Desk Job People, How Do You Mix It Up At Work?

I like my smoothies in the morning...fruit, protien powder,half a shake and almond milk

I keep greek yogurt, cottage cheese, fruit and protien bars at my desk.

Lunch could be a variety of things...soup and a sandwich, right now turkey cause it was our thanksgiving this weekend, peanut butter and toast, tuna, ham, salmon, crab is my fav. or egg salad...turkey taco salad..you name it eat it.

my day looks similar to yours - my wrap usually contains avocado, smoked salmon, Dijon mustard and baby spinach. But I might replace the salmon with any leftover protein from last night's dinner (i.e. roast chicken, steak etc). I bring a couple of Kashi granola bars to work to go with coffee a few times per week. I have more cut up veggies as a snack, as well as hard cheese (Armstrong cheese sticks). once in a while I make a salad nicoise (tuna, boiled egg, steamed green beans, olives maybe some seeds or nuts etc - really depends on what's in the fridge - I weigh all the ingredients as a make it since the recipe is always changing).

I only pack a certain amount of food- including a "junk snack- usually a reese's cup or something. usually my afternoon pick- me upper.

shrug- i don't eat a bunch of stuff at work- I log almost everything I packed before I even eat it- I usually have about 1000-1300 calories of food with me for the day- then i have to work out- which requires another meal (so between my left over 3-500 calories- I earn more from a workout) but I know exactly what's left in my food budget.

i also do not bring cash with me. cash = trips to cafeteria= crap I shoudn't be buying= food I shouldn't' be eating

When do I get to eat that much :sad: I do that same as well and prelog it all but that being said I don't have 3500 so I only eat if I am hungry hungry.

I only pack a certain amount of food- including a "junk snack- usually a reese's cup or something. usually my afternoon pick- me upper.

shrug- i don't eat a bunch of stuff at work- I log almost everything I packed before I even eat it- I usually have about 1000-1300 calories of food with me for the day- then i have to work out- which requires another meal (so between my left over 3-500 calories- I earn more from a workout) but I know exactly what's left in my food budget.

i also do not bring cash with me. cash = trips to cafeteria= crap I shoudn't be buying= food I shouldn't' be eating

This.

I just pre log everything. Usually cook breakfast pack it up and eat it an hour later at work. I make soups and chili's and other stuff over the weekend and bring that all week. Not to big on sandwiches but i love my veggies. Always pack some for snacks. I recently discovered overnight oats. Holy filling!!! Still experimenting to find what I really like mixed with them, but wow I wasn't hungry for lunch after eating those. Left over dinner is awesome mixed with eggs in for breakfast or just heated up. I like lettuce wrapped chicken and beef too and string cheese and to make different kinds of shakes.

I sit at a desk all day everyday and it's horrible. Breakfast for me is egg beaters that I nuke at the office. Lunch is usually deli meat and string cheese with grapes. Snack is a banana. Suffice it to say I'm starving all day and all I can think about is a hamburger! Will I ever stop thinking about eating the bad foods?

No reason to starve all day just because you sit at a desk. I eat almost every meal, except dinner at my desk. afternoon snack varies. sometimes it's at my desk other time it's after my workout. Today it will be after my workout, yesterday it was at my desk. Just pre plan it and pack things that are easy to eat at your desk. I eat my soup at my desk. lol. Egg beaters are good, mixed with whole eggs, veggies and chicken. :~) with a side of fruit and some coffee, lemon water and tea. All eaten at my desk.

We're not supposed to eat at our desks..... whoops. lol

I didn't read all the responses but I start vicious rumors and hold grudges about perceived insults that didn't actually happen.

Hey Meg,

I am starting to feel like I am in a slight rut too, I have the same smoothie for breakfast each work day, lunch is usually a falafel/salmon/chicken salad or could be a chicken stirfry from the previous night... For dinner I either have a chicken stirfry (various sauces to give variety), salad, pita pocket stuffed with salad and falafel.

It is going into summer here where I am so the salads are working for me, but I would like to have more choices...

I've been going crazy over the Amy's Indian Samosa Wraps lately. I've been taking one to work for breakfast, then I'll have some sort of Healthy Choice frozen meal for lunch usually. I have a "snack drawer" full of Zone Perfect protein bars and Special K snack bars.

I'm busy, so I pretty much eat every thing frozen or prepackaged when I'm at work. Home is when I get to relax and cook what I'd like for dinner.

Breakfast - usually just a granola bar and coffee if I'm eating at my desk, with maybe a banana from home; if I have time to prep something from home, I usually just eat it at home (nut butter on toast with banana, cold cereal with milk or nondairy milk and fruit, or raw oats with yogurt, fruit, and nuts -- although sometimes I'll mix up the oats the night before and just grab the container on the way out the door in the morning).

Lunch - I still buy lunch from local shops and trucks a lot, and other days I have to go to lunchtime events for my job, but for other days, I would usually bring leftovers from home (after all, I've already figured out the calories and other nutrients in those foods), or a pouch of tuna or salmon or some sardines, with cooked grains, and whatever fruits or veggies don't take much prep (meaning leftovers or things I eat raw). I also keep microwaveable shelf-stable meals and soups in my desk for unplanned lunches at my desk (when the weather or time constraints make going out undesirable). And microwaveable popcorn, which has about a meal's worth of calories in it, although it's more fat than I usually want to have just for lunch.

Snacks: Sometimes I'll bring fruit or a piece of whole grain bread folded around a little butter or nut butter, but mostly it's stuff I keep in my desk that I don't have to pack each day, like granola bars and fruit and cereal bars; nuts (I've gotten hooked on the roasted coffee flavor of Blue Diamond almonds); applesauce with no added sugar in individual 4-oz. cups. I also keep those little packages of sandwich crackers (lots of different varieties, cheese and plain and rye crackers etc. sandwiching cheese or peanut butter) and zip-lock bags so I can eat 1 or 2 or 3 and seal the remainder of the package of six back up for another time. I've been wondering whether I would have the will power to stop at 2 or 3 oreos if I kept the little packages in my desk (they are sooo good dunked in an afternoon coffee), but I think it's best not to risk it yet.

I'm going to have to read through this thread again to get more ideas for myself; I think I'm in a bit of a rut too.

I work between 10 - 12 hours a day doing a desk job. TBH i don't really have breakfast, not hungry. I'll have soup or a sandwich for lunch, with an apple and yoghurt. Later in the day i'll have another apple, another yoghurt and melon. I drink a fair bit of water and tea (with no milk) during the day which helps. I treat myself to a 40 calorie hot chocolate drink too.