Session 7 – Overeating and Mindful Eating

In this session we will focus on the reasons why you might overeat, understanding your triggers and how we can combat the desire to overeat.

Lucy will also talk about Mindful Eating, being conscious of your food choices and recognising how this makes you feel.

Before you start the next session, take some time to review the goal you set for yourself at the end of the previous session.

Did you achieve the goal you set? If not, why could this be?
Was the goal specific and achievable or do you need to review and amend the goal?
If you did achieve it, well done! You might want to think about making the goal more challenging if you found it too easy.

You will continue to complete this goal over the coming weeks, as well as creating a new goal each week!

Watch the video about Overeating and Mindful Eating

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You can check out and/or download the session slides here.

Studies suggest that mindful eating can help support emotional eating and binge eating, promoting a healthier relationship with food, read more here: Mindful Eating – British Dietetic Association (BDA)

Want to give the Raisin Exercise a go? You can find it here on YouTube: Mindful Eating: The Raisin Exercise (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) #LewisPsychology

There are several services to reach out to if you need further support with binge eating:

Eating Recovery service – Suffolk Mind
Nexus – Telephone Support – Beat (beateatingdisorders.org.uk)
Find a meeting – Overeaters Anonymous (oa.org)
Liberate – Freedom From Obsessive Eating (phcuk.org)
For those of you under 25, you can also check out Kooth for free mental health support and tools, which include emotional eating: Kooth

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Eating Well For Less

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