Publication
Imprint: Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala, 2017. Edition: Revised edition. Responsibility: Jan Chozen Bays, foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn. OCLC Number: 992168241. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxiii, 204 pages ; 23 cm. Features: Includes bibliography, index, resources.
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Emotions / Bays
ISBN
9781611804652
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CSS Library Notes
Description: Food. It should be one of life’s great pleasures, yet many of us have such a conflicted relationship with it that we miss out on that most basic of satisfactions. But it is possible—and not really all that difficult--to reclaim the joy of eating, according to Dr. Jan Bays, and mindfulness is the key. Her approach involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating—to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. She shows how to:
· Tune into your body’s own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat
· Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
· Identify your habits and patterns with food
· Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating
· Discover what you’re really hungry for
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 transform your relationship with food into one of ease and delight.
This new edition, updated throughout, contains a new chapter on how to provide children with a foundation in mindful eating that will serve them well all the rest of their lives. -- from back cover
FY2019 /
· Tune into your body’s own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat
· Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
· Identify your habits and patterns with food
· Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating
· Discover what you’re really hungry for
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 transform your relationship with food into one of ease and delight.
This new edition, updated throughout, contains a new chapter on how to provide children with a foundation in mindful eating that will serve them well all the rest of their lives. -- from back cover
FY2019 /
Physical description
xxiii, 204 p.; 23 cm
Description
Pediatrician and meditation teacher discussing how to "tune into your body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat; eat less while feeling fully satisfied; identify your habits and patterns with food; develop a more compasionate attitude toward your struggles with eating; discover what you're really hungry for. Includes a 75-min. audio program with guided exercises." -- Cover, p.4.
Language
Original language
English
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LibraryThing member she_climber
I found out about this book on the Early Reviewer list and knew I had to have it. Unfortunately I wasn't selected to receive an advanced copy, but I was able to get it from my library upon its release. This book is very well written and comes to me at the exact right moment in my life when my past
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4 years of changing my life and body from the outside (losing over 60 pounds) meets my new challenge of changing my life and body from the inside through self exploration and meditation. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is ready to come to peace with the diet/binge merry-go-round and truly understand what it is that they are hungry for. The accompanying CD makes the exercises/mediations much easier and accessible the author has thought of everything to make anyone successful if they are simply ready to take the first step in their journey. Show Less
LibraryThing member mitchellray
As a consequence of the American search for the perfect healthy diet, we have developed a love-hate relationship with food. Confusion reigns about what foods we are to eat and which we are to avoid. Our reliance on scientific evidence has simply added to the confusion. We can’t even agree if we
"Mindful Eating," written by physician and Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays, provides a way back to sane eating. Bays does not prescribe what we are to eat but provides gentle guidance about how to eat. This book provides numerous exercises to help us be present to ourselves and our food.
Bays teaches us to become aware of our seven forms of hunger—eye, nose, mouth, stomach, cellular, mind, and heart hungers. Each hunger satisfies legitimate needs. Bays instructs us with understanding and humor on how to recognize and satisfy each hunger. Her approach is a return to an intimate and joyful relationship with food. Stop dieting. Read this book and discover how to physically, mentally, and spiritually relate with food and return to sane eating.
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are naturally carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore."Mindful Eating," written by physician and Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays, provides a way back to sane eating. Bays does not prescribe what we are to eat but provides gentle guidance about how to eat. This book provides numerous exercises to help us be present to ourselves and our food.
Bays teaches us to become aware of our seven forms of hunger—eye, nose, mouth, stomach, cellular, mind, and heart hungers. Each hunger satisfies legitimate needs. Bays instructs us with understanding and humor on how to recognize and satisfy each hunger. Her approach is a return to an intimate and joyful relationship with food. Stop dieting. Read this book and discover how to physically, mentally, and spiritually relate with food and return to sane eating.
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LibraryThing member Dannelke
I gifted this to a food writer before I had the chance to fully "digest" it, but I liked what I read and the style of it's approach. The writer I gave it to told me she enjoyed it immensely.
LibraryThing member rhetter
"Mindful Eating" brings a Buddhist viewpoint to examining the reasons one overeats and from there, a method of controlling it. Because this was a ARC, it didn't include the cd of guided exercises so I can't gauge their effectiveness. The discussions in the books were interesting, but if it were
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that easy to "fix" a lifetime's habit, I would be perfect. Or at least not care. Show Less
LibraryThing member rosalita
I was very interested in reading this book, because I am in the midst of trying to redefine my relationship with food after 40+ years of using it as comfort, as celebration, as time-filler — as everything but nutrition, basically. The premise of the book is to teach the reader how to become more
The book includes narrative to introduce and explain the concepts of mindful eating, as well as exercises that the reader can use to explore the food/mind/body relationship. The exercises seemed very useful, although I cannot evaluate them fully because my advance reading copy did not include the CD that comes with the regular edition of the book. The CD includes the exercises, allowing you to listen to the instructions of the exercise as you perform it. This would seem to be much easier and more effective than reading a sentence or two, putting the book down and performing the task, then picking the book back up and reading the next bit.
This book doesn't really delve into the issues of corporate agriculture or eating locally, such as were raised in books such as "The Omnivore's Dilemma". It's a much more personal exploration of the relationship between food and the eater. Whether you choose to perform each of the exercises in its most minute detail, or simply read the narrative and think about the issues raised, this book is a valuable aid to calibrating your personal relationship with food.
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aware (more mindful, as the title says) of what he or she is eating, how much, and why.The book includes narrative to introduce and explain the concepts of mindful eating, as well as exercises that the reader can use to explore the food/mind/body relationship. The exercises seemed very useful, although I cannot evaluate them fully because my advance reading copy did not include the CD that comes with the regular edition of the book. The CD includes the exercises, allowing you to listen to the instructions of the exercise as you perform it. This would seem to be much easier and more effective than reading a sentence or two, putting the book down and performing the task, then picking the book back up and reading the next bit.
This book doesn't really delve into the issues of corporate agriculture or eating locally, such as were raised in books such as "The Omnivore's Dilemma". It's a much more personal exploration of the relationship between food and the eater. Whether you choose to perform each of the exercises in its most minute detail, or simply read the narrative and think about the issues raised, this book is a valuable aid to calibrating your personal relationship with food.
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LibraryThing member cattylj
Jan Chozen Bays provides a solid primer for mindful eating. The seven types of hunger she outlines are a new way (or I guess forgotten way, she would argue) to approach eating, but for the most part not too radical. We're all familiar with the concepts of comfort food and emotional eating, and
That said, as many have pointed out, she makes some sweeping generalizations and doesn't include enough scientific data to win over my inner skeptic. Considering she's a physician, I would have expected more medical evidence and less "Would ya believe it?" style anecdotes. But, the book is written in a self-help style, so I suppose that's not warranted. And I'm also already totally on board with mindfulness and mindful eating so I was hoping for something more...technical, I guess.
My other issue is this: In the introduction she talks about binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia as destructive food relationships. What follows, however, largely leaves anorexia out of the discussion or treats it only as an after thought. Even the section on fasting, which is perhaps the best time to enter into that discussion, doesn't get into it. Instead, she focuses heavily on over eating and the need to curb those habits. While many of the methods and exercises she provides seem like they would help, since her focus is so lopsided it makes me wonder whether, in her eyes, over eating is somehow more of a disorder than under eating.
It's a shame for several reasons, not least of which is that I think mindfulness really could help those with anorexia as well. But the exercises she offers don't seem to deal with the particular anxieties and emotional distress specific to that disease.
We ordered this book as part of our growing collection of stress/anxiety/mental health resources that we have available to students in the library. I'll still recommend students give this a try, but it's disappointing knowing that many of them won't find what the book promises. It's impossible to know what a person is struggling with just by looking at them and they're unlikely to come right out and say, "yeah I personally need something that focuses on bulimia/BED/anorexia/etc." At the very least, however, it offers a starting point and some solid basic mindfulness methods.
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sayings like, "your eyes are bigger than your stomach." So while she reframed these different relationships to food, nothing (except maybe cellular hunger) seemed too far out there. I also appreciated the conditional behaviors she outlines and the various inner voices - critic, perfectionist, pusher - many deal with.That said, as many have pointed out, she makes some sweeping generalizations and doesn't include enough scientific data to win over my inner skeptic. Considering she's a physician, I would have expected more medical evidence and less "Would ya believe it?" style anecdotes. But, the book is written in a self-help style, so I suppose that's not warranted. And I'm also already totally on board with mindfulness and mindful eating so I was hoping for something more...technical, I guess.
My other issue is this: In the introduction she talks about binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia as destructive food relationships. What follows, however, largely leaves anorexia out of the discussion or treats it only as an after thought. Even the section on fasting, which is perhaps the best time to enter into that discussion, doesn't get into it. Instead, she focuses heavily on over eating and the need to curb those habits. While many of the methods and exercises she provides seem like they would help, since her focus is so lopsided it makes me wonder whether, in her eyes, over eating is somehow more of a disorder than under eating.
It's a shame for several reasons, not least of which is that I think mindfulness really could help those with anorexia as well. But the exercises she offers don't seem to deal with the particular anxieties and emotional distress specific to that disease.
We ordered this book as part of our growing collection of stress/anxiety/mental health resources that we have available to students in the library. I'll still recommend students give this a try, but it's disappointing knowing that many of them won't find what the book promises. It's impossible to know what a person is struggling with just by looking at them and they're unlikely to come right out and say, "yeah I personally need something that focuses on bulimia/BED/anorexia/etc." At the very least, however, it offers a starting point and some solid basic mindfulness methods.
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