6 eating styles that make you fat

You eat in the car/ at your desk/ on the hoof

‘When I ask people to tell me about a memorable meal, it's never the sandwich in their car in a traffic queue, or sitting at work, and it always involves other people,' says Deborah Kesten.

If you persistently eat on the run, bolting the food down wherever you
are, hardly noticing what you eat and rarely sharing a meal with others, you may never really feel satisfied and eat more to compensate.

Change your style Give food and your eating environment your full attention. Get up 10 minutes earlier and sit at the breakfast table
with the family, rather than grabbing a slice of toast on the way out of the door, leave the office to eat lunch rather than snacking at your desk, and enjoy long, lazy meals with family and friends at the weekends. Learn to linger over your food, put your fork down between bites and savour the different flavours and textures of food to maximise your enjoyment. Remember, too, that just seeing and smelling food stimulates your digestive juices to start flowing before you even start eating. Take your time, to enable your body to get the message to your brain that you have eaten enough.

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