Mindful Eating: Stop mindless eating and learn to nourish body and soul

Do I really need another cookie/ candy/ cake/ potato chip? Ask yourself the question next time you dive for the cookie jar.

Many of us fall easily into patterns of "mindless" eating. We pick at food while working at our computers, we reach for the quickest — and usually the unhealthiest — snacks for a quick energy boost, we don’t take proper lunch breaks, we are constantly distracted while we eat. We have lost a lot of the enjoyment of eating and as a result we are guilty of just "shoveling" food into our bodies. Mindful eating applies the principles of mindfulness to our everyday eating habits. Becoming mindful of what we are eating allows us to become more aware of the whole experience of eating, and helps us to appreciate and savor our food. By eating mindfully we can also break negative habits such as overeating. It also helps us to avoid the pitfalls of yo-yo dieting, and so enables us to lose weight and keep it off for good. This book shows how we can use mindfulness to aid weight loss by really listening to our body. Filled with practical exercises and delicious recipes, Mindful Eating will set you on the path to a new and healthier way of eating.

Rachel Bartholomew Dip ION, MBANT, CNHC is an experienced nutrition consultant and writer. She has a practical, grounded approach to nutrition, and believes that our food choices, and the way in which we involve food in our lives, are fundamentally important for our long-term health and well-being. Rachel is a full member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutrition Therapy and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. She lives with her husband and two children in the Lancashire countryside, surrounded by chickens and vegetable patches. For more information on Rachel’s work please visit www.rachelbartholomew.co.uk.

Mandy Pearson MA (Hons.) is an accredited and skilled NLP trainer, mindfulness and meditation teacher, consultant, and coach. She has studied psychology from many different perspectives, firstly at university and followed by over 20 years of extensive training in counselling, clinical psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, coaching, and NLP. Mandy is also a Reiki master teacher and spiritual development coach, and integrates the practice of mindfulness into all aspects of her work. As the director of Sea Star Training (www.seastartraining.co.uk) and head of leadership at 6th Door Training Ltd (www.6thdoor.com), she is known as “the happiness consultant,” delivering NLP and mindfulness-based communication training and corporate, organizational and one-to-one mindful leadership training and coaching throughout the UK. She lives in Southport with her family and Tibetan terriers, and likes to start every day with a mindful dog walk in the sandhills.