Eating The Moment

A Practical Guide to Mindful Eating & Food Awareness

Slow down. Call in. Change your attitude to food – a moment at a time.Eating The Moment takes on board potent mindfulness-based practices that will enable you to eat less, see what triggers overeating, and develop a healthier and more conscious relationship with food.

About The Book

A Mindful Approach to Eating

Eating The Moment, a book written by a psychologist Pavel Somov, is a collection of 141 practical exercises that help readers to relax, start paying more attention to their eating patterns, and build a more balanced relationship with their food.

Instead of dictating what you should or should not eat, the book makes you inquisitive, conscious and loving toward your eating habits. It is concerned with the reasons we eat and not with what we eat.

What You’ll Discover

Practical Tools for Real-Life Change

This book goes beyond theory. It provides step-by-step practices and meditations that you can put into practice at once at the table, or in the kitchen, or in craving moments. Every tool will assist you to develop awareness, reassert control, and make a permanent change in your relationship with food without feeling guilty, having rules, and fixed diets.

Understanding Why We Eat

Discover psychological, emotional, and environmental antecedents of overeating and cravings.

Slowing Down the Eating Process

Find mindfulness skills that can make you less compulsive and more satisfied.

Creating Your Personal Philosophy of Eating

Create a creative, responsible attitude to food based on awareness and not prohibition.

Key Topics Covered

The book provides clear discussions and guided exercises on:

  • Environmental triggers for eating
  • Emotional and boredom eating
  • Cravings and appetite awareness
  • The sensual experience of food
  • Why we stop eating
  • Mindfulness principles in daily life
  • Developing a healthy relationship with food
  • Building a personal philosophy of eating

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Ready to Change the Way You Eat?

Build awareness. Reduce guilt. Learn to have a healthier relationship with food – today.