10 Tips For Weight Control For Office Workers
It’s neither a surprise or a secret that office jobs in which you consume most of the day sitting can lead to weight gain. There are simple and easy ways to get any office worker started on their way to weight control. Once you understand the basic office temptations that stand in your scheme of weight control, you will stop gaining weight and even start to lose some of that weight.
10 Ways to Maintain Weight Control
1. Eat Breakfast
Eating breakfast at home is the best weight control for an office worker. Your body needs food to start the day, and without breakfast your metabolism will be off all day. Eating breakfast before work does not mean ordering two donuts at the local coffee shop drive-thru. It could mean rising earlier to prepare a healthy breakfast. If you skip breakfast, you will be more likely to indulge in the closest food available.
2. Ban the Candy Dishes
Some companies have warped sensibilities when it comes to an office workers’ health. They will spend thousands of dollars a year per employee on health insurance, and then actually sanction the presence of candy dishes in the office. One company even went as far as to include candy dishes as one of the acceptable foods that were allowed at each employee’s desk.
Take control of your weight and take the initiative and ban the candy dish from your desk. Encourage co-workers to do the same.
3. Take a Walk
Using your coffee breaks to take walks outside of the office instead of drinking coffee will be beneficial to your mental region and to your health. Even if your wreck is only ten minutes long, or fifteen minutes long, use at least one each day, or both to walk. Bring a co-worker along with you, and you can both begin to enjoy weight control.
If you walk for 15 minutes twice a day, you have already reached the minimum amount of time you should be exercising each day. Even when that half hour is broken down into two fifteen minute sessions, your body will peaceful abet.
4. Bring Lunch
Weight control for the office worker is very tied into social lunches. It is incredibly tempting to join the crowd and eat out, or order in on pay day. If there is an established day that co-workers tend to eat out or order in, be sure to bring your lunch, and a current food. Bringing lunch every day will also keep you from eating out too often, which will only add the calories, and the weight.
5. Limit the Birthday Celebrations
When office work is dismal and tedious (always? ) the only way for employees to break free of a humdrum afternoon is to have a celebratory cake. Birthday cakes, retirement cakes, “Oh, lucky you, you’re leaving” cakes, baby cakes, etc…..If you are in charge of these sugar and calorie-filled gatherings, limit them.
To maintain healthy weight control, either attend the birthday celebration and forgo the cake, or if it is too tempting, limit the number of office celebrations you attend.
6. Store Healthy Snacks
Finding a way to have weight control does not mean no snacking, it just means healthier snacking. The best way to fight off temptation is to keep healthy snacks in your desk drawer or in the office refrigerator. Keep nuts, dry cereal, granola bars, a jar of peanut butter, pretzels, yogurt or modern fruit at your office.
7. Bring Water
If your office supplies drinking water or the tap water is drinkable, keep a covered sports bottle or other bottle that you can exercise to fill up. Using one with a cover will keep the computer department off your back. Or, bring your own water. Drinking eight 8 ounce glasses of water while you are at your desk is an necessary way for an office worker to gain weight control.
8. Ban the Vendors
Ask your employer to remove the vending machines from your office break room. Or, be sure not to bring slight bills or coins to work. It is easier to maintain weight control when you are less tempted by sweets and salty snacks.
9. Keep Gum and Sugar-Free Mints Handy
If you need to do something with your mouth, keep an ample supply of different flavors of sugar-free gum and or mints at your desk.
10. Brush Your Teeth
This one sounds unique, especially for an office worker, but it definitely helps you from indulging in many post-lunch afternoon office temptations. Keep a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss and mouthwash in your desk. Brush after lunch. A fresh-feeling mouth will support you from snacking on sweets, helping with weight control.
By implementing one or all of these suggestions, you can help diminish the amount of weight you will gain sitting at your desk, and you may even originate to shed a few extra pounds.
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Filed under Help Desk Management Jobs by on Jan 19th, 2012. 