Mindful eating : a guide to rediscovering a healthy and joyful relationship with food

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Mindful eating : a guide to rediscovering a healthy and joyful relationship with food

Author:

Bays, Jan Chozen, author.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon, author of foreword.

Summary:

How mindfulness can restore the healthy relationship with food we were meant to have--with striking effects on disorders such as overeating, anorexia, and bulimia--an extensively revised edition of this bestseller that includes important new data. Apply mindfulness to your relationship with food and you may be surprised to find that eating becomes a source of joy--instead of an angst-ridden activity haunted by nutritionally based guilt, calorie-counting, and even more serious problems like eating disorders. For nearly a decade, Jan Bays's guide to eating mindfully has been transforming people's relationship with food--and based on her continued work with those people as well as new data emerging on the topic, she has created this significantly revised and refined version of the original, which contains even more essential information on mindful eating, as well as inspiring new examples from her workshop participants. She shows how to: Tune into your body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat; Eat less while feeling fully satisfied; Identify your habits and patterns with food; Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating; Discover what you're really hungry for. The 75-minute audio program of exercises from the original book has also been revised and will now be available as an audio download. -- Provided by publisher.

Edition:

Revised edition.

Contents:

What Is Mindful Eating? -- The Nine Kinds of Hunger -- Exploring Our Habits and Patterns with Food -- Six Simple Guidelines for Mindful Eating -- Cultivating Gratitude -- Mindful Eating with Children -- Conclusion: What Mindful Eating Teaches Us.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 204 pages ; 23 cm

Subject Term:

Food habits -- Psychological aspects

Compulsive eating.

Consciousness -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.

Meditation -- Therapeutic use.

Mindfulness (Psychology)

Author(s):

Kabat-Zinn, Jon,

Publisher:

Shambhala,

Publication Date:

2017

2009

ISBN:

9781611804652

Publication Information:

Boulder : Shambhala, [2017]

Call Number:

613 BAYS

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Turn food from foe to friend with this bestselling guide to developing healthy eating habits through mindfulness practices-from a beloved Zen teacher

Food. It should be one of life's great pleasures, yet many of us have such a conflicted relationship with it that we miss out on that most basic of satisfactions. But it is possible-and not really all that difficult-to reclaim the joy of eating, according to Dr. Jan Bays. Mindfulness is the key. Her approach involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating-to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. She shows you how to-

. Tune into your body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat
.Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
.Identify your habits and patterns with food
.Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating
.Discover what you're really hungry for

Whether you are overweight, suffer from an eating disorder, or just want to get more out of life, this book offers a simple tool that can transform your relationship with food into one of ease and delight.

This new edition, updated throughout, contains a new chapter on how to provide children with a foundation in mindful eating that will serve them well all the rest of their lives. It also includes a link to a 75-minute on-line audio program of mindful eating exercises led by the author.

Author Notes

Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a pediatrician and meditation teacher who has been teaching mindful eating for more than twenty years. She is also the author of Jizo Bodhisattva, The Vow-Powered Life, How to Train a Wild Elephant, and Mindfulness on the Go. She lives at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon, near Portland, where she is co-abbot.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Foreword	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xvii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
1 What Is Mindful Eating?	p. 1
2 The Nine Kinds of Hunger	p. 15
3 Exploring Our Habits and Patterns with Food	p. 72
4 Six Simple Guidelines for Mindful Eating	p. 101
5 Cultivating Gratitude	p. 137
6 Mindful Eating with Children	p. 152
7 Conclusion: What Mindful Eating Teaches Us	p. 166
Summary Tips	p. 179
Dedication of Merit	p. 181
Notes	p. 182
Resources	p. 190
List of Audio Tracks	p. 193
Index	p. 194
About the Author	p. 204

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