How Can Office Work Place a Strain on Your Diet?

 

 

How Can Office Work Place a Strain on Your Diet?

By Lyla Feldman

 

Working in an office environment can often place a strain on our weight and sometimes even our health. Jobs which require little to no movement can easily impact our weight loss goals and our well being. Morning pastries, eating lunch at a desk, lack of physical activity, and fast food meals are just some of the problems we encounter when working in an office environment.

 

One of the major problems encountered by office employees is the absence of breakfast. A lot of people who work in a desk environment tend to skip breakfast because they know that the conference room will have morning pastries. This is something that occurs in numerous offices. By skipping breakfast you are setting yourself up for the consumption of sweet pastries which offer hundreds of calories and zero nutritional value. Eating lunch at ones desk is yet another mistake that people make. It is bad enough to sit eight motionless hours in front of a computer, why would you want to make it nine hours? If your goal is weight loss, try going for a walk during your lunch break. Even thirty minutes will make a lot of difference.

 

The third reason why office work is bad for your diet is referred to as the "dinner trap." Most people eat their lunch at noon or at one, this usually results in a late dinner. By the time we get home it can be as late as 7PM. What this means is that we have not eaten for the past seven hours and we will most likely overindulge at dinner time. Such large meals can surely have a negative impact on our diets. So as you can see weight loss can surely suffer when we work in an office environment; however, there are ways to approach this scenario with health and weight control in mind.