Fill Your Mind Before You Fill Your Plate

This book was amazing, I'm definitely an emotional eater, and an all or nothing person. This book has some great advice and great motivational tips to get healthy and for the right reasons.

I was taken in by the title of this book and wondered just how the author came to advocate for filling the mind before filling the plate. So, as I started reading, I immediately connected with the author's journey of fitness, healthy eating, living and more so how he constantly challenged himself to be better.
The tone is friendly.
The insights are drawn from life experiences and other experts as well, so if you've read a couple of self help books then you'd definitely come across some insights here as well.
What's unique is his journey and what he learned in the process and that in itself makes this an interesting read because we all have different journeys and challenges.
Is it practical? Yes. Is it challenging? Not all of it. Is it something that would compel you to think differently about your relationship with food and goal setting? Definitely.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

Very helpful small information but mighty in the way it has helped me with management of things not only on my plate but my mind also

Marvelous read. This book delivers a holistic approach to nutrition and is a great guide for a healthy lifestyle. Job well done.

This book is an easy and relatively quick read, and advocates getting your mindset right before trying to get fit and lose weight. Why? Because if you approach weight loss from the wrong angle, if you expect too much too soon, then you often fail, and the more you fail, the more your mind sets you up to fail again ("you tried this last time and it didn't work, remember?"). The voice inside your head will encourage you to fail because you failed before. It doesn't believe in you - so first you need to ensure that it does, and prime your mind to accept setbacks before you experience them.
It's the author's personal story, with lots of good tips and ideas to try.

If you're trying to lose weight and struggling, and think that maybe it's your frame of mind that is causing the issue, then give this book a read.

Fill your Mind before you fill your plate is a guide to sustaining a healthy lifestyle. Faisal Alshawa completed his own personal transformation using the Five Pillars for a Healthier Lifestyle documented in this book. He encourages the reader to establish SMART goals for behavior change in order to achieve the goals that you've set forth. He clearly explains each of the Five Pillars throughout the book and provides vignettes from his own life/journey to a healthy lifestyle. This book was easy to understand and easy to follow. He presented some important points throughout the book such as, we need to think of being in a relationship with food in order to change how we consider it. We must engage in mindful eating- and use physical cues to drive hunger instead of emotional cues. We must break our habits or they will break our willpower. Overall, this book was a great read with a lot of useful information. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to change their lifestyle and eating habits. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing the opportunity to review this title.

This book gives a great understanding of how your thoughts and habits can sabotage healthy eating and how to turn this around.