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• By Catherine Gaffaney<br />
MICHELLE Holland used<br />
to “inhale” food. A busy<br />
professional, she would eat on<br />
the go or while doing three other<br />
things at once.<br />
In February, the 48-year-old<br />
Christchurch sales consultant<br />
who had spent her adult life<br />
on different diets and exercise<br />
regimes decided to try a mindful<br />
eating course.<br />
Mindful eating teaches that<br />
people should meditate before<br />
eating, use all the senses when<br />
eating, and listen to the body<br />
when it indicates it’s full.<br />
“I have an hour commute each<br />
morning and night so I would<br />
often eat in the car. At work, if I<br />
stopped for lunch, I’d be on my<br />
phone and reading a newspaper<br />
while I ate.<br />
“I’d done mindfulness before<br />
and found it really helpful, and<br />
I wanted to eat less and lose<br />
weight so I thought I’d give it a<br />
go.<br />
“I’ve lost 4kg since doing the<br />
course and have kept the weight<br />
off without consciously dieting<br />
or exercising.”<br />
Holland took part in a fourweek<br />
introduction to mindful<br />
eating course run by Mindfulness<br />
Works. <strong>The</strong> course was<br />
designed by Dr Heidi Douglass,<br />
a clinical psychologist who based<br />
the course on an American<br />
mindful eating programme<br />
created in 1999 for treatment of<br />
bulimia.<br />
“In the first class, we were<br />
given three minutes to eat a<br />
sultana,” Ms Holland said.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> experience is so heightened.<br />
<strong>The</strong> flavour burst was<br />
insane. <strong>The</strong>n in another class,<br />
we did the same with a potato<br />
chip. All I could taste were the<br />
chemicals.”<br />
Ms Holland doesn’t always eat<br />
mindfully since doing the course<br />
but says her eating has slowed<br />
HECTIC: Michelle<br />
Holland would often<br />
eat doing three other<br />
things at one.<br />
down a lot.<br />
“You need less because you<br />
experience more. I definitely<br />
slow down and as a consequence<br />
eat far less and feel satisfied for a<br />
lot longer.<br />
“It can be hard with my hectic<br />
lifestyle to stop but I try to. If I<br />
speed up, I often catch myself<br />
and realise.”<br />
Mindful eating teaches people<br />
to use all their senses when consuming<br />
meals.<br />
Dr Douglass began the course<br />
in Hamilton in May last year. It’s<br />
now also available in other centres<br />
and has attracted hundreds<br />
of Kiwis wanting to lose weight<br />
or change their relationship to<br />
food.<br />
“Some courses have had a lot<br />
of people who are overweight,<br />
others have had people who are<br />
of a healthy weight but have<br />
negative associations with food<br />
and their body,” Dr Douglass<br />
said.<br />
Binge eating was often associated<br />
with depression and<br />
anxiety. “Just telling people to<br />
eat healthier and exercise more if<br />
they want to lose weight doesn’t<br />
work for everyone,” Dr Douglass<br />
said.<br />
“It gives some people terrible<br />
self-esteem when they fail to<br />
do that. Mindful eating teaches<br />
people to tap into their built-in<br />
natural systems. <strong>The</strong>y don’t have<br />
to calorie count; they just have to<br />
listen to their body.”<br />
– NZ Herald<br />
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