Course Description

If you have struggled with any of the following issues: 

  • Emotional eating
  • Have food cravings that seem to win every time
  • Been on numerous diets to try to lose weight
  • Can't stay on a diet because you don't have the willpower

This Mindful/intuitive eating course will help you to increase your understanding of what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, and to identify the underlying reasons of why you eat. It will help eliminate cravings, emotional eating, and to eliminate feelings of deprivation.

Focusing on mindful/intuitive eating can help with weight loss. It does not require willpower or even counting calories in order for you to be successful with this approach. Instead, you will change your relationship with food that will end the dieting roller coaster.

You will learn how to change your eating to a more mindful approach that will help you know when you are hungry and to help you choose foods that will provide the needed nourishment for your body.

Mindful/inituitive eating also can increase your enjoyment and pleasure of food as you learn to use your senses as you eat.

The course includes:

  • a mindful eating exercise
  • worksheets on the different topics such as recognizing hunger, using the hunger scale so you will know when to eat
  • Mindful eating quiz
  • Other worksheets will help you identify areas to focus on to become more mindful as you eat


The course includes practical steps to take when dealing with emotional eating and puts you in control of the choices you will make with your foods and with your eating.


What you’ll learn

  • A way to lose weight without dieting
  • How to eliminate food cravings by using mindful eating
  • How to eliminate emotional eating by using mindful eating
  • How to lose weight without feeling deprived

CEO of Nutrition and Health Works, LLC

Juanita Weaver-Reiss MBA MPH RD LD CDCES CLT

Juanita Weaver-Reiss is a dietitian and a coach with 29 years of experience in the field of nutrition. She provides practical "hands on" tools and practical information to make needed changes. 

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Mindful Eating

    • Introduction to Mindful eating

  • 2

    What is mindful eating?

    • What is mindful eating?

  • 3

    Mindful eating exercise

    • mindfulness eating activity video

    • Mindfulness eating exercise

  • 4

    Overview of mindful eating

    • overview of mindful

  • 5

    Why diets don't work

    • why diets don't work

    • notes why diets dont work

    • handout

  • 6

    Mindful eating quiz

    • mindfulness quiz video

    • mindful-eating-quiz

  • 7

    Guidelines for mindful eating

    • guidelines for mindful eating

    • Worksheet 1

    • Worksheet 2

  • 8

    Benefits of mindful eating

    • Benefits of mindful eating - learning to make choices

    • Choices about your food

  • 9

    Using hunger to guide food choices

    • Am i hungry

    • Foodrecord-1478033400827

    • Hunger worksheet

  • 10

    How to use hunger to be more mindful

    • Am i hungry

    • Mindful handout

  • 11

    Ways to cope with emotional eating and cravings

    • Coping with Emotional Eating and Cravings

    • Ways to soothe your emotions without food

    • Food record