Mindful Eating

I love the literature on mindful eating.  I read Leo Baubata's commentaries on the subject on Zen Habits.  I love the One Bowl Book by Don Gerrard.  I take to heart Thich Nhat Hanh's exhortations to be mindful while eating, meditating on the interconnections of all things that lead to one particular bite of food at one particular moment in time.

I am, however, an admitted failure at mindful eating.  The morning paper is a ritual for my wife and I.  I love to flip through the paper while I eat, and when I sit down to have a salad for lunch, I tend to open a magazine or a book.  I am a mealtime reader.

I may work on that in 2014.  I may eat a few meals alone, without distraction, savoring each bite.  However, I also want to mindful of who I am, and the way I do things.  Why try to change so much, so often?