Eating Intentionally Quotes

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.

If we don't focus on when we eat - like, let's say we watch television or something - you eat much more. If you focus on the food - you smell it, you cook it - you're enjoying it already.

Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.

Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well.

Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.