Mindful Eating Insights

First day of Lenten practice of Mindful Eating reveals:

• I get bored when I just eat without doing something else, too.  
• That's a really privileged problem.  People without enough food value every morsel that passes their lips.  If I didn't have too much to eat, I wouldn't get bored with it.
• I've learned to turn off much of my attention while eating because I'm so physically hypersensitive to textures, etc.
• The fried eggs being a little too runny really bothered me this morning.
• Years of having to eat every 3 hours to keep my blood sugar up whether I was interested in eating right then or not has ingrained in me the habit of eating for fuel's sake only—"Let's just shove it in and get it over with."
• Is it wrong sometimes to just view food as fuel and not something to be savored bite by bite?
• A 40+ year habit of eating fast is really hard to break.