How to Enjoy a Cruise Vacation Without Going Overboard
By changing your cruise mindset to a mindful eating mindset, you'll enjoy your cruise -- or any vacation -- without taking it home with you.
By changing your cruise mindset to a mindful eating mindset, you'll enjoy your cruise -- or any vacation -- without taking it home with you.
Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. | Posted 05.18.2012
Have you ever been sitting at a meal with someone, or even by yourself, and been halfway through the meal without having tasted the food? In my experience, the odds are likely that you'll be nodding your head up and down.
Heather Bauer, RD, CDN | Posted 05.13.2012
To this day, I use the essential nutrition advice that my mom bestowed upon me. She simply wanted me to practice mindful eating. As a mother and nutritionist, it's a value that I now work to instill in my own children and clients.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.02.2012
If you want to win something, run the 100m. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. -- Emil Zatopek Welcome to the Mindful Eating Marat...
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 04.25.2012
It is my pleasure to introduce you to new books recently published by two fascinating, well-respected eating experts -- Barbara Rolls and Marion Nestle.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 04.05.2012
We help women overcome binge eating by understanding how to feed themselves well, the reasons they use food for comfort, and how to make choices in the moment that will short-circuit the binge and emotional overeating cycle.
Lisa Turner | Posted 05.30.2012
Develop a healthy relationship with your body. Take the act of eating out of the mind and back to the belly, and trust the wisdom of your body to know when, what and how much to eat.
Susan Harrow | Posted 05.14.2012
I'm in love with Pinterest the new hot social network where images are digital coke -- addictive, unlimited pleasure with just a few side effects -- l...
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 04.25.2012
Do you love watching the Oscars? In honor of award season, I'd like to give 12 awards for the best, research, tools and media on healthy eating and body image.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 04.14.2012
Intuitively, it makes sense that mindful eating is helpful to overeaters. So how does it also help people who have other problematic eating habits?
Judith S. Beck, Ph.D. | Posted 04.10.2012
Mindful eating is a skill, much like learning to ride a bike or operate a new electronic device. It takes proper instruction and practice. And while it may be more difficult at first, it gets easier and easier until it becomes automatic.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 04.02.2012
It's that time of year again for some of the best cookies on earth. How can you resist buying a box (or five) from your favorite schoolgirl? Let's face it. Those little cookies are hard to eat mindfully.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 03.26.2012
Talking about food and health touches us deeply. If Paula Deen's story caught your interest or bothered you, take a minute to pause and ask yourself why.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 03.20.2012
In a nutshell, intuitive eating has taught people how to plug back into their bodies. It's using your natural, internal wisdom to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are full. As we all know, this is much easier said than done.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 12.03.2011
Focus on health not weight. The message should not be about being "thin." Instead, it is about being healthy. Healthy means being strong, eating nutritious food and getting exercise.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.26.2011
Can you eat chocolate while you are losing or managing your weight? Yes! Would life be any fun without chocolate? No! My goal is to teach you the ins and outs of how to eat chocolate mindfully.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 10.24.2011
In my opinion, hummus is the new peanut butter. You can put it on anything to give it more flavor and substance -- crackers, sandwiches, veggies, chips etc.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 09.21.2011
The next time you have a craving for nuts it may be worth taking a scoop of pistachios in their shells. It's nice when a snack food can help you to naturally and easily eat more mindfully.
Thich Nhat Hanh | Posted 08.30.2011
Mindful eating sees each meal as representative of the whole cosmos. Look closely at an apple and you can see a cloud floating in it, as well as the rain, the earth and the sunshine that made the apple tree flower and fruit.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011
Here are seven common traps new moms fall into that lead them right into mindless eating. See if these habits sound familiar.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 06.27.2011
I am writing about cake this week because the world is buzzing about the anticipated royal wedding. There has been a lot of hype about the dress, but what about the wedding cake?
Manuel Villacorta | Posted 05.25.2011
Losing weight is a totally different experience for women than it is for men. Assuming that all emotions are in check, physiologically speaking for men, losing weight is pretty straightforward.
Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is encouraging you to do just one thing this week to support eating disorder research and recovery. Here are five ideas.
Lisa Turner | Posted 11.17.2011
Whatever you're going to eat, bring an element of beauty, grace and dignity to the experience.
Deborah Schoeberlein | Posted 11.17.2011
One colleague teased, "Slow down, eat mindfully!" The retort: "What's speed got to do with it? I'm eating more so I can continue practicing mindfulness." Later, I realized that there was much, much more to that interchange.
Michelle May, M.D. | Posted 05.29.2012