* This journal is also for English practicing. Chinese version is put below. I’ll be grateful if you can point out my grammar mistakes. Thank you so much.
Most of the time I make breakfast for myself. Prepare salad, roast bread, brew coffee…I always listen to morning news in the same time, and call that an “efficiency”.
平常我都是自己做早餐，烤麵包、弄沙拉、煮咖啡…我都會一邊聽新聞一邊準備這些東西，因為感覺這樣很「省時」。
However, I found some negative impacts from this habit. First, I became less aware of what ingredients I was using, and how much food I had put into the dish. It usually ended up with too much amount of food for one breakfast to have.
不過我最近發現這麼做其實不太好，因為常常會忘記自己到底放了什麼到早餐盤裡，然後就會不小心放太多量。
Second, The food tasted plain even I had put too much salt in it unconsciously. That’s because I had over cooked them, or flavored them with wrong proportion of seasoning. In addition, I wasn’t paying attention to what I was eating at all. I was browsing the internet while having breakfast.
而且就算我不小心放太多鹽，食物吃起來也總是不太有味道。我猜是因為我煮太久，或是調味的比例怪怪的。更何況我總是一邊吃早餐一邊上網，根本就沒去注意吃到什麼味道。
Today, I decided not to multitask myself. Instead, I concentrated on the process of food preparing, spent a quality time to enjoy the meal. Surprisingly (maybe not so surprising), I ate only half of the amount of food compared with my normal breakfast and felt satisfied through out the morning. As I slowed down the speed of taking food, every bite of them revealed unique flavor and texture. I’ve never found so much fun in eating food. It’s like a secret dialogue between me and the food.
今天我決定要專注在早餐的準備，然後乖乖地安靜吃早餐，不要再分心做別的事情。結果我只吃了大約平常一半的量，但整個早上都不會餓。細嚼慢嚥的時候，會覺得每一口的感受都不一樣，食物的風味變得特別清晰，很有趣，好像食物在對你講話一樣。
I think, be mindful of what I am eating may be good way to keep my body healthy. I become more sensible to the body reactions toward the food, whether it’s light, easy-to-digest, or it’s heavy, over-processed food that makes you feel tired for the whole day. I should keep the awareness in the future, and expand it to other meals I have even when eat outside. Let’s see how much can I do and what can I get from it. :)
我想，細心關照自己攝取的食物，可以幫助保持身體健康。因為我可以感受到身體接收食物的不同反應，可以判斷食材的品質好壞，容不容易消化吸收，還是會造成身體負擔。我應該繼續保持這種對食物的覺察，不只在早餐，也運用在其他飲食，甚至外食。期待看到它帶給我的改變！:)
# Jill Yang
