How to Practice Mindful Eating – Susan Albers
How To Practice Mindful Eating With Dr Susan Albers
Dr. Susan Albers is a clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and she is also one of the worlds leading experts on mindful eating. She is the author of six books on the topic including ‘Eating Mindfully’, ‘Eat, Drink & Be Mindful’ and ‘Mindful Eating 101.’
Join Melli and Susan as they explore the theory and practice of Mindful Eating. In this video you’ll Learn…
- The 5 steps to mindful eating.
- Simple and practical tips on how mindfulness can create more healthy eating in daily life.
- How to set up your environment to make mindful eating easier.
- How to quit comfort eating.
- A practice of mindful eating.
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Really enjoyed this talk, great to hear it broken down with some easy steps to follow. Thanks Melli and Susan
What happened to Day 4?
Seems I’m not getting an email everyday ????
You access each day from the email you received that gave instructions on logging in. Or go to the email that summit sent about the weekend presenters. You will NOT get an email each day. I forward the original email to myself each day after I listen to each days’ presentation and flag it…then it’s at the top of my Inbox. Hope this helps. Be well.
or access from going to the website and go to schedule ( shown at the top right on this page too)and click on the speaker link in orange. Should be able to get day 4 that way.
yes me too!!!
Sometimes emails get sent to your “promotions” box if you have GMAIL. It’s kind of like weeding out spam and advertisements. Check all boxes!
Before the summit went live, although I was curious, I was reluctant to join anticipating long and tedious content. I couldn’t have been more wrong; Melli is a delight to watch/hear, she is very clearly as passionate about mindfulness as the guest speakers. I have enjoyed each and every speaker thus far, resonating along the way. Today’s session with Susan Albers was particularly pertanant to me, Thank you
Great session! Thank you! A daily email would be helpful if possible!
This was exactly what I needed to hear today. I am immediately going to try to implement her 5 rules and have fun with it while I do. Imagine slowing down eating by using a non- dominant hand, sitting down, and smiling between bites. Or maybe I will be smiling because my non-dominant hand doesn’t work well….LOL.
Have a great day.
Eating mindfully was a difficult session to “listen” to. I wonder why? The concrete steps were great tips. Overall I am truly thankful for this course. Thanks Melli et al.
Very Nice and helpful insights. Thank you Susan and Melli.
Really surprised I liked this session so much. Very useful things to do and share.
Very good talk
Susan and Melli. Great module. Will be more mindful when eating
Excellent ideas. Will try this again and again.
I am learning so much with these talks, thank you.
Yes I agree, some great suggestions. I think I’m already starting to do some of these things through the mindfulness practice, and this is an added benefit! Thank you Susan and Melli 🙂
Love the non-dominant hand idea to easily slow down and be mindful about our eating
Well said Susan , great advice .
Love Dr Susan’s enthusiasm but best of all practical advice for eating more mindfully. Great to see chocolate used instead of raisins!
Enjoyed this conversation very much ladies. I have Susan’s last book Eat Q and it’s very insightful.
I love the advice Susan brought up for more mindful eating, the 5 S’s, eating with your non-dominant hand, and finding other ways to comfort yourself, preparing that cup of tea and savoring it is a lovely way.
Melli, thank you so much for bringing this summit about and all the wonderful experts for sharing their thoughts on mindfulness.
Very much enjoyed the talk. I can’t find the link anywhere to the 5s mentioned in the interview. Have signed up to Susan’s newsletter but it didn’t arrive with that either. Anyone found a link? Thank you!
Underneath the audio file or above all these comments there are a couple of links under the headline “Show Notes”. The 3rd one it is.
Ahaa. I see it now. Thank you (Was using my phone.) 🙂
Guess who was having breakfast while listening to this very motivating talk… 😀 Great advice for a simpler approach to changing the eating habits, thank you!
That was really enjoyable. I have never enjoyed a mandarin quite so much in my life! Thank you Susan.
I love all these interviews and I have a question for Melli which relates to my current situation: I am lying in bed with a flu and I am wondering how to deal with illness/ pain in a mindful way?
Any suggestions? I try to apply deep breathing-techniques I know from yoga every so often, but how can I escape the trap of ” I should have really done this, that and the other instead of lying in bed now”. I am happy to learn how you all deal with such situations in a conscious, positive way…
Hey really enjoing the summit. i am wondering if there are also videos available or only the audios?
I’ve just listened to the talk today, doing the exercise has brought up a lot of emotion for me. Firstly when I got up to find something for the exercise I had nothing to eat in my kitchen so I chose tea, when you chose chocolate it really threw me, I chose to do the exercise using my imagination using chocolate instead of the tea, I am surprised that I began sobbing. The advice Susan gave was truly revolutionary for me, looking forward to reading all of her books and eating/drinking mindfully.
Great practical advice that I can adopt into everyday life!
Thank Susan and Melli!
Thanks for a delicious interview…
Very meaningful talk, thank you both ~
Listening from Day One in rural southern England. Really enjoying the engaging talks, appreciating the great tips and valuing this enriching experience. Thank you very much indeed.
Thanks really enjoyed this one, have struggled to get to grips with mindful eating so took some really useful straight forward tips from this video 🙂
Thank you for such a practical session
I love Dr. Albers fun and mindful approach to food. She is so bubbly and positive. Makes me feel excited and joyful about mindful eating. She also makes it seems fairly easy and very possible.
This talk made me see people in my life who eat without thinking or snack all day and struggle with weight gain and made me realize that why I love coming home at lunch and fixing a healthy local organic lunch is because I am so present, home is quiet and I have been mindful, and now I have a name for it to bring even more meaning to it.
I also eat with just a knife, no fork, and that really slows you down and makes bites smaller.!
This is so great! Eating mindfully surely gives you a minimum of three opportunities to bring mindfulness into everyday life. Thanks Melli and Susan for the wonderful suggestions and tips, I am going to start adopting them today!
Is it normal to feel overwhelmed with emotions when you start mindfulness? I feel like my emotions are coming to the surface so much quicker and I wondered if it’s because I started to practice.
In my experience, yes. My take on it is that it is very useful to know what is under the surface with is commonly responsible for our automatic pilot. The advice that has helped me is to stay with the feelings without rejection and without engagement mindfully. The emotions will come up, may intensify and eventually dissipate. When I started meditating, a lot of anxiety came up manifesting by strong heartbeat and sweating. It took about 6 months to resolve :). I hope this helpful.
Thank you for your insight. the fact that you were kind enough to stop and help means a lot.
I think it is quite normal. Because many of us have lived out of habit for quite some time, shifting to mindfulness can be a real jolt on the senses, a very emotional experience. It probably means that you are being touched deeply by these learning experiences, and a good sign that they are taking hold.
Thank you
It’s totally normal. It often is that people become more aware of emotions and feelings that were already there but didnt have space to unfold.
That makes sense. Thank you. I hope that I don’t avoid practicing to avoid these emotions from coming out. I’ve found myself crying over a sad but cheesy moment on television that I would normally not. My teenager thought that I had lost it!!
I would say….definitely ‘Yes’ to the increased emotions. Just ‘go with them ‘ and be gentle with yourself. You may have a lot of ‘clearing out’ to do. Did you see the talk with Jono Fisher? He desciribes this experience very clearly. Don’t worry!
Thank you
Thank you ladies for both being so inspiring in the work that you do to promote mindful being in what ever form this takes. Susan, you have a bright and infectious enthusiasm about mindful eating that lights up the room – I have been to your website and downloaded some resources – thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge. I have tried some mindful eating and it felt so good so I will keep up the practice. Melli – you are kind and gracious and I do appreciate all you have done in bringing the Summit together. I have watched all the lectures from Day 1 and feel so uplifted – thank you also for all your hard work and generosity in sharing your gifts with us all. Alison x
I appreciate her practical approach to this topic. I really heard the word practice used a great deal and I I focus on that concept. We are all practicing each day. I am committed to mindful eating and will continue to practice using new strategies I heard here. Thank you for this gift!
Very interesting. I’m sure I’ll be able to share this with a lot of people.
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What a shame.
I’m really enjoying the summit – thank you Melli 🙂
Admittedly of late, more conscious of my food intake, albeit as a recreational bicyclist, wonderful to hear that we don’t have to diet to be desirable. Delighted to hear from Dr. Albers, with thanks to this summit’s organizers, and planned attendance to her’s next month, continuing the dialogue on mindful eating. Sisterly, Zara Ellis, QUALLA BOUNDARY, WNC
Awesome Talk! Learned so much about mindful eating. I have already signed up for the Mindful Eating Summit. Thank you Melli and Dr Albers.
Fantastic day, loved it! Thanks so much.
To Susan and Melli, thank you for a brilliant talk on eating mindfully. It really does make a big difference taking the time to enjoy food, it can take a time to prepare it, to begin with. During the eating practise you were enjoying chocolate, I was enjoying a slice of my wife’s cheesecake, eating with a small spoon, to savour the flavours. Using smaller utensils could make all the difference.
I am loving the mindfulness summit, as a sufferer of anxiety & depression, I am starting to see how mindfulness can help with dealing with mental health issues, I feel so much calmer after each day’s interview. What Melli is doing is amazing & I am so thankful that I picked up,the link to this on Facebook!
Thank you for this chapter!! As both mentioned very simple, so esas, and a basic príncipe to change habits… thanks for sharing!!!
Love love loving this summit. Melli thank you for your foresight and obvious love of mindfulness.. Your guests have been a treat and so far I have learned much each day.. I didn’t know if I could learn online so I feel blessed ♥
This is the best way I have found in stopping binge eating. I have had an eating disorder for over 20 years and only now getting it under control by using mindful eating practices. Great discussion today!
Great day 5, loving this summit and enjoying reading comments of others and see things differently
I am a GP in the UK. I can see HUGE potential for this advice for people who come to me with eating difficulties. Thank you so much for this interview…I thought I wouldn’t be particularly interested and it is fascinating. I shall be suggesting Susan ‘s website to my patients.
Very interesting talk!! Enjoyed every minute of it. I will put in practice. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙂
Loved this talk and thank you. I have always had a weight problem and hope this will help. I eat all my meals from a tray table in front of the TV. I am going to start eating at my table with the TV off and become more mindful of how and what I eat. Thank you Susan and Melli. This may just change my life.
Just ate breakfast, sitting at the table. I realized that I used the TV for companionship, since I am alone. It kept away the sadness.
Today It made me more aware of what I was eating
What a way to start a day…with chocolate! Placing my small piece in the center of a shallow yellow dish, it was pretty as well as satisfying, and the taste is lingering so pleasantly. When my morning craving hits I will practice the mindful steps of savoring and smiling. Great thoughts from Susan.
Loved this. Plan to blog about what I learned today 🙂
In my experience (and I’ve only practiced it a few times) is if I say “Thank you for this food” then I become more in the moment. The same works for a nice summer day. If I say “Thank you for this summer day” then I become more in the moment and my experience of that moment and that day is enhanced.
Thank you SO MUCH for this summit and this particular video. Thanks, Susan, for the information. I also want to emphasize how lucky I feel to have Melli as a leader in this journey. What a great example of a humble, gentle listener with a strong presence and unwavering patience and grace.
Love this! I would be interested to find out ways we can incorporate mindful eating when it comes to feeding our children, especially toddlers!