Women can munch¹ their way into a bigger dress size in weeks by "auto-eating" the calorie equivalent of a Big Mac a day....

如果每天机械地吃进去相当于一个巨无霸汉堡那么多的热量，女人们的身材可以在几周内就加大一号。

Nutritionist Mary Strugar coined the term auto-eating, which presumably means eating without the feeling of actual hunger and perhaps even without being fully² aware of consuming the calories.

Auto-eating（机械进食）这个词是由营养学家玛丽•斯图佳首先提出来的，指毫无饥饿感时的进食，而且进食的时候根本没有意识到同时有多少热量被摄入。

Auto-eating may also refer to the kind of eating you do without thinking because the food you're chewing on is so bland³, so meek⁴, your taste buds become indifferent to what's passing over them.

另外，机械进食也可以指麻木的进食状态，可能因为口中的食物太清淡、太无味，致使味觉系统对食物没有任何反应，只是在机械传送。

According to recent research, it may be something like upset or boredom⁵ and having nothing better to do that makes many women go into the “auto-eating” mode.

据最新的研究显示，心情沮丧或无聊、又找不到别的事情做可能是很多女性“机械进食”的原因。