Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT)

Are you unhappy with your eating habits or your weight?

Are you

  • an emotional eater?

  • a mindless eater?

  • a compulsive overeater?

  • a binge eater?

  • a chronic dieter?

Are you worried about the ways your relationship with food affects your health?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) may help you to heal your struggles with weight and food.

Promising results

The MB-EAT program originally was developed for compulsive overeating and binge-eating disorder. Initial research studies showed that participation in the program increased self-awareness of eating-related experience and internalization of control and self-acceptance. Participants who practiced mindfulness reported decreased binge-eating behavior and weight loss. Results were so promising that the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has funded a second $1.8 million study to examine the effects of the MB-EAT program on treating obesity, as well as binge eating.

During the 10-week MB-EAT program, you will learn basic principles of mindfulness meditation and steps to develop mindful eating. Each week, you will learn and practice new skills. You will receive a workbook and audio CDs to support your home training.

Through practicing and adopting a mindful approach to eating behaviors and food itself, you can reclaim a balanced relationship with food – a balance that you may have lost long ago. Unlike diets, which tend to ignore the psychological causes of eating problems, the MB-EAT program addresses the underlying issues that have created unhappy and unhealthy eating patterns. Tuning into internal cues of hunger and fullness and differentiating body signals from emotional triggers of overeating or impulsive eating will help you free yourself from negative feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.

With daily practice, you can

  • change self-defeating patterns

  • find a new peace with food and eating

  • re-learn intuitive eating skills for long-term results

  • improve your emotional and physical well-being

Note: This training is not intended for those with anorexia.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Philadelphia:

VALLEY GREEN COUNSELING

and

THE RITTENHOUSE HEALING COLLABORATIVE

The Rittenhouse Hotel

210 West Rittenhouse Square,

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Led by Amy Tuttle,
a registered dietitian and
licensed clinical social worker
with advanced training in
mindfulness meditation practices. Amy is a specialist in treating
all forms of disordered
eating and was trained
by MB-EAT originator
Jean Kristeller.