I’ve been wanting to ask this question of the week for some time but I was too distracted by that little thing I had going on. ;)
Anyway, I have a co-worker who is very thin. She doesn’t look anorexic or anything like that, she just happens to have a very small frame and carries almost no extra fat on her body. Yes, I don’t want to admit there are people like this either but there are.
One day at lunch we were in the kitchen together. I was heating up my leftovers as I do almost every day and she pulled her lunch out of the fridge.
Two slices of meat-lovers Pizza Hut pizza.
Yeah… I know. All of a sudden my frozen pasta meal didn’t seem quite as appetizing.
I’m only kidding. I actually really enjoy my leftovers but the pizza did look good. I rarely get meat topped pizza anymore.
We walked back to the lunch room to meet the others and started eating.
I had quite a portion. To be honest I can’t remember exactly what I had but I just remember it being a lot. Like a double plate.
We all started eating and chatting. Before I knew it my meal was gone.
I glanced over at super thin co-worker and to my surprise she didn’t even finish her first slice yet!
I only say “to my surprise” because I would have literally scoffed down that pizza in about 2.2 seconds. I do have a pizza addiction after all. ;) But it’s about more then the pizza, I eat everything fast. I always have. Even the little guy notices at dinner and says things like “Mommy, you won the food race!”
yeah.. there’s a trophy I want. I win the prize for fastest dinner eater. Yay!
Anyway, I can’t help but notice that naturally-thin-girl is also naturally-slow-eater-girl. Coincidence? I’m not sure but I thought it made a good question to ponder.
So…. how fast do YOU eat? Do you think it has an effect on your weight?
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I have always ate very fast as a child and grew worse when I was in basic training the military. Now it is craziness and my husband eats just as fast as me at times. I really believe it acts your weight because your brain doesn’t process the information that you are getting full until sometime it is too late.
I have a naturally thin friend as well (loses weight under stress – drives me crazy!), and she is also a very slow eater. She always leaves bites on her plate too. My friends and I bug her about it and she says she has a small and sensitive stomach and that once its full, it hurts. I’m a fast eater, I learned from my dad, and I wish I could slow down.
I am a speed eater, I inhale my food, I down it! And all my attempts to slow down fail me, by the time I realise I have inhaled it again too late to try my slow down strategies. I do think it affects my weight, but I’m not really sure how.
You know, I have discovered recently that I eat much slower with company/friends than I do alone, and, as a result, I eat less than I normally would. I get sucked into the conversation easily, and forget about the food for periods of time… I must not be a good multi-tasker! :-)
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I just finished reading the Beck Diet Solution and there were two things that impacted me…to sit when I eat and to eat slowly. I always knew I was a “fast” eater but I never thought about how often I eat while standing, which tends to result in mindless eating. Since reading that, I’m going to take some time and focus a little more on “slow” eating (and to sit while doing it.) :) The other thing that hit home is “food wasted.” You can throw it out and waste food or you can eat it and waste food. Either way it’s wasted. One will keep you thin and the other will make you gain. I honestly never thought about that. It gave me a new perspective. That being said, like you said in your pizza addiction post~ it’s all about balance. It’s funny because I just blogged about healthy balance last week.
I used to eat SO fast, and I’ve tried to slow down. I think it’s bad for your digestions as well as your waistline!
I do tease her about it on occasion, but my mom is a super slow eater and she is tiny. In the time it takes me to eat my whole lunch she has eaten maybe half a sandwich. But I think its due to being on the run so much, even from an early age. I can remember my mom shuttling me from one dance studio to the other, while I ate dinner in the car. Nope not a professional dancer now. LOL
Well, I actually eat pretty slowly. I’m always the last one at the table. Especially for desserts, I really savor them. If the husband and I eat ice cream together, he has literally 5 times or more ice cream than I do. I weigh out one actual serving of the light stuff (90 cals or 2 pts). He scoops and scoops from his non-light ice cream into a huge bowl (not a normal cereal bowl, that’s too small for him, he says). He can easily go through a 5 gallon tub in one week! Anyway, he always finish his much larger portion before I’m done with mine. Unfortunately, the eating slowly hasn’t really helped me with my weight. It’s probably because I’m more of an all day snacker.
I tend to eat quickly. I notice that when I eat slowly, two things happen. I eat less, and I am able to enjoy what I am eating more. I used to eat so quickly that I think I ate more just to be able to taste the food!!!
I’m cracking up. Your sarcasm in the, “yeah there’s a trophy I want”….just make me howl. Anyway, I would say I eat at a moderate pace most of the time, but if my partner is scarfing down quickly, then I sometimes find myself doing the same thing. I try to be mindful of it, but there are times when I just shovel. Slowing down is probably a good thing.
Considering the fact that I just scarfed down a big orange in about a minute, I would say that I’m a fairly fast eater. Although I wouldn’t say that I’m “fat”, I know that I am technically overweight. And would like to be not so much overweight. I think that speed-eating definitely plays a part in my struggle with weight-loss. It’s difficult to eat mindfully when you’re scarfing something down!
I eat way too fast (always have!) and yes I definitely think it has an effect on my weight. I have tried everything like putting down the fork between each bite, chewing so many times, etc. I wish I could slow it down but it’s a big challenge that is for sure. I’m always up from the table before hubby starting on the dishes. Guess I should slow down and stick around yes? LOL
Yes, I eat very fast and always have. I try to be mindful when I eat and slow down. But when I’m very hungry, or distracted, or tired, etc. I eat way too fast…
For me, slow eating was a b*tch to learn. I stuffed my mouth so quickly. And there’s nothing wrong with that… until you ask for seconds. And thirds. What I did was chew a lot, drink a lot of water with my meal, enjoy every bite to the fullest, really concentrating on what I was eating (no watching tv in the table!). And after a month of trying that… yeah, it didnt work. So if anyone has this problem, just do what I did: get a shiny freakin tongue piercing! In the 3 recovering weeks (with a really really swollen tongue) you will eat oh so exquisitly slow that the habit will surely stick with ya. And after that, you still need to learn how to chew without biting it and chippin a tooth. But after all is done, you’re the slow chewing machine that goes pretty well with healthy eating habits. Sometimes I even forgot its there. It’s not an issue anymore. Sorry if I dont have a less hardcore solution, but thats what worked for me. I told you from the start that it was a b*tch to learn.
I eat slowly and I eat my meals in a particular order – always veges first. These are habits now but started as a deliberate ploy to aid weight loss. I eat all my meals from small dishes (side plates for dinner and latte bowl for cereal or soup) and it takes me as long to eat my meal as it takes my husband or guests to eat large dinner plate meals. I have lost 136lb and maintained +/- 11lbs that for around three years. Thinking about this made me remember that it started deliberately and now is totally habitual. I need to apply that to a couple of other habits (like snacking after /work before dinner) and make that habitual too. Maybe then I wil maintain within a narrower range!
I tend to be a fast eater when I’m alone, less so when I’m with friends. Being a single guy, though, I do eat alone a fair amount, so I’ve had to guard against wolfing down the food so fast that my stomach can’t send out the “full signal” until it’s too late.
My breakthrough came when I noticed that while I was chewing one mouthful of food, I was already cutting and skewering the next forkful so that I could pop it into my mouth the second I swallowed the previous bite. I was coming as close as I could to non-stop eating without taking the food intravenously!
Now I simply don’t let myself do this. While I’m chewing, I put the fork, knife, and/or spoon DOWN – there’s no preparation for the next bite happening until after I finish the food I’m currently chewing. After I swallow, then I can pick up the silverware to cut the next bite and get it into my mouth, but not before then.
I am the fastest eater I know. And I’d have stolen the thin girl’s pizza. She wouldn’t know what hit her.
I do eat really fast, but when I cook my own food, I slow down because I spent a lot of time making it so I better enjoy it. It has a huge effect on my weight. It takes 20 minutes for food to get from your mouth to your stomach, which means your brain is delayed on processing that it’s stuffed. So sometimes it results in “overeating”. But I don’t think it has AS much of an effect as overloading on excessive quantities of unhealthy foods. That’s usually my downfall (pita and tortilla chips, here’s looking at you).
I am a fast eater too, and my sister (who you’d think would at least look similar to me) is super thin, and a slow eater! I definitely think that speed of eating has a lot to do with weight and overall health – when you eat slowly it’s so much easier to notice how much you’ve already eaten and think about how full you are, as opposed to wolfing down a whole plate of something just because it was all on your plate :)
I eat E X T R E M E L Y slow! lol.. Its actually kind of annoying to me because i wish i could eat faster. Everytime i go out with my boyfriend or friends they rush me and i just physically cant eat any faster because im afraid im going to choke =\.. I definitely think that if i did eat faster i would eat alot more and i would gain a lot of the weight back that i lost. A few years ago i would basically just inhale my food and my weight went from around 200 to 245lbs in less than a year!
I eat way to fast. I try to slow down but it’s hard to remember…sort of like driving. ;-) I do think it has an effect on my weight (or did in the past) as in I didn’t (and sometimes still don’t) always realize I’m full.
I’m weird about food temperatures: hot food hot; cold food cold. So, I scarf down food before it becomes the dreaded room temperature.
This is such an interesting topic. My husband has esophageal strictures and this forces him to eat VERY slowly. Basically he has to chew his food into complete liquid before swallowing otherwise he runs the risk of choking. In the time it takes me to eat a full meal (I eat pretty fast as well) he will eat 1/2-3/4 of a 3 oz chicken breast for example. Now, this is slower than anyone should eat, but he can not gain weight. We are actually trying to put weight on him and it’s impossibly hard because he eats so slowly. I’m not even going to get into how hard it is that we eat totally different things for every meal and trying to get one of us to lose and one to gain. He also gets full on less food because of it. In the beginning of our relationship (ahh the honeymoon days) I used to try to pace myself with him to eat slower, over time I paitence with that. This is a good reminder to rethink that decision. Wow Tonyne, ramble much? Sorry. :)
I also eat way too fast! I have tried to slow down and when thinking about it or in the company of people that I need to “impress” I eat very mannerly. When it’s just me and my husband, I’m always finished before him. I try to tell myself that it is because I’ve given him more food than I give myself but I know the truth… I must slow down. I think if I really savored the food it would help me feel full faster. I believe that I eat so fast I’m not able to tell when I’m full until it’s all gone. That’s the problem. I let my empty plate tell me I’m full rather than my body.
Have you ever noticed how kids are naturally slow eaters? We’re always encouraging them to “stop talking and eat your dinner!” “Don’t play at the table, eat your lunch.” “Hurry up and finish your breakfast, we have to leave soon!” It’s seems we are born knowing to take our time and eat, think of babies and the cuddle time they enjoy with their meals! But, our busy lives condition us to hurry, hurry. I remember my daughters never wanted to buy a hot lunch at school because the time it took them to get through a lunch line cut into the time they had to eat. Often their lunches boxes would return home half eaten because they didn’t have time to finish.
So yes, I too am a fast eater. I scarf it down and sometimes wonder if I even tasted the food I ate! I also believe it does have an effect on our weight. Think about how many drive through meals we grab. It’s convenient, handy and fast. If we go in somewhere, we usually make a conscience effort to choose something healthier!
Slowing down all around is definitely something to work on! Especially eating!
I eat really slowly, because I want to savor my food, and I don’t want it to be “over.” I think taking time to eat makes you feel like you are eating more, even if you’re not.
I’m a teacher, and many times we are left with 20 minutes to use the bathroom, walk to the faculty room, heat up our lunch, eat it, maybe use the bathroom again, get in 2 minutes of adult conversation, and then back to our kids. So, most teachers I know are CRAZY fast eaters. Now that I’m not a classroom teacher, I have more time to eat, but it’s so engrained now. And it carries through to all my meals. At dinnertime, I eat my dinner, and clean up the entire kitchen before my family is done eating! Now, of course, I eat less than my husband, but still… I try to be conscientious of how fast I’m eating- sometimes that’s successful, but most of the time it’s not.
LOL @ David!
Since I started WW 3 weeks ago, I am eating slower. I make a conscience effort to put my fork down between bites. It seems to take me longer to ‘feel full’ than other people, at least in my opinion. If I eat fast, I eat way to much and feel really uncomfortable. So far, not concentrating so much on food and more on talking to others at the table seems to be working.
Interesting observation Roni, thanks!
I am a fast eater as well. In high school I worked at a gas station and did so for 5 years and I learned if I wanted to eat I had to eat fast in between customers. My husband now comments on how quickly I eat. It’s like I want to make sure I get it all. I have to tell myself to slow down and enjoy my food. There’s no rush, and then I will be much more satisfied as well
It’s bad I’m not only a fast eater, but I stand while eating. If I don’t my kids want to sit in my lap! So we all eat together at the kitchen barstools, but I’m usually standing. But I guess as long as you are watching the amount and quality of your food, it doesn’t matter how you eat.
I eat too fast as well. I really notice it at work too. There are some people who can buy a snack from the machine and make it last all day. I used to work with this one girl who was thin and she would get a candy bar from the machine and eat it over two days…when I get the occasional candy bar, it’s gone in 60 seconds!!! But I also noticed that the same girl would eat food about 5 times a day. She would bring in little bowl, no bigger than a cup and eat all throughout the day. I used to chew my food 50 times before swallowing to aid in digestion (read it somewhere). It allowed me to slow down but made my then boyfriend, now ex-husband think I was weird because I counted my chews! LOL
Way too fast. After all isn’t hunger an emergency!
I think this is a wonderful topic as I too have won the food race and my girls notice it all the time. “Mommy, you eat so fast!” My youngest has even started to “race” with me-which bothers me, b/c I would never want to pass on this trait. I know I eat too fast-there is no way that my stomach has even a second to register how much I’m eating until I’m too full. I always forget the 20 minute rule about how it takes that long for the brain to register that the stomach is full and I’m sure that has a lot to do with why I overeat. Thanks for bringing this topic up-hopefully, I will be more mindful of it this week….
I just read the new Jean Nidetch book and she has a whole thing in there where she talks about thinner people actually putting the fork down and breathing during their meal….was very interesting to me as I am always the first one finished as well!
I tend to eat fast and get it over with. I come from a family that if you didn’t eat fast you didn’t get enough and as a teacher if you didn’t eat fast you didn’t eat. So speed eating is ingrained in me.
But I notice when I take my time and slow down and enjoy I don’t eat nearly as much and I’m satisfied. Need to remember this more often.
My husband is a very fast eater (meet his family and you’d understand why…if you don’t eat fast you don’t get to eat!) I guess he is why I eat so fast….I HATE to be left sitting at the table by myself….it’s just something I need to get over…..
I definitely think that whatever the reason-of-the-moment is for me, it’s the consistent disconnect that’s such a huge obstacle. Whether it’s eating fast, eating while driving, eating while in front of a computer or reading a book…they’re all distractions that keep me from being mindful about what I put into my mouth.
I have always been a slow eater, almost always the last to finish eating at the table. I can remember my grandfather making a big deal about it in a restaurant when I was a child; it’s just always been my way to savor food and enjoy it. This habit, unfortunately, has not been a magic ticket to being thin. Don’t I wish!
I think i’m in the medium to slow range depending on how hungry I am. My husband eats way faster than me. I had begun to notice trying to speed up so he didn’t have to wait on me, but i’m trying to curb that. I actually let him take out his cell phone & play a game on it so I can eat slow & not feel rushed. :) It seems to help me if I eat slow because sometimes if you go slow enough the food actually gets cold & unappealing. Suprisingly I find that to be a good thing.
I too am a fast eater. My family has always eaten fast, so it’s kind of ingrained. It definitely makes sense that if you eat too fast you don’t give your body a chance to signal to your brain that you’re full and you end up eating more than you need. Whereas slower eaters have more time to receive that signal and end up eating less. It just makes sense. I tend to be more conscious of it when I’m eating with others, but when I’m eating alone I don’t tend to worry about it. Plus, now that I’m counting calories I know I can eat all of the food I have portioned for myself without bad consequences, so I guess there’s less of an incentive to eat more slowly. It’s definitely something I should be more conscientious of with or without eating with others.
WOW, what a topic!!!! I am probably the fastest eater I’ve even met. Really always have been. Since having kids (I am a working mom of 3 kids under 3, no jokes, please :) I started eating even faster (didn’t think it was possible, but apparently it is). I always feel like it is some sort of a race and at any moment someone will throw a fit or need something or we’ll have to move on to our next activity. My husband and I almost NEVER have dinner together during the week because he doesn’t get home until 8:30 or 9pm and I can’t really eat that late. Now, on those extremely rare occasions that we ARE able to sit down and eat together, it seems that I am done before he even gets started. Even when I know that the kids are in bed or at my parents’ house and there is really no chance someone will demand “mo-o-o-o-o-o-ommy!!!!” I still rush like crazy because I feel like it’s like an un-necessary interruption of something you actually must be doing (cleaning, cooking, laundry)—crazy, i know. Eating seems more like a mission—need to do it as quickly as possible, fuel up and move on to something more useful and productive. I wish I could train myself to slow down and be more “in the moment,” but really haven’t had much success with that.
Fast eater.. right here! And yes, I think it has contributed to my weight gain. I have no idea why I eat fast, I just do.
Going out with friends is the worst. I am always the first one done. I have tried putting my fork/spoon down after each bite, but for some reason I am still first done. It’s horrible. My other half is a fast eater too, but he gets full quick so I’m not sure how that whole thing works out haha
For someone that ‘enjoys’ eating, you’d think you’d want to take your time and ENJOY the food. But no, it seems like I always want to get it over with. No idea why.
Here’s to trying to slow down the food intake! :)
I am a very fast eater. At home, I eat with the t.v. on, too. I have horrible habits. My husband also eats quickly. I find that if I go out with people and have a conversation over the meal, that I eat more slowly, which gives my stomach to realize that it is full and to let my brain know this information. It is on my list of food-related behaviours to try to modify. I’m working on it. :)
I am totally a fast eater and, to no surprise I’m sure, have weight issues. I have 2 co-workers who are just as you describe. Naturally thin and eat super slow. I try to think about it and slow down when I’m eating, but sometimes I feel like I just get into a trance and have eaten all my food before I even realize what I’m doing.
My hubby doesn’t usually eat super fast unless he’s really hungry, but he eats like a bird anyways. Seriously, he’ll say he’s starving, then eat one hot dog and some chips and be like ‘I’m stuffed!’. WTH!?!? I can easily eat double my husband.. not something to be proud of!
interesting … I think I eat fast and compared to my very skinny sister, I eat very little … she however eats very slow and always eats a lot of food compared to me.
Also I’ve noticed that everytime I go to Europe everyone there is fairly slim and they eat meals very slow.
My Husband is also a very fast eater, more so then me.
I’m a fast eater for sure. In order to combat this, I really take a lot of care to control my portions. This way, even if I eat quickly, I don’t eat more than I should. Furthermore, knowing that I only get to eat what is on my plate, I tend to spend more time enjoying what I’ve got. So it works two fold.
i have a terrible habit of eating too fast. it’s like, just as your little guy said, i’m trying to win some trophy or something. i have to make a very conscious to slow down. sometimes i do it, sometimes i don’t. but at least it’s on my radar screen and that is progress for me!
For me it’s relative. I normally don’t eat very fast because I’m often distracted. I always eat breakfast at my desk. For lunch I’m usually reading or watching TV in the back room while I eat, and at home for dinner I’m usually watching TV or working on the computer at the same time. But that’s because I’m single and have nothing better to do with my time, hehehe.
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I have always been on the slower side eating wise ever since I was a teenager and had braces. My son however, makes eating slow a new art form. We have had to put a time limit on him for dinner because if we didn’t he would sit there s l o w l y eating until bedtime.