The Joy of Half a Cookie: Using Mindfulness to Lose Weight by Jean Kristeller, Alisa Bowman

By Jean Kristeller, Alisa Bowman

Someone who’s attempted to shed extra pounds via sheer will energy understands how tricky, if no longer very unlikely, it may be. during this functional and paradigm-shifting e-book, Dr. Jean Kristeller offers a brand new alternative--a application for weight-loss according to her profitable Mindfulness-Based consuming knowledge education software. rather than frustration, depravation, backsliding, guilt, and an absence of results, The pleasure of part a Cookie provides basic, confirmed how one can reduce weight and continue it off, utilizing what we now learn about the ability of the mind.

The first e-book to deliver mindfulness to the healthy eating plan house in a very obtainable and mainstream approach, the enjoyment of part a Cookie will convey readers the right way to drop extra pounds while:

• ditching determination, guilt, and cravings;
• loving each chew, together with favourite and formerly “forbidden” foods;
• tapping into the body’s satiety signals.

Written for an individual who desires to drop some pounds – not only the mediation and yoga crowd – this available ebook provides a confirmed option to locate peace of brain and a more healthy dating with nutrients, for all times.

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I do know that some of you reading this may be interested in bariatric surgery or have had it, and I encourage you to experiment with the tools and principles I’ll be teaching you here. I’ve derived much of these strategies from my patients and what I’ve learned through their trial and error. Aside from learning how to properly portion meals or incorporate “cheats” into your daily eating life, my goals for you include learning how to be mindful, to be sensible at the table, to pay attention to yourself, and to engage in the real-life eating world with care and self-respect.

You may have found some success for short periods of time. Or perhaps you’re among those who have never found a program that works for you. You’ve tried a variety of them without much enthusiasm because they just didn’t fit into your life. The Full Diet is also for people who have had surgery and want to reaffirm their commitment to themselves and tune into where they are coming from again. This book is not selling surgery. Much to the contrary, it’s dispensing to you the secrets to weight loss that have been learned (and kept) in the field of obesity surgery.

So, there I was—a bald, fat, responsible dad and surgeon. When a friend of mine suggested that we “get in shape,” I took it to heart, secretly aghast at the idea that my need to get in shape was now a topic of discussion. I decided to confirm the covert messages I was receiving. I immediately looked for proof that I was in fact overweight. I had my wife photograph me in only my shorts so I could see my true “before” self. ” I know she didn’t mean it as brutally as it sounded, but there I was—now a bald, fat, responsible, dad, surgeon…shaped like a buffalo!

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