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"The entire concept of 'curiosity' was new to me with respect to nutrition counseling. It seemed like a very unlikely word to include. I came to understand, however, how it can increase our awareness of our/client's behaviors when taking a more curious stance (I wonder how much food It will take to fill me up/satisfy me?) rather than a more judgmental, negative stance such as "I'm not supposed to eat more than this for lunch, but I seem extra hungry today!". Judy T

 
 
 
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Mindful Bytes July 2008

Greetings.

I hope this issue of Mindful Bytes finds you well.  Summer is here and TCME is excited to share with you a number of new tele-conference programs.

In July, TCME board member and author, Donald Altman, M.A., LPC will be presenting What's for Dinner?-- Eating with Themed Meal Cards   Donald is the creator of Mindful Eating Meal Cards.  He will share his experiences in using these cards with groups. This will be an interactive call, for TCME members only.  

  • Date and Time: (Thursday July 24, 3-3:50 ET)
  • No registration required for this call
  • CEU’s available to TCME members who are dietitians.
  • For more information check the TCME member website.

 

Back by popular demand, TCME member, physician and author or Am I Hungry?  Michelle May MD, will present, Chocolate Doesn’t Cause Weight Gain: How to Get Rid of Guilt

This TCME Member Only will explore how to help clients experience a powerful strategy for getting rid of guilt over eating the foods they love. Join Michelle while she explores how to satisfying the body’s needs for energy, nutrients, and pleasure.

  • Date and Time: July 28, 2-3 EST
  • No registration required for this call.
  • CEU’s available to TCME members who are dietitians.
  • For more information check the TCME member website.

 

The Center for Mindful Eating (TCME). TCME is a forum for professionals across all disciplines interested in developing, deepening and understanding the value and importance of mindful eating. TCME provides a wide variety of resources and training for those seeking up-to-date information about mindful eating practices, research, and education.

Mindful eating has the powerful potential to transform people’s relationship to food and eating, to improve overall health, body image, relationships and self-esteem. Mindful eating involves many components such as:

 

  • learning to make choices in beginning or ending a meal based on awareness of hunger and satiety cues;
  • learning to identify personal triggers for mindless eating, such as emotions, social pressures, or certain foods;
  • valuing quality over quantity of what you’re eating;
  • appreciating the sensual, as well as the nourishing, capacity of food;
  • feeling deep gratitude that may come from appreciating and experiencing food

 

Mindful eating draws substantially on the use of mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness helps focus our attention and awareness on the present moment, which in turn, helps us disengage from habitual, unsatisfying and unskillful habits and behaviors. Engaging in mindful eating meditation practices on a regular basis can help us discover a far more satisfying relationship to food and eating than we ever imagined or experienced before. A different kind of nourishment often emerges, the kind that offers satisfaction on a very deep emotional level.

Over the past 25 years, mindfulness practices, in general, have been shown to have a positive impact on many areas of psychological and physical health, including stress, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and heart disease.   More recently, evidence is building that validates the benefits of mindful eating for treatment of the obesity as well as binge eating disorders. The benefits of mindful eating are not restricted to physical and emotional health improvements; they can also impact one’s entire life, through a better sense of balance and well-being.

The Center for Mindful Eating does not promote one single approach to mindful eating. We are committed to dialogue, support, sharing ideas, clinical experience and research.

It’s our hope that TCME can support you in developing your own mindful eating skills and insights, which can then help you educate and encourage your clients to do the same.

 

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