The Peak of Satisfaction – Knowing When to Stop Eating

Have you tried that old diet tip of stopping eating when you’re only half-full? Did it work? And how did you know that you were fully satisfied if you stopped before your hunger cues gave you the go-ahead? Most of us need clear and obvious signals from the body-mind that tell us when to stop [...]

A Healthy Framework for Mindful Eating

One of the reasons nutrition and diet books are so popular is because they offer a “framework” for readers to apply the information. These frameworks set rules and boundaries for the latest models, and give markers for when a person is off course. Unfortunately, most of these frameworks are quite rigid and limiting, and are [...]

Everyday Tips For Healthy Living: Eat at the Table

Make it a rule of thumb to eat in a dedicated place and not while standing, driving, working or watching TV. From a “mindful eating” perspective, eating is its own activity. When we eat in a deliberate way, we are more able to pick up on our innate hunger cues: what we are  hungry for, [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Setting Your Table

How are we able to truly relax into the pleasure of eating if the dinner table is drop spot for unread mail, unpaid bills, newspapers and magazines? Having this kind of clutter around while eating subliminally reminds us of our unfinished business and can unconsciously put us into a stressful mode. Make each meal at [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Listen to Your Body

Are you treating your body like a master or a slave? Sometimes we drag our bodies around, telling them what to do, what to eat, what not to eat and how much to eat as if they have no say in the matter. Being a mindful eater is not about a prescribed diet that we [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Serve Desserts with Meals, Not After

If you’re like most people, desserts are treated as the “grand finale”. Serving lighter, less sweet desserts right alongside the main course re-programs us to de-emphasize desserts instead of treating them as the part of a meal that everyone’s been waiting for. This way, the sweet taste can be used as they do in the [...]

Food and Feelings – Separating "feeding from feeling" to ease food cravings and heal your life

Working with emotions is not about starving them, or their associated cravings, out. It’s not about having control over them either. Contrary to our fear of them and our need to either act them out neurotically or suppress them completely, emotions have a genuine purpose, especially when it comes to food cravings and over-eating. Support [...]

The Art of Happy Eating Part II

This article is the second piece to my series on Conscious Eating: how to eat mindfully to reduce stress, lose weight and conquer the desire of emotional eating. My first article, The Art of Happy Eating, outlines the stress response and why we shouldn’t eat under stress. Today’s article focuses on the unconscious cycle that [...]

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