If you are struggling to change your eating behaviour, it's not your fault because Diets Don't Work (otherwise the last one would have).
At Attentive Weight Management it is Dr Lyn's view that if you haven't been educated to understand your eating behaviour that you are being unwittingly set up for failure....
Mindful Eating asks us to tune into our bodies, recognise hunger and fullness cues, and become aware of the emotional and environmental factors that influence our food choices (Kristeller, 2020).
Mindful eating teaches you how to change unhealthy overeating habits.
You cannot change what you cannot see! Firstly, mindful eating provides you with the skills to recognise your unhealthy habits of overeating.
Next, it shows you how to use your own, inner wisdom to change unhealthy habits. For example, one of Dr Lyn's clients stopped her habit of eating a whole box of Cheezels because after mindfully eating 5 of them, she realised that she no longer liked or wanted them. Why? Because they were too salty. Mindfulness is key, because when you are mindful you are not mindless. It's only when you are mindless that you will find yourself at the mercy of your habits.
Finally, it teaches you how to start trusting your own inner wisdom for advice, instead of continually falling under the spell of your old habits or the temptation of the latest fad diet. All of Dr Lyn's clients learn how to how to kick the old habit of "eating everything on their plates because they were told to as a child". How?? Because, when they learn how to eat mindfully, they recognise that it feels better to eat less than it does to eat more. All your brain needs to make the switch from unhealthy to healthy is to recognise that there is a bigger, better offer to be had. And if this bigger, better, offer is to feel better by eating less, it's going to want to take you in this direction!
When you learn the skills of mindful eating you learn how to flick the switch of awareness that gives you the choice: mindful director of your life or mindless slave to your overeating habits? When you learn how to be present with mindful eating: you get to make a choice.
When you learn how to mindfully pay attention to your overeating habits; you learn how to create a vital and vibrant lifestyle instead of mindlessly enabling a dull and unhealthy one! What are you waiting for??
Dr Lyn has been a Rockhampton local for the last 11 years. She is an Accredited, Practising Dietitian (APD), who has undertaken further training to gain the credential of a Certified Mindfulness-based Eating Awareness Training MB-EAT) Instructor, and Mindfulness-based Habit Change Facilitator.
A 1.5 hour group class, every week for 4 weeks.
Basic Skills in Mindful Eating Awareness Training
The Foundations of Great Nutrition. How to eat to achieve a healthy body and mind.
An exploration of your own unhelpful or unhealthy habitual patterns and how to change them.
Connection and discussion with like-minded others.
Access to an app for practice and free 1 month membership to Dr Lyn's Attentive Weight Management Club.
Check your Calendar: These are your dates and times!
Session 1: Monday August the 19th from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Session 2: Monday August the 26th from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Session 3: Monday September the 2nd from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Session 4: Monday September the 9th from 5:30 - 7:00pm
Monday Evenings
If you would like to improve your health and manage your weight: seize this opportunity. Begin your journey towards a more mindful and healthier you today.
