What is it that we are truly hungering for? Our craving are like a crying baby who is trying to draw our attention. When the baby cries, the mother cradles the baby to try to calm the baby right away. By acknowledging and embracing our cravings through a few breaths, we can stop our autopilot of reaching out to the pint of ice cream or the bag of chips.”

Mindful eating is eating with intention and attention:

• Eating with the intention of caring for yourself
• Eating with the attention necessary for noticing and enjoying your food and its effects on your body.

As we practice this regularly, we become aware that we don’t need to eat as much, whereas when people just gulp down food, they can eat a lot and not feel full.

Also, very important, the true benefits of the food we consume are realized only when we are truly invested in the experience of eating it, and visualizing our body deriving nourishment from it. And that is the best diet to adopt, one that will automatically lead to optimum weight and optimum health. 

From Psychology of Eating