Portland's Master Foodologist, Ian Rubin, practices and teaches a non-diet way of food and life in balance, where HOW and WHY we eat is AS important as WHAT. He created this blog to be a community for anyone who's ever been unhappy with their relationship with food. He works with his clients as a Food Coach and Counselor as well as offers in-home holistic personal training.
We spend 1000s of hours a year thinking about food. Most of those thoughts are negative. That is a lot of energy on negativity.
Imagine if you could turn that negative energy into positive. Imagine being so relaxed about food that you don’t spend much energy on it at all. What could you be doing with that energy? Our greatest potential is waiting to be achieved but it needs that energy.
A Food 4 Thought Meal is the practice of experiential learning that can heal our relationship with food. “We don’t think of food the way we do about meditation, yoga, prayer and/or journal writing but we ought to.”
Experience Ian’s July 27th Food 4 Thought Meal by clicking link below video.
Start to rewrite the “story” about your relationship with food by experiencing a meal and discussion about food that is truly enjoyable and without shame, blame or guilt.
AGENDA
* Who is Ian Rubin and what is a Virtual Food 4 Thought Meal
* Enjoy a brief mindful eating experience
* Listen and/or participate in the conversation surrounding the experience (thoughts, feelings and ideas about food)
* Offer ways to immediately integrate this experience of joyful eating and the reduction of the guilt/shame/blame cycle in your day to day life
WHAT TO BRING
* People should bring something to eat. a snack is recommended but more of a meal is ok
* Notepad and writing utensil for the oldschoolers
* Questions/ideas/thoughts you’d like to cover
WHERE TO GO AND WHEN
* Date: Tuesday, July 27th
* Time: 7:00 – 8:00pm PST
* Where to register: https://my.dimdim.com/ianrubin (register by entering your email in widget below)
GUIDELINES
* These “”Virtual Food for Thought Meals” will be an open forum discussion and a “Round Table” for ideas on how to best make them work.
* Be respectful of other people’s opinions.
* Cross talk will always be encouraged because differing perspectives help us all grow as individuals.
* Talking “over the top of” each other will be normal part of this exercise, so be patient, everyone will be encouraged to engage in open dialogue.
WE are ALL a part of the “Pick Up Your Fork” Revolution, so let’s share our collective knowledge to build this Movement Together!
Your Friend In Food,
Ian Rubin,
Portland’s Master Foodologist
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Email: ian@ianrubin.com
Phone: 503-260-0473
Orah’s “Win Your Own Show” competition ends Tomorrow, July 3. Please take a few minutes to watch my audition video, “Pick Up Your Fork And Join The Revolution”, and Vote. To show my appreciation, everyone that votes and submits their email below wins an invitation to an exclusive on-line Foodologist Food 4 Thought Meal scheduled for July 17th, 2010. The VIP invite will be sent to your email on July 5.
Win a Food 4 Thought Meal for you and up to 8 of your friends or family or 3 One-on-One Foodologist Coaching and Counseling sessions.
I have submitted an audition for a chance to host my own show on Oprah’s new network. The audition video with the most votes has the best chance of winning, so I need your help to get me the most votes possible.
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Everyone Wins:
Everyone that completes the above wins an invitation to an exclusive on-line Foodologist Food 4 Thought Meal scheduled for July 17th, 2010 and entered into a drawing that will occur at that time for the chance to win one of the following:
for my Portland Foodologists: a food 4 Thought Meal for you and up to 8 of your friends and family to be held in your home at no cost. (contest winner will provide food for the event.)
for my non local Foodologists: 3 private coaching and counseling sessions via skype
Additional contest FAQs
Contest ends July 3, 2010 at 9pm EST
Drawing will take place on July 17, 2010 on-line event. I know you all will not be able to make live event so I will be providing a replay. You do not need to be on live event to win.
Thank you so much for the support and taking the time to help try to make this dream come true.
Description of “Pick up your fork and join my revolution!”: Be part of the movement to change how and why we eat, improve our relationship with food, and fully connect with ourselves, our bodies, each other, and the earth. My passion is for us to reconnect through the experience of a shared meal without the guilt-shame-reward cycle of eating that dominates our American food culture. So often our food choices are dominated by guilt (“I shouldn’t eat that”), shame (“I shouldn’t have eaten that”), and/or reward (“I deserve to eat that”), and this unhelpful pattern consumes an enormous amount of thought, energy and emotion. I believe it is our common human birthright to enjoy all kinds of food in any given situation, and I want to help people find this balance between how, why and what we eat. Once we are no longer distracted by the guilt, shame and reward cycle of eating, we can spend that energy discovering our own greatness.
I hope this video helps you to understand what my Food 4 Thought Meals are all about and that it inspires you just a little bit. My dream is to take this idea out into the world in whatever fashion, version, and flavor (bad pun) I can. I want it to help people unburden themselves from the daily struggle of guilt/shame/reward around food and regain their birthright to truly enjoy food and the company of others. If you like my perspective, then like Jaime Oliver, help me to start a revolution and let me help you hold Food 4 Thought Meals in every home, park, restaurant, church, temple, mosque, school, business lunchroom, university cafeteria we can. There is a buzz in the air about changing our relationship with food at a fundamental level. Let’s all do our part.
The busier we all get the more I find myself eating alone and I don’t like it. I would love to hear your thoughts on eating alone in the comments below.
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