More and more eating has become a social event – eating has taken second place to what we do while we eat. Watching TV, talking to friends, reading a book.
An awareness of our eating habits plays a major role in determining how much we eat. The distractions that shift our focus away from our food increase how much we eat.
By focussing on the food we are eating, we are more aware of what we are eating and how much we are eating. Physiologically, we end up feeling just as full, just as satisfied, but we have eaten less.
So keep distractions to a minimum during meal time and lose weight by thinking about your food.
Sourced from: ’59 Seconds’, Professor Richard Wiseman. Pan Publishing, 2010.
