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I'm currently forming a plan of attack for one of the great battles of working life, viz. kicking my biscuit addiction. My workplace's tea rooms are stocked with five different types of biscuit each day, ranging from chocolate digestives to ginger crunch to chocolate fudge crunch to Party Rings to shortbread, and I'm not very good at not eating sweet things. (See also: the way I raid the Kit-Kat box whenever I'm at my parents', the way that whole packs of digestive biscuits and Tesco Finest white chocolate disappeared in one sitting during Finals, and the fact that I only keep my usual eating habits moderately healthy by not buying anything sweet save 70% dark chocolate.)
So I reckon I probably eat six to eight of these biscuits a day - going for the richest, chocolatiest ones to maximise value, of course - with the dual justification that they're free and that part of my work's policy on eyesight and VDUs is that they expect us to take lots of tea/biscuit breaks so that we're not constantly staring at screens. This probably isn't good for me, and indeed one of my colleagues claims to have put on half a stone each year since joining the company.
I suspect that part of the problem is that I don't eat very elaborately for breakfast (two Weetabixen with milk and ground flaxseed, and a mug of green tea) or lunch (spaghetti with pesto this week), and also that I don't have any snacking alternatives other than biscuits, so that's my first manoeuvre in this battle: I've added a wholemeal roll, a chopped carrot and a mini-tupperware of 'trail mix' to my bag for tomorrow, and I should probably throw in a daily yoghurt and banana with breakfast as well. I think if I sort things out so that I'm actually eating *more*, I won't feel hard-done-by, and my id hopefully won't notice that it's being fed on wholemeal rolls rather than chocolate fudge biscuits.
Fingers crossed that they won't have any irresistible biscuits with caramel while I'm trying to kick the habit...
So I reckon I probably eat six to eight of these biscuits a day - going for the richest, chocolatiest ones to maximise value, of course - with the dual justification that they're free and that part of my work's policy on eyesight and VDUs is that they expect us to take lots of tea/biscuit breaks so that we're not constantly staring at screens. This probably isn't good for me, and indeed one of my colleagues claims to have put on half a stone each year since joining the company.
I suspect that part of the problem is that I don't eat very elaborately for breakfast (two Weetabixen with milk and ground flaxseed, and a mug of green tea) or lunch (spaghetti with pesto this week), and also that I don't have any snacking alternatives other than biscuits, so that's my first manoeuvre in this battle: I've added a wholemeal roll, a chopped carrot and a mini-tupperware of 'trail mix' to my bag for tomorrow, and I should probably throw in a daily yoghurt and banana with breakfast as well. I think if I sort things out so that I'm actually eating *more*, I won't feel hard-done-by, and my id hopefully won't notice that it's being fed on wholemeal rolls rather than chocolate fudge biscuits.
Fingers crossed that they won't have any irresistible biscuits with caramel while I'm trying to kick the habit...