you know, i'm in the same position (same profession, actually, too - i'm an artist also) and I've started logging when i'm eating in the day. (meal times as well as what i'm eating.) i find that once i held myself accountable to recording everything (and times, too) i started making better choices, and really thinking about whether or not i was hungry before i ate anything. (ie, "i just ate an hour ago...i can wait it out another hour or two and just have some water for now")

i think you could look at it another way and see it as an opportunity to have the best of both worlds rather than the worst. eating at home means you can make the healthiest options available to yourself 24/7...and being a self-employed artist usually means working ridiculously long hours to make ends meet, but maybe it could also mean choosing a time of day to take a break to be active for 30 min or an hour... now that i incorporate exercise into my work day, i feel less stress, and happier overall.

anyway, just a few thoughts from someone in the same position. i understand your frustrations & feel that the more you use the tools on this site (food logging and community) the better you'll feel about the options you have available to you!

I work from home also, however I'm not an artist. My partner however is an artist and he works from home too.

I work in the financial industry and I have been blessed with working at home as it fits into my schedule much better with all the back and forth that I do for the kids and their various activities.

I haven't found that my eating habits are terrible being at home, mostly because we don't have bad foods in the house. I was the worst when I was actually working at the corporate head office as it was downtown and every food court, little hole in the wall restaurant and baking goods store was within a block. We would often go out for lunch every day and then out for treats again during coffee break. MY god, we would buy snacks for the office when we went clothes shopping on breaks.

So to be honest, I find working at home makes things easier for me, but firstly, we put in a few rules.

We don't bring home bad foods. This is paramount. My husband has a popcorn and chips addiction, if he brings it into the house, its HIS...he bought it, its his. that kind of mentality helps me to leave it alone.

Secondly, being at home gives me more time to work out. I am religious about working out. I do 5-6 days a week and sometimes when I'm really restless I will do 7 days.

But you have to commit yourself to these things.

The first thing I said to myself when I was offered the opportunity to work from home was "now that I don't have an hour commute to and an hour commute back from work, I will use that time to be active and be with my kids"

I have kept faithfully to that. It's important. You don't realise how exhausting that commute was until you no longer have it, and the only way I could pay it forward was to promise myself better and my kids better.

Now that I haven't been eating out as much, I find it harder to do. I had thai take out (one of my favorites) over a month ago and I was SO SICK from it as my body wasn't used to the processed aspect of it.

Hope this helps.

L

I am an audiologist and do tech support over the phone from home. So I am at my desk for 8 hours except for a 30 minute lunch and 2 15 minute breaks. Yesterday I was given the idea of working standing up. I rigged my desk so I can work standing up and am able to move around more. So far I like it and am getting lots of steps in walking around while on a call and I can still sit if I want a break from standing.

I work from home as well. I'm in IT as a tester. My trainer told me to sit on an exercise ball while at the computer. She says it'll really work my core. I haven't done it yet, mainly because I need more air in the ball. You might want to try it:)