INTRODUCTION
overweight, weight loss, overweight or obesity, eating disorder
OBESE
Recent public health approaches seek to deemphasise weight loss as a main health goal, trying to reduce stigma towards those who are overweight or obese (Penney & Kirk, In PC settings, a multidisciplinary approach is often required to address the complexities that the treatment of patients with overweight and obesity may involve. These interventions often include reduced calorie diet, increased physical activity, and behavioural strategies to facilitate adherence to diet and activity goals (Tronieri et al., Cognitive‐behavioural therapy (CBT) has been proved effective for changing eating patterns such as emotional eating in patients with overweight and obesity (Jacob et al., The meta‐analysis conducted by Lawlor et al. (Some programmes are specially focussed on applying the principles of mindfulness and related concepts, such as self‐compassion, on eating behaviours with the aim of promoting ‘mindful eating’, which is defined as the enjoyment of food utilising all the senses without judgement (García‐Campayo, The main aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a ‘mindful eating’ programme, added to TAU, to reduce emotional eating patterns in adult patients, aged 45–75, with overweight or obesity in Spanish PC settings, in order to promote a healthy change in the relation with food decreasing eating disorder behaviours. This age group was chosen because they constitute the most common users of the Spanish PC system, and this age range presents a high prevalence of overweight and obesity (Spanish Health Ministry, 