iThrive: The Eat Right Now App

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In Balanced Achievement’s iThrive series, we aim to present you with a variety of useful iOS and Android Apps that you can utilize to accelerate your personal growth and improve the quality of your life. We meticulously select innovate Apps that are designed to help individuals make the personal changes needed to move their lives in the direction of happiness, success & fulfillment. In this article, we look at the Eat Right Now App, which is a scientifically-based program designed to promote weight-loss by permanently changing individuals’ relationships with food.

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iThrive App Profile:

App: Audible

Cost: Free Basic Version (w/ Premium Subscriptions)

App Focus: Diet, Weight Loss & Eating Habits

Eat Right Now Overview:

Diet and weight-loss statistics in the United States show just how hard it is for individuals to break away from the problematic eating habits that make losing weight, on a permanent basis, a seemingly impossible task to accomplish. If you have tried to lose weight in the past but put the unwanted pounds back on, don’t worry because you’re definitely not alone.

It is estimated that a staggering 90-95% of individuals, who purposefully lose weight, gain each and every pound back within one to five years. It is numbers like these that make us wonder if there is actually anything we can do to win the weight-loss game with the odds so drastically stacked against us. Fortunately, the answer is yes, and still better yet, it all can start by simply downloading an App on your tablet or phone.

The Eat Right Now App for iOS and Android is a game-changing weight loss tool that was developed by a world-renowned doctor who built the App based upon over ten years of groundbreaking weight-loss research at Yale University. Dr. Judson Brewer, a decorated addiction psychiatrist and mindfulness training expert, and the team at Claritas MindSciences developed the 28-day Eat Right Now program with the hopes of giving individuals a scientifically verified way to change their relationship with food forever. Since it’s initial release in 2016, Eat Right Now has received nationwide acclaim and been featured on media outlets such as Forbes, CNN, BBC, and Time Magazine.

If you are wanting to lose weight permanently, there probably isn’t a more helpful tool, that is also easy to use, than then the Eat Right Now App. According to their website, the App is designed to help users “rewire their [your] brain, one bite at a time to create new, healthier eating habits.” The Eat Right Now program is built around an innovative arrangement of instructional audio and video recordings, goal setting, tools to help users ride out cravings, an interactive stress test, and other daily activities. Furthermore, the previously mentioned Dr. Brewer is prominently featured in the program’s educational materials and acts as a sort of digital eating coach.

Each and every feature integrated into the Eat Right Now App is based upon the premise of using mindfulness to change the ways individuals think and feel about food. Users learn that instead of tirelessly fighting against their cravings and negative eating habits, which seemingly never work, they should begin taking a mindful approach to eating and become non-judgmentally curious about the problematic routines they partake in. Beyond eating, using a mindfulness based approach, like the one taught in Eat Right Now, can similarly be used to change nearly all other detrimental behavioral patterns. To understand the science of the program, we can call upon Dr. Brewer to explain how mindfulness can help us overcome negative behaviors in this powerful Ted Talks titled ‘A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit‘:

As you can see, the ability to cultivate mindfulness and curiosity, about the bothersome habits that prohibit us from getting the most out of life, is the central premise of the 28-day Eat Right Now program. Over the course of a four-week period, users will develop a keen understanding of their own habitual behaviors and learn a variety of important skills that promote permanent change. In week one, users are taught about habit formation, and craving management, and begin setting realistic personal goals. In week two, users work to improve their mindful awareness so that they can master their cravings. In week three, users are taught about the differences between real hunger and eating when stressed, emotional, or bored. In the last week of the program, the all-important topic of momentum is discussed and users are taught how to avoid falling back into old eating habits. Additionally, there are a number of other activities and lessons offered beyond the primary 28-day Eat Right Now program.

For those of you who are interested in trying the Eat Right Now program, you can start using the free version of the App and accompanying website at any time. For those of you who are ready to take more drastic steps on your weight-loss journey, a premium subscription option is offered for a monthly charge of $24.99 monthly or an annual charge of $129.99. In addition to the App’s basic features, premium subscribers become part of the Eat Right Now community where they are able to connect with leading mindful eating experts and peers who are aiming to accomplish similar goals.

It is certain that if you want to change your troublesome eating habits, you’ll have to change the way you think about food, and the Eat Right Now App is one of the best tools you can use to push you towards your goals.