After receiving a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes, it may seem that the days of "eating what you love" are over. Understanding dietary changes, blood glucose monitoring, and prevention of complications can feel scary and overwhelming. Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes builds on the principles in Michelle May's Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat to help readers with diabetes reduce their anxiety about diabetes self-management. Even people with diabetes can eat what they love, using awareness and intention to guide them. This book helps readers discover how eating and physical activity affect their blood sugar so that they can make decisions that support their good health without sacrificing delicious meals or dinner out with friends. This four-part system helps readers think, nourish, care, and live with diabetes - without restriction or guilt - to discover optimal health and the vibrant life they crave.
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“This groundbreaking book offers an entirely new program for managing diabetes while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. With mindfulness as the core element, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes is a comprehensive guidebook designed to create long-term, sustainable, and life-enhancing strategies for those who are living with diabetes. Authors Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher seamlessly integrate mindful eating concepts with cutting-edge research, anecdotal stories, visual diagrams, self-care practices, and more. The result? A comprehensive, compelling, and well-structured program that inspires, motivates, and teaches. This is a very beneficial program that is sure to increase mindful self-awareness, fulfillment, and the power of healthy choice.”
—Donald Altman, MA, LPC, author of One-Minute Mindfulness and Meal By Meal
“These authors present a compassionate, healing approach for all those who manage diabetes on a daily basis. This easy-to-read book teaches practical, life-changing strategies for taking charge of your health and taking care of yourself in a mindful way.”
—Susan Albers, PsyD, clinical psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and author of Eating Mindfully and 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food
“What Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher have done so well is to extend the benefits of mindfulness to those whose lives depend on cultivating awareness of their bodies and their actions.”
—Brian M. Shelley MD, wellness director at First Choice Community Healthcare in Albuquerque, NM
“Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes is a book that will be beneficial to anyone with a diagnosis of diabetes or insulin resistance (prediabetes). Often, a diagnosis of one of these conditions comes with dietary rules that set many into a restrictive mindset that not only takes all the joy away from eating, but could actually send them into a restrict-binge cycle with carbohydrates. This book presents a rational program to manage diabetes without anxiety. One can truly make peace with food, eating, weight, and activity.”
—Reba Sloan, MPH, LRD, FAED, licensed registered dietitian in Nashville, TN
“If you’re committed to changing your relationship with food and losing weight and nothing you've tried before has stuck, look here. Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher take you on a guided tour of mindful eating. You’ll begin to taste your food again and enjoy it more while being satisfied with less.”
—Riva Greenberg, author of 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes
“Michelle May and Megrette Fletcher have produced a brilliantly clear resource for stopping the downward spiral into prediabetic and diabetic behavior. What a truly compassionate, humanistic, mindfulness-powered manual for fearlessly instinctive eating!”
—Pavel Somov, PhD, author of Eating the Moment and Reinventing the Meal
“Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes is a refreshing and compassionate approach to managing diabetes that uses mindfulness to empower the patient. Readers will enjoy the friendly and straightforward writing style, which offers practical tips that might be surprising.”
—Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, coauthor of Intuitive Eating
“Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes is a revolutionary approach to eating for people working with the challenges of diabetes. This book helps transform those challenges into adventures of exploration and discovery. Too often, diabetes treatment makes people feel overwhelmed and locked in by rigid dietary restrictions. When eating is persistently flavored with anxiety, people lose track of the natural pleasure and joy of eating. This very readable book has many helpful hints and exercises to help guide people with diabetes back to a sense of balance and ease with food and eating. I enthusiastically endorse it for anyone, but especially for those with diabetes and their friends and families.”
—Jan Bays, MD, pediatrician and author of Mindful Eating
“This dynamic duo of physician and dietitian are truly empowering readers with mindful eating principles by approaching food/eating and diabetes with awareness, not anxiety; curiosity, not criticism; and trust, not doubt. For the growing number of people with diabetes, this book offers a flexible approach to eating that is both enjoyable and sustainable by introducing nutrition with a non-restrictive, all-foods-fit perspective that works—even when you have diabetes.”
—Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, author of Tell Me What to Eat if I Have Diabetes
About the Author
Michelle May, MD, is a recovered yoyo dieter and founder of Am I Hungry?® mindful eating workshops and facilitator training program (AmIHungry.com). She empowers individuals to end mindless and emotional eating without deprivation or guilt. An inspirational speaker and author, her passion and insight stem from her own personal struggles with dieting and her professional experiences helping thousands of people eat what they love and love what they eat.
Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, is a registered dietician, certified diabetes educator, and internationally recognized mindful eating expert living north of Boston, MA. She is cofounder of The Center for Mindful Eating. tcme.org
Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, is a registered dietician, certified diabetes educator, and internationally recognized mindful eating expert living north of Boston, MA. She is cofounder of The Center for Mindful Eating. tcme.org
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Godsend for those with diabetes, family members & diabetic professionals
April 10, 2012
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As a psychotherapist who uses mindful eating techniques to help my diabetic & prediabetic clients, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. How to live and thrive with diabetes becomes very clear in every chapter. The normal fear after receiving a diagnosis of diabetes is dispelled as the reader is walked, step by step through the process of understanding what diabetes is. Then we are shown how mindfulness
"helps focus our attention and awareness on the present moment, which, in turn, helps us disengage from habitual, unsatisfying,
unskillful habits and behaviors. Engaging in mindful eating practices on a regular basis can help us discover a far more
satisfying relationship to food and eating than we ever imagined or experienced before. A different kind of nourishment often
emerges, the kind that offers satisfaction on a very deep emotional level."
Authors Michelle May, MD physician, and Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, dietitian and certified diabetes educator, present an easy-to-understand model of different styles of eating: Restrictive Eating (rigid dieting), Overeating and Instinctive Eating. They help us see how Instinctive Eating helps us learn how to listen to the wisdom of our bodies. People who have been diagnosed with diabetes often have come to mistrust their body. They feel that their body with its out of control hunger is the problem, the enemy. This book guides them artfully to listen for signs of hunger and then to notice when they are satisfied. They learn the importance of balancing nourishment with pleasure.
The reader is taught what diabetes is and how to manage it in simple terms so that it is not something to fear, but something to be in charge of. Knowledge and understanding create an internal state of safety and calm.
The reader is taught self-empowering ways of thinking. For example, under the heading of "Self-Defeating vs. Affirming", they write,
"I don't have the energy" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because if you don't exercise, you'll continue to have low energy.
Replace self-defeating thoughts with affirming ones like "I feel myself becoming healthier and more energetic each day"...It turns
out that exercise increases your strength and stamina, and it helps you to sleep better so that you become more productive and feel
great.
Various triggers to eat when your body is not really needing fuel are addressed. These include physical triggers, environmental triggers, emotional triggers and Diabetes-related triggers.
Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are addressed with ways to recognize them and then comfortably deal with them.
Diabetes care is explained and made relatively easy with a 7 Day Fearless Blood Glucose Monitoring Log. Rather than running away from what is going on in your body, you are encouraged to be curious so that you can become aware of your body's subtle cues as to what different blood glucose levels feel like for you.
Guidance about what to eat, how to eat mindfully in order to be in charge of your diabetes responsibly and yet to not feel deprived are provided. The authors believe that
"The most effective way to make permanent healthy lifestyle changes to manage your diabetes is to learn to eat according to your
body's signals and to eat as healthfully as possible without feeling deprived. You can achieve this balance when you use reliable
nutrition information to make your food choices while still allowing yourself the freedom to eat what you love without judging
yourself or feeling guilty."
Guidance is also given about taking medications, making sense of carbohydrate confusion, exercise (including instructions for stretching & strength training), and how to stay healthy with diabetes.
There is so much more to this book. As a psychotherapist I really applaud the enthusiasm that is present on every single page. The reader feels like being in charge of diabetes is doable. Everything that you need to have a healthy, vibrant life with diabetes is presented in this wonderful book.
"helps focus our attention and awareness on the present moment, which, in turn, helps us disengage from habitual, unsatisfying,
unskillful habits and behaviors. Engaging in mindful eating practices on a regular basis can help us discover a far more
satisfying relationship to food and eating than we ever imagined or experienced before. A different kind of nourishment often
emerges, the kind that offers satisfaction on a very deep emotional level."
Authors Michelle May, MD physician, and Megrette Fletcher, MEd, RD, CDE, dietitian and certified diabetes educator, present an easy-to-understand model of different styles of eating: Restrictive Eating (rigid dieting), Overeating and Instinctive Eating. They help us see how Instinctive Eating helps us learn how to listen to the wisdom of our bodies. People who have been diagnosed with diabetes often have come to mistrust their body. They feel that their body with its out of control hunger is the problem, the enemy. This book guides them artfully to listen for signs of hunger and then to notice when they are satisfied. They learn the importance of balancing nourishment with pleasure.
The reader is taught what diabetes is and how to manage it in simple terms so that it is not something to fear, but something to be in charge of. Knowledge and understanding create an internal state of safety and calm.
The reader is taught self-empowering ways of thinking. For example, under the heading of "Self-Defeating vs. Affirming", they write,
"I don't have the energy" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because if you don't exercise, you'll continue to have low energy.
Replace self-defeating thoughts with affirming ones like "I feel myself becoming healthier and more energetic each day"...It turns
out that exercise increases your strength and stamina, and it helps you to sleep better so that you become more productive and feel
great.
Various triggers to eat when your body is not really needing fuel are addressed. These include physical triggers, environmental triggers, emotional triggers and Diabetes-related triggers.
Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are addressed with ways to recognize them and then comfortably deal with them.
Diabetes care is explained and made relatively easy with a 7 Day Fearless Blood Glucose Monitoring Log. Rather than running away from what is going on in your body, you are encouraged to be curious so that you can become aware of your body's subtle cues as to what different blood glucose levels feel like for you.
Guidance about what to eat, how to eat mindfully in order to be in charge of your diabetes responsibly and yet to not feel deprived are provided. The authors believe that
"The most effective way to make permanent healthy lifestyle changes to manage your diabetes is to learn to eat according to your
body's signals and to eat as healthfully as possible without feeling deprived. You can achieve this balance when you use reliable
nutrition information to make your food choices while still allowing yourself the freedom to eat what you love without judging
yourself or feeling guilty."
Guidance is also given about taking medications, making sense of carbohydrate confusion, exercise (including instructions for stretching & strength training), and how to stay healthy with diabetes.
There is so much more to this book. As a psychotherapist I really applaud the enthusiasm that is present on every single page. The reader feels like being in charge of diabetes is doable. Everything that you need to have a healthy, vibrant life with diabetes is presented in this wonderful book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Sally Asher
Format:Paperback
I have just finished reading "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes" by Michelle May MD and Megrette Fletcher. I loved the compassionate, clear and friendly tone that empowers the reader to take charge of their health, eating and life in order to thrive with diabetes.
This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to build a positive relationship with food and learn to eat for the right reasons. For those with diabetes, it is especially refreshing to find a book that helps you learn the skills to manage your condition without rigid rules and joyless eating.
Having read Michelle's fantastic previous book "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat", I was already convinced of how mindful eating can fundamentally change your relationship with food. It is so refreshing to learn to eat the foods you love in moderation and without deprivation and guilt.
The authors help you to make sustainable lifestyle changes you can live with pleasurably so that you can thrive with diabetes. After receiving a diagnosis of prediabetes myself many years ago, I am convinced that taking charge of my eating and lifestyle in a mindful way helped me to overturn my diagnosis.
Learning to eat with awareness and attention can help free you up from the shackles of dieting. This book gives you all the information you need to make positive lifestyles changes that are everlasting. This is one book you will want to keep on your bookshelf, because it's so full of brilliant advice.
Sally Asher, author of Losing It in France - Les Secrets of the French Diet
This book is a must read for anyone who wishes to build a positive relationship with food and learn to eat for the right reasons. For those with diabetes, it is especially refreshing to find a book that helps you learn the skills to manage your condition without rigid rules and joyless eating.
Having read Michelle's fantastic previous book "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat", I was already convinced of how mindful eating can fundamentally change your relationship with food. It is so refreshing to learn to eat the foods you love in moderation and without deprivation and guilt.
The authors help you to make sustainable lifestyle changes you can live with pleasurably so that you can thrive with diabetes. After receiving a diagnosis of prediabetes myself many years ago, I am convinced that taking charge of my eating and lifestyle in a mindful way helped me to overturn my diagnosis.
Learning to eat with awareness and attention can help free you up from the shackles of dieting. This book gives you all the information you need to make positive lifestyles changes that are everlasting. This is one book you will want to keep on your bookshelf, because it's so full of brilliant advice.
Sally Asher, author of Losing It in France - Les Secrets of the French Diet
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By VTori
Format:Paperback
This book changed my approach to the way I look at Food - It's not the enemy. I don't have diabetes but I am overweight and border line pre-diabetes. This BOOK gave me a greater understanding of Carbs and Fat and the relationship to the effects on my body. I LOVE LOVE the healthy eating tips on page 108. This book was easy to read, easy to understand, it really educated me and motivated me to be more mindful in my eating habits. My FAVORITES were the Nourishment chapters!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow.
This is another book in the Dr Michelle May collection. I own them all. Mindful, healthy eating is really what we all need to do. I'm glad she continues to write.
Published 6 days ago by Judy
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This book really breaks down the reasons for eating and what role it plays in you life-being a diabetic or not! GREAT for anyone needing to re-evalute their relationship with food!
Published 1 month ago by amanda
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Life changing!
This book is life changing. After years of yo yo dieting....Dr. May's efforts to teach those of us who have never mastered instinctive eating to mindful eating has given me a new... Read more
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Published 3 months ago by Liesl C. Puentespina, MS, RD
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Good reading
Makes you think about what your doing with your meals and choices of food. It's not
that hard to make healthy choices.
that hard to make healthy choices.
Published 3 months ago by Warren Thurman
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Handy reference
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