I’ve found myself doing better at the holidays when I’m deep in conversation with others. That’s a natural shift in the gears to allow slower eating - as you put well in this article! Great read - very relatable. It’s nice to look down at the scale after a holiday to see just a pound or two gained or, even better, lost.
Thanks for this Tim. I have been known to inhale a meal and think, I did not even taste it. Or where did it go? LOL. Like @Donna McArthur I grew up around a dinner table but I once on my own I did not eat around a table. Oh and I really really really miss butter tarts! LOL
I love this essay, thank you Tim. I didn't get my bad eating habits from my family, we ate dinner around our table and I don't recall it being too fast, but I was a server for many years so would eat on the fly and that habit has been hard to kick.
Yeah, I have seen my share of workplace bad food habits. I guess the service industry, you would always be under the gun and rushing wouldn’t you. Our our western work habits aren’t really about healthy eating.
One of the worst is how Construction and oilfield workers seem to pick up lunch at the convenience store or gas station on the way to work in the morning, because they never seem to get around to shopping for food and making lunch.
In nutrition school, they taught us that food in your mouth should be chewed completely until it really was mostly liquid..If you have ever tried that, you are chewing forever!..Good jaw workout, though 😆
It makes a lot of sense, really. But chewing our food that long is probably not going to happen for most of us. I do try to take smaller bites, and that kind of gets the same job done.
God bless butter tarts! (I should make some, I have the recipe.) And God bless Dr. Moseley. Him of the mass appeal, but with good relatable messages. Anyway, yes, I probably do eat too fast. I have to say for the abuse I've given my digestive system, I should be as big as a house. But it seems to have been a forgiving beast. Until recently, when now it's an old, tired beast, and it is not as adept at distributing all that stuff around as fast as I used be able to. I suppose I should change my ways. Surprisingly, I'm not as young as I once was!
Haha! I sometimes feel like an old, tired beast as well. What do you say to still enjoying those butter tarts, but at half-speed? If nothing else, you can eat them for longer 😂
I’ve found myself doing better at the holidays when I’m deep in conversation with others. That’s a natural shift in the gears to allow slower eating - as you put well in this article! Great read - very relatable. It’s nice to look down at the scale after a holiday to see just a pound or two gained or, even better, lost.
You’re on the right track! More connection is always good. The worst is when we really are only there for the food.
Thanks for this Tim. I have been known to inhale a meal and think, I did not even taste it. Or where did it go? LOL. Like @Donna McArthur I grew up around a dinner table but I once on my own I did not eat around a table. Oh and I really really really miss butter tarts! LOL
I saw my wife buying ingredients for butter tarts. It kindof inspired this post lol
I am definitely not a breatharian🤣
I love this essay, thank you Tim. I didn't get my bad eating habits from my family, we ate dinner around our table and I don't recall it being too fast, but I was a server for many years so would eat on the fly and that habit has been hard to kick.
Yeah, I have seen my share of workplace bad food habits. I guess the service industry, you would always be under the gun and rushing wouldn’t you. Our our western work habits aren’t really about healthy eating.
One of the worst is how Construction and oilfield workers seem to pick up lunch at the convenience store or gas station on the way to work in the morning, because they never seem to get around to shopping for food and making lunch.
In nutrition school, they taught us that food in your mouth should be chewed completely until it really was mostly liquid..If you have ever tried that, you are chewing forever!..Good jaw workout, though 😆
It makes a lot of sense, really. But chewing our food that long is probably not going to happen for most of us. I do try to take smaller bites, and that kind of gets the same job done.
God bless butter tarts! (I should make some, I have the recipe.) And God bless Dr. Moseley. Him of the mass appeal, but with good relatable messages. Anyway, yes, I probably do eat too fast. I have to say for the abuse I've given my digestive system, I should be as big as a house. But it seems to have been a forgiving beast. Until recently, when now it's an old, tired beast, and it is not as adept at distributing all that stuff around as fast as I used be able to. I suppose I should change my ways. Surprisingly, I'm not as young as I once was!
Haha! I sometimes feel like an old, tired beast as well. What do you say to still enjoying those butter tarts, but at half-speed? If nothing else, you can eat them for longer 😂
Gotta make them first. They don't put on a pound, if they're still just a recipe!
A great way to start is by not eating chicken.
Yes, you would say that 😂
We have an understanding, then.
Everyone, Tim said he will never eat chicken again!
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