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COOKING TO EAT MORE SANELY

Friday, October 21st, 2011

            Yes, it would be great to adopt all those habits that lead to better weight loss and health.  But here’s one to tackle that you might underestimate in your search for diet solutions.  Simply put:  Cook more often.

Cooking can check weight and improve health even if you’re no expert low-cal chef.   When we cook at home, we can avoid the added salt, sugar, and fats contained in take-out, fast-food, or restaurant fare.  We can control portions better.  We can up the vegetables, shrink the starches, make more of those foods we don’t gorge on.  We can make extras for dinner to bring for lunch and thereby avoid the cafeteria.   We can get used to, and develop preferences for, real fresh foods that are good for us and our waistlines.

Two myths can stand in the way of our cooking more, however: (more…)

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EATING SANELY AT WORK

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

For many of us, going to work means structure and routine and therefore easier sane eating. However, this is often not true in the month of December—when it can seem like everyone feels obliged to bring cookies, candy, their famous holiday torte, their gift tins of chocolate and sugared nuts. Then there’s also the holiday lunch buffet, and maybe the after-hours office party, too.

Some of this is fun, but some of it indeed feels obligatory. And the hard-to-resist food really adds up. While an occasional treat is fine, daily platefuls can throw eating and weight off track for weeks or even months to come. I know that many do worry about all those cookies, and try to resist, but not always successfully.

To minimize the pull of those treats, talk to coworkers who you know share your healthy eating goals, or a desire to keep weight off. Maybe you can create some solutions together. Maybe you can suggest limits on how much or how many days a week treats come to work. Maybe you can ask people to keep their goodies at home, or at least out of common view. Or maybe you can simply support each other in keeping to your own limits.

Here are some other ideas: (more…)

Tags: Habit Changes, managing weight at work
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