This new handout highlights the importance of building balanced meals and eating them mindfully. Check it out!

When you're on vacation, keep an eye on what I call "your mindful eating compass" – the inner sense of what and how you’re eating.

Neither this study nor the preponderance of prior research on the efficacy of adding mindfulness training to a weight loss program has demonstrated significantly greater weight loss or better long term weight control than a typical weight loss program incorporating diet, exercise, and some cognitive behavioral training for getting patients to lose more weight or keep off the lost weight.

People often follow food and diet rules that they believe will help them reach their health goals. These rules might be what to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, or even how to eat. All of this can become overwhelming and cause even the most motivated health-seeker to give up altogether. Will mindful eating help people’s efforts to eat healthfully?

Serving size doesn’t have to be a mystery or an after-thought on the journey to healthy eating. With the right tools, unintended calorie intake will be a pitfall of the past!