Mindful Munchins

If You Are A Woman Who:

• Lives in or near the Hudson Valley, New York area 
• Is ready to lose weight without dieting 
• Is struggling with intuitive eating

Then strap on your seatbelt and get ready for the most revolutionary, exciting and fun food fantasy fiesta of your life.

Mindful Munchins Programs

Join a live support group for gals who live in or near the New York/Hudson Valley area who want to Lose Weight Without Dieting, make peace with all foods and love themselves more.

Visit restaurants, buffets and local homes as you learn to put your food fears to rest permanently, create new empowering memories around eating and food, by savoring real honest to goodness, curl your toes, yummy, lip smackin’, finger lickin’ delectably edible delights in total comfort and peaceful confidence in the presence of non judgmental sister support.

Reclaim your power over all foods by learning simple techniques to change your food history. Let your inner picky kid come out to play. Learn to reframe your thoughts, feelings and behaviors as you transform your relationship to food and your body.

Here’s the Skinny on what you get:

• 8 (1 hour +) live group coaching activities – Visit restaurants and homes to learn how to eat what you love and reclaim your power over all foods, all the time
• Optional buddy assignments to practice techniques with colleagues for support
• 8 Assignments to bone up on your new skills
• Weekly MP3 recording of group coaching event
• A Quick Start guide designed to help you sink your teeth into food freedom

This live group coaching program is coming soon!

Here are some yummy tidbits included with your entree:

• Learn how to face "all you can eats" with grace and ease and eat mindfully without losing your mind at buffets - Learn to move beyond your old boundaries and rebalance your relationship with food and avoid feeling compelled to pile up the old buffet plate.
• Smile in the face of temptation and question your phantom hungers - Learn energy techniques that put the control at your fingertips. Effortlessly eliminate the cravings that push you to eat when you know you're not hungry.
• Learn to trust yourself around all foods – There’s nothing sexier than that ladies! Achieve total control as you get more discriminating everyday, no more eating everything in sight) Let your inner picky kid come out to play!
• Listen to your body as you learn to eat mindfully - I’ll bet it’s been a while since you have eaten a meal and thought, Wow, that was better than sex! Well that’s about to change. It’s time to focus on the flavors and textures of what is on your plate—and not on how many calories it contains. Reacquaint yourself with the subtle differences of what you like in food: spicy, sweet, salty, sour, soft, hard, crispy, hot, cool, creamy. If you adopt the motto: If you don’t love it, don’t eat it, you might become a picky eater, and you will also be the one that causes other diners to say, “I’ll have what she’s having.” In this session, you will take your taste buds on a joy ride, and realize that there are many levels of subtle satisfaction that have gone unfulfilled for far too long.  You’ll also be surprised to find that, when you are eating what you choose, in a stress free environment, you will eat less than you ever did while dieting.
• Eat the foods you love all the time, everyday, everywhere - Using a process called Intuitive Eating, a method used by therapists specializing in eating disorders you will relearn how to listen to your hunger and satiety signals and eat in response to them, honoring your body's natural hunger and learning how to stop eating when you are satisfied.
• Zap your old screaming meanies that push you to overeat - Andrea often talks of the “screaming meanies” which are the embodiment of the overwhelming negative thoughts that lead us astray when it comes to food choices. When you enter a restaurant, you are on the meanies’ home turf. Fear not, with Andrea leading you, they are no match for you!
• Create new empowering anchors around food - Armed to the teeth with the best energy coaching tools available, you will be able to defuse the screaming meanies and stride into that restaurant with confidence, look your own meanies in the eye, and send them scuttling into oblivion.
• Achieve greater self acceptance of your body – Break the holds that bind you to feeling the sting of past haunts and hurts
  Using energy coaching, you’ll work on releasing painful memories that compel you to hold a negative body image.

Are you ready for:

Mindful Munchins: Five Easy Steps To Food Freedom:

1) Ditch the diets

2) Welcome back all foods

3) Learn to listen to your body

4) Release the ratty and fatty beliefs that have kept you fat. Use energy coaching tools that Andrea will teach you to instantly address the root causes of your past eating patterns. EFT is an incredibly effective technique for personal change. This simple method, based on the science of acupuncture, involves tapping on key points of the body to activate a powerful release of past hurts that have kept you stuck in damaging patterns for many years. You can read a more detailed explanation of EFT here.

5) Take action as a naturally slender woman. Do the things that skinny gals do without thinking, eat less during each meal, choose foods that are uppers instead of downers, and focus on living instead of eating

Here's The Menu For Our 8 Week Plan:

Week 1: No More Diets - Pack Your Pantries, Welcome Back the Old No-Nos– Eat What You Love

Freedom from food deprivation and the diet mentality is a fundamental concept that underlies the whole program, This is essential to overcoming behaviors like closet eating and binging. Toss your diet books and calorie counters on the bonfire. Noone but you is in control anymore. Reclaim your power and learn to listen the subtle messages of your body. You will be surprised at its innate wisdom. Think of how natural it is when an infant pushes away the bottle or the breast after they have had their fill. You'll be doing the very same thing soon enough. Remember -- When you allow yourself to eat whatever you want, whenever you want, you begin to want different things.

Week 2: Honor Your Hunger – What do you really want?

You will learn to distinguish between the different types of hunger: biological, taste, practical, and emotional. By being able to accurately gauge your biological hunger, you will be able to stop eating when you are full. This is your first introduction to the world of energy coaching.You will be (re)taught to listen for the messages that lurk beneath your cravings for more when you're really not hungry. Now that you can recognize the different types of hunger, you will become increasingly aware of times when it is your emotions and not biological hunger that is causing you to crave food. This is a great breakthrough, but now you need to learn other ways of dealing with those thoughts and feelings, and that is what we will deal with in this session. Instead of eating for comfort, you will learn more yummy food free ways of easing emotional pain, facing challenges, and shouldering responsibilities. The support of your new binge blastin’ buddies will enhance this discovery process.

Week 3: Silence the Screaming Meanies - Learn to say "No" to the old food critics and coppers counting your Oreos

This week is dedicated to evicting those out-of-control internal food critics who have made your mealtimes a misery. Does: “Don’t eat that you fat moron, you know how many calories are in there” ring any bells? You will learn how to transform the negative, useless voices of the Screaming Meanies into the positive, helpful characters you will come to know as Food Freud, Nurturing Nana, Rebel Belle, and Nutrition Buddy. With this new team on board, you will develop a greater awareness of what is right for you, with no more sabotage from the old lineup.

Week 4: Change Your Thinking From Fat to Thin: Recognize the Mind/Body Connection

Learn the importance of changing from the inside out. Your body is listening to you so tell it what you want and play down what you don’t. Watch your language, young lady and mind your p’s and q’s, find what words you need to eliminate from your vocabulary. Learn about the astonishing findings and the latest research in the field of mind/body medicine. Yes. Your thoughts can make you fat!

Week 5: Feed Your Body through Movement – Have fun moving again!

While we are ditching the old concept of deprivation-based diets, let’s also throw out the old exercise mantra of no pain, no gain. This week we will introduce a radical new take on exercise: It can be fun; it can be something that we want to do, not something onerous that we have to do; and it can be a friend, one that you can rely on to energize and oxygenate your cells. Using a technique derived from Neuro Linguistic Programming, your exercise experience can be changed from grueling workout to fun-filled “playout.” Oh…and we might even lose some weight while we’re at it.

Week 6: Respect Your Body

Pull out of the blame game and, instead, be gentle with your body. In the past you may have set unrealistic weight goals; accept yourself for the wonderful, unique person you are—physically, mentally, and spiritually. Loving and accepting yourself with these new thoughts and beliefs around food and treating yourself with more respect and love is truly the key to happiness.

Week 7: Eat foods that Kiss Your Spirit

By this stage, you will have learned a lot about your old eating habits and how they were largely driven by deprivation. Now you know that you can be in control of what, when, and how much you eat. You set the rules, and the pace at which they are applied. You will also develop a real hunger for nourishing foods that you love to eat, and, with the help of your in-house mental-health team: Food Freud, Nurturing Nana, Rebel Belle and Nutrition Buddy, you will be on the path to effortless weight loss.

Week 8 – Graduation – Welcome Back To Your Life!

It’s taken a while, but now you know that you truly can trust yourself around food, pay attention and honor your body and treat yourself with loving kindness and most of all say, a loving and firm “NO” to those who doubt your strength and abilities. You’ve reclaimed your power, Juicy Woman. Now that you have taken on the challenge and walked through the door to discover your life is waiting for you, it’s time to decide what you really want besides food. What’s up the road and what goodies are in store for you are only limited by your imagination.