The last item that psychologists suggest is to pace your activities. By pace, I mean giving yourself some manageable tasks to do at a reasonable speed.
And the easiest thing to do is really just to take smaller manageable bites, especially knowing that you're probably going to be in conversation throughout the meal.
It's a bold gesture that will reduce the stadium's capacity to below 32000 — a more manageable number considering the local city of Al Khor has a population of only 202000.