Weightloss and Meditation

Supu20

Has anyone found meditation as an important effective tool when used with diet and exercise? Any practical tips?

harper16

You are wanting to lose weight by doing meditation?

Supu20

Wondering if has helped anyone in conjuction with diet and exercise.

fostersu

Mindfulness does help with keeping perspective when faced with environmental temptation or cravings

RelCanonical

I am not a meditator, but I can see how it can have value for weight loss if you find yourself to be a mindless or emotional eater. Being able to be more mindful about your eating can help a lot with weight loss, and meditation helps practice mindfulness.

AnnPT77

It's also of potential use if stress is a factor for a person: It can be a useful stress management technique, and potentially a replacement habit for stress eating.

(I don't mean to suggest that that's an easy swap, BTW . . . but it's usually easier to get rid of an undesired habit by replacing it with a new and better habit, rather than trying to "just stop" the undesired thing. Meditation is a thing some would find useful as a new and better habit vs. stress eating. It would still take effort to implement that habit, no question.)