Mindful eating Archives

Maintaining Recovery During Short Lunch Times

March 16, 2025 by drmuhlheim

Eating Lunch in Recovery [Image description: Neon Light spelling "EAT"] Depicts the instruction for a person in eating disorder recovery to eat lunch.

Guest post by 2024-2025 doctoral extern, Natalie Cynamon. School lunchtime is ideal for catching up with friends, decompressing, or watching a show on your phone. However, it’s not long until the bell rings again, telling you it is time to return to class. With so little time to do what you want, it can be …

A Better Resolution For Exercise

February 17, 2024February 5, 2019 by drmuhlheim

exercise as joyful movement in eating disorder recovery in California [Image description: a larger bodied woman dances outside] Represents a potential woman in treatment for an eating disorder in Los Angeles, California

by Kristen Wright, LMFT, a former therapist at EDTLA Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to start a new fitness routine? Those “thirty days of push-ups or sit-ups” or “do 15 of this and 12 of that a day to your ideal body in no time,” might sound appealing. But you may have already …

The gift of food by Dr. Elisha Carcieri

May 20, 2020August 7, 2015 by drmuhlheim

Two months ago, I experienced one of life’s greatest gifts when my first child was born. Throughout my pregnancy, I was mindful of what I was eating and drinking in a way I had never experienced before. Another person was reliant on what I chose to put in my body and I was acutely aware …

Deliciousness! by Katie Grubiak, RD

December 2, 2024July 23, 2015 by drmuhlheim

Deliciousness! Yes, that is what this pup Moose is expressing in this photo. It is deliciousness that we seek in food and in life, isn’t it? Well maybe we forgot one or both of these pursuits along the way. Consuming delicious food, selected by our taste buds in our weight-shaming thin-obsessed society is sometimes associated …

Mindful Eating

February 20, 2012 by admin

The definition of binge eating is “the consumption of large amounts of food associated with a feeling of loss of control over eating.” Individuals who binge eat describe the experience as almost dissociative. They are frantically eating large amounts of food which they are barely tasting. They feel unable to stop until they are uncomfortably full.

One skill that I teach clients who binge eat and overeat is mindful eating. Mindfulness is a Buddhist principle that involves being fully aware of what is going on both inside yourself and in your environment at the moment. Mindfulness is a skill that anyone can develop.