Mindful Eating is Related to Less Binge Eating and Fewer Mood Disorders By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Paying attention to what you are eating is the most effective way to attain a positive relationship with food and therefore find your ideal healthy weight.” – UT Counseling Around 30 million people in […]
Control Binge Eating Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Psychotherapy approaches, including DBT, have been shown to be effective in helping a person with binge eating disorder overcome abnormal eating behaviors.” – Jacquelyn Ekern Around 30 million people in the United States of all ages and genders suffer from […]
Improve Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness techniques. . . . can prevent destructive behaviors such as not eating, purging, or eating until uncomfortably full. If individuals take a step back and focus on the present moment and their feelings, they will be able to […]
Improve Eating Control and Binge Eating with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “self-compassion—a necessary component of healing from any eating disorder. Women who binge often feel shame and guilt about their behavior. “Women hear all the time that lack of willpower made you fat, made you binge. That message is that […]
Reduce Dysfunctional Eating with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” ~Chinese Proverb Around 30 million people in the United States of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder: either anorexia nervosa, bulimia, or binge eating […]
Improve Food Related Cognitive Processing in Patients with Eating Disorders with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Practicing mindfulness techniques has proven to be extremely helpful in aiding individuals to understand the driving forces behind their eating disorder.” – Greta Gleissner Around 30 million people in the United States of all […]
Improve Eating Disorders with Dialectical Behavior Therapy By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Dialectical behavioral therapy encourages change but also promotes acceptance. The term dialectic means that two opposite ideas can be correct at the same time. This is helpful for individuals in eating disorder treatment as most of these clients adopt an […]
Maintain Weight Loss with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Just as meditation can help us with stress, sleeping, focus, and much more, it can also have an impact on our relationship with eating and managing our weight.” – Headspace Eating is produced by two categories of signals. Homeostatic signals emerge from the body’s […]
Moderate Emotion Effects on the Eating Styles of Obese Women with Mindful Eating By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “There is so much stigma around weight, and judgement around right and wrong eating behavior, and good and bad food in our culture. Mindful eating fills in gaps in the traditional approach of discussing […]
Change Behavior for the Better with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness practice supports and facilitates behavior change through training attention, emotion, and self-awareness.” – Yi-Yuan Tang We tend to think that illness is produced by physical causes, disease, injury, viruses, bacteria, etc. But many health problems are behavioral problems or have their origins […]