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Mindful Eating

Mindful Eating. Lauren Kroeger, RD. Focus your mindset on what you CAN have instead of what you CAN’T There is a place for all foods in a healthy diet. Healthy Relationship with Food. More about how you eat than what you eat Observe Be in the moment Savor Be aware

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Mindful Eating

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  1. Mindful Eating Lauren Kroeger, RD

  2. Focus your mindset on what you CAN have instead of what you CAN’T • There is a place for all foods in a healthy diet Healthy Relationship with Food

  3. More about how you eat than what you eat • Observe • Be in the moment • Savor • Be aware • Be nonjudgmental Mindful Eating

  4. Mindfulness encompasses both internal and external environments

  5. Mindfulness cultivates the possibility of freeing yourself of reactive, habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting

  6. Mindfulness promotes balance, choice, wisdom, and acceptance of what is

  7. Eat with Intention and Attention • What do I have? What do I need? What do I want? • Listen to your body’s natural cues Nourishment vs. Enjoyment

  8. Overeating • Restrictive eating • Instinctive or Intuitive eating Types of eating behaviors

  9. Why? Triggered • When? External or emotional cues • What? Comfort foods • How? Mindlessly, quickly, secretly • How much? Until food is gone Overeating

  10. Why? Rules • When? According to rules • What? “Good” or “Allowed” foods • How? Rigidly • How Much? Allowed amount Restrictive Eating

  11. Why? Fuel • When? The body lets me know  “Cues” • What? Whatever they want • How? Intentionally • How much? Enough to satisfy hunger Instinctive or Intuitive Eating

  12. Learn to have a healthy relationship with food • Avoid a negative attitude toward food • Observe your body’s cues • View food as nourishment vs. enjoyment • Recognize what type of eater your are, and avoid destructive behaviors • Be an instinctive or intuitive eater! Summary

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