Mindful Eating and Diabetes: How mindful eating helps with chronic health conditions

In this interview Michelle May MD and Megrette Fletcher MEd, RD, CDCES discuss why mindful eating is beneficial for managing diabetes. It was a juicy conversation, so here's a list of what we discussed:

01:00 - Mindfulness as a learned skill
02:35 - Having diabetes is a series of present moments
02:55 - Fear is a poor long-term motivator; what's the alternative?
05:55 - How can you use a non-diet approach when a person has diabetes?
08:35 - How diet culture impacts diabetes management
11:36 - Learning, teaching, and counseling are different things
14:30 - Health inequity in diabetes care partly due to weight-bias
17:50 - Nonrestrictive diabetes and nutrition education that meets standards of care
18:57 - Why experiential learning is one of the keys to change
20:51 - It's called diabetes SELF-management for a reason!

Learn more about mindful eating!

To learn more about mindful eating, join us for this complimentary mini-series designed for health and wellness professionals who want to increase and clarify their understanding of mindful eating and how it can help those they work with.

What this Mindful Eating Mini-Series covers:
• What mindful eating is - and what it isn't.
• How to avoid subtly turning mindful eating into another form of restrictive dieting.
• The differences between mindful eating and binge eating, and how mindful eating helps.
• Why a weight-neutral approach is essential for sustainable change (even after bariatric surgery!).
• How to help your clients embody mindful eating and apply their skills to other areas of their lives.
• The essential shifts mindful eating can make when someone has a chronic health condition.
• How to share mindful eating messages in a diet-obsessed world.