Every Saturday, The Smartest Coach in the Room delivers helpful takeaways on the hottest nutrition and health topics and the world’s most effective coaching techniques. (Did some amazing friend forward this to you? Subscribe here.) Slow Eating: 3 Ways to Make it So Much Easier
Eating slowly is the foundation that supports most other nutritional habits.
But there’s a problem: People struggle with this habit.
Oh, do they struggle.
What to do?
Here’s what’s worked for our clients.
Slow eating requires time (well, duh), commitment, and practice. That’s why we encourage some clients to spend a whole month on just this one habit.
✓ Use a reminder. “Don’t put food on your fork... if there is food in your mouth!” That’s what some of Precision Nutrition coach Gillian Hagg’s clients mentally recite as they eat.
Other reminders include:
Placing a tortoise ornament near their place setting
Lighting a candle and using the scent to remind themselves to slow down
Sitting at a different seat or even in a different room
✓ Do something between bites. One client pets her dog. She told us, “I’ve started giving her a little ear rub or chin scratch between bites. She can’t be any more spoiled and it’s helping me slow down!”
✓ Notice what affects eating speed. Even something as subtle as silence or background music can trigger us to speed up or slow down, which is why some clients have found success with their 20-minute “slow eating” playlists.
✓ Add one minute per meal. At the beginning of a meal, start a clock and see if you can make each meal one minute longer than the meal before.
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Talk soon,
Alex Alex Picot-Annand, PN2, Holistic Nutritionist Senior Writer Precision Nutrition Home of the world’s top nutrition coaches
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