The 12 week Mindful Eating Awareness Program

MINDFULNESS-BASED EATING AWARENESS TRAINING (MB-EAT) is a proven program developed to curb overeating by altering your relationship to food. Participants lose weight and maintain that weight loss. Obsessive food and body image thoughts will subside. This 12-week psycho-educational program covers the basics of mindful eating—meditation, hunger and fullness cues, eating behavior control, and more—and helps participants learn and practice behavioral changes, including:

• Distress Tolerance Skills
• Emotion Regulation Skills
• Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
• Core Mindfulness Skills

This will decrease impulsivity and increase healthy self-soothing skills and self-esteem for an enjoyable and fulfilling life. Appropriate candidates include those who are:

• Struggling with eating conditions such as yo-yo dieting, compulsive overeating, and binge eating.
  
• Obese and have quit dieting in favor of establishing a healthy relationship to food.
  
• Transitioning from a restricted-calorie all-liquid (Optifast) or partial-liquid (Medifast, Slimfast, Bonsante) diet back to food.
  
• Pre- or post-gastric surgery patients needing to re-learn to eat and find satisfaction with smaller portions in preparation for or following bariatric surgery.
  
• Diabetics needing to learn how to make and enjoy healthy food choices.

Through the process of mindful eating, you will develop a healthy relationship with food and eating. Rather than believing that food is the problem, you will come to see food as the solution. You will learn to bring eating into balance with other important aspects of life. Mindfulness practices have been shown to have a positive impact on many disease states and health concerns, and are now being applied increasingly to eating habits. Mindful eating can have a transformative effect on your entire life.

Diet plans = compensatory binge followed by excess weight gain. Mindful eating helps overeaters to feel their hunger, trust their taste buds, and become deeply satisfied with the quality rather than the quantity of food, empowering them to become connoisseurs rather than gluttons. (Some insurance companies may provide coverage.)