9-5 Office Job Diet Plan

I also have an office job. I just drink water all day long. In order to stay away from the vending machine, I bring 2 snacks with me. Usually a banana, yogurt, string cheese or a Fiber One Bar. I also pack my own lunch so I don't end up getting fast food or ordering pizza. The guy in the office next to mine has a giant candy jar that he always keeps full with delicious chocolates and other assortments. This is my downfall. Whenever I'm stressed I tend to find myself in there raiding it. I have yet to figure out a way to avoid this. I wish I had the motivation to get out and walk on my lunch break. Props to you!

I tend to find getting everyone involved helps, a lot of the girls in my work, encourage each other to lose weight and in my circle of friends now too!! that helps i have to say, having someone encourage you and be there to support you and if you need chocolate i have someone to talk me over my craving its great.

I have a 9-5 job also! I bring in South Beach Chocolate bars for my chocolate melt down moments! Seems to help and they are good for you! I also keep gold fish crackers which you can have 55 for 140 calories, not bad for a snack! The fiber for breakfast is prob causing alot of the problem. Good luck to you, hope this helped!

:happy: I take a shed load of food to work in my 9-5! mostly fruit with some protein and carbs.

Like some of the others have said... eat every couple of hours a small meal... say you're goal is 1500 calories a day - break that down into 5 meals - 300cals a meal. Eat one of these meals every 3 hours or so (8am, 11am, 2pm, 5-6pm, 8 or 9pm)... I used to be the same - starving by lunch then I'd go crazy and eat till I was stuffed! If you don't wanna eat after 6 though you could have the combined calories for meals 4 and 5.

will keep you're hunger at bay and keep you're metabolism at a healthy level - burning more calories while sat on you're backside! try and get the meals balanced too - complex carbs (fruit and veg) and protein - limit the processed foods! :happy:

I work the standard office hours as well. It's ok to snack, but on a schedule.

Breakfast @ 8am
Snack @ 10am or 10:30am
Lunch @ Noon or 1pm
Snack between 2-3pm
Dinner by Six and sometimes a snack before 8pm

Cheesesticks, boiled eggs, Almonds,peanuts, dried fruit, Pork Skins(No carbs), Fruit or granola bars are all good snacks! You should also get your water in with every meal or snack.

For me I know that it helps having only 2 snacks a day one between Breakfast and Lunch and theother between Lunch and dinner. I got myself a 28oz water bottle and throw a straw in it. Right there just one of those bottles is already 3.2 of your 8, 8oz glasses of water a day. Keep it close to your computer screen and just keep sipping on it.

I work 9 - 5.30 (that extra half hour really hurts haha) and we have a lovely cleaner called Mavis but every week she stocks our cupboard with biscuits and Oatibakes and cereal bars etc etc. I find when I get bored at work I start to feel really hungry when I'm probably not, I drink loads of water too and I bring in healthy snacks to choose instead of the unhealthy ones but sometimes I can't help myself! I really really need some advice on this because sometimes all the "proper food" i've eat in the day is good and healthy but it's the 4 jaffa cakes at lunch that push me over my calories! Aaaah! :indifferent:

Mmmmm almond croissant!!!!!

I work 8.30 til 5.30 in such a quiet office! I get so bored that I really have to try not to snack!! ATM I have fruit or the odd Sula sweet and keep little things like beetroot in the fridge that I can just go and pick at!

Mimi, I feel you pain, we have stocked cupboards too, and currently 2 bleberry muffins that are just CALLING me!!!

I work 730-430 in an office job and the boredom is killing me...all I want is potato chips!!!

That being said I don't eat them...I bring egg whites for breakfast and microwave them, will add spinach or salsa for a veggie addition. My snack is fruit, I precut my fruit and put it in a plastic container and eat with a fork. I tend to graze on this all morning...

Pack my protien and veggie lunch, snack is yogurt and almonds and snap peas today. Again I measure out the almonds and peas to be searving size and graze for the afternoon.

To get my water consumption in I have a 1.5litre bottle I fill every day and pour into a glass or cup. For some reason it is easier for me to drink more from a glass than a bottle. I also try to make sure that I drink a glass an hour getting in my 8 cups a day.

Yeah there's nothing wrong with rice crackers! What are the fruit bars? Could be high in sugar?

All nuts are quite high in fat, but almonds are supposed to be the best, David Kirsch even recommends eating 5 a day! No more than that though!! I love them with flame raisins!

I work in an office with a LOT of different people and cuisine choices, and there is always someone going out to eat and bringin it in. And I am on the committee that plans all the potlucks, and stuff, so I am constanlty in charge of mass amounts of yummy food that is always placed in front of my desk!

I try to maintain healthier choices by bringing my own lunch and snacks, especially since I am breastfeeding, I need to keep my caloric intake to about 1,800-1,900 cal/day. Hard to do that eating healthy, you have to eat all the time...

I eat imediately following my am workout, so this is my eating schedule:

5:30 Breakfast
8:30-9 Snack
12-12:30 Lunch
3:30-4 Snack
6:30-7 Dinner
9:00 (occasional dessert)

I make sure I have at least 10g protein w/each meal and close to that with each snack....

It is hard, since I have to pump during my breaks and lunch, I do not get to walk outside, but as soon as LO is 1, I will be ending the breastfeeding and getting back into my usual routine...

I have just started working in an office, after working in bars and restaurants and I'm finding it hard to keep the weight off after being used to such an active job.

I try and eat 3 meals a day (plus snacks) but am finding that I snack more than I should.

My meal plan tends to be instant oats (made with water, not milk) or a pack of belvita/weetabix breakfast biscuits on a morning, for lunch a pack of supernoodles or a cup-o-soup, dinner tends to be sausage and mash, spag bol/chilli or some form of pasta, normally with chicken. I tend to drink 3 cups of tea/coffee a day plus about 2 glasses of water. Snacks generally include a pack of low fat crisps or a slice of best of both toast with light margarine. About every other day/every three days I also have a can of fizzy drink.

I know I need to eat healthily but find it hard to find things that I can keep at work that aren't perishable but are healthy.

I also get up for work at half 5 and get back home at about half 6/7 so find it hard not to make convenience/quick foods

Any help/ tips would be appreciated.

I bring my own lunches in too, but someone pointed out to me that it is mainly full of carbs! I need to get in the habit of eating more protein and more veggies - I'm such a fussy eater though which doesn't help. It's now 11:30 and I haven't snacked once, I'm doing well T x

To help with protein, I cook chicken breasts on Sunday and put them in tupperware. I chop them up in the morning to use in salad or whatever my lunch is that day (if I am doing the chicken). Otherwise, I do egg salad, tuna salad etc... I discovered a love for raw spinach so I use that instead of lettuce :bigsmile: I can make a mean salad :laugh: