You ate the whole meal and couldn’t tell anyone what it tasted like.

Attention and eating have come apart. A whole plate can go by while you are watching something, and afterwards there is nothing to report, because no part of you was there for any of it. The meal happened to your body and not to you. That gap is not about willpower, it is simply about where you were looking.

Take the first two minutes of one meal this week with nothing else running: no screen, no walking, no next thing. Notice what it actually tastes like, then go back to whatever you were doing. This is about being present for something, not about rules for what is on the plate.