Mindful Eating

from The Center for Mindful Eating

Mindful eating has the powerful potential to transform people’s relationship to food and eating, to improve overall health, body image, relationships and self-esteem. Mindful eating involves many components such as:

• learning to make choices in beginning or ending a meal based on awareness of hunger and satiety cues;

• learning to identify personal triggers for mindless eating, such as emotions, social pressures, or certain foods;

• valuing quality over quantity of what you’re eating;

• appreciating the sensual, as well as the nourishing, capacity of food;

• feeling deep gratitude that may come from appreciating and experiencing food

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Mindful Eating Practices