The joy of half a cookie
Subtitle: using mindfulness to lose weight and end the struggle with food
By: Jean Kristeller, PhD, with Alisa Bowman
Contributors: Bowman, Alisa, author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780399172151
Subjects: Reducing diets; Mind and body therapies; Food habits; Weight loss; Psychological aspects
Description: "Anyone who's tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be. In this practical and paradigm-shifting book, Dr. Jean Kristeller presents a new alternative--a program for weight loss based on her successful Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program. Instead of frustration, deprivation, backsliding, guilt, and a lack of results, The Joy of Half a Cookie provides simple, proven ways to lose weight and keep it off, using what we now know about the power of the mind."--
Notes: "A Perigee book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One The Science of Mindful Eating; title: 1 An Introduction to Mindful Eating; title: 2 Cultivating the Habit of Mindful Eating; title: 3 Connecting with True Hunger: What Leads You to the First Bite; title: 4 Full of Food, Empty of Satisfaction: What Leads You to the Next Bite; title: 5 Cultivating Outer Wisdom: The Knowledge That Will Set You Free; title: Part Two The Practice of Mindful Eating; title: 6 Tools for Getting Started; title: 7 Mindfulness 101; title: 8 Feeling True Hunger; title: 9 Cultivating Your Inner Gourmet; title: 10 Eating Just the Right Amount; title: 11 Calories: Turning Off the Panic Button; title: 12 Exercising Your Power of Choice; title: 13 Balancing Emotional Eating; title: 14 Deepening Your New Relationship with Eating and Yourself; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Index.