Top tips for not snacking at work!

Your workplace is often conducive to debauchery calories because you multiply the opportunities to eat a "little" something, alas, too often sweet and / or fat.

How to get rid of this bad habit that is snacking?

Anti-nibbling: change habits

The reasons for snacking at work are often the same: boredom (it happens ??), lack (you have stopped smoking), lack of time the lunch break or stress. Your obligations will not make it easy, but because of the risk of excessive consumption of sugar, fat and salt, snacking is not conducive to maintaining good nutrition and good health. Change tactics!

1. Set the collation to manage your hunger

Better to allow real small meals between meals - a snack in the morning or snack in the afternoon - that eating anarchic and continuously. First advantage: you can better control what you eat and it cuts you the envy of snacking at other times.

2. Outsmart the traps of snacking

Without banning them completely, avoid taking systematically: chocolate bars, cakes, sweets or chocolates, chips, nuts, fatty meats, sodas and other sugary drinks ... Not only do they contain large amounts of calories but few nutrients useful, do not cut hunger and are not ideal with the approach of the main meal.

3. "Nibble" malignant

If you nibble, choose as often as possible foods that have both nutritional value and make you happy. In small amounts, these are the fruits (of the season, it's cheaper and richer in taste), fruit juice (preferably "100% pure fruit juice"), compotes, dairy products (alternate yogurt, cottage cheese or cheese), cereal products (bread slice with possibly a little butter, honey, chocolate or jam, toast, breakfast cereals low in sugar), vegetables chewable (cherry tomatoes, carrots ...). Drink also useful, preferably water or a low calorie beverage, hot or cold. And in one word: Vary!

4. Be attentive to your body?

Your stomach you he feels tight? Do you have headaches? Do you feel weak? These signs are unmistakable: you are hungry. Otherwise, you probably will fish more by greed ?? ...

5. proper meals

To reduce snacking, the most radical solution is to change the composition of your main meals. Indeed, to hold until the next meal without a "ravenous", you must ingest "sustainable" energy. In this game, the best fuels are starchy foods such as:

bread (white, gray, grain and especially full)

other grain products (pasta, rice, parboiled wheat breakfast cereal rich in whole wheat ??)

potatoes and pulses (lentils, chickpeas ??).

You can eat at each meal and according to your appetite because of sugars they bring, the satiety state is maintained longer. Combine them systematically in proportion (by weight) of fruit and vegetables, thanks to the fiber they contain also satiating power and delaying the urge to eat.

6. Anti-nibbling Tip: mistaken desire to eat

Drink a large volume of liquid (low calorie) when you feel like snacking and get involved in a task that requires concentration and "asleep" ?? your stomach.