The CAMP System, Live in Balance and Harmony with Food

Welcome to Mindful Eating through the CAMP System.

When we eat mindfully, we turn our attention to the food. This results in some amazing, wonderful outcomes.

·      We come back into balance with food.

·      We reclaim our power over food and eating.

·      We learn to honor ourselves more.

·      We treat food as an ally rather than as an enemy.

·      We abandon our mindless, habit ways of eating.

The CAMP System is not a diet. The message from CAMP is that it's not what we eat that matters so much, but rather it's how we eat that is important.

CAMP stands for Control, Attitudes, Mindful eating and Portions strategies. The system is supported by books, audio, tools and motivational items. Each of these is explored in depth in the book.

Control - With control, you will learn who you've been blaming for your unskilled eating behavior and then how to reclaim your own control over food. You will see what habits you've formed, how they are working against you, and how you can defeat your old eating habits.

Attitudes - The way you think about food determines how you treat food and how you treat yourself in respect to food. Learn how to develop new attitudes about food through the TEN CAMP PRINCIPLES, which discuss how to think about leaving food on your plate, hunger, how to never feel deprived, and much more.

Mindful Eating - Mindfulness is a way of approaching life with complete attention, purposefulness and wakefulness. Four chapters of this book are devoted to the four types of mindful eating: Arriving, Awakening, Tuning In, and Service. When you wake up to food and truly pay attention to each bite, you begin to have many more choices than before. You begin to treat food with respect, as something special. You become aware of your own energy economy and how all kinds of foods make you feel.

Portions - How much food you eat is critical to meeting your goals in your relationship to food. Simply put: If you are gaining weight, you are eating too much. Learn how to set boundaries for yourself, how to evaluate how much to eat, how much food to put on your fork or spoon, and how to increase the sensations of each bite so that you eat less.

With the CAMP System, it's not what you eat but rather how you eat that matters. This book will teach you

·      How to approach food in a new way

·      How to arrive at your meals

·      How to develop new attitudes about food and eating

·      How to regain control over eating

·      How to manage your portions in a way that makes sense.

Included in the book are such exercises as:

·    How to eat a salad...and really enjoy it.

·    How to eat snacks...mindfully and sensibly.

·    How to eat pizza!

·    How to eat at a buffet restaurant.

·    How to eat mindfulness soup.

·    How to find your right bite size.

·    How to know when to finish eating...even with food on your plate!

·    How to eat a burger and fries (like everybody else) but mindfully.

·    How to deeply enjoy chocolate!

As a CAMPer, you will have full control of what you eat without depriving yourself of any food.