If you’re someone who is struggling with cravings, struggling to lose weight, eats super fast, only sees food as “fuel”, or are looking to bring more mindfulness to your food consumption AND you want to change, this course is for you.
An Introduction to Mindful Eating will revolutionize your relationship to food and nourishment. Building mindfulness practices into your daily life is essential for habit change, and changing a habit changes your life so you can start being the best version of you. Exciting, right?
I have been on a long, personal journey of cultivating mindfulness to cope with stress and negative thought patterns. In college, when I learned this practice could be applied to food, it changed the way I ate forever. I’ve always been a food lover, but incorporating mindful eating into my life has exponentially increased my pleasure and my appreciation for food. I love this practice and I would love to share it with you!
In this course you can expect to:
- Learn mindful eating exercises and strategies AND practice them
- Understand your unique sense of hunger and fullness
- Learn how to regulate stress and emotions before engaging with food
- Reflect and gain powerful insights into your relationship with food
- Experience and understand the benefits of mindful eating
- Walk away with a practice you can take into your daily life
Mindfulness helps you:
- Become familiar with the workings of your mind
- Put you in touch with a different way of knowing yourself and the world
- Notice small beauties and pleasure in the world around you instead of living in your head
- Be kind to yourself instead of wishing things were different all the time, or driving yourself to meet impossible goals
- Accept yourself as you are, rather than judging yourself all the time
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What is mindful eating?
Mindful eating can be defined as, “paying attention to our foods, on purpose, moment to moment, without judgment”.
What are the benefits of mindful eating?
- Improved digestion
- Better appetite control
- Weight loss* (unh.edu)
- Stress reduction
- Curb cravings
- Improved relationship with food
- Greater appreciation for food
- Increased pleasure
- A sense of empowerment
- A renewed sense of hunger and fullness
I’ve seen these benefits for myself and for the clients I coach.
For example, one client of mine struggles with intense sugar cravings and emotional eating. The first time we practiced food meditation together she was shocked at the emotional high that she got off of a sweet treat, having never paid attention to her responses to sugar in that way before. She was curious to see how eating her favorite treats this way might help with her cravings. The next time she wanted a sweet treat she decided to eat it mindfully. What normally might have been a binge of Oreos after a long day, turned out to be her eating only two! And still feeling satisfied.
Don’t just take my word for it, experience it for yourself! I promise you’ll love it.