Staying Healthy at the Office
When I wrote the other day about starting my random series on losing and maintaining weight (based only on my own experience doing so), one of the questions I got a few times was: how do you stay healthy at the office with so many temptations?
The simple answer: I pretend they’re not there.
While that theory is called delusion when applied on a larger level, it works for me on this micro level. I can’t eat something that’s not there, right?
This is not to say that I never mindlessly grab a bite of something as I walk past the kitchen, but most of the time I don’t, because I know it’s a slippery slope for me to grabbing a bite of whatever’s out every time I walk past the kitchen.
I like Leah’s Here and Now idea—is this something that is a special treat? (Or is my fave thing that I never otherwise have?) Is this something I can have tomorrow? Is this something I actually care about eating? Or am I just eating it because it’s there?
I have these crazy little conversations with myself as I walk by that work food—and most of the time it works.
Not always, because I’m not some crazy willpower robot, and I really like food, but learning that principle has definitely helped me. That and having my own snacks on hand. (Not as in having my own snacks on hand when there’s an office party and being that girl, but having my own snacks on hand so that I don’t eat some stale cookies out of desperation.)
How do you deal with junk food at the office?
