Coaching practices for Mindful Eating for My Teenager

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I find myself eating and I’m not even sure I was hungry
• I can’t eat anything without a screen going
• I want to actually feel what slowing down does, but a whole meal is too much to hold my attention on
• I’ll look down and the plate is empty and I barely remember tasting any of it
• I forget to eat all day, run on fumes and get snappy, then inhale something in front of a screen at night without even tasting it

Practices that may help

1. Identifying the nine hungers before eating
   Before each meal, check which of the nine hungers (eye, nose, mouth, stomach, cellular, mind, heart, touch, water) is actually asking to be fed.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
2. Mindful Eating, Made Practical
   Mindful eating is the practice of bringing full sensory and interoceptive attention to the experience of eating — noticing hunger and satiety cues, flavors, textures, and emotional drivers of eating — without judgment. Jan Chozen Bays’s work distinguishes nine "hungers" beyond stomach hunger. Evidence for mindful eating is most consistent for reducing binge eating and emotional eating; effects on weight alone are modest and mixed.
3. Screen-free, task-free eating
   Eat at least one meal per day without phone, screen, or task — eating as the primary activity.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
4. The raisin exercise and mini-meal meditation
   Eat a single small food item (a raisin, a chocolate, a nut) with complete meditative attention as a regular practice.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
5. Full sensory eating — engaging all five senses at each bite
   Bring sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste fully into each bite before swallowing.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
6. Eat regularly and pay attention
   Keep meals reasonably regular and eat with attention rather than on autopilot.
   Nutrition and Mood: The Gut-Brain Link, Honestly Explained
7. Gratitude and acknowledgment before meals
   Take 30 seconds before eating to acknowledge the food — who grew it, who prepared it, the chain of events that made it possible.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
8. Hunger-satiety scale — eating within the 3–7 window
   Eat when hunger reaches 3 on a 0–10 scale and stop when satiety reaches 7 — neither starving nor stuffed.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
9. Stop eating at 80 % full (Hara hachi bu)
   The Okinawan practice of eating until 80 % full naturally regulates caloric intake without calorie counting.
   Blue Zone Principles: The Power 9 Longevity Practices
10. The emotional eating pause — a 10-minute delay before comfort eating
    When emotional hunger drives you toward food, pause for 10 minutes, name the feeling, and ask whether food is the right response.
    Mindful Eating, Made Practical

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