Working at the Office

I am fortunate enough I can drive home for lunch (provided I'm not too busy) and I eat my full lunch there, or bring it to work with me. I generally bring a snack so around 2:30-3-ish I am not hungry. I work out after work so the snack is important so I am not on an empty stomach. I am a bored eater as well so I make sure if I am going to zone out and eat, it is stuff like carrots or other fruits/veggies.

Breakfast at 6:30 am
Snack at 10 am
Lunch around 11 am - 12 pm
Maybe a small snack at 3 pm
Dinner around 6 pm

Water all throughout the day. When I eat, I make sure I'm hungry and not just bored. I usually only bring enough food for the day so I'm not snacking unncessarily.

Me too for the most part! I also have another snack later in the evening. I eat 6 small meals throughout the entire day!

This is what I do too

I eat because I'm bored. But I know that - so I snack on fruit. Otherwise I make little parcles of 100 calorie - ish snacks and keep them in my drawer. I only bring to work my allowance for the day, otherwise I will go over.

Before I started MFP I used to eat stuff like cookies, chocolate, lollies and muffins for snacks!!!

So to answer your question, I eat a full on breakfast. Snack on fruit, a light ish lunch and I try and get enough protien in there to last me until dinner... and I usually slip an apple or something similar in there for 3.30pm munchies.

I have to leave at 6am to be at the office as well. I used to eat before i left for work but i eliminated this habit and had breakfast at the office at 8am. At first it was hard as i was very hungry but i would have a coffee in the car on the way to work, after a while i replaced this with water. Snack at 10:30am then a 20min walk before lunch which is between 12-1pm snack at 3pm and then train after work with dinner after that.

Hubby is retired, so I am the one at work whilst he is at home. I usually cycle to and from work but he comes to meet me at lunchtime and we either go home for lunch (by car, as it would take too long to walk both ways and still get lunch) or sometimes, if the weather is nice, he'll drop by to Subway and get a couple of salads and we'll walk to somewhere nice and have lunch together. Obviously it helps if you have some nice spots to go and eat (which I am lucky enough to have).

I have a small range of snacks at work which are all around the 100 calorie mark BUT I get a colleague of mine to lock the majority of them away and I only have one or, at most, two of these in a day. Otherwise, my day works out like this:

Breakfast - 8am
Snack & coffee - 11am(ish)
Lunch - 1pm - 2pm
Snack & tea - 4pm

Cycle home, usually the "long" way - about 3 miles, most of which is uphill

Dinner - 7pm

Try to recruit a particular friend at work to keep an eye on you - it works but can fall down when that friend is on holiday, so have someone else in reserve if you can.

I've got a lot to lose (like 140 lbs), so every little helps.

I"m similar to most people who have posted so far. I space my food out every 3-4 hours so my blood sugar doesn't crash.

Breakfast at 6:30 am
Snack at 10 am
Lunch around 11 am - 12 pm
Maybe a small snack at 3 pm
Dinner around 6 pm

Water all throughout the day. When I eat, I make sure I'm hungry and not just bored. I usually only bring enough food for the day so I'm not snacking unncessarily.

I also follow something similar except my breakfast is at 8am.

I wish I could go home for lunch, but if I step outside it is probably going to be one of the many delicious but not so healthy food stops New Orleans has to offer :X

Oh lawd. If I lived in New Orleans I would weigh 500kg. Not kidding.

Wake up 5:00am drink (1) 16.9 ounce bottle of water
Breakfast at 7:30 Protein and carb--300 calories, includes coffee with creamer
Morning snack around 9:30 usually a piece of fruit or some nuts or a granola bar-60-150 calories,
Lunch around 11:30 or 12:00 usually a protein, starch and veggie ( basically eat dinner for lunch)-400-600 calories
Mid day snack around 1:30 maybe another pieice of fruit, some raw veggies like carrots, maybe some popcorn, fat free yogurt or piece of cheese--60 - 150 calories
I drink water all day--I keep (3) full 16.9 ounce and drink those by the end of the day

I always have enough healthy snacks around so that I am not tempted to go get chips, candy etc. from the store across the street.

Breakfast part one around 7 a.m., at home (ussually some low fat yogurt, or milk with oats or other cereal, something around 100-150 calories)
Breakfast part two around 9 a.m., at work (I make around 1 hour up to work, even if I get a big breakfast I am hungry as hell when I arive work or 1 hour after - the rest of my calories in many forms)

Fruit snack at 11-11:30 a.m. (ussually an apple, a pear... sometimes I am wild and just bring strawberries or grapes )

Lunch around 13 p.m. If I go to university that day, I don't go lunch and I pack some sandwiches (I try to load them with veggies, if not I bring separatly carrots). If I don't go I take my lunch hour break and go to caffeterias around workplace with workmates; I am lucky because they have `homemade` food, nothing fast-food so I can get a salad, grilled chicken or legumes stew or fish, etc. At work we may choose if we want to take our extra lunch hour or not. When I am not bussy I preffer to take; a little extra exercise to get there and some relaxation.

Snack at 5 p.m. Mostly seeds, nuts and/or rice cakes. No more than 100-150 calories if I arrive home already. If I stay late at university that day I may up until 300 calories.

Dinner at... something later than 7 p.m. When I arrive home I eat. When I arrive after 10 p.m. I'll only have a salad or something low calorie (the second snack consumes from my dinner), but I will eat my remaining calories.


I usually prepare my meals so mostly only lunch is a `surprize` if I eat out, but over time I have learned to approximate the calories for that also so I don't eat more than planned.

I eat three main meals and three snacks. That has helped me to control my eating. I tend to have my snacks at my desk or in meetings. I sometimes graze like a cow. Either way my metabolism has shot up.

I tend to eat everything I brought for the day :-X Not sure how to stop that!

I put mine either in a drawer or another room. Today I bought an apple to have as an afternoon snack then put it in my desk drawer, the afternoon went by and it is still in my drawer waiting for me to eat it tomorrow. On the water thing, I bought a drinking bottle, you know the one you take when you go running, which says "Kissing goodbye to my cellulite", and that as well as being on here spurs me on to drink more water than I ever have before.

I have a drawer full of snacks my biggest problem but yesterday i started bringing only my breakfast n lunch.. once i eat all i have in my drawer now i wont be buying anymore unless there 100 calories or less.. I try to give most of them away when my coworkers come in and ask do i have anything sweet :embarassed: I guess they know BIG girl gone always have snacks..

Breakfast at 6:30 am
Snack at 10 am
Lunch around 11 am - 12 pm
Maybe a small snack at 3 pm
Dinner around 6 pm

Water all throughout the day. When I eat, I make sure I'm hungry and not just bored. I usually only bring enough food for the day so I'm not snacking unncessarily.

mine is basically the same. and each meal is small portioned. the annoying thing is drinking water throughout the whole day and having to use the bathroom like a million times.. lol! BUT i did notice that if i drink water throughout the day i am less hungry.