Mindful Eating Course Information

Mindful Eating Subscription Class
Chocolate and Mindfulness!?
What is Mindful Eating?
What is the Mindful Eating Class?

For Mindful Eating Subscribers: Mindful eating offers you an opportunity to enjoy your food more, while experimenting with satisfying portion sizes. It's fun and a journey of self discovery I encourage you to undertake with us. You will find you learn new skills and habits while benefiting from the insights of other participants in your class. Mindful eating is not a silver-bullet weight loss program. It has been shown to be effective in reducing binge eating and is an approach to sane eating, choosing foods that you enjoy and that nourish you. You may never have to diet again. Our classes offer the possibility of personal growth and community with others struggling with many of the same issues. The classes are not therapy-, nutrition-, or counseling-based. For these valuable one-on-one services, please contact a psychologist, registered dietitian, or coach.

A note to professionals: Our introductory classes to mindful eating are meant to provide information and tools you may use in your practice. Below is a list of topics covered in the six-hour courses. Shorter courses will cover the same material in less depth:

• What is Mindful Eating?
• Underlying principles of Mindful Eating
• Study on the effects of Mindful Eating on Binge Eating Disorder
• Multiple Mindful Eating strategies and exercises
• Why Mindful Eating works
• Examples of some of the interactive class materials
• Exercise in mindful eating  

CMEs are given out in cooperation with The Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine and sponsored by:

Sponsored by The University of Arizona College of Medicine
at the Arizona Health Sciences Center

What is Mindful Eating?

• Being aware of food choices and choosing to eat food that is both pleasing to you, and nourishing to your body, by using all your senses to explore, savor, and taste.
• Acknowledging responses to food (likes, neutral, or dislikes) without judgment.
• Learning to be aware of physical hunger and satiety cues to guide your decision to begin and stop eating.

A Person Who Eats Mindfully:

• Accepts that his or her eating experiences are unique.
• Is an individual who, by choice, directs his or her awareness to all aspects of food and eating on a moment-by-moment basis.
• Is an individual who looks at the immediate choices and direct experiences associated with food and eating: not to the distant health outcome of that choice. For example, "I can enjoy my life now..." not, "My life will be better when I lose 40 pounds..."
• Is aware of the effects caused by mindless eating.
• Experiences insight regarding how to achieve specific health goals as he or she becomes more attuned to the direct experience of eating and feelings of health.

What is the Mindful Eating Class?

• A step-by-step guide to creating a healthy relationship with food based on a program developed by Fred Burggraf, M.Ed. & Megrette Fletcher M.Ed., RD, CDE, LD.
• A key underlying goal of the course is to teach participants to treat themselves with kindness.
• In small increments, the course provides opportunities and workbook exercises to look at thoughts and moods -- and their impact on eating behaviors.
• The course promotes understanding, and allowing, of emotions as well as providing tools for working with these difficult feelings. . .
• Teaches short centering breathing exercises to help create balance and a window of opportunity for making good choices.
• An important goal of the class is to accept, and “live in”, rather than “what if...”
• Mindful Eating teaches staying involved in the process of making food choices and enjoying that process.
• Each week offers new concepts, themes, and activities to reinforce actual (rather than conceptual) understanding, and suggested workbook exercises for the week to develop mindful eating skills.
• The classes are taught by both psychologists and other professionals. We do not offer psychotherapy; however, teachers are trained in facilitating emotional and behavioral change.

Mindful Eating Class Descriptions:

Monthly Subscription to Mindful Eating - a new class and theme are offered each week. A minimum of four new classes per month are available. Each month we offer you the opportunity to attend a special workshop with a visiting teacher. Our periodic workshop, enVisioning Your Future, is led by Laura Friedland, CPCC, ORSC, RN, BSN. Laura is a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute, an internationally recognized coach-training school, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. Chef Michelle Sugiyama, the founder of Wellconnect, Inc., a wellness teaching service focusing on health and nutrition, will periodically offer her Chocolate and Mindfulness!? class. These very popular classes are included in the Mindful Eating subscription.

Chocolate and Mindfulness!? is taught by Chef Michelle Sugiyama. Michelle is a top honors graduate of Le Cordon Bleu and interned under a Master Chef in Avignon, France. Her class has been enormously popular in the Minneapolis area, and why not? It includes a secret taste test of 3 famous types of gourmet chocolate*. In this class, you will discover why you eat when you are not really hungry and ways to curb your cravings and indulgences.  The best part is that you will learn this while savoring and learning about chocolate.  This class
*Includes shipping of individually wrapped slices of chocolate marked "A", "B", and "C". You will find out about the chocolates you tasted at the end of class.

Please note:  The classes and programs offered by eMindful  are intended to be educational and do not constitute any form of clinical treatment.

The eMindful classes and programs offered on this website do not constitute professional medical advice and should not be used as a substitute for medical diagnosis, advice or service.

Nursing CEUs are approved by the CA Board of Registered Nursing
Provider No. 11646
Scottsdale Institute for Health & Medicine

Authorized by CA Board of Behavioral Sciences
Provider No. PCE4036
eMindful

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