The Best Mindful Eating Books

Have you ever wondered why fad diets don't work?

Does the pressure of your body size get to you?

Does losing weight, getting shredded and lean, or burning fat frustrate you?

Clearly, after all the diets, extensive exercise, running, cycling, jogging hasn't worked. You've tried the fasting fads. Now perhaps it's time to understand your relationship to food.

The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food - and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating.

Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help with food issues. 

Whether you are overweight, suffer from an eating disorder, or just want to get more out of life, this book offers a simple tool that can make a remarkable difference.

Common sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more.

But somehow we get stalled. We start on a weight-loss program with good intentions but cannot stay on track.

Neither the countless fad diets, nor the annual spending of $50 billion on weight loss helps us feel better or lose weight.

Too many of us are in a cycle of shame and guilt. We spend countless hours worrying about what we ate or if we exercised enough, blaming ourselves for actions that we can't undo.

We are stuck in the past and unable to live in the present - that moment in which we do have the power to make changes in our lives.

With Savor, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Harvard nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung show us how to end our struggles with weight once and for all.

Are you seeking out a healthy way to help yourself overcome eating issues or an eating disorder?

Mindful Eating is the perfect book for you, packed with essential tips and tricks about how you can begin changing your diet for the better, and subsequently improve your life in the process.

And the best part? If you follow the guidance in this book, then you can still eat whatever you want!

Mindfulness is a practice that allows you to gain control over your eating habits and make changes for the better.

Mindful eating allows you to seek methods that tackle eating problems head on, releasing their power over you.

Gone will be the days of stressfully counting calories, restricting what you can eat, and creating a bad relationship with food.

What would it be like to really savor your food? Instead of grabbing a quick snack on your way out the door or eating just to calm down at the end of a stressful day, isn't it about time you let yourself truly appreciate a satisfying, nourishing meal?

In our modern society, weight concerns, obesity rates, and obsession with appearance have changed the way we look at food - and not necessarily for the better.

If you have ever snacked when you weren't hungry, have used guilt as a guide for your eating habits, or have cut calories even when you felt hungry, you have experienced "mindless" eating firsthand.

This mindless approach to food is dangerous and can have serious health and emotional consequences. But if you've been mindlessly eating all your life, it can be difficult to make a change.

When it comes down to it, you must take a whole new approach to eating - but where do you begin? Practicing mindful eating habits may be just the thing to make that important change.

In fact it might just be the answer you've been searching for all these years.

While you’ve probably heard about the popular trends of detoxing and cleansing, you may not have heard about the importance of checking the pH levels in your body.

And while you may know that sugar is “bad for you,” you may not know that it can be directly linked to chronic illness.

Mindful Eating is more than just another diet book. In this easy-to-read guide to nutrition, you can actually learn the basic science of what food does to and for your body.

It’s like going back to health class, and it all makes life-changing sense!

Whether you are trying to lose weight, recover from an eating disorder, or improve your overall state of calm and wellness, this book helps you change your relationship with food and cultivate a positive eating mindset.

Eating a sandwich while running from a bear isn't good for digestion or nutrition. That's exactly what we're doing when eating a meal on the run or being distracted by computers, TVs, and newspapers.

Rather than nourishing our bodies, we are feeding anxiety and poor habits that prevent our systems from functioning well.

Author and registered dietitian Michelle Babb shows you how to practice mindful eating that lets your body access the nutrients from food and turn on its self-regulating system.

It's the sustainable way to shed pounds, maintain your healthiest weight, and ensure optimal digestion.

When you build a positive relationship with food, you reduce binge and emotional eating.

Included in the book are 30 vegetarian recipes designed to enhance your introduction to mindful eating by engaging all the senses.

Eating should be a source of joy—not a cause of angst, stress, or calorie-counting. Jan Chozen Bays’s 2009 edition of Mindful Eating demonstrated the timeliness of that message in a world where our relationship with food is often negatively charged to the point where eating disorders are epidemic.

Her approach ties together the latest science with Buddhist mindfulness techniques (she’s an MD as well as a Zen teacher) in a way that’s brought amazing results to folks who had no idea eating could be such a fulfilling and fun activity.

With this little book, Jan now makes mindful eating even more accessible, providing simple exercises you can use anywhere in a small format you can keep in your pocket or purse to pull out for inspiration wherever you might be—any time you want to find a way to reconnect with eating as one of life’s great joys.

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.

Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful is a new tool for dealing with the age-old problem of mindless overeating.

The author currently uses this workbook with clients in her Mindful Eating Support Groups.

The book is a collection of more than seventy worksheets she has created. The workbook is organized around the seven skills of mindful-eater-awareness: observing, being in-the-moment, acceptance, letting go, non-judgment, and mindfulness of the environment. Each worksheet is one to two pages.

This concise, easy-to-use guide is great for introducing people to mindful eating. More advanced mindful eaters love the journal format. It is also a helpful tool for therapists to use with their clients.