Better at home than at work

Gum!

I bring two .75 L Camelbaks to work everyday. When I'm really hungry I just chug water (sometimes with Crystal Light for flavour).

Here at my work we have chocolate bars and a small candy dish. I avoid the chocolate bars by not having money in my wallet to buy one! (That and $2 for even a king size is to much to begin with.) We also keep a small dish of candies for anyone who comes in. Now those candies are all low calorie ones. (I'm the one that buys them most of them time as I know what the clients who come in like!) However, I still bring an extra something from home to have in the afternoon when I am starting those things down and wanting to have one.

I'm the total opposite. My eating is so predictable and easy at work because I plan and bring my food. Home is harder because I have so much more free time and delicious foods tempting me.

I pack my lunch/snacks everyday for work. Now since do low carb it is easier for me to just say no to the daily doughnuts and other junk folks bring in. In fact they stopped coming by my office with anything sugar or carb based.

That said I do have to make sure I have healthy snacks in case I work late and my lunch/snack are gone. I keep a small can of macadamia nuts and a bag of raw almonds from Costco. As long as you measure out the nuts I find 1/4 cup can actually be filling just give it a few minutes to hit your system. DON'T eat straight from the bag.

I also drink water and green tea at work. This helps too.

we have a club called deskercisers.. join in instead of eating .
I go to the handicapped bathroom which nobody ever uses and do push ups.

Work was definitely a contributing factor to gaining weight. There are always delicious treats here and it's a stressful environment so sugar is particularly tempting. I don't always avoid the treats but I've been doing better by planning my food for everyday. I have a two high proteins snacks, a big salad for lunch and drink a lot of seltzer. I also go for a walk as soon as I finish my lunch because that's when I'm most tempted to grab a cookie. At home, I manage better because I'm calm and can find things I enjoy doing that distract me from food.

I'm the total opposite. My eating is so predictable and easy at work because I plan and bring my food. Home is harder because I have so much more free time and delicious foods tempting me.

This is so me. Especially on the weekends.

Before I stopped working to stay home with my children, I always had an easier time at work than at home. The solution was simple for me: bring only what I would need to eat while I was gone.

Whenever I get the urge to snack, I quickly run down and back up the stairs. I just tell people that I needed to use the copy machine downstairs! And there is just so much crap here - is all of this really necessary? NO and the temptation on some days is horrid. I do keep snacks at my desk - I always have a piece of fruit and some almonds. I'm going to be honest here - some days I just can't say no to a cookie. So, I get a cookie and I set it on a napkin on my desk. I make myself look at it for 30 minutes before I can eat it. You know what? Most of the time I toss it in the trash. :laugh:

Respect!

Whenever I get the urge to snack, I quickly run down and back up the stairs. I just tell people that I needed to use the copy machine downstairs! And there is just so much crap here - is all of this really necessary? NO and the temptation on some days is horrid. I do keep snacks at my desk - I always have a piece of fruit and some almonds. I'm going to be honest here - some days I just can't say no to a cookie. So, I get a cookie and I set it on a napkin on my desk. I make myself look at it for 30 minutes before I can eat it. You know what? Most of the time I toss it in the trash. :laugh:

That's such a good idea. There were fudge dipped chocolate chip cookies with sprinkles in the break room for two weeks. No one was eating them! Aargh. And I had such a hard time passing them up every day. I even blogged about them. But I didn't want to be the one to toss them. Finally I guess someone else decided to throw them in the trash. Next time I'll try that looking at the cookie for 30 minutes before eating it trick.

In my world, there is crap absolutely everywhere ...... at work, of course ........ but also at friends' homes, at my relatives' homes, even at the gym ...... (seldom at my house, cuz I do the foodshopping). Had to develop a thick skin & learn to say "no, thanks" ...... and I don't explain why, cuz it's nobody's business but my own. Worse case scenario, I imagine that someone has sneezed on those goodies, then for sure I want no part of them :noway:

I carry my own snacks & lunches to work ........ and even if running a few errands, I usually carry an apple, a pak of smoked almonds, a cheesestick & a bottle of water ...... this way there's no excuses.

Works for me ....... find what works for you :drinker:

Am I the only one who is having trouble holding consistent with my calories while I am work?

From the snacks (mostly unhealthy) available to the boredom.

I bring my own snacks to try to curb my appetite, but I have to admit...it doesn't always work.

Any suggestions?

NoI have the opposite problem. When I am at work, I work, and can be good. When I am at home, I tend to want to graze, and there is a lot more food available.

Gum works and doesn't, depending on how much you rely on it. Gum for me actually caused me to want to munch, kind of like when you stop a vehicle but it isn't instantaneous because of the momentum, so after chewing gum; I still wanted to chew on something. Another problem that I have with gum is that you eventually swallow air and that causes belching/gas. At times the belching was so awful, that I was belching when talking/breathing and the gas was causing me to expel the gas excessively and if I wasn't expelling, I had crippling gas pains. Plus it made my teeth hurt and occasionally caused lockjaw and that was only from eating a pack of fourteen to fifteen sticks daily.

I'm the total opposite. My eating is so predictable and easy at work because I plan and bring my food. Home is harder because I have so much more free time and delicious foods tempting me.

^^^ this for me. But at the office, I drink more water than when I'm at home (that might be part of the problem).