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Mindful eating is based on the Zen principle of mindfulness and requires your being acutely aware and conscious of what you're eating

All or Nothing?
You either think you have to follow a strict diet with a rigid eating regimen that offers no flexibility in order to succeed; or, you think if you fall off the wagon and eat junk for a day or two, you’ve blown it and there’s just no use trying.

Conscious Eating
This Nutricise.com article touts conscious eating as a very important part of weight maintenance and offers several pointers on practicing it.

Diet for a Mindful Society
Thich Nhat Hanh is author of For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts, one of which is mindful eating.

Eating Consciously
A very spirituality-centric personal essay about mindful eating, which is also referred to as "conscious eating" in this article.

Healthwell: Filling the Void
This article is written in the forum of a diary of a person who is examining her own eating habits. If you have struggled with un-mindfull eating, you may find you identify with her feelings.

Healthwell: Regaining Balance
Tips from Healthwell.com on achieving mindful eating, to be read along with the article "Filling the Void."

Inner Meal
Official site for the book Art of the Inner Meal. The site's tagline quotes a Buddhist theory: "The most important thing in spiritual practice is food ... when you eat, how you eat, why you eat."

Mindful Eating
This Lifetime t.v. feature article concludes: "This technique is helping women keep the weight off permanently and is leaving crash and yo-yo diets in the dust."

Mindful Meals
Body Positive.com provides guidelines for practicing and getting the most out of mindful eating.

Mirasol
One of the goals of treatment at this center is to provide the client with the experience of normal eating. Their plan emphasizes healthy and mindful eating.

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