Mindful Eating: Right for your Practice?

The other day I attended my first program on Mindful Eating.  It was wonderful.  Rarely do I see approaches to combating obesity and helping people truly enjoy their food that I feel are so unique and groundbreaking.  Mindful Eating–as conceived by The Center for Mindful Eating (www.tcme.org)–is one such approach.  Skelly Publishing is always looking for new ways to help RDs break out of the same-old and be more effective, and when I learned of Mindful Eating, I immediately wanted to learn more.

I met Megrette Fletcher a few months ago when she helped us out with a continuing education program we were working on.  She’s an RD, a Buddhist and a founder of The Center for Mindful Eating.   She draws on her unique background to offer teleconferences and supervision groups for RDs, and is offering a teleconference on Feb 2nd at 1 PM EST called ‘Capturing in Words, the Essence of Mindful Eating.’  You can attend for free simply by joining TCME–for a mere $20 a year (it’s a great deal, trust me.)  In addition, Skelly Publishing will be offering Mindful Eating webinars with Megrette come March/April timeframe.  We’re really excited about them, and, if you work with diabetes or weight loss clients, we think they’ll immediately change your practice forever–and for the better.

Keeping Holiday Weight Gain in Check

blah, blah…we’ve heard it all before, right? Not so fast. Anyone who knows me knows I love data, and as much of it as possible. I’m not really so interested in someone’s opinion or the conventional wisdom–I’d rather test a theory and see what happens.

This is one of the reasons I love Brian Wansink’s work. Ever since Mindless Eating came out, I’ve been obsessed with his research, and am trying to make sure as many RDs and CDEs know about it. Knowledge is power, right? (This is why Skelly Publishing is offering a CPE program on Mindless Eating come January.) Anyway, Brian and the IFIC (International Food Information Council) teamed up to present a great webinar on the topic back in November. Unfortunately, it wasn’t recorded. But there’s a great video from him, along with a blog with some great tips and additional videos on the subject. You can also download the PDF of the webinar slides (still helpful even without audio). Think it’s too late for the holidays? His work can help your clients 24/7/365.