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1 Mindful Eating: Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat Michelle May, M.D. CEO, Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Programs and Training MMXIV 1

2 Mindful Eating Cycle 2

3 From Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle By Michelle May, M.D. 3

4 Instinctive Eating Cycle 4

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12 Overeating Cycle 12

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14 The Missing Link: Why? 14

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21 Mindless Eating

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23 Teaching scarcity in a food abundant environment

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26 Sedentary Lifestyles

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28 When a craving doesn t come from hunger, eating will never satisfy it. --Michelle May MD 28

29 Restrictive Eating Cycle 29

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33 Nutrition information is a tool, not a weapon! --Michelle May MD 33

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43 The Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle 43

44 Overeating = Out of Control 44

45 Overeating = Out of Control Restrictive Eating = In Control 45

46 Overeating = Out of Control Restrictive Eating = In Control Mindful Eating = In Charge 46

47 How Mindful Eating Helps 47

48 Mindlessness Trigger React React (Re-Act) 48

49 Mindfulness Trigger Pause Respond (Response-Ability) 49

50 The Paradigm Shift 50

51 Free Mindful Eating Resources Take the Eating Cycle Assessment

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53 Michelle May, M.D. Copyright Am I Hungry? PLLC MMXIV 53

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