Mindful Eating: To Boost Your Energy and Engage Your Senses

Presented by Jill Nussinow, MS, RD The Veggie Queen

What is Mindful Eating?

Mindful Eating is All About TASTE T ake a moment to be grateful for your food A ssess your hunger and your food choices S ensibiility and slowing down counts – use your senses: sight, smell, touch and then taste, and chew with purpose, putting down your utensils between bites T aste – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami E xperience – eat and enjoy

Or Try CAMP The CAMP System derives its name from its components: Control, Attitudes, Mindful Eating and Portions. Source

The Picture View

The CAMP Way ATTITUDES. Seeing food in a new way ATTITUDES. MINDFUL EATING. Slowing down and paying attetion MINDFUL EATING PORTIONS. Creating boundaries, making differen decisions PORTIONS Willpower doesn’t work. Food feeds body and spirit. Eat less food but enjoy it more.

STOP Select – choose a bite of food that you want to savor – be sure that it’s not too big or too small Taste – you fully chew, taste and only swallow your food when it is thoroughly chewed Observe – what happens to that bite of food. How does it feel in your mouth, going into your stomach? How does it feel to be eating with purpose and intention? Pause – before taking a bite, while eating and then when you are done, before the next bite

Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink, Ph. D. The Bottomless Bowl of Soup How much more did they eat?

The 100 Calorie Pack and the Myth of Portion Size How does this affect how much you eat? Does it matter if you eat more than 1? What are the “best” food choices? Keeping things in perspective

Eating: mouth, stomach, eyes or brain? Are you truly hungry?

Making Food More Attractive

Where do you go from here? Incorporating Mindful Eating into Daily Life

Thank You for Your Attention