Zen Eater describes my path to healthy life. I started pursuing this path after I experienced a major health problem and realized I couldn't continue the unhealthy behaviors. I came up with the ZenEater concept, and it had greatly changed my life. My health improved dramatically, and I developed the most harmonious relationship with food. It is obvious that our relationship with food is not as good as we want it to be. In most cases, it is a love-hate affair. However, in some instances it results in subjugation - food becomes a wayward lord who instills fear and guilt, who disfigures us and punishes us with numerous diseases. This status quo is profoundly weird because food is supposed to nurture us and give us energy, joy, and satisfaction. Unfortunately, the joy and satisfaction of eating are fleeting, but the aftermath of hastily eaten excessive meals lingers for hours. And when we take into account the long-lasting psychological effect of our bad relationships with food, the situation gets even worse.Simply put, many of us don't know how to eat our food. We lack control over this process. As I said, food is the dictator here.Most of us know that our eating habits are to blame, and when we we finally decide to take action, what do we do? We go on a diet - the most common mistake we make.Diets restrict, diets forbid, diets banish food - there is nothing fair and balanced about dieting. Fad dieting is a daymare filled with hunger, deprivation, and stress.Fad dieting fails because it goes against our physiology; because it is torturous and requires superhuman willpower. But no matter how strong your willpower is, this approach is unsustainable and always ends up in quitting and fast regaining of all the pounds lost. Just ask Oprah Winfrey, the most famous weight cycling "expert". By the way, Oprah has finally adopted a sustainable weight management plan and changed her goal: "Healthy for me is the new skinny." That's exactly the attitude I want you to have - health should be the ultimate goal. And that's where the Zen Eater method comes to your rescue. ZenEater is an essential part of healthy lifestyle that leads to healthy longevity. Does it lead to sustainable weight loss? Rest assured it does, but it is not the main goal. The goal is to create a balanced harmonious relationship with food. When you are in harmony with food, you become a confident, intuitive eater. Your body senses when to start and stop eating so you never overeat and never worry about gaining wait.We need to restore our ability to eat mindfully, therefore I developed a simple tool that will help us do that. Meat the Eatometer! Eatometer is a pedometer for eating. Pedometers saved lives of millions of people. Eatometer can do much better. By changing the way we process food in the mouth, it will make us focus on the food we eat, hence mindful eating. Mindful eating is currently nom du jour, but its concept is so vague, it is really difficult to comprehend it. Eatometer is a quantified representation of mindful eating. It makes the obscure concept of mindful eating clear, easily understandable, and achievable.When you step on a path to longer and healthier life, it will be hard to turn back to your old habits for many reasons - you will see positive changes right of the bat, and the more you get involved with it, the better you are going to feel. Your energy, your outlook, your life quality will keep going up, and the improvements in your health, vitality, and optimism will be dramatic. And finally, Zen Eater is not your usual boring, quasi-academic self-help book. It is full of stories of real people who benefited from the method and real situations that explain what you are dealing with. It is written in a friendly, colloquial manner with affection, understanding, and humor.