When you eat in a quiet environment and focus on your food, your body devotes more energy to digesting the food and absorbing the nutrients. You also enjoy the flavors and experience more, and therefore require less food to have a satisfying experience. • At the office: Find a quiet place to eat; minimize talking, e-mailing, and web surfing. Just eat and focus on your breathing and chewing (20 times per mouthful). • At home: Leave the TV off. Eat alone or acknowledge to your partner or family that during meals you will be eating more slowly and talking less.
