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The Powerseed System is a lifestyle change program that helps people to eat more slowly, savor their food, avoid thoughtless snacking—and most importantly, stop eating when they are no longer hungry. By doing this they can eat less food without restrictive dieting. The approach uses a tiny personal coach, the Powerseed, to implement the mindful-eating methods explained in the 112-page Guide to Your Powerseed System.

Weight control success is all about doing a better job of managing our minds from moment-to-moment. The Powerseed strategies help people pay active attention whenever they eat or think about food. They learn to tap into their body’s internal portion control system AS they eat. Anyone can achieve dramatic reductions in daily food consumption and still feel satisfied when using the Powerseed System.

Although the Powerseed can support any eating or fitness program, please note that it's not a diet plan. The "diet mentality" (starving yourself, focusing on food and body obsessions, evaluating oneself by the numbers on a scale, etc.) is ineffective and can cause of serious eating disorders. Our approach encourages our clients to enjoy eating, and eat as much as they need to satisfy their physiological hunger. This is why it is considered a "non-diet" program.

• How-It-Works - a light once-over of the Powerseed approach
• Weight Control Philosophy - our ethical standards and beliefs
• What They are Saying... reviews by clients and health professionals.

Next, I refer you to our release, "Seven Steps to Avoid Overeating", which includes a downloadable 300 dpi image of the Powerseed eating coach:

FYI please see the following two documents (PDF form) :

• The Powerseed Announcement Release
• Citations by weight management professionals supporting the role of mindful eating in improved weight control.

For other sources on mindful eating and intuitive, non-diet weight control, I would point you to:

• Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D. F.A.D.A., [lysie8@aol.com (310) 551-1999] Co-author of Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works, Revised 2nd Edition, 2003, St. Martin's Press. Ms. Resch is a leading authority on non-diet weight control techniques.
• Jean Kristeller, Ph.D., [j-kristeller@indstate.edu (812) 237-2467] Indiana State University psychology professor and director of the Center for the Study of Health, Religion and Spirituality. Dr. Kristeller's research into "mindfulness meditation" as a means of controlling compulsive eating and weight recently was awarded a $1.8 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. Click HERE for more info. This research will be jointly carried out at ISU, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania.
• Ruth E. Quillian-Wolever, Ph.D., [quill004@mc.duke.edu (919) 668-3552] is a Clinical Health Psychologist and Clinic Director of the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine (DCIM). She focuses on mindfulness-based approaches to treating binge eating disorder and obesity as well as on techniques that utilize health coaching to help patients improve their lifestyles and overall health. Before joining DCIM, Ruth was the Director of the Health Psychology component of the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, Duke University Executive Health Program, and Duke Health and Fitness Center (collectively known as the Duke Center for Living).
• Megritte Hammond, M.Ed., R.D., C.D.E. [megdanh@comcast.net (603) 740-2653] Co-founder and Director, The Center for Mindful Eating. To learn more abut the center, see www.tcme.org,

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All the best,

Bill Curry