Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss


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Zen Anti-Diet is a method for creating a positive relationship with food and eating. It is a response to the needs of a population that is falling prey, at an alarming rate, to weight issues, disease, mental disorders and stress. At a time when the challenges of life seem overwhelming, becoming more conscious of the choices we make regarding food and eating is vital to our health and well-being.




Women Food and God


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Millions of us are locked into an unwinnable weight game, as our self-worth is shredded with every diet failure. Combine the utter inefficacy of dieting with the lack of spiritual nourishment and we have generations of mad, ravenous self-loathing women. So says Geneen Roth, in her life-changing new book, Women, Food and God. Since her 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love, was published, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with spirituality and psychology to explain women's true hunger. Roth's approach to eating is that it is the same as any addiction - an activity to avoid feeling emotions. From the first page, readers will be struck by the author's intelligence, humour and sensitivity, as she traces the path of overeating from its subtle beginnings through to its logical end. Whether the drug is booze or brownies, the problem is the same: opting out of life. She powerfully urges readers to pay attention to what they truly need - which cannot be found in a supermarket. She provides seven basic guidelines for eating (the most important is to never diet) and shares reassuring, practical advice that has helped thousands of women who have attended her highly successful seminars. Truly a thinking woman's guide to eating - and an anti-diet book - women everywhere will find insights and revelations on every page.




Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful


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Presents tools for applying the principles of mindful eating to daily life, such as self-assessment questions and tables that track eating patterns and the emotions accompanying them.




The Panda Diet


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In the Panda Diet, Kyle teaches and educates with his form of fasting, known as the Panda Diet. In this book, you will learn the why and how of fasting and how Kyle came to these conclusions. This is the exact diet philosophy that has helped transform the health and body's of hundreds of Kyle's clients.




Eating Mindfully


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How common and effortless it is to eat in an uncontrolled, unaware, mindless manner. If you've ever continued to snack when you were full, cut calories despite being hungry, or used guilt to guide your eating, you've experienced mindless eating firsthand. Let's face it. Deciding what to eat is not an easy task. It's so tricky that in the United States eating concerns and weight obsessions have reached epidemic proportions, with serious health consequences for a large part of the population. What turns an everyday activity like eating into such an overwhelming process? The answer to that question is, of course, a complex one. Throughout the book, we will return to that question with some answers. But the bottom line is this: To make smart, healthy eating choices, your body and mind work together to send you essential clues about what you need and want to eat. These clues give you information about ''how much'' and ''what'' to eat. The sensations and emotions that signal when you're full, famished, or just wanting to eat something rich and delicious are a complex combination of bodily and emotional feelings. If you are attentive and responsive to these cues, your eating will be healthy, in control, and well regulated. Dieting and disliking your body are incredibly detrimental to your emotional, mental, and physical well-being. They inhibit your ability to accurately decode your body's messages and feedback. The dieting mindset is akin to taking a knife and cutting the connection that is your body's only line of communication with your head. The dieting mindset can skew your knowledge of healthy eating so badly that you have no idea of what to eat. Mindless eating is then manifested in two ways. You can either ''obsess'' or ''ignore'' internal feedback from both your body and mind, rather than responding thoughtfully to your hunger and to your concern about your health. In this book, you will learn how mindlessness unknowingly corrupts the way you eat a meal, and how it manifests in a variety of eating problems. You will gain insight into why mindfulness, which is, of course, the opposite of mindlessness, can provide you with valuable skills to control the way you eat.




Mindful Eating


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Internationally renowned and award-winning, Miraval Resort & Spa sits at the foot of the sprawling Santa Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. There, nestled within the warm desert landscape, Miraval is the premier destination for life betterment—a place where guests feel, are, and can be more. Since its beginning in 1996, Miraval has upheld a powerfully simple vision: life is more meaningful and enjoyable when one’s physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and intellectual components are in balance. The pioneer for mindfulness in every aspect of life, one of the pillars of Miraval’s success is that healthy food can taste good. Long celebrated for delectable masterpieces in spa cuisine, Miraval’s culinary team has created this compilation of balanced recipes, representing an invitation to continue eating the Miraval way—by expanding and mixing and learning more about one’s needs while bringing diet into balance.




Fuel Your Brain, Not Your Anxiety


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Discover how you can use high-protein, brain-fueling foods to overcome anxiety, worry, and fatigue for good! Do you struggle with anxiety, sugar cravings, weight gain, and fatigue? You aren’t alone. In our busy, overscheduled lives, many of us turn to fast food to relieve stress and meet the challenges of our jobs, families, and relationships. But these “on-the-go” meals—which are typically low in protein and high in sugar—can actually contribute to our anxiety, add to our waistlines, and increase our risk of developing devastating medical problems. So, what can you do to break free from this vicious cycle? In this practical, feel-better-now workbook, you’ll learn how to make healthier food choices, and discover how protein and sugar affect your emotions and energy on any given day. You’ll also find convenient meal planning and tracking tools to help you monitor your progress, and a wealth of easy tips and doable ways to improve your diet, overcome fatigue, and restore your vitality and mental clarity. Everyone’s heard the adage, “You are what you eat.” When it comes to anxiety, research now shows that nutritional factors often underlie the anxious thoughts and feelings we have every day. With this life-changing workbook, you’ll learn to use brain-boosting foods to stay one step ahead of anxiety.




Nourishing Traditions


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The Zen Diet Revolution


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• Based on the Japanese principle of Kaizen, which means ‘improvement’ or ‘small, permanent change for the better’, the Zen Diet ensures you will never be ‘on’ another diet ever again • The Zen Diet combines ancient spiritual wisdom with the most cutting-edge research into fat loss • Includes dietary adjustments, supplementation and advice approved by the Institute of Food Research and clinically proven among other things to actually decrease the number of fat cells in your body – all without any calorie counting




Eat to Love


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A joyful, non-diet approach to mindfulness, intuitive eating, and falling in love with the body you live in. In Eat to Love, nutritionist Jenna Hollenstein leads a spiritual revolution against pervasive attitudes towards food and dieting, and demonstrates how to free your mind from the fear, frustration, and shame often associated with eating. Through a series of revelatory exercises, along with simple instructions for time-proven mindfulness and meditation techniques, you’ll learn to identify prejudices around eating and reset your relationship with food. Eat to Love is not a diet book, not a “clean eating” manual, and not a guide to “being your best self.” Rather, it is a liberating path to sanity, and to loving the body you have right now. Since early childhood, many of us have heard that something is wrong with our bodies: with the way they look, the way they feel and the food we crave. This diet culture—surrounding us in the form of media, fashion, food trends, and even messages from friends and family—tells us that the only way to be happy is to be thin and to rigidly follow the latest eating dogma. Eat to Love challenges this insidious, pervasive messaging and resets your relationship with food from one that’s shameful to one that’s nourishing, liberating, and enriching.