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Avoid Weight Gain at Work
 Lose that extra poundage you got at work! Dieting alone will not
make your love handles go away. Learn how to make realistic choices
involving daily activity, food and friends to get rid of the bulge.
It is the common plight of office workers – extra poundage! More
jobs are getting more convenient, which often equates to a
sedentary lifestyle. How do we prevent the bulge from taking over
our wardrobe, our activities, and our relationships? Here’s a food,
activity and relationship guide to getting rid of the bulge.
Don’t Skip Breakfast. This is the most important meal. It’s
where you pull your energy from for the rest of the day. A heavy
lunch will make you sluggish in the afternoon and a heavy dinner is
guaranteed to be the bulge of the next couple of months. Eat a
hearty, healthy breakfast of fruits (fiber), and some carbs like
bread or oatmeal (carbs are your source of energy).
Avoid Processed Food
These include canned and preserved
stuff. These have been linked to high blood pressure (too much salt
in it too) and worse, to Cancer. Try to eat organic as much as you
can, but be wary of the pesticides that the farmers might have
sprayed your lettuce.
Don’t eat because you’re bored
Work in some industries can
be boring at times; some of us actually turn to food to get past
it. While potato chips are tasty, they’re also salty. Salt makes
you retain water and you look bloated up. Edema, the term for holding too much water in
your body, can predispose you to high blood pressure.
There is a never-ending debate whether or not salt is good or bad.
But surely the moderate amount is the right amount of salt.
Drinking water at all times will flush out salts and give your
body a signal that it need not retain water hence, giving you a
non puffed face.
Diet right
If you absolutely need to diet for a cocktail
next week, then by all the means, diet! Just do it right. Do not
starve yourself. Once famished, you can turn the canapé table over,
and gulp tons of margaritas, which can by the way hold up to 400 calories in one glass. Nutritionists say it is best to eat
something every two hours, in small portions, of course.
Stretch
Being limber is one of the greatest feelings
stretching can do. You lose your muscle knots and you lose the
tension on your back.
Get moving!
Garfield said about activity, “The mind is
willing, but the flesh is fat.” Ever felt too sluggish to move
around? If you need a little coffee to perk you up, then drink some
coffee. Put on some house music too if that will get you up to do a
little stretching. Try to include it in your routine when you wake
up and every time you get a chance at work. You’ll notice you feel more active the rest of the day.
Get a treadmill
You wouldn’t want a rainy day to ruin your
jogging mornings, would you? Getting a treadmill cements your
resolve to be active, bad weather or not. Make sure to put it right
on your living so you don't forget to do your daily clicks.
Lift Weights
Keep a pair of weights (or empty bottles you can fill with water
and use) in your office desk and lift weights whenever you get a
chance to. With a firm back position, you will workout your arms
sitting right in your office chair.
Pull your peers in
It is easier to start a regimen if you
got social back up. That is one of the reasons you would want them
in on it. You will need encouragement once you start feeling
deprived.
Second reason is they’re probably running into the same bulge
problem like you. You could benefit from each other by throwing in
ideas to cooking healthy recipes, by working out together and by
looking out for each other’s diet.
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