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Justinjured
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what does everyone eat during the day at work?
I work at a computer most hours of the day with a inexpensive snack cupboard not far away! Would like not to use this inexpensive snack cupboard & subsitute this for a healthy way to fulfill my appetite.
Have tried lots of fruit but am still very hungry all the time. Am still searching for solutions...
I work at a computer most hours of the day with a inexpensive snack cupboard not far away! Would like not to use this inexpensive snack cupboard & subsitute this for a healthy way to fulfill my appetite.
Have tried lots of fruit but am still very hungry all the time. Am still searching for solutions...
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Like you I have a snack machine full of cr*p at the end of the corridor and it would be easy to feed it money all day.
Instead I take a carrier bag of food to work: bananas, grapes, dried apricots, celery, apples. Sometimes I take a container of cooked pasta & sauce or some quinoa & rice mixed with chicken and vegetables. I find chewing gum is also pretty good and I have bowl of muesli either mid-morning or mid-afternoon. Try fig rolls instead of biscuits and pitta bread or wraps instead bread.
Basically graze all day to avoid the hunger pangs
HTH
I have been on a healthy eating kick for a while now, and whilst I love fruit and veg it doesnt fill me up.
But lean cheap ham, cold boiled eggs and cold boiled potatoes are good gap fillers (and 'free foods' on the diet plan I am on)- and when combined with fruit and veg fill me a treat ( I am a bottomless pit!)
I sadly cant eat anything whole grain or muesli due to IBS, so the normal 'fillers' are not an option.
Watch out for dried fruit or nuts as they are quite high in calories- and can be worse than 'junk'.
If I have an uber sweet tooth on I have a small bowl of Crunchie nut cornflakes- eaten dry they take a long time to munch through but are ruddy nice!- and fulfil the absent minded hand to bowl to mouth action very well!
Mind you I do ride most nights whether 15 miles or so off-road or a 30miler on road so I need the energy, well thats my argument.
However, I have found to stop the endless eating I drink loads of water, that fills me up and apart from peeing allot I am not eating anywhere near as much and subsequently feel much better for being hydrated and not full of Mars bars etc. etc.
Interestingly most people are dehydrated and don't realise they are, drinking water can reduce aches and pains, headaches, lethargy, etc. etc.
It's worth a try
The meal that most fills me up is a cheddar cheese sandwich in wholemeal granary bread with cholesterol lowering spread. Easy on the cheese but stuffed with lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes. I only eat half of it for one meal. Another one is goats cheese and avocado. Or hommos with salad, although that can be messy! A banana also stops the hunger pangs for a good while.
BTW - crisps are easy to avoid if you remember that one packet of crisps a day for a year is the equivalent of drinking 5 litres of cooking oil :shock: (learnt that gem on Fat Families!)
Another psychological incentive not to spend money on snacks is this little math. Instead of spending £5 a day on snacks, you put it into a tax-friendly pension fund. Without taking inflation into account it could look like this. £6 pre-tax per day, 5 days a week for 45 years is £70,250 which, invested carefully, could be £100,000 in your pension pot.
Still hungry?
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