Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food

Author: Susan AlbersPublisher: New Harbinger PublicationsPaperback:ISBN 10: 1572243503ISBN 13: 978-1572243507 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 doesn't 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. Review “This is a simple and powerful books—one that takes the reader on a journey within to find solutions to their own individual eating difficulties.” —Denise Lamothe, Psy.D