Mindful Eating Verses Mindless Eating

Abstract

Mindfulness is actually the moment to moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings and surroundings. It is a non-diet approach to achieve and maintain healthy weight with long term benefits. MINDFULL EATING means “Eat with attention”. It involves developing and enjoyable relationship with food. It’s not any kind of restrictive diet but instead, this practice involves experiencing the pleasure of food more intensely and being fully present at the meal. It promotes a psychological barrier to overeating and emotional eating by paying attention to the body signals such as hunger, fullness and satisfaction [6,7].