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

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. [em](May) [/em]