JA Method By Dr. Jumana Antoun

What if you could estimate calories without weighing every bite?

That’s what we do in the JA Method.

Your hand and a tablespoon become your measuring tools.

🍚 Rice, pasta, lentils, peas, potatoes? Use your cupped hand or a tablespoon.

🥩 Meat? Your palm or a tablespoon.

🫒 And you learn the little things that add up—like 1 tablespoon of oil = around 120 calories.

The goal isn’t to count forever. It’s to learn your portions until they become familiar.

Want to learn the full JA Method and more practical skills to help with your weight?

Get access to the JA Method self-paced video program on my website. Link in bio.

Feel guilty after eating a mankousheh, knafeh, or burger?
You don’t need to fear these foods to manage your weight.
A mankousheh can be a meal. A burger can be a meal. Even knafeh can have a place in your life.
The problem isn’t that you ate them. What matters is the portion and how it fits into your total daily energy.
You can enjoy the foods you love AND work toward your healthiest body.
Don’t fear food. Mind your portions. Mind your daily energy.
That’s what we practice in the JA Method.

The JA Method is a different way to lose weight.

Not another diet.
Not another list of foods you can’t eat.

You learn the portions that work for you, eat mindfully, understand your thoughts and emotions around food, and practice new habits until they become part of your life.

You can still eat the foods you love. You just learn how much, when, and why you’re eating.

Curious about the JA Method—or ready to start?
My book is a great place to begin. Link in Bio.

Counting calories doesn’t have to mean weighing and measuring everything.
With the JA Method, you learn simple ways to estimate portions wherever you are.
For fruit? Whatever fits in your open fist ≈ 80 calories.
Simple. Practical. Easy to use in real life.
Want to learn the full JA Method?
Learn at your own pace through my step-by-step videos on The JA Method website.
Learn the portions. Build the awareness. Make it a habit.

Sometimes, it’s not the meals we notice—it’s everything that adds up around them.

A fruit here. A few nuts there. A bite while cooking. A little extra olive oil.

But everything you eat contributes to your total intake for the day.

Before cutting out more foods, try noticing the whole day.

Awareness first. Then adjust.
That’s the JA Method.

Ever stood at the checkout counter and suddenly wanted a chocolate you weren’t even thinking about? 👀🍫

That’s eye hunger—the desire to eat triggered by seeing food, even when your body isn’t physically hungry.

The goal isn’t to fight it or forbid the chocolate.
It’s to notice it, pause, and choose.

Sometimes you’ll eat it. Sometimes you won’t.

The difference? You made the choice—not the trigger.

That awareness is part of mindful eating and the JA Method.

But here's the truth — food was never the real problem. It's just where your effort has been going.
That effort belongs somewhere else: facing it, fixing it, or making real peace with it. Whichever one it is, that's the work. Not the snacks. Not the scale.
This is exactly what we work through inside the JA Method — a behavioral program built to help you put your effort where it actually counts.
Ready to start? Come join us. Link in bio.
— Dr. Antoun

Not everything needs a label.
Food. Emotions. Experiences.
Notice. Feel. Choose. Less judgment, more awareness.

There is something beautiful about a tagine.

You don't rush a tagine. You listen to it gently bubbling, watch the steam rise, breathe in the aroma, and patiently wait for the flavors to come together.

In the JA Method, we practice mindful eating— paying attention, and truly enjoying every bite. When you savor your food, you often discover that satisfaction comes from the experience, not from eating more.

🐟 Fish Tagine Recipe • Green, yellow, and red peppers
• 1 red onion
• 1 bunch fresh dill
• Juice of 1 lemon
• ½ tsp cumin
• 1 tsp marjoram
• Salt and black pepper

Life isn't supposed to feel like one long vacation. If every day were that camping trip, it wouldn't feel special anymore. The weekend was so meaningful because it was a moment—not my entire life.
Food is the same.

When the meal is over, let it be over. Then look forward to the next source of happiness: a walk, a workout, a conversation with someone you love, playing with your kids, planning your next trip... whatever makes your life rich.
One of the biggest shifts in the JA Method is realizing that food is part of a happy life—not the center of it.

The more sources of joy you create, the less pressure you put on food to make you happy.