num_pages: 342
description: From the renowned Duke Integrative Medicine center The Mindful Diet is the first book to combine health psychology with cutting-edge nutrition research to deliver an up-to-the-minute method for eating mindfully and breaking the yo-yo diet cycle.Its easy on occasion to eat too much eat too quickly eat for comfort or choose junk food. But for increasing numbers of people this behavior is the norm not the exception. Every year millions of Americans vow to lose weight and get healthy but arent able to overcome the largest roadblock to these changesingrained eating habits. Most diets dont address the roots of unhealthy behavior and they also can damage self-worth as those trying to lose weight repeatedly cycle through success and relapse. Now for the first time two leading experts from Duke Integrative Medicine offer a new paradigm for eating and healtha step-by-step program that dismantles old patterns provides new tools for making healthy choices and fosters deep internal motivation.Grounded in scientific research The Mindful Diet examines how what we choose to eat and drink affects our body on a biochemical level and how we can become aware of our own internal signals through the practice of mindfulness. Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to eating in which dieting becomes an exertion of willpower The Mindful Diet focuses on the many variables that drive our habitsincluding stress unhappiness and even unconscious beliefsand provides a roadmap for sustainable change. Loaded with concrete meditation exercises behavioral techniques nutrition advice and meal-planning charts this book provides the tools to avoid cravings stop emotional overeating and figure out when you are full. Lasting weight loss and healthy living begin in the mind: now you can learn how to re-program your body make healthy choices lose weight and keep it off for life.
language: English
title: The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship with Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health
publisher: Scribner