Press Pause Before You Eat: Say Good-Bye to Mindless Eating and Hello to the Joys of Eating

By Linda S. Mintle

Book Overview

In a world that acts before it thinks, it's time to "press pause"...

Press Pause Before You Eat and say goodbye to hurried and mindless eating. This ground-breaking book shines a light on the most overlooked area of our relationship with food: mindless and unintentional eating. It teaches readers to understand WHY they eat and provides practical, proven strategies to control eating. Diets treat symptoms; Press Pause Before You Eat deals with the root causes of unintentional eating and restores the joys of mindful eating. Busy schedules translate into eating on the run or skipping meals altogether. Life is not only filled with multitasking and hurried moments but on-the-go consumption. Eating becomes a thing to do while doing other things and all too often becomes a source of guilt and distress. The more stressed and busier people feel, the more food becomes a source of gratification, relief and a numbing agent, as well as a welcomed friend. In order to address the current obesity epidemic and struggles people have with their weight, a new approach is needed--one that addresses the emotional, relational, and spiritual side of the individual and his or her relationship to food.

Dr. Linda Mintle, a licensed professional in clinical practice

and a specialist in eating disorders, knows that unless

people are coached to be intentional about their eating, they

will continue to eat mindlessly and be part of the 90-95 percent

of failed dieters. Therefore, Press Pause Before You Eat

is a prescriptive guide for intentionally cultivating a mindful

awareness of eating that attends to the body, soul, and spirit.

Food is not our enemy; it is something to be enjoyed

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439148643
• ISBN13: 9781439148648
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Howard Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Why did I just eat that?

Why did I just eat that? is a question I ask myself all the time. I know I eat and when I am not hunger but now I know why I eat. This book helped me figure that out and gave me practical ways to be more mindful when it comes to eating. Easy to read and packed with great help, Dr. Linda has a winner here.

Practical... Not just theoretical!

I'm one of those women who struggles with "the extra ten pounds" and I'm so fed up with the diet books that give me all the theory, but not the tools on HOW to lose and keep weight off. I lose weight. I gain weight. I lose weight. I gain weight. Finally a book that is both informative and empowering, helping to end this continuous cycle!

Time For a New Relationship

So many people struggle with eating and do not have a great relationship with food. This book changes all that and makes the focus on eating enjoyable. So if you want to eat and drop the guilt, this book will make a difference. I highly recommend it!

Not just another diet book

I've been a dieter all my life and always have problems with regaining weight. This is not a book for yet another diet but a book to help you understand how to deal with food and its control over your life. Dr. Mintle outlines simple principles to help stop mindless eating and to help change bad eating patterns and help to get to the root of why we eat the way we do. A must read!

The Pause that will Save Your Expanding Waistline

We've all interrupted something we were listening to by pressing the pause button. Linda Mintle takes this common action and applies it to our relationship with food. By pressing the mental pause button, you can say goodbye to the habit of eating without thinking. Dr. Mintle offers five important steps to take to implement what she calls "the pause principle:" Purpose -- setting your intention; Attend -- establishing your awareness and sharpening your focus on your behavior; Understand -- learning what food and feeding every part of your life is really all about; Strategize -- building new behaviors consistent with your purpose; and Execute - putting it all together to practice what you've created. The content of this book is nothing new - you've heard it all before in bits and pieces. What is revolutionary is how she structures this content in easy-to-understand, easy-to-apply layers that you will immediately grasp and remember. And her "pause principle" doesn't have to stop with your relationship with food. It's clear that it can be applied to all areas of your life. If you're looking for yet another diet book, keep looking. There are plenty to be found, but the fact that there are so many points to the more important fact that the diet itself is not where the problem lies. Mintle's volume can help you identify and repair that problem. Press Pause before You Eat is a well-written book with significant help for those of us who do things mindlessly - and isn't that just about everyone? Highly recommended!