eating healthy while at work

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I pre-pack my snacks and lunch the night before

Strategy Manager for a big chemical company. I work from the office 1 day a week, otherwise at home most of the time. When I go to the office I buy a soup and fruit from the small cafe downstairs, but ditch the crackers.

I plan my home lunches depending on what's in the fridge, put it together and eat it as a meal at my desk, but otherwise no snacks, just tea and coffee. Took a lot of discipline to ignore the kitchen during the day, but I've gotten used to it.

Admin Assistant.

Meal Prep (1/2 Week to Full Week's Worth)

I pack breakfast., lunch and snacks and always keep oatmeal, instant soup packet, and protein shake powder for days when I am too lazy or forget to pack. I also always keep snacky foods in the car and NOT nearby (I do this so that I limit my snacking)

I pack my lunch once every other - I cut up the fruits and veggies for 2 days and then usually alternate between one day of yogurt or cottage cheese for breakfast with the oatmeal I keep at work.

I eat just about the same thing everyday (it's boring, but nutritious and works for me)

Breakfast - yogurt with granola OR cottage cheese with egg white or cantaloupe OR oatmeal with almonds and raisins
Lunch - string cheese OR egg white AND mixed veggies with dip (hummus or guacamole and salsa)
Snack - generally fruit, nuts, protein bar/ protein shake; I try to avoid but sometimes I eat pretzels or dry cereal for snacks

I'm an accountant and I prepare my lunches at home and bring them to work along with whatever snacks I'm going to have.

What's everyone professional and how do you eat healthy while at work?

I don't eat at work.


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I work as a corporate trainer/program developer. Most days at my desk. Lots of people bringing in goodies or lunches catered in.

I've been hooked on mason jar salads for several months. I make them for my boyfriend and I on Sunday for the whole week. I love mixing it up and trying to find new salad recipes I love (like buffalo chicken or taco salad). The fill me up way more than a lean cuisine, though I keep a few of those around for emergencies.

I'm a big snacker. I keep light string cheese, healthy granola bars and yogurt at the office and usually have 3 or so snacks while at work. Skinnytaste.com's healthy cookies (made from just oats, mashed banana and whatever you like in a cookie) are another go to for me...they taste like banana bread but are low cal and really good for you. I'll bake a bunch, freeze them in small batches and take a baggy to work a once a week.

Not hard for me at all. I work in the IT department of a bank and the communal kitchen has two refrigerators.

I bring in my lunch and put it in the community fridges. If I have to eat out, I find the local supermarket that makes salads and get one. If I'm forced to, I go to Subway. But I keep stuff at work for the most part for breakfast and lunch.

It's a pain to lug stuff in but you have to do it or:

1) spend a ton of money a week for lunch

2) eat crap you don't need to be eating because "there's nothing else around"

They sell "good" bagels here (Queens, NY - yeah baby!) and I have a problem with them; it's a serious thing this freaking bread love affair I have. So, I keep a container of old fashioned quaker oats at my desk, keep a stock of frozen berries and banana slices in the freezer and microwave the oatmeal in the morning, I use water and sometimes brown sugar or a dab of jam.

I edit govt. documents, so i sit pretty much all day. i started walking about 3 miles every day at lunch, and we have an office score sheet to compete for drinking the most water. the water thing has helped SO much. i drank 10 cups yesterday and felt like a champ.

I usually drink a big glass of water in the morning, then have toast with either peanut butter & agave, or avocado and a fried egg. I recently realized that even though i would buy all the salad ingredients i needed for the week, i rarely brought a salad to work. i would just end up going out. So now i go to Trader Joe's over the weekend and buy 5 of their pre-packed salads for the week. i keep beef jerky, bananas, yogurt, Triscuits, and/or cottage cheese in my office so i have mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks. variety is key for me...i cant eat the same thing all the time. As others have mentioned, i log my food in the morning so i have a plan for the day and i dont feel as tempted to run to the vending machine or the break room for whatever free snacks are there (usually baked goods or sandwiches).

I'm a Registered Dental Assistant at a surgical office.

I usually prepare my morning protein shake before work and it keeps me going for about 4 hours. If I feel like breakfast type foods I like hard boiled eggs, oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar. For lunch I like fruit, a veggie burger, or leftovers from dinner the night before. I have a nice lunch bag that I bring daily filled with containers with my food. I also keep a lot of snacks at my desk. Fig bars, 100 cal snack packs etc.

I'm a Procurement & Cost Analyst, and I sit at a desk most of the day.

I pack my breakfast and lunch and don't keep food in my desk, so I'm usually on track at work. I try to pack everything the night before so I'm not fumbling and running around in the morning. A little prepping and planning makes life soooo much easier.

Lately I've been eating 2 Eggo waffles with a turkey sausage patty and I chop it all up and use low-calorie syrup. It's an easy grab and go breakfast. Lunch I usually pack up some leftovers from dinner. I will usually cook Sunday or Monday and then take the left overs for the week. I've been eating a lot of turkey sandwiches too lately. The Market District brand from Giant Eagle makes a Lite Turkey from the deli is really good and low in cals and sodium. I try to limit lunches out to once a week for both health and money reasons!

I'm an OSHA Reporting Assistant.

I bring my lunch everyday, and typically is always a salad with oil and vinegar as the dressing. For snacks I have a granny apple with peanut butter, some wheat thin pops, popcorn. Oddly I'm the candy jar person, and I never touch the candy, and it's literally right next to me all damn day!

I'm the Queen of all I See (not my official title, but I think it fits.)
I bring food from home sometimes or I eat at a local restaurant. Either way, I can control the portion size of what I eat.

I'm an Accounts Payable Clerk in Municipal Government.
I usually bring snacks to work and I often go home for lunch as I am only about 10 min away and I have a one hour lunch. Days that I don't feel like going home I bring a lunch from home. We have a fridge and microwave in the staff room, so it makes it easy to warm up leftovers from home. Snacks usually include Greek yogurt, an apple or banana, and protein bars.

I’m a programmer/analyst. Easy, take your food with you for the day. Don’t buy anything but coffee.