so I have a) being working long hours and b) gaining weight lately. Not a shock that those two things are correlated. I think this is caused by a number of things
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#1. Fruit. Always fruit. Any fruit. Fruit. Fruit. Fruit. Easy. Quick, as in no time at all. And usually comes in nature's packaging.
(Boy, you type "fruit" a whole bunch of times and it looks foreign.) Frooo-it.
#2. Veggies. The ubiquitous carrot stick comes in nice little packages, easy to grab and go. As does celery and such. Broccoli wokly is another easy grab choice. Throw in your favorite salad dressing and your good to go.
Yogurt is another option, but only if you have a fridge you can keep it in. Cheese sticks or just cheese and crackers (I often add turkey or ham once in a while.
Just a few suggestions for super quick stuff. It's tough though. It's definitely good to organize as much as possible the night before so you don't have to think too much in the groggy morning time.
Good luck! I had to go to the DMV today and admitted that I weighed 20 lbs more than my previous license had said (which was renewed 4 years ago... meh.) Oops.
I often don't pack a lunch for work, but when I do, it's usually some leftovers. So if you ever have time to cook at home, just make twice as much as you need, and you can eat it a couple times during the week. Ditto with salads.
My boss apparently is trying to lose weight, and he'll typically eat a Lean Pocket and a yogurt cup or something like that. Sometimes a Slim Fast instead of something else. I dunno how healthy any of that is.
A couple years ago I switched from drinking pop at work to coffee/tea/lots of water. The water is definitely way healthier, and the other ones are tastier and way lower in calories. That in addition to eating way better (and eating less at meals) plus exercising helped me lose 40 pounds over 2 years. It was 30 pounds in the first year!
Green Tea is the ultimate "I have to have caffeine but pop is horrible for me" stuff because it has a half or a third of the caffeine and it has LOTS of antioxidants, including vitamin C.
Water is great too! Most Americans don't drink enough water.
I have similar problems when I'm deskbound. Especially in the winter. Especially when I'm working from home and don't have that bike ride to and from work every day. I haven't checked but I'm sure I've gained a bit of weight since I started my new job, I'm also sure I'll lose it again as I'm getting more and more active over the summer.
I don't worry about my weight at all (I'm rarely cognizant of it) but I DEFINTIELY notice diet and sedentaryness related swings in general health, motivation, and mood and body comfort.
Things I try to do when I remember:
The candy habit is a huge one for me. I also use it for the sugar rush to get through a long mind numbing day. I also think just chewing helps keep me a bit more alert. Anyway what I try to do is get bags of bulk dried fruit. It's just as good as candy and a bit more healthy. I suppose you could still gain weight because of the fruit sugars but it can't be as bad as the candy!
Vitamins are important. I LOVE Emergen-C packets. You dissolve a pack in your water and it makes the
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Yeah, I think dried fruit is an option I will try. I'll try those emergen C things as well (I try to take B vitamins but I get all jittery when I do cause they have such high percentages).
The vegan thing is tough for me becuase I don't like beans / peas / lots of other sources of vegan protein. But eating like a vegan as much as possible sounds like a good idea!
I think that classifying the meat and dairy industries as evil gives an implied and undeserved free-pass to the rest of the agriculture industry.
I've always thought that monoculture type factory-farming in general is not the greatest way to go from so many perspectives (except, of course, the American favourite: "short-term economic"). There's better and worse ways to raise ALL types of foods. With few (and hopefully growing) exceptions, as a country we've chosen the worse end of the spectrum.
Unless this is an argument about "eating living things", in which case enjoy your rocks and carrion!
However above and beyond the environmental disaster of industrial agriculture, meat has additional significant and unique health and environmental issues.
Heck, 90% (made up non-researched percentage for demonstration purposes only) of the evil monoculture industrial ag exists to feed livestock! So right there's it's a double whammy.
Certainly the BEST thing for her to do would be to eat all Organic and vegan and seasonable and macrobiotic and regionally appropriate but THAT is very very hard and she asked for easy. :)
For me the best way to eat vegan is to find a great vegan restaurant. It's hard to cook your own good vegan food, but the vegans themselves are VERY good at it.
As for quick lunches, I'm all about the Lean Cuisine "spa food" frozen dinners. Some of them are really, really good, and they only take about 5 minutes to microwave, on average. I've been living off those for a while now. Yummy!
frozen lunchesevilone79April 15 2005, 21:35:35 UTC
I'm a big fan of Weight Watchers Smart Ones. They taste good, and have the least amount of fat, calories and sodium of all the frozen lunches I've seen. I usually couple one of these with a bag of baked lays out of the vending machine. It's fairly filling when couple with something to drink.
Also, if you drink water throughout the day, you may not be as hungry during the day or starving at dinner, possibly keeping you from puchasing those bad dinner choices you were mentioning.
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(Boy, you type "fruit" a whole bunch of times and it looks foreign.)
Frooo-it.
#2. Veggies. The ubiquitous carrot stick comes in nice little packages, easy to grab and go. As does celery and such. Broccoli wokly is another easy grab choice. Throw in your favorite salad dressing and your good to go.
Yogurt is another option, but only if you have a fridge you can keep it in. Cheese sticks or just cheese and crackers (I often add turkey or ham once in a while.
Just a few suggestions for super quick stuff. It's tough though. It's definitely good to organize as much as possible the night before so you don't have to think too much in the groggy morning time.
Good luck!
I had to go to the DMV today and admitted that I weighed 20 lbs more than my previous license had said (which was renewed 4 years ago... meh.) Oops.
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I hate hate hate the DMV. *blech*
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My boss apparently is trying to lose weight, and he'll typically eat a Lean Pocket and a yogurt cup or something like that. Sometimes a Slim Fast instead of something else. I dunno how healthy any of that is.
A couple years ago I switched from drinking pop at work to coffee/tea/lots of water. The water is definitely way healthier, and the other ones are tastier and way lower in calories. That in addition to eating way better (and eating less at meals) plus exercising helped me lose 40 pounds over 2 years. It was 30 pounds in the first year!
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Water is great too! Most Americans don't drink enough water.
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I don't worry about my weight at all (I'm rarely cognizant of it) but I DEFINTIELY notice diet and sedentaryness related swings in general health, motivation, and mood and body comfort.
Things I try to do when I remember:
The candy habit is a huge one for me. I also use it for the sugar rush to get through a long mind numbing day. I also think just chewing helps keep me a bit more alert. Anyway what I try to do is get bags of bulk dried fruit. It's just as good as candy and a bit more healthy. I suppose you could still gain weight because of the fruit sugars but it can't be as bad as the candy!
Vitamins are important. I LOVE Emergen-C packets. You dissolve a pack in your water and it makes the ( ... )
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The vegan thing is tough for me becuase I don't like beans / peas / lots of other sources of vegan protein. But eating like a vegan as much as possible sounds like a good idea!
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I've always thought that monoculture type factory-farming in general is not the greatest way to go from so many perspectives (except, of course, the American favourite: "short-term economic"). There's better and worse ways to raise ALL types of foods. With few (and hopefully growing) exceptions, as a country we've chosen the worse end of the spectrum.
Unless this is an argument about "eating living things", in which case enjoy your rocks and carrion!
;)
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However above and beyond the environmental disaster of industrial agriculture, meat has additional significant and unique health and environmental issues.
Heck, 90% (made up non-researched percentage for demonstration purposes only) of the evil monoculture industrial ag exists to feed livestock! So right there's it's a double whammy.
Certainly the BEST thing for her to do would be to eat all Organic and vegan and seasonable and macrobiotic and regionally appropriate but THAT is very very hard and she asked for easy. :)
For me the best way to eat vegan is to find a great vegan restaurant. It's hard to cook your own good vegan food, but the vegans themselves are VERY good at it.
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Also? I still have your plate.
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Ack! Plate! We should hang out sometime andwe can swipe it back! :)
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Also, if you drink water throughout the day, you may not be as hungry during the day or starving at dinner, possibly keeping you from puchasing those bad dinner choices you were mentioning.
Good luck!
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