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Food in the workplace
Author: Jason21 May
The company I work for is VERY family friendly and we try to make everyone feel at home here. For the 3 plus years I’ve worked here each month they throw a small birthday party celebrating everyone’s birthday for that month. Since I started GeekFit with Steve I’ve walked out of the room after being social with my co-workers and before they begin cutting and handing out the cake. It’s to the point now that if they have the cake precut they just skip me when they start handing it out.
I bet most people that have vendors attempting to get you to buy their product will try to buy you lunch. I hear this tactic is VERY popular in the health industry (ironically)! Donuts, cookies and cakes are quite popular in these instances.
What things happen in your workplace that you have to resist the urge to indulge? What tactics do you use to resist?
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There are quite a few things to avoid at my work place and I admit I don’t do a very good job of avoiding them some days.
We have an open kitchen, with grocery orders that get delivered twice a week. Many sandwich, cereal, soup, cookie, cracker, fruit, vegetable, soda, juice etc options to choose from not to mention once a week breakfast gets made for the whole office and meetings that run during lunch and they order take out for us…. Oh yeah and the candy at the front desk.
Unfortunately I’ve only gained weight since starting instead of loosing. Though I’m trying to get a handle on it and remind myself of all the things I can eat vs what I shouldn’t.
The occasional “leftover” drop off of cookies/cake/whatever that seems to show up around birthdays. I’m in a 24-7-365 organization so there’s no telling when something tasty and evil will show up.
There are also a lot of vending machines. An awful lot of them.
Mostly what I apply is will power. Sometimes it doesn’t work. I keep my some healthy foods on hand for myself so I’m not hungry when the snacks come around. The best thing I’ve done for myself, when I do lapse, is eat a few bites, put it down and get on with my day. I found that worrying about having indulged makes me feel worse.