Your Ultimate Mindful Eating Experience
Every act of eating can be a choice that you make.
Join this group to learn a mindfulness approach to eating that reduces overeating, emotional eating and binge eating. Learn about clinically proven techniques and skills of mindfulness-based eating. The group will focus more on how to eat rather than what to eat or what not to eat.
Who may benefit from attending?
Any UNH student who wants to normalize their eating behaviors, develop a healthy relationship with food, and stop the overeating, bingeing, dieting cycles.
Each group session will include group discussions, activities to experience and practice mindfulness-based eating, and brief meditations on eating, hunger, cravings, and loving kindness.
Reasons to participate:
- I feel out of control with food and eating
- I eat large amounts of food even when I am not hungry
- I experience negative emotions during and after eating
- I use food to deal with stress
- I have had little or no success with dieting and exercise plans
- I habitually eat too fast
- I feel stuffed and uncomfortable after eating
- I feel uncomfortable with my body weight
What are the benefits of mindful eating?
- Less food-associated guilt and more non-judgmental awareness of eating experiences
- Greater confidence in the ability to make mindful food choices
- Heightened awareness and cultivation of physical hunger and fullness
- Enhanced pleasure and enjoyment of food
- Greater ability to balance emotional needs and stress without using food
- Improved awareness and cultivation of self-acceptance
Facilitators:
Maria Larkin, M.Ed, RD, LD, Nutrition Counselor and Sara Fechner, UNH Student and Peer Educator
When:
Six week program for fall 2011 meets every Friday starting October 2nd through November 18th to April 1st from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Where:
Health Services Conference Room (2nd Floor)
To sign up:
This group is closed for fall 2011. Please stop back for Spring 2012 registration news…
