Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students

Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students will help you discover how to eat mindfully, enjoying every aspect of the experience. You’ll learn to eat the foods you love fearlessly, without guilt or overeating. You’ll learn how to trust your natural ability to eat the right amount of food and meet your other needs in more fulfilling ways.

Mindful Eating for Students - Do you love to eat? - Do you obsess about everything you eat? - Do you feel guilty when you eat certain foods? - Do you eat while you’re studying or watching TV? - Do you eat fast? - Do you feel stuffed after eating? - Do you eat when you’re stressed, bored, or one of a hundred other reasons? - Do you use exercise to earn the right to eat? Have you forgotten that the purpose of eating is to fuel your life? Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students will help you discover how to eat mindfully, enjoying every aspect of the experience. You’ll learn to eat the foods you love fearlessly, without guilt or overeating. You’ll learn how to trust your natural ability to eat the right amount of food and meet your other needs in more fulfilling ways. Most important, you’ll learn a lifelong method for making decisions about eating that frees your energy to live the vibrant life you crave! Mindful Eating for College and University Campuses Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Students is the text book for the Am I Hungry? “Mindful Eating” course on college and university campuses; learn more about Instructor Training at http://amihungry.com/programs/mindful-eating-for-students/. Mindful eating is an ancient practice with profound applications for preventing and resolving common eating challenges in a modern food-abundant environment. Introducing young adults to mindful eating as they establish independence and/or begin their careers in health and wellness professions will have a huge impact on their personal lives and the lives of those they interact with in the future! The Mindful Eating for Students course, adapted from the Am I Hungry? Mindful Eating Program, provides students with a flexible, non-diet, mindfulness-based approach to eating, physical activity, and self-care. During the class, students will explore the six crucial decision points in the Mindful Eating Cycle and develop sustainable skills for effective lifestyle management that they can apply personally and professionally.

Michelle May, M.D., a physician and recovered yo-yo dieter, is the award-winning author of the book series, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. She is the founder and CEO of Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Programs and Training Program (www.AmIHungry.com). Tens of thousands of people have experienced Am I Hungry? mindful eating programs worldwide in communities, corporate wellness programs, medical offices, hospitals, and fitness centers by trained Am I Hungry? licensees. As an inspirational speaker and author, Michelle's passion for mindful eating stems from her own personal struggle with food and body image as a teenager and into her medical practice. After years of chronic yo-yo dieting, she developed a positive, balanced relationship with food and physical activity. Her primary goal has been to inspire audiences and readers with a joyful, sustainable, and practical approach to eating and movement, delivered in her compassionate, constructive, been-there style. Michelle has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association. She has been featured on the Discovery Health Channel, Dr. Oz, and Oprah Radio, and has been quoted in CNN Health, Fitness, Fox News Radio, Glamour, Health, Parade, Parents, Prevention, Self, TIME.com, USA Weekend, US News & World Report, Vim & Vigor, Washington Post, WebMD, Weight Watchers, Woman’s Day, Woman's World, and many more. Her personal story appears in Chicken Soup for the Dieter's Soul. Dr. May is a Board Certified Family Physician with 16 years of clinical experience in Phoenix, Arizona. She has "retired" from practice to focus on mindful eating. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and her Medical Degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She completed a three-year Family Medicine Residency at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona where she served as Chief Resident. She is well respected by her physician colleagues who elected her to serve as President of the Arizona Academy of Family Physicians. She was the Chairperson for the Subcommittee on Women of the 93,000-member American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and was elected to serve in the AAFP Congress of Delegates, the policy forming body of the organization for eight years. She is Past Chair of the Americans in Motion Advisory Panel and the AAFP Women's Health and Physician Wellness Conference. She served on the AAFP Commission on the Health of the Public and Science and the American Medical Association's Healthy Lifestyles' Advisory Panel. She is also a recognized leader in many other professional and community organizations, including the Board of Managers for her local YMCA and Past-President of the National Speakers Association, Arizona Chapter. Michelle must practice what she preaches in order to balance her personal and professional life. She and her husband, Owen, a professional chef, share a passion for gourmet and healthful cooking, recipe development, wine tasting, and traveling. She cherishes her relationships with her two grown children, Tyler and Elyse, regularly enjoys yoga and hiking near her home in Phoenix, Arizona.