Ellen Reiss-Goldfarb, RDN, CEDRD

Hi everyone, It is time to get mindful! How many of you practice Mindful Eating? Mindful Eating is a great practice to take on. It can help you with getting your need for satisfaction met from food. It can help you get in touch with your hunger and fullness cues. It can help you connect to your eating behaviors and habits around food. Paying more attention to the experience of eating can help you improve your diet as well as manage food cravings. What is Mindful Eating? Mindful Eating is being able to maintain an "in the moment" awareness of the food and drinks you are consuming. It involves observing how the food makes you feel and the signals your body sends about taste, satisfaction and fullness. It requires you to simply acknowledge and accept rather than judge or even criticize the feelings, thoughts and body sensations that are observed. What are the benefits of Mindful Eating? By eating mindfully, it can help you to examine your relationship with food. It