Transform Your Relationship to Food, Eating, and Weight
Eat well, weigh less, enhance health. Without Dieting.
Eating less and weighing less is possible. Without dieting.
The paradigm-shifting, well-researched message in the Whole Person Integrative Eating® dietary lifestyle, is that it’s possible to eat less and weigh less — by nourishing yourself physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Each time you eat.
Welcome!
30 seconds on eating less, weighing less. Without dieting.
Deborah Kesten, MPH
Nutrition Researcher · Author · Educator
Founder, Whole Person Integrative Eating®
Food Shapes More
Than Weight
How would you eat if you knew food could help you eat less and weigh less?
Balance your emotions? Satisfy your soul? Create connection with others?
Whole Person Integrative Eating is built on a paradigm-shifting insight about optimal eating: food is a four-part gift. It influences your physical health, emotional balance, spiritual well-being, and social connection.
When you eat with awareness of these dimensions — and put them into practice — you may eat less and weigh less. Without dieting.
One meal at a time.
Discovering the Overeating Styles
Most weight-loss strategies focus on what you eat. Of course, both the quality and quantity of your food choices matter — a lot — to weight and well-being.
But my research on Whole Person Integrative Eating shows that how you eat — your eating behaviors — also plays a central role in overeating and weight.
A sampling of overeating behaviors…
✓ Eating when stressed, lonely, or anxious.
✓ Eating while working, driving, or distracted.
✓ Eating alone, disconnected from the experience.
These are not character flaws.
They are today’s “new normal” eating behaviors.
Meet the Seven Overeating Styles — and the WPIE Rx
Whole Person Integrative Eating reframes overeating — by identifying the root reasons that drive overeating in the first place.
In research I conducted with behavioral scientist Larry Scherwitz, PhD — of the 5,256 participants in my online e-course, those who replaced their overeating styles with the principles of the Whole Person Integrative Eating dietary lifestyle, ate less and weighed less. Without dieting.
Here are the overeating styles Larry and I identified in our original research. Each strongly predicts overeating and most are linked with weight gain.
Do you see yourself in any of them?
✓ Emotional Eating. Turning to food to manage difficult emotions
✓ Fast Foodism. Choosing mostly fast, processed food
✓ Food Fretting. Dieting a lot and over-concern about the “best” way to eat
✓ Task Snacking. Eating while working, driving, working at your computer
✓ Sensory Disregard. Eaten quickly and without awareness
✓ Unappetizing Atmosphere. Eating in unpleasant surroundings
✓ Solo Dining. Eating alone most of the time
The WPIE Rx
The antidote to the overeating styles is replacing your overeating styles with the principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating®.
Not rules. Not restrictions.
But shifts in what you eat — and how you experience food and eating.
The takeaway: the more overeating styles you engage in, the more likely you are to overeat and gain weight. Replacing them with the science-backed WPIE antidotes may help you eat less and weigh less — and support your health over time.
What Leaders in Medicine, People,
and Practitioners
are Saying
Medicine
"If people follow this [Whole Person Integrative Eating] revolutionary program…it may be the most helpful step they can take toward losing weight and keeping it off.”
This is what Barbara experienced.
Barbara's Story
When she contacted me, Barbara Kumara was 64 years old and had struggled with obesity her entire life — through adolescence, adulthood, and decades of trying everything.
Dieting. Overeaters Anonymous. Acupuncture.
Nothing brought lasting change.
Over the course of a year of coaching, Barbara gradually replaced her seven overeating styles — the root causes of her overeating—with their antidotes: the principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating.
As she made these shifts, her relationship with food changed. She went from 235 pounds, wearing a size 3X, to approximately 165 pounds, wearing a size 12. Without dieting.
Barbara attributes not only her weight loss, but keeping it off, to the integrative, whole-person nature of the program she now practices.
From the Foreword
“Whole Person Integrative Eating affirms the multidimensional healing power of food and leads us back to a deeper, healthier ‘whole person’ relationship to food, eating, and weight loss.”
Practitioner
“I wanted to help my clients lose weight and break free from emotional eating. I am eager to introduce them to the WPIE self-assessment quiz and 7 antidotes to overeating.”
The Message in Your Meals
Barbara’s experience, physicians, and practitioners who use WPIE all point in the same supportive direction: replacing today’s new-normal overeating styles with the principles of Whole Person Integrative Eating may help people eat less and weigh less—without dieting.
One meal at a time.
Your Path to Eating Less, Weighing Less. Without Dieting.
Whole Person Integrative Eating begins wherever you are. Choose where you want to start.
What’s Your Overeating Style? Self-Assessment Quiz
A free, evidence-based questionnaire to identify your overeating styles — and what to do about them.
The Book: Whole Person Integrative Eating
A step-by-step guide to the science-backed principles of the WPIE program that support eating less, weighing less. Without dieting.
The WPIE E-Course
A personal and practical 20-module program designed to translate the science of the Whole Person Integrative Eating program into daily practice. For both the public and health practitioners.
In the Media
Whole Person Integrative Eating® has been featured in research journals, magazines, and video and podcast interviews — reflecting growing interest in a comprehensive, science-based approach to eating well, weighing less, and enhancing health. Without dieting.
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