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| I have to eat at my desk a lot too, and the 100 Calorie Balance Bars and south beach Diet Bars are great. If you want something unprocessed, I think pistachios and smoked almonds are deliocious, and of course all the veggies everyone else mentioned (cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and some hummus if you can keep it clean).
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CBMOMMA2000
1/31/07 5:00 P
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| Packing snacks in your car are a great way to grab a bit on the way home. I put healthy crackers, apples and other travable foods for me and the kids. I works to tide us over till we get home on busy days
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| I've found that eating every 2 or 3 hours once I've started works great. I bring a Kashi granola bar, banana, & yogurt to work for breakfast/AM snacks. I go home for lunch (usually sandwich w/chips or salad w/soup). I bring (when I remember) an apple and a piece of string cheese for a PM snack. Except that I forgot mine today and I'm starving. I'm here to keep me away from the vending machine for the last hour until I get to go home! Carrot sticks and/or celery w/PB also work really well.
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bananas do it for me. mid range glycaemic index and com ein their own packaging.
I often have mine actually on the drive to work as it is easy to pick up andput down during rush hour stops and starts.
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I have been eating two packages of oatmeal each morning with a bottle of water (not a coffee drinker). Then for lunch I eat a frozen meal or sandwich with baked chips. For dinner I usually eat what ever calorie I have left usually somewhere between 500-700 calories. Today I was off work and decided to make an omlete. I used 1 egg and 1/2 cup of egg beaters for a total of 180 calories. I added 1/4 cup each of onion and green peppers and added salsa (2 tbsp) once it was all done. I used only one piece of bread and had a total of 276 for the omlete and bread. My oatmeal is 270 so you can eat different things and still not eat a lot of calories.
Try it and let me know what you think.
Jenn
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DIETEKOCGIRL
1/30/07 10:01 P
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Well .. I always use to skip breakfast basicly .. cause I am just not hungry in the morning .. so, I started to bring 2 cups of honey nut cheerios to work that Ive been eatting at my desk .. and I took some of your suggestions, and have been bringing either a sandwhich or an apple and a 100 calorie pack to eat on the bus ... which seems to curb my hunger till I get home on the bus from work. (I have a 45 minute bus ride) .. I also took some advice of some other posters on another topic and batch cooked some meals in tinfoil so I have some ready made dinners for when I get home that are healthy, and I can just nuke 'em ..
Eventually I'll be exercising at night again .. but for now, during the day I just use my breaks to go for a power walk .. I end up getting around 20-25 minutes of cardio a day in addition to whatever normal walking I do throughout the course of the day. It's not much, but it seems to have helped some.
Thanks for the advice.
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Given your schedule I would try and eat a hearty breakfast... something with protein in it, maybe to keep you full longer. And I agree with the snacks. THere are lots of good options from fruit or carrots to trailmix in moderation or low fat cheese sticks. I would seriously aim for eating 1000 calories before dinner.
That said, sparks says that the key is not when you eat the calories but the amount of calories. And the other question is exercise. With your schedule are you getting exercise? That is an important key to healthy living.
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| i would suggest packing things so you can have something more nutrient rich than cereal. fruit, carrot sticks. i would even pack something to eat on the way home like a wrap or sandwich and have the last 200 calories or so as a snack when you get home. it may seem time consuming to prepare, but once you get used to it it will help you feel like your blood sugar levels are more stable throughout the day
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DIETEKOCGIRL
1/29/07 12:44 A
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I need some advice .. according to my goals, I need to consume between Consume between 1460 and 1810 calories per day -- I can't really eat much at my desk, just dry cereal, etc because I am on the phone all day. What I bring for lunch, usually fills me up, but tends to hover around 500 calories or therabouts.
I have to eat lunch @ 1:30 every day, and I don't get home till about 7:30 pm. Which is the first chance I get to actually eat dinner. When I come home, I am usually starving, and I eat when I get home .. but I end up eatting the bulk of the calories I am suppose to eat during the day, at night.
Which seems counter productive to lose weight.. any suggestions on how to add more calories to the morning/lunch, so I am not eatting nearly 1,000 calories at night?
And can I still lose weight, if I eat this many calories at night?
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