Mindful Eating: A Healthy, Balanced and Compassionate Way to Stop Overeating

How to Lose Weight and Get a Real Taste of Life by Eating Mindfully

By: Simeon Lindstrom

Narrated by: John Malone

Length: 58 mins

Publisher's summary

What are you hungry for, really?

You may have been drawn to the idea of mindful eating as an antidote to the empty promises of the diet industry, or you may have felt that it's time to pursue a more purposeful, more compassionate way of eating.

Whatever your reasons and whatever your current relationship to food and your body is, this book can help you reconsider your eating habits and whether they are truly serving your highest good.

Through an exploration of the real reasons we overeat, our thoughts and feelings around food, and coming into closer contact with our own true appetites, this book aims to help you craft an open and accepting attitude toward food.

Mindful eating is an attitude toward food (and much more) that encourages awareness, deliberate action, and an open acceptance of the present moment as it unfolds around us.

In this book, we'll look at how the conventional dieting mindset is actually damaging and counterproductive, and how mindful eating can be a refreshing break away from all the expectations that you have about yourself and food that are not serving you.

The ultimate goal is to become exquisitely tuned in to your own appetites, desires, and passions, and to tune out the noise and clutter from the outside world that muffle your innate intuition about what is good for you and what isn't.

When we understand our true hunger, when we realize the psychological, emotional, behavioral, physical, and even spiritual causes behind our overeating, only then can we can start to take realistic steps to remedy it.

©2014 Simeon Lindstrom (P)2016 Simeon Lindstrom

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You validated my thoughs about my recent mindless eating. Desire to be loved. Divorce after 20 yrs broke me. I went from size 7 to a 22, in 1 yr. I also brought on Hashimoto's disease from the stress and not eating properly. My husband and family were very emotionally abusive through the years, jealousy on his sisters part and his father treated women like objects. I deployed to Iraq in 2009-2010. I was injured and have some scars across my chest. I had severe PTSD upon my return and was treated like I was a broken toy.
I am in counseling and finding out, it was not me, it was he and his family, that are truly broken.
For 20 yrs I craved love, but was treated like a trophy wife, only to be discarded when I came home broken. The trophy wife years were, take me out only , when it was time to impress someone.
Thank your audio book, it gives me hope. I will be listening to it , any time I need support. Which will be quite a bit in these next 6 months. I have bought an elliptical and you will be joining me.
Thank you again, for your support.
April Burchfield/Brennan 😇💖

Enjoyed the Book

I enjoyed this book because it is straightforward. I find that I eat a lot less. I'm learning to face my emotions instead of pushing them away and numbing myself with whatever I can stuff into my face. I like having this level of control over myself and trusting myself.

A Nice and Short Introduction

This short book taught me a major lesson: live in the moment. I'm learning how to eat intuitively and this book was a great intro. The simple act of taking time prior to, during, and after a meal to assess my feelings about the meal and my body's reaction, may be the key in helping me change my lifestyle.

A great overview to true balance

This is a calm, clear and non judge mental introduction to mindful eating. This is not an intense “do this now”. It has given me a lot to think about.

Vegetarian/Vegan

Great message, until the section on becoming. Vegetarian. I disagree that women may become vegetarian because eating meat is seen as masculine. I wish you would have gotten into the mindfulness of giving up eating animals that are tortured and murdered to feed our already unhealthy selves. There is a beauty and compassion in giving up animal products. I would love to hear that subject explored a little further....from a mindful headspace. With no disrespect intended, you must eat meat...there was almost no real thought behind what you said, sounded almost juvenile.

Simple truth.

Short and sweet. The whole thing is as it should be: simple. Give it a shot!

A truely helpful source to the sincere person

A person lost in diet hood this short book awakened a sleeping innate sense in myself that I endure to know fully. thank you for these words.

It’s only 58 minutes. I feel ripped off

Not for a 58 minute book. I thought I was getting a series of books. I paid a whole point for this and I def regretted it.

Very basic, yet useful information

An interesting overview on Mindful Eating, even though it will not teach you any kind of exercises.

Just what I was looking for!!!

I’ve always felt like there was an inner voice subtly speaking to me about many things. This book has prompted me to become more aware of this “internal compass” so that it can take its place up front rather than remaining in the background up under a whole lot of emotions, habits, false beliefs, etc. I am excited to start my journey towards “being present and in the moment as I make choices about my life INCLUDING THE FOOD I CHOOSE TO TAKE IN!!! Thank you so much Simeon Lindstrom for writing this book!

Simply thoughtful

This was excellent. Simple, enlightening and food for thought. I am looking forward to my journey from here ❤

Good help but needs to go deeper in subjects

Was enjoyable and interesting but I’m a comfort eater who has mental health problems, anxiety and depression. I heard these subjects being covered but briefly I wish it went in deeper to the root of the subject.