you eat so that you can lose that obsessive relationship you now have with food. Eating Mindfully will leave you treading water with no shore in sight.
The Seven Secrets of Slim People
3 Stars Useful Suggestions, But Not Enough Foundation
This book is a collection of 46 brief observations on mindless eating. The observations are short, one or two pages, and include suggestions on how to turn mindless eating into mindfull eating. The observations themselves are diverse so every reader will most likely find several that relate to their specific problems with eating.
However, very little of the book is devoted to the fundamentals of “mindfullness”. The book causally quotes the Buddhist origins of “mindfullness” but does not expand on the topic. This causes the observations to feel a little empty since they’re constantly referring to a “mindfullness” concept that hasn’t been meaningfully explained.
If you want a fundamental understanding of Buudhist “mindfulness” before you apply it to eating problems then I would read “The Zen of Eating” by Kabatznick. If you prefer a more ‘thought for the day’ type of format then this book is more appropriate.
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