Album Notes

Lecture goers who've attended Jean Fain's presentation on mindful eating, a simple, effective way to get a handle on eating problems, are excited to realize that they can gain control of their eating and lose weight without dieting. That lecture, including a powerful guided meditation, is now available to CD listeners.

This recorded presentation offers a strong foundation in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), the proven program that embodies principles of mindfulness meditation popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn and research in food intake regulation by psychologist Jean Kristeller.

Whether you struggle with yo-yo dieting, compulsive overeating or some other eating issue, if you follow the featured guided eating meditation, you can try this approach, see if you like it, and begin eating with more control immediately. (You'll need three pieces of trail mix to follow along.) Practicing the meditation repeatedly with different foods will help you eat with more awareness, less self-judgment and, ultimately, lose weight.

Originally developed to curb binge eating, MB-EAT is proving to be an invaluable addition to any weight-loss plan. That's right, early studies suggest that weight loss happens naturally when you learn to feel your hunger, trust your taste buds and find satisfaction in the quality, rather than quantity of food.

If you're fed up with dieting and want to try a refreshingly sane approach to weight loss, this CD's for you.

Psychotherapist Jean Fain specializes in what she likes to call "eating disturbances," the range of food-related issues that have serious physical and emotional consequences, but fall short of diagnosable eating disorders. Whether she's teaching at Harvard Medical School, seeing clients in her private practice or writing for newspapers and magazines, she is dedicated to helping people keep physically, mentally and emotionally fit.

You may have seen Jean Fain's articles in Oprah Magazine, Shape, The Boston Globe, The LA Times Syndicate.... Her articles and CDs help her share some of her favorite weight-loss tools with people beyond the scope of her private practice in Concord, Massachusetts.