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Yearly Archives: 2013

I was leading a workshop last weekend and a component of it involved a mindful eating practice. I passed around some edible “objects” and instructed the participants to take one, hold it in their palm and first examine this thing with their eyes only, noticing all of the shadows, the […]

Are Your Food Prefences Perception or Reality?

November 8, 2013 in Blog / Emotional Eating / Mindful Eating / Mindfulness / Weight Loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

What if, instead of putting more sugar in your mouth, you put more sugar in your life? What if the cravings for sweetness that you try to satisfy by putting things in your mouth was actually a craving for more sweet things in your LIFE? (Or savory, or gooey, or […]

Put More Sugar in Your Life

October 17, 2013 in Uncategorized tagged Compulsive overeating / emotional eating / Meredith Milton / Mindful eating / Overeating / pleasure / sugar / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

I had a couple of weeks that were emotionally challenging, and despite many years of learning to work with my emotions and find healthy coping mechanisms, I felt a sense of what I can only describe as a relapse that I hadn’t felt in MONTHS. Worry that it WAS a […]

How to Stop Overeating, Part Two

August 21, 2013 in Emotional Eating / Food Addiction / Goal Setting / Meditation / Mindful Eating / Mindfulness / Overeating / Uncategorized / Weight Loss tagged Compulsive overeating / emotional eating / meditation / Meredith Milton / Mindful eating / mindfulness / Overeating by eatingmindful@gmail.com

Or more accurately: How to eat to the point of satisfaction. One reason you are overeating could be that you are focusing a great deal on overeating. Let me explain. In my client sessions, I have noticed that most people have goals such as “to stop uncontrolled eating, to overcome […]

How to Stop Overeating, Part One

June 7, 2013 in Body Image / Emotional Eating / Food Addiction / Forgiveness / Goal Setting / Health / Meditation / Mindfulness / Overeating / Self-Compassion / Self-Forgiveness / Weight Loss tagged Compulsive overeating / eat / Emotion / Food / Health / Overeating / Weight gain / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

When it comes to your health and fitness, what is your approach to creating a goal? Many people have it backwards. They start with the tactics. For instance, their goal is to “run 3 times per week, lift weights 2 times per week, and go to yoga once a week”. […]

Achieving Health and Fitness Goals

May 30, 2013 in Featured by eatingmindful@gmail.com

Wear Your Heart on Palm — Learning to love and accept our bodies as they are RIGHT NOW can sometimes feel like a challenging, if not impossible, task. However, I wholeheartedly believe that making the choice to fall in love with yourself and your body is one of the most important things you can do. As […]

Love Your Body, and It Will Love You Back

May 29, 2013 in Featured by eatingmindful@gmail.com

Learning to love and accept our bodies as they are RIGHT NOW can sometimes feel like a challenging, if not impossible, task. However, I wholeheartedly believe that making the choice to fall in love with yourself and your body is one of the most important things you can do. As […]

Love Your Body, and It Will Love You Back

May 6, 2013 in Beauty / Body Image / Forgiveness / Health / Self-Compassion / Self-Forgiveness / Weight Loss tagged Body image / Health / Perfect Body / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com

When it comes to your health and fitness, what is your approach to creating a goal? Many people have it backwards. They start with the tactics. For instance, their goal is to “run 3 times per week, lift weights 2 times per week, and go to yoga once a week”. […]

April 24, 2013 in Fitness / Goal Setting / Health / Weight Loss tagged Energy level / Fitness / Goal / Health / Meredith Milton / Physical exercise / Physical fitness / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com | Open »

Have you ever had the experience some people call ‘synchronicity’, where certain messages repeatedly cross your path, as though to smack you in the face to get your attention? I’ve experienced this phenomena many times, and I can’t explain it, but I believe there’s some reason why I need to receive […]

How Self-Compassion Will Help You Eat Better (and Some Other ...

March 7, 2013 in Forgiveness / Meditation / Mindful Eating / Mindfulness / Self-Compassion / Self-Forgiveness / Uncategorized / Weight Loss tagged Compassion / Inner critic / Meredith Milton / Self-compassion / Self-esteem / Self-love / Thought by eatingmindful@gmail.com

Did you know that there are TWO phases to detoxification? Let’s compare it to our garbage pickup. Phase one is where we bag our trash up and put it on the curb. In phase 2 is it picked up and removed. But what if there wasn’t a driver for the […]

10 Ways to Detox

February 4, 2013 in Beauty / Detoxification / Goal Setting / Health / Mindful Eating / Uncategorized / Weight Loss tagged Detox / Detoxification / Eating / Health / Meredith Milton / Nutrition / Programs / Toxin / weight loss by eatingmindful@gmail.com