LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this CPE activity you will be better able to:

• Evaluate the findings regarding efficacy of weight loss diets.
  
• Guide patients/clients through the six BASICS of mindful eating.
  
• Recommend journaling as a way toward more mindful behaviors.
  
• Assist patients/clients in identifying their barriers to eating mindfully.
  
• Explain the core components of mindfulness.
  
• Identify the overlapping principles in intuitive eating and mindful eating.
  
• Assist patients in changing the focus from weight loss to healthy behaviors.
  
• Counsel patients/clients about setting goals that support a mindful lifestyle.
  
• Teach and assist patients/clients in practicing mindfulness exercises.
  
• Assist patients/clients in learning how to identify and satisfy their different hungers: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
  
• Identify patients’ cognitive distortions, and assist them in crafting helpful responses.
  
• Assist patients in recognizing their unconscious bias towards “forbidden foods” and adopting healthier food attitudes.
  
• Recommend ways of cultivating helpful thoughts.
  
• Explain methods and strategies to prepare healthy, quick, and affordable meals.
  
• Assist patients/clients in identifying barriers to being physically active.
  
• Suggest ways of incorporating activity into everyday life.
  
• Explain the relationship between deep breathing and stress reduction.
  
• Discuss how chewing food thoroughly can provide a myriad of health benefits.
  
• Recommend various ways to be conscious with food and simultaneously be a connoisseur of food.
  
• Guide patients/clients in adopting visualization techniques to become more active.
  
• Explain the Slow Food movement, and the principles that encourage conscious consumption.
  
• Assist patients/clients in shifting their focus from how their body looks to how it functions.