Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: A Mindful Eating Program to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle

May helps you rediscover when, what, and how much to eat without restrictive rules. You'll learn the truth about nutrition and how to stop using exercise to earn the right to eat. You'll finally experience the pleasure of eating the foods you love-- without guilt or binging.

Michelle May MD, founder of the award winning Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training, is a physician and recovered yo-yo dieter who shares deep insights and a compassionate, constructive approach to living a vibrant, healthy life. Her authenticity and passion for mindful eating stems from her own personal struggle with food and body image. After years of ineffective yo-yo dieting, she developed a mindful, non-diet approach to food, movement, and self-care.

Michelle developed the Mindful Eating Cycle, a structured approach to learning myriad skills and strategies for managing your eating with restriction or deprivation. She founded Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training in 1999 to share this compassionate, constructive and life-changing approach. Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs are available through hundreds of licensed Am I Hungry? facilitators, coaches, and therapists worldwide through workshops, webinars, coaching, retreats and workplace wellness programs.

Michelle May MD is also the author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes: A Mindful Eating Program for Thriving with Prediabetes or Diabetes, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating: A Mindful Eating Program for Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body, and Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students: A Mindful Eating Program to Fuel the Life You Crave.

She was a family physician with sixteen years of clinical experience. She earned her Bachelor s degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and her Medical Degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. May served as President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians and the Chairperson for the Americans in Motion wellness initiative for the 93,000-member American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and served on the AAFP Commission on the Health of the Public and Science.

Michelle must practice what she preaches in order to balance her personal and professional life while maintaining her vibrant lifestyle. She enjoys hiking near her home in Phoenix, Arizona and she is a certified yoga instructor. Michelle cherishes her relationships with her two grown children, Tyler and Elyse. She and her husband, Owen, a professional chef, share a passion for gourmet and healthful cooking, recipe development, wine tasting, and traveling.