Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes: A Mindful Eating Program for Thriving with Prediabetes or Diabetes
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608822451 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Authors Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher seamlessly integrate mindful eating concepts with cutting-edge research, stories, visuals, and self-care practices. This groundbreaking book offers an entirely new program for managing diabetes while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The result? A comprehensive, compelling, and well-structured program that inspires, motivates, and teaches. With mindfulness as the core element, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes is a comprehensive guidebook designed to create long-term, sustainable, and life-enhancing strategies for those who are living with diabetes. This program is sure to increase mindful self-awareness, fulfillment, and the power of healthy choice. Donald Altman, MA, LPC, author of One-Minute Mindfulness and Meal By Meal
Not bad, but not motivating for me I Guess I need more structure to keep my glucose numbers under control. The book also seemed contradictory at times.. Sid Wasserman said A Godsend for those with diabetes, family members & diabetic professionals. As a psychotherapist who uses mindful eating techniques to help my diabetic & prediabetic clients, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. How to live and thrive with diabetes becomes very clear in every chapter. The normal fear after receiving a diagnosis of diabetes is dispelled as the reader is walked, step by step through the process of understanding what diabetes is. Then we are shown how mindfulness "helps focus our attention and awareness on the present moment, which, in turn, helps us disengage from habitual, unsatisfying, unskillful habits and behaviors. Engaging in mind. "An excellent resource" according to Alice Rosen, LMHC. As a therapist who has worked with a disordered eating population for over An excellent resource As a therapist who has worked with a disordered eating population for over 30 years, using a mindfulness-based approach, I am well aware of how resistant my clients are to rules, diets, restriction, and fear-based strategies, even after being diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes 2. I therefore read Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat very carefully, with a critical eye. To my delight, I have found a book, which I feel comfortable recommending to my pre-diabetic and diabetic clients.From the gentle, supportive, hopeful, realistic and empowering introduction to the end of the book,. 0 years, using a mindfulness-based approach, I am well aware of how resistant my clients are to rules, diets, restriction, and fear-based strategies, even after being diagnosed with pre-diabetes or diabetes 2. I therefore read Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat very carefully, with a critical eye. To my delight, I have found a book, which I feel comfortable recommending to my pre-diabetic and diabetic clients.From the gentle, supportive, hopeful, realistic and empowering introduction to the end of the book,
Even people with diabetes can eat what they love, using awareness and intention to guide them. After receiving a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes, it may seem that the days of "eating what you love" are over. Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes builds on the principles in Michelle May's Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat to help readers with diabetes reduce their anxiety about diabetes self-management. This book helps readers discover how eating and physical activity affect their blood sugar so that they can make decisions that support their good health without sacrificing delicious meals or dinner out with friends. Understanding dietary changes, blood glucose monitoring, and prevention of complications can feel scary and overwhelming. This four-part system helps readers think, nourish, care, and live with diabetes - without restriction or guilt - to discover optimal health and the vibrant life they crave.