Coaching practices for How to Eat Less
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- I inhale my food standing up or staring at a screen and barely taste it
- I can’t eat anything without a screen going
- I wolf my food down and only realize I’m stuffed once I’m uncomfortably past full
- I keep finishing meals uncomfortably stuffed because I just eat until the plate’s clean
- I instinctively fill the plate and then feel I have to finish it, so a sensible portion always looks sad and skimpy and leaves me feeling deprived
Practices that may help
- Eating without hurry
Slow the meal down and pay attention to it, the way the Slow Food roots intended.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Screen-free, task-free eating
Eat at least one meal per day without phone, screen, or task — eating as the primary activity.
Mindful Eating, Made Practical - Stop eating at 80 % full (Hara hachi bu)
The Okinawan practice of eating until 80 % full naturally regulates caloric intake without calorie counting.
Blue Zone Principles: The Power 9 Longevity Practices - Hunger-satiety scale — eating within the 3–7 window
Eat when hunger reaches 3 on a 0–10 scale and stop when satiety reaches 7 — neither starving nor stuffed.
Mindful Eating, Made Practical - Eating from smaller dishes
Use smaller plates and bowls so a full serving is a moderate amount.
Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical - Stopping at 80% full
End the meal when you are satisfied but not full, not when the plate is empty.
Hara Hachi Bu, Made Practical - Anchor meals with protein and fiber
Build each meal around protein and fiber so a shorter window doesn’t leave you ravenous.
Intermittent Fasting, Honestly Explained - The raisin exercise and mini-meal meditation
Eat a single small food item (a raisin, a chocolate, a nut) with complete meditative attention as a regular practice.
Mindful Eating, Made Practical - Full sensory eating — engaging all five senses at each bite
Bring sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste fully into each bite before swallowing.
Mindful Eating, Made Practical - Identifying the nine hungers before eating
Before each meal, check which of the nine hungers (eye, nose, mouth, stomach, cellular, mind, heart, touch, water) is actually asking to be fed.
Mindful Eating, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Stop Eating When Full
End the meal when you are satisfied but not full, not when the plate is empty.
Stopping at 80% full
- Acknowledging Food Before Eating
Take 30 seconds before eating to acknowledge the food — who grew it, who prepared it, the chain of events that made it possible.
Gratitude and acknowledgment before meals
- How To Eat Mindfully
Bring sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste fully into each bite before swallowing.
Full sensory eating — engaging all five senses at each bite
- How To Feel Full Longer
Put the protein source on your plate and eat it first — before carbs or fats — to satisfy the primary appetite signal early.
Anchor every meal with protein first
- How To Know When To Stop Eating
End the meal when you are satisfied but not full, not when the plate is empty.
- How To Practice Mindful Eating
Mindful eating is the practice of bringing full sensory and interoceptive attention to the experience of eating — noticing hunger and satiety cues, flavors, textures, and emotional drivers of eating — without judgment. Jan Chozen Bays’s work distinguishes nine "hungers" beyond stomach hunger. Evidence for mindful eating is most consistent for reducing binge eating and emotional eating; effects on weight alone are modest and mixed.
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