Nutrition Counseling

Stop Bad Body Talk

Mindfulness in
Plain English

Mindless Eating

This bracelet is a tool to reconnect you with your desire for peace with food, freedom from body hatred, and liberty from compulsive eating and dieting. It is designed to help you pause. If you can justBstill™ for a few moments a day, you can clear your mind and begin to develop a loving relationship with your body. 

 

 

 

About the just B still Philosophy:

There is more to nourishing your body than eating normally. The key to maintaining balance with food begins in your mind.  Your active mind – that chatterbox voice in your head that sends you negative messages about yourself – is causing you to overeat or restrict food when you are stressed, tired, irritable and lonely…… What is going on in your life that causes you to use food as a panacea rather than get to the root of the problem?

Using the just B still philosophy, you can gradually come back to the table by tuning in to your senses.  Often, we miss out on listening to our senses and to our heart – the act of pure listening, pure seeing, pure hearing, feeling, tasting - because we are wrapped up in our 6th sense – the mind. Our minds are judging our actions and causing us to overreact emotionally. What can you do? 

Just B still –

Just    Breathe, &  BE still.

The B in justBstill has a double meaning. It stands for Breathing

and TO BE - to be still, to pause, to be aware, and open with awareness to the present moment.

“There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.” – Joanna Field.

Stillness is just another word for pausing, becoming present to what is and meditation.  By inviting stillness into your life, you can begin to cultivate awareness and mindfulness, allowing your heart to reopen.  Imagine - you can begin to trust your body again. You can still your mind, focus on your breath, and go within your body to stillness.  Stillness can train the mind to accept the present moment. Present moment awareness can lead to happiness, fulfillment and serenity. Allow your mind to be a tool; don’t let your mind use you.

 

Mindful Eating Exercise
This is an exercise for your brain. Research shows you can retrain your brain to eat mindfully, and mindful eating leads to long term natural weight goals. (Did you know you can also retrain your brain and taste buds to like healthy food, rather than processed foods?)

Try any or all the steps to justBstill™.
a. Set the table. Make it pretty by using real silverware, lighting candles, etc.  Turn on some relaxing music, or enjoy the stillness of a quiet meal.

b. Prepare and serve your food from the kitchen, bringing only your plate to the table.

c. Look at your food. Smell and touch your food. Smell your food. Taste it. Allow your first bite to linger, noticing texture. What does it feel like? Soft, crunchy, hard? Begin to chew. How does it taste? Salty, sweet, sour? Swallow. Wait. Sip some water. Repeat this for 20 minutes with one plate. This provides your stomach time to signal your brain that it is full.

d. How do you feel when you eat this way? Record your thoughts, likes and dislikes, into a personal journal, and try for at least 3 weeks.

Yours in Good Health,
Shirley Kessel
Dietitian and Founder of justBstill™

The justBstill™ methods discussed here are based upon research I have gathered, and I have listed the most relevant books and studies on the "what's new" page here on my website.