One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit

Most people eat too much and overburden the body with the constant task of digestion. It is important to daily get different varieties of CLEAN (unprocessed and REAL) local!, micro nutrients from both plants and animals. But eating 3 meals and multiple snacks a day only stresses the body. One Bowl concept got me into silent, mindful, meditative eating and minimalism, frugality, time harvesting and intermittent fasting led me personally to not only to One Bowl but to OMAD. OMAD =One Meal a Day.Hunger is the best sauce and food ingested with prayer and thankfulness only adds psychological and spiritual value to the enjoyment. It is a great way to start my day. My One Bowl is clear glass and larger and I love it.

You got to take the time to find the perfect bowlbefore you start the read of this. This I have addedto my eldering library as a deepening of how do Icelebrate my elder body. How do I feed both mybody and my spirit and honor the incarnation of my life.I tried several other models... three bowl eating... different...maybe for later. I tried models that spoke to disordered eatinglike emotional eating, etc.. etc... Clean Eating... Gluten Free...Not what I was looking for. It was more about what to eat.I wanted to start... to have a beginning, take time to meet myeldering self thru this most basic of daily experiences.Progressions may be Mindful Eating? and Three Bowl Eating?But this is really takes you back to a "beginning". In much the sameway that the study of Tai Chi takes you back to the infant experience of"finding" your body from the inside... in slow motion...One Bowl... is different, though you can use that model too...

I second hal's review - i had this book when it came out in the 70's. Don't know how it got away from me - probably loaned it to someone. But I've followed its advice, loosely, over the years and through 3 or 4 treasured bowls that got chipped, cracked, or whatever, and replaced. Now and then I've told people about it - "...there was this book, called One Bowl....". today it occurred to me to check Amazon to see if it's still available, and, Yay! It is! Into the ol' cart! PS - my current bowl is an Oxo - Amazon carries them in Kitchen. White plastic doesn't have the ambience of raku, but I'm not one who looks down on plastic - matter of fact I'm grateful for it! As with everything, if you want it to have nice vibes, GIVE it some!

I don't know why this book got so many good reviews. I have been reading about one bowl meals on some minimalist blogs and felt curious about the zen-like experience of having one-bowl meals. I bought this book - Kindle version.It is HORRIBLE. The first third of the book basically promotes itself, touting how much better off people are by following the book's suggestions...which is kind of weird...because I'm thinking, "Aren't I already reading the book? When does the book start?"The middle goes on and on and on about how to select your bowl...how to hold your bowl...way too much time is taken to actually explain to you which hand is your eating hand and which hand is your utensil hand. Let me save you the time....it explains how to eat....EXACTLY how you already eat.It gives you "exercises" like how you should "practice" putting something in your bowl before you actually want to use the bowl to eat. <?!> THEN it tells you to go write about it in your "Food Awareness Journal."(groan)Seriously...I feel like I'm being punk'd.On another note...the author says you should visit his website at onebowlbook.com. Last I checked, there was no such place.So just google the phrase and read to your heart's content anything that's free on the Internet about this subject. This is NOT a book to buy.

I quit "dieting" about six weeks ago and got this book along with "Am I Hungry?".This is a wonderful little book with great ideas about eating when hungry and stopping when full and eating what I am hungry for.Helps one focus on what we are eating and the sensations of our body. So few of us know when we are really hungry and when we are full.I can see now that I was never tasting my food and enjoying it.Would recommend this book and of course getting your Buddah Bowl is a fun and essential part of the whole experience.

I've been wanting to become more conscious about food for a while and have tried to slow down and meditate on eating, but I get hungry or in a hurry and lose my direction . . . reading this book has really helped me to start being more successful with this. I am not following his suggestions strictly, but I'm working my way toward a system that works for me and this book so far has been a great tool for that!

a fascinating simple approach to food that I have been waiting for...it's been around for years...and makes perfect sense. The only thing I need now is to follow its advice and report the results.

Interesting little book. Mindful. Bought my bowl.

One Bowl is a totally different approach to eating, and dieting . If you follow the "One Bowl", plan you will lose weight and will be eating healthier, without counting calories or portions like most diets recommend . That having been said, the One Bowl approach is not always that easy to do for people with a busy lifestyle, but it's like anything else, if you are serious about losing weight and eating healthy One Bowl is an excellent alternative to the way most people eat today. One sentence in the book that sums it all up is " Eat until your satisfied, not until your full or stuffed" . If we did that we would lose weight.