Mastering Mindful Eating: Transform Your Relationship with Food, Plus 30 Recipes to Engage the Senses (Anti-inflammatory Michelle Babb)

A nutritionist explains how to practice mindful eating for improved health and digestion, your healthiest weight, and a greater sense of calm. Forget counting calories, strict portion control, and restrictive diet plans. Say goodbye to yo-yo dieting forever. Eating a sandwich while running from a bear isn't good for digestion or nutrition. That's exactly what we're doing when eating a meal on the run or being distracted by computers, TVs, and newspapers. Rather than nourishing our bodies, we are feeding anxiety and poor habits that prevent our systems from functioning well. Author and registered dietitian Michelle Babb shows you how to practice mindful eating that lets your body access the nutrients from food and turn on its self-regulating system. It's the sustainable way to shed pounds, maintain your healthiest weight, and ensure optimal digestion. When you build a positive relationship with food, you reduce binge and emotional eating. Included in the book are 30 recipes designed to enhance your introduction to mindful eating by engaging all the senses. " . . . will help people learn to better tune in to the needs of their own bodies." —Well Good Transform your relationship with food and develop healthy eating habits through mindfulness in this self care cookbook and guide from a renowned nutritionist. Whether you are trying to lose weight, recover from an eating disorder, or improve your overall state of calm and wellness, this book helps you change your relationship with food and cultivate a positive eating mindset. Eating a sandwich while running from a bear isn't good for digestion or nutrition. That's exactly what we're doing when eating a meal on the run or being distracted by computers, TVs, and newspapers. Rather than nourishing our bodies, we are feeding anxiety and poor habits that prevent our systems from functioning well. Author and registered dietitian Michelle Babb shows you how to practice mindful eating that lets your body access the nutrients from food and turn on its self-regulating system. It's the sustainable way to shed pounds, maintain your healthiest weight, and ensure optimal digestion. When you build a positive relationship with food, you reduce binge and emotional eating. Included in the book are 30 vegetarian recipes designed to enhance your introduction to mindful eating by engaging all the senses. Learn how to: * Bring your attention to eating * Engage the senses (tune into smell, taste, texture, thoughts) while eating * Identify your habits and patterns around food * Eat when you're hungry (and know when you're full) * Discover foods that taste good (and make you feel good) Transform your relationship with food and develop healthy eating habits with practical advice and 30 nutritious recipes from a registered dietitian. Discover the art and science of mindful eating! Eating a sandwich while running from a bear isn't good for digestion or nutrition. That's exactly what we're doing when eating a meal on the run or being distracted by computers, TVs, and our phones. Rather than nourishing our bodies, we are feeding anxiety and poor habits that prevent our systems from functioning well. Author and registered dietitian Michelle Babb shows you how to practice mindful eating that lets your body access the nutrients from food and turn on its self-regulating system. When you build a positive relationship with food, you reduce binge and emotional eating—and can shed pounds, maintain your healthiest weight, and ensure optimal digestion. Here, you'll learn how to: • Bring your attention to eating • Engage the senses (tune into smell, taste, texture, thoughts) while eating • Identify your habits and patterns around food • Eat when you're hungry (and know when you're full) • Discover foods that taste good (and make you feel good) • Whip 30 vegetarian recipes designed to engage all your senses Whether you are trying to lose weight, recover from an eating disorder, or improve your overall state of calm and wellness, this book helps you change your relationship with food and cultivate a positive eating mindset. The author of Anti-Inflammatory Eating Made Easy and Anti-Inflammatory Eating for a Happy, Healthy Brain offers a new approach to how we eat in her latest book, an engaging guide to intentional eating. Unlearn everything youve been taught about calorie counting and dieting to reconnect with your bodys innate wisdom and rediscover the pleasures of food. Having an of-the-moment awareness of what you put into your body and observingrather than judginghow you feel can have a powerful impact on your relationship to food and, in turn, your health. We all have the innate sensibilities to tell us what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat, but we learn how to override those cues at a very early age and then we spend a lifetime neglecting our bodies and ignoring the signals that tell us everything we ever needed to know, writes Babb. Whether you want to break the cycle of restrictive fad diets, curb emotional eating, or build a more meaningful connection to food, mindful eating is a healthy, sustainable solution. In Mastering Mindful Eating, youll learn how to identify physiological factors that lead to unhealthy eating choices, liberate yourself from sugar cravings, make peace with your body to reach your own ideal weight, and more. Includes 30 vegetarian recipes designed to enhance your introduction to mindful eating. Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Our Conventional Wisdom—Animals as Quasi-Persons 2 Two Contemporary Approaches to Animal Personhood 3 Animals as Persons—a Matter of Sentience Alone 4 The Right Not to Be Property 5 Veganism as a Moral Imperative Conclusion Notes Reference/Study Guide A nutritionist explains how to practise mindful eating for improved health and digestion, your healthiest weight and a greater sense of calm. "This book lays out the principles and practices of mindful eating and includes 30 recipes to engage the senses"-- Provided by publisher.