Health Day

If your like me, at work is so difficult to stop snacking – being bored any cravings for food are impossible to ignore. You tell yourself its not long until lunchtime but the temptaton is too much!

Its even worse if you work in large open office, its usually a work colleagues birthday or a “kind” person has bought treats for the staff. When only just a hint of sugary food pasts your desk its hard to switch your hunger off – the morning munchies have arrived!

You try and think of something else but the only thing your mind is thinking about is chocolate and cakes. You tell yourself its not long until lunchtime but if your like me you cave in and indulge in the treats on offer. In your mind you say tomorrow will be different and you will avoid snacking at work.

This is a typical day, we have all been there – when work is stressful this is an envitable de-stressor. The average person spends $45 on snacks every month. However, it doesn’t have to be like this.

The work environment does not need to have such an influence on your eating habits. Follow my 5 top tips and you can help cut out those sweet office treats:

1. Stock up on Fruit
Keeping a supply of fruit on your desk will give you an alternative option to chocolate, cakes and potato chips. Better still, you won’t even have to leave your desk to get them!

2. Don’t Carry Loose Change
This is particularly useful if you have a vending machine at work. No spare change in your pocket means you cannot use the vending machine and no matter how much you want that chocolate bar you cannot have it.

3. Remain Calm
Stress is one of the biggest reasons why snacking at work is so hard to control. If you can stay relaxed by planning your workload efficiently then it will be easier to say no to those unhealthy snacks.

4. Keep Yourself Busy
No doubt you often snack because you are bored. If you can keep yourself busy then you will not even think about snacking. Always ensure you have tasks to do to keep your mind off sweet treats.

5. Invest in an Appetite Suppressant
This is one of the tricks I swear by. Appetite suppressants are small pills you take each day which gives signals to the brain that you are full and do not require more food. They are perfectly safe and help you to get your willpower back and control those snacking at work cravings.

One of the best appetite suppressants I have used is a product called UniqueHoodia. They use only the purest Hoodia Gordonii from South Africa which has been clinically proven to suppress your appetite – they have the most hoodia per pill.

Results have also shown that UniqueHoodia can help cut your calorie intake by as much as 2,000 calories a day meaning weight loss is much faster and easier than by dieting alone.

Losing thigh fat is tough – otherwise, everyone would have skinny legs. The only way to lose thigh fat is to lose weight all over, as spot reducing fat has been proven to be impossible. As such, the best way to lose thigh fat is making a small set of lifestyle changes. These are hardly noticeable, but combined will result in potent, powerful and long lasting weight loss that won’t soon return.

To effectively lose weight, you need to learn the basic fundamentals. Fortunately these are simple and straight forward. The most vital aspect of a weight loss plan is to decrease net calories by a small, manageable amount. Several ways to do this are by decreasing appetite, boosting metabolism, and increasing physical activity.

Tip 1: Work on consuming less sugar. Don’t attempt to totally eliminate it – we’re trying to make things easy. If you drink normal soda, switch to diet. If you drink fruit juice, try iced tea sweetened with splenda. Even a couple of sugar-rich beverages daily swapped out will drop your total calorie count by several hundred!

Tip 2: Drink a lot of cold water. Not only will this fill you up, but the coldness of it will boost up your metabolism. As the cold water fills your stomach, your body will enter a state of burning to make up for the cold, to try to bring your body back to a normal internal level.

Tip 3: Take in a healthy amount of green tea. Not only is it filling and great for your body, but green tea will boost your metabolism, decrease your appetite, and give you a gentle steady source of energy throughout your day.

Tip 4: Consider what kind of carbs you take in, and when. Contrary to what many crash diets will try to convince you, carbs aren’t all bad. You should, however, try to limit simple carbs (like processed grains, sugars, etc), to the morning and earlier afternoon. Closer to bed, try to either cut out or switch to complex carbs (like fibrous veggies). Simple carbs send your body into fat storage mode, which is a big no-no, especially before sleeping.