The Mindful Diet: How to Transform Your Relationship to Food for Lasting Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

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The Mindful Diet is the first book to combine health psychology with cutting-edge nutrition research to deliver an up-to-the-minute method for eating mindfully and breaking the yo-yo diet cycle. Loaded with meditation exercises, behavioural techniques, nutrition advice and meal-planning charts, this book provides the tools to avoid cravings, stop emotional overeating and figure out when you are full. Lasting weight loss and healthy living begin in the mind: now you can learn how to reprogram your body, make healthy choices, lose weight and keep it off for life.

Ruth Wolever, PhD, is a clinical health psychologist, the Director of Research at Duke Integrative Medicine, an advisor to the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Duke School of Medicine. Beth Reardon, MS, RD, LDN, previously the Director of Integrative and Functional Nutrition at Duke Integrative Medicine and Senior Nutrition Advisor for Caring.com, currently has a private practice.

The proven way to train your brain and to resist cravings and unhealthy food * Daily Mail * The Mindful Diet explains, from a psychological viewpoint, why people make bad food choices and how mindfulness can be used to make healthier ones * Top Sante * The Mindful Diet provides an empowering program, gifting the reader with easy to implement tools to fully engage the mind in the fundamentally important decisions related to food choices. This is extremely valuable information that will clearly enhance your resolve when it comes to eating right. * David Perlmutter, bestselling author of Grain Brain * Wolever and Reardon have transformed cutting edge science into a simple, doable blueprint for nourishing both mind and body. * Pam Peeke, bestselling author of The Hunger Fix * This is not an "eat this, don't eat that" program; rather, it's an attack on the negative thoughts and patterns that lead to diet failure. Those who struggle with long-term weight issues may find this approach to be the answer they seek. * Publishers Weekly * The Mindful Diet skillfully leads the reader to a new relationship with eating and food. The book is wonderfully readable, yet Wolever and Reardon ground the many suggested practices in up-to-date wisdom from psychological research and nutritional information. It illuminates the dimensions of mindful eating in a way that is easily approachable, yet can help break the cycle of overeating and over-dieting. * Jean Kristeller, co-founder, The Center for Mindful Eating * The Mindful Diet addresses the reason many people struggle with their weight-even though they know what they shouldn't eat, they still succumb to deeply ingrained habits, cravings, and distracted eating. With practical exercises and a sound eating plan, this fantastic, well-written book will teach you concrete strategies and skills for losing weight-for good! * Cathy Wong, author of The Inside-Out Diet * If your goal is to stop starving and struggling with unrealistic diets and start making real, lasting, do-able changes to your eating habits, The Mindful Diet is an essential, must-read guide. * Dr Susan Albers, bestselling author of EatQ and Eating Mindfully * Wolever and Reardon's scientifically proven plan has effectively helped everyone from mindless eaters and yo-yo dieters to compulsive overeaters and binge eaters get a handle on their eating. Practice what they teach and you'll not only change your diet, you'll change your life! * Jean Fain, author of The Self-Compassion Diet *