Mindful Eating, Mindful Life.
Savour every moment and every bite
Thich Nhat Hanh & Dr Lilian Cheung
Mindful Eating, Mindful Life: Savour every moment and every biteCommon sense tells us that to lose weight, we must eat less and exercise more. But somehow we get stuck. We start on a diet with good intentions but cannot stay on track. Neither the countless fad weight loss programmes, nor the annual spending of millions of pounds on dieting or dieting products helps us feel better or lose weight.
Too many of us are in a cycle of shame and guilt. We spend countless hours worrying about what we ate or if we exercised enough, blaming ourselves for actions that we can't undo. We are stuck in the past and unable to live in the present—that moment in which we do have the power to make changes in our lives.
With Mindful Eating, Mindful Life, world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and nutritionist Dr. Lilian Cheung show us how to end our struggles with weight once and for all.
Offering practical tools, including personalized goal setting, a detailed nutrition guide, and a mindful living plan, the authors help us to uncover the roots of our habits and then guide us as we transform our actions. This unique book teaches us how to easily adopt the practice of mindfulness and integrate it into eating, exercise, and all facets of our daily life, so that being conscious and present becomes a core part of our being.
It is the awareness of the present moment, the realization of why we do what we do, that enables us to stop feeling bad and start changing our behavior. Mindful Eating, Mindful Life not only helps us achieve the healthy weight and well-being we seek, but it also brings to the surface the rich abundance of life available to us in every moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. His lifelong efforts to generate peace and reconciliation moved Martin Luther King Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. He is the author of many books, including the classic Peace Is Every Step and The Art of Power. He lives in France and travels worldwide leading retreats on the art of mindful living. Lilian Cheung, D.Sc., R.D., is a lecturer and director of health promotion and communication at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition. She is a co-investigator at Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity and is also the founder and editorial director of The Nutrition Source. Cheung has been a student of Thich Nhat Hanh’s since 1997.
Praise for Mindful Eating, Mindful Life:
- This could be the diet-and-exercise book for those who have failed using other methods and need a fresh approach.
- Publisher’s Weekly
- Among Buddhist leaders influential in the West, Thich Nhat Hanh ranks second only to the Dalai Lama.
- New York Times
Mindful Eating, Mindful Life
Published April 2011 Hay House
£10.99