The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness

I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher - (edited for length and clarity) Discover how to shed old thinking patterns--and live more joyfully with food.

Are you ready to get to the roots of your challenges around food--whether it's gratuitous snacking, compulsive or emotional eating, indulging cravings, overeating, or other disheartening habits? Be ready to get mindful. Mindfulness can be the deciding factor between your successful adoption of a healthy vegan diet and repeated frustrating attempts. Lani Muelrath has been practicing mindfulness meditation for 25 years. In The Mindful Vegan, she teaches you how to practice mindfulness and shows how it can bring freedom and a new joy to your eating--and living--experience. Backed by extensive research, with step-by-step instructions, personal stories, positivity, humor, and a handful of delicious recipes, The Mindful Vegan will help you emancipate yourself from the stranglehold that mindless and compulsive eating have on your weight, health, food choices, and, most of all, peace of mind.

Hmmmmm----usually the only person who makes me say WTF out loud and get so pissed off is Dr. Phil. I have no problem eating vegan food or the vegan philosophy but is this woman and her demeaning prattle about meat eaters and stress and other stuff --- is she for real? All that hocus pocus mumbo jumbo about ninth planets and aligning yourself inside and out made me want to throw my (BRAND NEW) kindle out of the window. I understand meaningful eating vs. what I learned as HALT (are you hungry, angry lonely or tired?) I got sick of being insulted and refused to finish the book. I have to give it one star to leave this review but that was even pushing it.

BTW ---- how are SOY CURLS (Soy curls are a meat alternative made from non-GMO soybeans that have not been sprayed with chemical pesticides) fake meat (chik'n) and tapioca "cheese" better for me? They are over-processed and factory made which is a galaxy or two worth of "planet nine's" away from being the real food/cheese that I buy from the market that is just milk, rennet and time???)