Anyone who's tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be. In this practical and paradigm-shifting book, Dr Jean Kristeller presents a new alternative - a program for weight loss based on her successful mindfulness-based eating awareness training program. Instead of frustration, depravation, backsliding, guilt, and a lack of results, 'The Joy of Half a Cookie' provides simple, proven ways to lose weight and keep it off, using what we now know about the power of the mind.