Savor Every Bite: Mindful Ways to Eat, Love Your Body, and Live with Joy

by Lynn Rossy PhD

Overview

Savor your food, soothe difficult emotions, and enjoy every moment with powerful mindfulness practices! 

Do you turn to food when you’re feeling bored, depressed, or anxious? Do you judge your body for not fitting into some ideal shape or size? If so, you aren’t alone. Diet culture has sabotaged our relationship with food and our bodies. As a result, many of us are confused—attaching shame to our food choices and judging our bodies. It’s time to break free!

Savor Every Bite offers powerful mindfulness and compassion practices for soothing difficult emotions and cultivating positive coping strategies. From psychologist and mindful eating expert Lynn Rossy, this book provides daily tips and tools for whole-body healing—including how to eat mindfully, move your body in ways that feel delicious, and live with greater ease and joy.  

With this guide, you’ll learn mindfulness skills to help you navigate the difficulties of daily life and cultivate a lasting sense of calm, clarity, and profound happiness. It’s time to start savoring your life!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684037469
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	05/01/2021
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	688,656
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Lynn Rossy, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and author of The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution. She developed Eat for Life, a research-based mindful eating program that helps you end overeating, appreciate your body, and savor your life. She is president of The Center for Mindful Eating.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Step 1 Slow Down and Explore Your Senses

1 Slow Down, You Move Too Fast 6

2 Waking Up Is Hard to Do 10

3 One Life to Live 14

4 Breathe with Me 17

5 Belly Check and Belly Love 20

6 Sit Down and Just Eat 24

7 The Land Between Hunger and Fullness 28

8 Explore the Wonder of Each Bite 32

9 A Breath Before You Tech 35

10 Do What's Important (Not Urgent) 39

Step 2 Soothe (Instead of Eat) Your Emotions

11 Can You Name the Emotion? 45

12 Feelings Are Natural, Mentionable, and Manageable 49

13 Feelings Times Three 53

14 Understanding the Five Hindrances 57

15 Healing with Self-Touch 62

16 The Wave of the Crave 66

17 Healing with Movement 69

18 The Upside of Boredom 72

19 Listening for Your Body's Voice 76

20 Be Your Own BFF 80

Step 3 Surrender Limiting Thoughts

21 The Paradox of Acceptance and Change 87

22 Understanding the Wanting Mind 91

23 Food Is Just Food 95

24 Taking Care of Your Two-Year-Old Self 99

25 Moving Past the Scarcity Mentality 103

26 Waking Up Before You Bite 108

27 Rewards That Keep On Giving 112

28 Facing Your Fears and Desires 116

29 There Is No Success or Failure 119

30 Weil-Being Has No Size 123

Step 4 Smile and Create Your Own Happiness

31 Choosing Happiness 129

32 The Power of a Smile 133

33 Just for Me! 137

34 Strike a Yoga Pose, Do a Dance 141

35 Gratitude and Grace

36 The Practice of Loving-Kindness 150

37 Congratulate Yourself 154

38 Assume Authority. Act Until Apprehended 157

39 Cultivate Contentment 161

40 The Keys to Happiness 165

Step 5 Savor Every Moment

41 Savor Every Bite 171

42 Savor the Food You Really Want 175

43 Savor the Pleasant 180

44 Savor Every Moment 184

45 Savor Every Movement 188

46 Savor Seeing, Smelling, and Hearing 192

47 Savor One Thing at a Time 195

48 Savor Nature 199

49 Savor Generosity 203

50 Savor Life 206

Acknowledgments 211

References 213

Interviews

Rossy resides in Columbia, MO.

Editorial Reviews

03/22/2021

Psychologist Rossy (The Mindfulness Based Eating Solution) explores in this middling guide ways to accept one’s body and correct poor dietary habits through mindfulness. Encouraging readers to jump around and choose from the 52 thematic chapters, Rossy sprinkles her advice across five pillars—exploring one’s senses, soothing emotions, eschewing limiting thoughts, choosing happiness, and savoring every moment. Rossy opens with basic tools of mindfulness, such as offering physical “Savoring Practices,” yogic massage, and meditation techniques, before digging into ideas of surrendering to a slower pace and “weaving intentions more deeply.” Rossy maintains an overtly positive vibe: “Slow down before you eat, before you make plans, before you make a decision, before you send an email, before you say yes or no to something, and before the many other choices you make each day.” Unfortunately, the saccharine appeals become cloying, and the many painfully obvious filler statements (“Fullness is determined by the quantity of food you’ve eaten” and “If we’re not present, where are we?”) fail to move forward the basic concept of slowing down and savoring one’s meals. Readers looking for useful health tips will be disappointed. (May)

Publishers Weekly

“Savor Every Bite is a handbook to life that is taught one bite at a time. Its five-step approach to mindful eating is an essential guide to discover the present moment. The book provides a life-affirming, health-supporting approach to stop worrying about food and start enjoying eating. This much-needed Health at Every Size (HAES®) mindful eating book is filled with delicious bites of insight, compassion, and wisdom that you will savor reading.”
—Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDCES, mindful eating pioneer, diabetes care and education specialist, author, and cofounder of The Center for Mindful Eating

Megrette Fletcher

“Savor Every Bite hits all the right notes. Its goal is to teach readers not only how to recover from dysregulated eating but how to enjoy life more. Rossy does this by laying out a path to whole-body engagement using thoughts, feelings, and senses. Guiding the reader through a five-step process and simple, targeted practice exercises, this empowering book makes change seem less frightening and more doable.”
—Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, MEd, award-winning international author of eight books on eating, weight, and body image (https://www.karenrkoenig.com)

Karen R. Koenig

“I love these bite-sized chapters and embodied practices. You can read all you like about mindfulness, but it won’t take root until you feel it in your body. Lynn Rossy’s Savor Every Bite helps you do just that with compassion, the benefits of her personal experience, and the backing of scientific data!”
—Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, nutrition therapist, meditation teacher, and author of Eat to Love

Jenna Hollenstein

“A beautiful and poetic guide to awakening our senses, inhabiting our bodies, and opening our hearts to the richness of life. I highly recommend!”
—Shauna Shapiro, PhD, author of Good Morning, I Love You

Shauna Shapiro

Savor Every Bite is an engaging, well-written, and easy-to-digest guide filled with thoughtful practices that will not only help you change your relationship with food, but your life overall. Rossy is a well-recognized expert in the field of mindful eating, and she doesn’t hold back in sharing her wisdom with her readers.”
—Alexis Conason, PsyD, CEDS-S, founder of The Anti-Diet Plan and author of The Diet Free Revolution

Alexis Conason

This book takes a compassionate look at our lifetime relationship to food and eating. We find ways to identify the authentic need behind our cravings. Rossy gives us doable practices to bring a mindful pause to our food choices and a mindful attentiveness to our bodies, too. I was also impressed by how we can find the Dharma on a table or in a mirror.”
—David Richo, PhD, author of Triggers: How We Can Stop Reacting and Start Healing

David Richo

“Anyone who has ever fought, planned, gobbled, tried to control, or in any way felt at the mercy of food will appreciate the kindness and sanity with which Lynn Rossy approaches this topic. Leaving the dictates of diet and helplessness behind, Rossy gives the reader permission to listen to their own body and engage in a vital and intimate relationship with the food they eat.”
—Deborah Adele, author of The Yamas and Niyamas

Deborah Adele

When we bring a mindful attention to what we truly hunger for, we enter a path of authentic healing. Savor Every Bite is an outstanding guide to transforming our relationship with food and learning to nourish our spirit.”
—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

Tara Brach