Lesson Title: Eating Mindfully

Target Audience: Mirmont Treatment Center patients

General Objective or Class Goal: Participants of Mirmont will understand and utilize mindfulness to improve their eating habits
Date and Duration: February 18, 2015: 45 minutes total
Specific Objectives
(Use SMART criteria)

Procedure
(State how each specific objective will be met)
Introduction
Introduce self to the group explaining who I am and what the
lecture will be covering.

Learning
Activity
Verbal group
discussion

Evaluation
Method
Participant
verbal
feedback

Ask participants what they think it means to be mindful and share

it with the group.
Evaluate participants knowledge

1. 80% of participants will be

able to name two ways to
identify hunger by the end of
the presentation.

Body of Lesson
Review hunger cues:
1. Rumbling stomach
2. Easily distracted
3. Grumpy
4. Dry mouth
5. Empty stomach feeling

Pre-test

Power Point

Verbal Q&A

Slides 12
Post test

Discuss signs youve waited too long to eat:

1. Headache
2. Fatigue
3. Light-headed
4. Shaky hands
5. Extreme hunger
2. 80% of participant will be
able to list two ways to eat
mindfully.

Review ways to eat mindfully:

1. Eating consciously
2. Truly tasting
3. Food texture
4. Eat what you love

Slides 4 - 8
Activity
practicing
mindful eating

Participants
verbal
feedback
Post test

Lesson Title: Eating Mindfully

Target Audience: Mirmont Treatment Center patients
General Objective or Class Goal: Participants of Mirmont will understand and utilize mindfulness to improve their eating habits
Date and Duration: February 18, 2015: 45 minutes total
with a raisin.
Review challenges that interfere with mindful eating:
1. Taste
2. Media influence
3. Emotional eating
4. Peer-pressure
5. Convenience
6. Multitasking
7. Stress
Conclusion
Summarize the key points of eating mindfully and encourage
patients to practice mindful eating at their next meal.

Verbal
conclusion

Questions

Materials List (attached page): i.e.: audio-visual equipment, food models, video, flip chart, specific foods for food demo, pencils,
paper, attendance sheet, pre/post tests, handouts (specified), other visuals, etc.
1.

Pre-Lecture Evaluation
Name two ways you struggle with eating. (Examples: Small or large appetite, variety, affordability, cant tell when Im full/hungry,)
1)
2)
On a scale from 1 to 5, how well do you think you are at distinguishing when you are hungry? (circle one)
Not At All
1

Very Good
5

Lesson Title: Eating Mindfully

Target Audience: Mirmont Treatment Center patients
General Objective or Class Goal: Participants of Mirmont will understand and utilize mindfulness to improve their eating habits
Date and Duration: February 18, 2015: 45 minutes total
On a scale from 1 to 5, how often do you abuse food when youre stressed? This includes over eating and restricting food. (circle one)
Not At All
1

All the Time

5

What does being mindful mean to you?

Post-Lecture Evaluation
What does it mean to be mindful?

Name two ways you can be more mindful about eating.

1)
2)
Name two ways you can identify when you are hungry.
1)
2)
On a scale from 1 to 5, how likely are you to practice mindfully eating in the future? (circle one)
Not At All
1

All the Time

5

Lesson Title: Eating Mindfully

Target Audience: Mirmont Treatment Center patients
General Objective or Class Goal: Participants of Mirmont will understand and utilize mindfulness to improve their eating habits
Date and Duration: February 18, 2015: 45 minutes total
2. A raisin was given to each participant in the lecture. While participants were forced to eat the raisin, they did however have to
use it for other components of eating mindfully other than taste.