Mindful eating is a technique that helps you gain control over your eating habits.

It has been shown to promote weight loss, reduce binge eating, and help you feel better.

This course walks you step by step through what mindful eating is, how it works, and what you need to do to get started.

Mindful eating is based on mindfulness, a Buddhist concept. Mindfulness is a form of meditation that helps you recognize and cope with your emotions and physical sensations. It’s used to treat many conditions, including eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and various food-related behaviors Mindful eating is about using mindfulness to reach a state of full attention to your experiences, cravings, and physical cues when eating

Today’s fast-paced society tempts people with an abundance of food choices. On top of that, distractions have shifted attention away from the actual act of eating toward televisions, computers, and smartphones. Eating has become a mindless act, often done quickly. This can be problematic since it takes your brain up to 20 minutes to realize you’re full. If you eat too fast, the fullness signal may not arrive until you have already eaten too much. This is very common in binge eating.

This course will teach you how to eat mindfully, restore your attention and slow down and make eating an intentional act instead of an automatic one.

You will learn to increase your recognition of physical hunger and fullness cues, and you will be able to distinguish between emotional and true, physical hunger

You also increase your awareness of triggers that make you want to eat, even though you’re not necessarily hungry.

By knowing your triggers, you can create a space between them and your response, giving you the time and freedom to choose how to react.