If you’ve been reading here for any length of time, you know that learning to be mindful about my actions (and inaction) played a large role in my successful weight loss and continues to work well for me with managing my weight. It’s an ongoing project and I still have work to do. While I continue to build a better habit of mindfulness of what I’m doing, I also want to learn more about being mindful of what I’m feeling.

Knowing that, you can imagine my delight when I was asked to review Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life ,co-authored by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung, a Harvard Nutritionist.

Savor is a remarkable book that offers much more than the eat-less-move-more advice for dropping a few pounds. Combining ancient Buddhist wisdom and the modern science of nutrition, the authors say that, while eating healthy and increasing movement are important, how we eat, move, and think is every bit as critical if we are to change our behaviors and achieve full success. It’s an approach that might hold a few keys for those like me who “woke up fat one day” and then couldn’t figure out how to fix it.