Sport analogies can apply to the act of eating too. When you are done drawing leadership lessons, learning to manage people and sell stuff from watching people play a sport, you could draw a simple lesson from sport on how to eat effectively.
At some point in the recurring act picking up food off the plate, putting it in your mouth, chewing it and swallowing it, you stop tasting it.
This point might be at the second bite or sip. Or it might be the third bite. Or the fifteenth.
The third bite simply isn’t as delicious as the first bite. And by the fifteenth bite, you might as well be chewing on air.
But when you are distracted on a phone call, in a conversation, watching a video, movie or a sport, browsing through content, you don’t care how the food or beverage tastes. You are just chewing and swallowing. This habit hurts.
Think of food as a sport. You need to focus on the task at hand. In this case the task is consuming the food/beverage in front of you.
Every swing you take matters. Every ball you bowl needs to count. Stop eating when you can’t taste what you are eating or drinking.
Take a few seconds to savour what you are eating. There is a good chance you will eat a lot less if you took a moment to actually enjoy the food in front of you.