January 23, 2025 • 10 mins
Need to slow your roll? How to stop eating too fast and start enjoying your food.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salm and Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you are a fast eater, you are not alone.
Americans apparently are known to be fast eaters. We're eating
quickly between tasks, distractedly, and it's something that I want
to change about myself. Thanks to Sam's in the show today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, yeah, Sam pointed out that when we when we
when we all work and the three of us go
to lunch together, Sam's noticed that you eat faster.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I just want to point out that this was an
observation because you brought up the topic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This wasn't going to.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Get to work today and tell Jody this right now, what's.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wrong with you? And then but here at home, Jody,
you you know you are. That's not how you eat it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
All, you know, I mean, you're very I don't think
I eat slow, though I think I'm a fast eater.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, I think you do everything kind of fast. I
mean really, there's not Yeah, that's that's it's in your nature.
But I mean, if you're the meal enjoying, I don't
see it like being rushed.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, Well, it's not something I'd ever thought of, and
apparently it's really common, especially in our culture in America,
we are fast eaters because we're task oriented, and it's
it messes with other I've been reading about it. Can
you tell it messes with not just your enjoyment or
your It can mess with your weight, It can mess
(01:25):
with your nutrition absorption. You're supposed to slow down and
eat mindfully. Yeah, and I think it's been it was
just out of necessity, busy schedule. It is out of
necessity busy schedule. Sometimes it's like hopping from one thing
to the next. So let's eat well, let's eat on
the way, let's eat at the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah. Yeah, and muscle memory too, because eating is something
that you can do while doing others doing other things. Yeah,
once you fix it, I guess the selection process maybe,
but you know, think about it. If you're sitting down
and I know this happens to me. If you and
I are watching TV, you know, and we put ourselves
down and PLoP down and eat, you know, dinner there.
(02:06):
I don't. I don't pay attention to how fast I
am or am not eating. I'm guessing it's probably just
going in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you think back to your if you think back
to your childhood, they say, think about it. You know.
I remember after school when I played basketball in junior
high and high school. You had to hop in whoever's car,
you know, you'd load up. The team would load up,
sometimes in a little bus, sometimes in a van, sometimes
in several different parent cars, and it's like, let's go,
(02:33):
we have a game, grab a granola bar and eat
on the way. You know, we've been doing this all
of our lives. Yeah, not stopping to make eating an
actual event a few times a day where you actually stop.
So I and the reason I bring it up is
because it's something I'm looking into now. I've been reading
about it because I do want to change it. I
(02:55):
want to change this, which is hard to do. If
you've been mind leslie doing something your whole.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Life, you've been conditioned to do that. And plus the
category is called fast food.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, that's true, right, You're set up for failure from
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I can't imagine that. The reason it'll be tough to
change is that I'm not going to start slowing down everything.
I'm a very productive person. I'm efficient. I get a
lot done, especially in the morning. So if you also
would like to pay attention to that and eat more
mindfully choose more slowly. That's something you have to even
(03:38):
a number of chews pro bite like to decide on
a certain number, or see how long how many chews
it takes you to write before you want to swallow,
and then let that be your average. They say things
that are high in fiber, like apples and things like that,
more choos It takes longer to eat something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You know what's funny is when I eat, when the
three of us go eat, eat, I tend to eat slowly.
Another thing is I don't know I'm not doing it intentionally.
I don't know if I have the opposite muscle memory.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Visit once you stop eating while we're talking.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
About I don't know if it's because we're meeting and
I'm just you know, take a bite, take your time
with it, think and talk.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Just like you mindlessly eat fast, I mindlessly don't. And
I don't know why. And I don't know that's a task.
I don't know that I do that. You know, here
at home or any other place.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, eating out and with friends, family or other
is probably actually a great way to slow it down,
because once the social aspect is there, whether I know
that the business part, for whatever reason, Jodie's not. But
in the social setting where you're going to be visiting anyway,
you will take your time, especially if it's friends or
(04:51):
family members that you haven't seen in a while, you're
not you don't want to rush the whole experience. So
changing the environment probably makes a big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's a natural thing to for you to mimic. You
know who you're around. So if you know you're eating,
if you're at a table with a bunch of people
who are eating at a moderate rate or slowly, well
that's good because maybe you'll maybe you'll slow down as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, you know. The other thing that you could do,
because it's more big picture is when they say that
this is the mindfulness thing again too, is once you
start doing something like a meditation app we're just like
ten minutes a day where all you're doing is focusing
on breathing and being in the present. You will actually
then catch yourself on other things. You'll slow yourself down
(05:34):
just enough overall, probably not even enough to be noticeable.
But if you can create the habit of being more
in the present like that, you are going to slow down.
Good That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It does other advice if you would like to slow
down you're eating, we covered chew more slowly. That seems
no doubt, but you have to make an effort to
do that. You have to think about chewing and it's
not something you've been thinking about. The other thing is
drink water before eating and take plenty of SIPs.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
While eating because you're filling up.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It'll fill you up and it slows you down. You
can't chew and drink water at the same time. Yeah, okay,
makes use smaller plates trick your brain into if you
feel like you have a lot of work, okay, if
you feel like you have a lot of food in
front of you, I guess you feel like you need
to eat. If you have a little bit of food,
you'd slow down to.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah. I don't know that that would affect my speed either.
Like Sam said, honestly, small plate just means okay, I've finished,
somebody go back and get more.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It just means I neat to eating with others is
on the list. It makes it more enjoyable and you
can pace yourself to them. We were saying plan ahead
that you're not going to turn on the TV while
you eat. You're not going to make it a task
plan ahead to sit and enjoy it. Make it its
own event. You're going to eat, You're going to enjoy
(06:54):
the taste of the food. You're going to pay attention
to how what your speed is.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think watching One of the things you suggested is
keeping like keeping an eye on the rest of the table.
I think that's a really good one. Yeah, instead of
having to count Pierre shoes or all that stuff. It's like,
if everybody else is going at this, you know I'm finished,
where's the next course?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's slow down, dude, if you're really working on it,
pause between bites, put your your tensils down between bites,
take a moment to breathe between bites. Can you imagine
doing that when you're hungry?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No? I mean I used to get frustrated as a
kid when my mom would say, all right, chew that
really good. And then I understand that she was absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
She didn't want you to choke.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's correct, right, But you know, slowing down that part
of the process seems like the most challenging part of it.
I know that sounds weird. It's almost like if you
actually remember when you sit down I'm going to enjoy
this meal and I want to savor it. Then, however
you set up your environment around you probably will give
you a better shot. It's slowing it down. You just
think about that, you know how. I know how Jody's
(07:55):
mind works, Sam, because Jody is so fast and task
oriented that you'll start, folks on chewing the number of
bites and then you're gonna think about something you have
to do. You know what I mean, You're gonna You're
gonna speed up again.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Look, not not expecting perfection, but if I start paying
attention to it, it will become a habit to pay
attention to it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, right, I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're right, Murphy, I probably don't do not eat too fast.
I'm a different person. I have very much a different
vibe at home, and certainly when we're out, like on
vacation or weekend get away or just a nice dinner,
the vibe is different. It's the's a vibe that Sam
doesn't see a lot. You don't see that one a lot, Sam,
because I'm always in work with you. We are at
work with you, so but only.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Whenever we do go out and eat you know together,
you always in the in your head. It's like, I
got to go run errands after we get done with this, right, So.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, let's get done with always thinking ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, Murphy, you mentioning what your mom used to
tell you reminded me that my mom did too, because
she used to her thing and you could probably ask
her to this day. She used to say that I
ate like a baby bird. I didn't chew, I gulped.
I was like, you need to chew it, Sammy, Yeah,
like a baby bird.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh that's cute. Well, she also just didn't want you
to choke. But it's just amazing to me for a
friend Sam to point that out to me and go,
you know what, You're right, that's that's work mine, that's
task mine mind. And unfortunately it's mindlessly done. Yeah, I've
never thought about it. It's mindlessly done, and I would
(09:27):
like to change it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
What you were talking about when you were doing basketball
as a kid, I think that's maybe that's a thing
to associate a trigger in your head? Is it? Anytime
anytime you're about to go, anytime you have to eat
quickly to go do something, that's where you need to go.
Wait a second, that's where you're gonna be prone to
eat fast. You know what I'm saying, because you've already
(09:48):
set yourself up for that. I got to be somewhere
I need to eat now. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's it's not that it's only an American problem, but
they say we just do in America, we eat fast
because we try to do too much every day.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Are we done with the podcast? Because I gotta go eat.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Missed any part of the show. Get it All on
the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salm and Jody after the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
If you are a fast eater, you are not alone.
Americans apparently are known to be fast eaters. We're eating
quickly between tasks, distractedly, and it's something that I want
to change about myself. Thanks to Sam's in the show today.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Well, yeah, Sam pointed out that when we when we
when we all work and the three of us go
to lunch together, Sam's noticed that you eat faster.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I just want to point out that this was an
observation because you brought up the topic.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
This wasn't going to.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Get to work today and tell Jody this right now, what's.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Wrong with you? And then but here at home, Jody,
you you know you are. That's not how you eat it.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
All, you know, I mean, you're very I don't think
I eat slow, though I think I'm a fast eater.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, I think you do everything kind of fast. I
mean really, there's not Yeah, that's that's it's in your nature.
But I mean, if you're the meal enjoying, I don't
see it like being rushed.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, Well, it's not something I'd ever thought of, and
apparently it's really common, especially in our culture in America,
we are fast eaters because we're task oriented, and it's
it messes with other I've been reading about it. Can
you tell it messes with not just your enjoyment or
your It can mess with your weight, It can mess
(01:25):
with your nutrition absorption. You're supposed to slow down and
eat mindfully. Yeah, and I think it's been it was
just out of necessity, busy schedule. It is out of
necessity busy schedule. Sometimes it's like hopping from one thing
to the next. So let's eat well, let's eat on
the way, let's eat at the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah. Yeah, and muscle memory too, because eating is something
that you can do while doing others doing other things. Yeah,
once you fix it, I guess the selection process maybe,
but you know, think about it. If you're sitting down
and I know this happens to me. If you and
I are watching TV, you know, and we put ourselves
down and PLoP down and eat, you know, dinner there.
(02:06):
I don't. I don't pay attention to how fast I
am or am not eating. I'm guessing it's probably just
going in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you think back to your if you think back
to your childhood, they say, think about it. You know.
I remember after school when I played basketball in junior
high and high school. You had to hop in whoever's car,
you know, you'd load up. The team would load up,
sometimes in a little bus, sometimes in a van, sometimes
in several different parent cars, and it's like, let's go,
(02:33):
we have a game, grab a granola bar and eat
on the way. You know, we've been doing this all
of our lives. Yeah, not stopping to make eating an
actual event a few times a day where you actually stop.
So I and the reason I bring it up is
because it's something I'm looking into now. I've been reading
about it because I do want to change it. I
(02:55):
want to change this, which is hard to do. If
you've been mind leslie doing something your whole.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Life, you've been conditioned to do that. And plus the
category is called fast food.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, that's true, right, You're set up for failure from
the beginning.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I can't imagine that. The reason it'll be tough to
change is that I'm not going to start slowing down everything.
I'm a very productive person. I'm efficient. I get a
lot done, especially in the morning. So if you also
would like to pay attention to that and eat more
mindfully choose more slowly. That's something you have to even
(03:38):
a number of chews pro bite like to decide on
a certain number, or see how long how many chews
it takes you to write before you want to swallow,
and then let that be your average. They say things
that are high in fiber, like apples and things like that,
more choos It takes longer to eat something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You know what's funny is when I eat, when the
three of us go eat, eat, I tend to eat slowly.
Another thing is I don't know I'm not doing it intentionally.
I don't know if I have the opposite muscle memory.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Visit once you stop eating while we're talking.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
About I don't know if it's because we're meeting and
I'm just you know, take a bite, take your time
with it, think and talk.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I really don't.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Just like you mindlessly eat fast, I mindlessly don't. And
I don't know why. And I don't know that's a task.
I don't know that I do that. You know, here
at home or any other place.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You know, eating out and with friends, family or other
is probably actually a great way to slow it down,
because once the social aspect is there, whether I know
that the business part, for whatever reason, Jodie's not. But
in the social setting where you're going to be visiting anyway,
you will take your time, especially if it's friends or
(04:51):
family members that you haven't seen in a while, you're
not you don't want to rush the whole experience. So
changing the environment probably makes a big difference.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
It's a natural thing to for you to mimic. You
know who you're around. So if you know you're eating,
if you're at a table with a bunch of people
who are eating at a moderate rate or slowly, well
that's good because maybe you'll maybe you'll slow down as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, you know. The other thing that you could do,
because it's more big picture is when they say that
this is the mindfulness thing again too, is once you
start doing something like a meditation app we're just like
ten minutes a day where all you're doing is focusing
on breathing and being in the present. You will actually
then catch yourself on other things. You'll slow yourself down
(05:34):
just enough overall, probably not even enough to be noticeable.
But if you can create the habit of being more
in the present like that, you are going to slow down.
Good That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It does other advice if you would like to slow
down you're eating, we covered chew more slowly. That seems
no doubt, but you have to make an effort to
do that. You have to think about chewing and it's
not something you've been thinking about. The other thing is
drink water before eating and take plenty of SIPs.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
While eating because you're filling up.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It'll fill you up and it slows you down. You
can't chew and drink water at the same time. Yeah, okay,
makes use smaller plates trick your brain into if you
feel like you have a lot of work, okay, if
you feel like you have a lot of food in
front of you, I guess you feel like you need
to eat. If you have a little bit of food,
you'd slow down to.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah. I don't know that that would affect my speed either.
Like Sam said, honestly, small plate just means okay, I've finished,
somebody go back and get more.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It just means I neat to eating with others is
on the list. It makes it more enjoyable and you
can pace yourself to them. We were saying plan ahead
that you're not going to turn on the TV while
you eat. You're not going to make it a task
plan ahead to sit and enjoy it. Make it its
own event. You're going to eat, You're going to enjoy
(06:54):
the taste of the food. You're going to pay attention
to how what your speed is.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think watching One of the things you suggested is
keeping like keeping an eye on the rest of the table.
I think that's a really good one. Yeah, instead of
having to count Pierre shoes or all that stuff. It's like,
if everybody else is going at this, you know I'm finished,
where's the next course?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It's slow down, dude, if you're really working on it,
pause between bites, put your your tensils down between bites,
take a moment to breathe between bites. Can you imagine
doing that when you're hungry?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
No? I mean I used to get frustrated as a
kid when my mom would say, all right, chew that
really good. And then I understand that she was absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
She didn't want you to choke.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's correct, right, But you know, slowing down that part
of the process seems like the most challenging part of it.
I know that sounds weird. It's almost like if you
actually remember when you sit down I'm going to enjoy
this meal and I want to savor it. Then, however
you set up your environment around you probably will give
you a better shot. It's slowing it down. You just
think about that, you know how. I know how Jody's
(07:55):
mind works, Sam, because Jody is so fast and task
oriented that you'll start, folks on chewing the number of
bites and then you're gonna think about something you have
to do. You know what I mean, You're gonna You're
gonna speed up again.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Look, not not expecting perfection, but if I start paying
attention to it, it will become a habit to pay
attention to it.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, right, I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You're right, Murphy, I probably don't do not eat too fast.
I'm a different person. I have very much a different
vibe at home, and certainly when we're out, like on
vacation or weekend get away or just a nice dinner,
the vibe is different. It's the's a vibe that Sam
doesn't see a lot. You don't see that one a lot, Sam,
because I'm always in work with you. We are at
work with you, so but only.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Whenever we do go out and eat you know together,
you always in the in your head. It's like, I
got to go run errands after we get done with this, right, So.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, let's get done with always thinking ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know, Murphy, you mentioning what your mom used to
tell you reminded me that my mom did too, because
she used to her thing and you could probably ask
her to this day. She used to say that I
ate like a baby bird. I didn't chew, I gulped.
I was like, you need to chew it, Sammy, Yeah,
like a baby bird.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh that's cute. Well, she also just didn't want you
to choke. But it's just amazing to me for a
friend Sam to point that out to me and go,
you know what, You're right, that's that's work mine, that's
task mine mind. And unfortunately it's mindlessly done. Yeah, I've
never thought about it. It's mindlessly done, and I would
(09:27):
like to change it.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
What you were talking about when you were doing basketball
as a kid, I think that's maybe that's a thing
to associate a trigger in your head? Is it? Anytime
anytime you're about to go, anytime you have to eat
quickly to go do something, that's where you need to go.
Wait a second, that's where you're gonna be prone to
eat fast. You know what I'm saying, because you've already
(09:48):
set yourself up for that. I got to be somewhere
I need to eat now. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's it's not that it's only an American problem, but
they say we just do in America, we eat fast
because we try to do too much every day.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Are we done with the podcast? Because I gotta go eat.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Missed any part of the show. Get it All on
the Murphy Salmon Jody Podcast.
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