Office lunches and boardroom snack platters-I just can't say no!
People tell me that they try to practice better nutrition, but work lunches and social gatherings sabotage their efforts.
If you allow it, every occasion can become an exception. It's up to you to decide how much you want to attain your goal, but it's imperative that you stop making excuses for not hitting your mark.
People tell me that they try to practice better nutrition, but work lunches and social gatherings sabotage their efforts.
If you allow it, every occasion can become an exception. It's up to you to decide how much you want to attain your goal, but it's imperative that you stop making excuses for not hitting your mark.
Unless you build a fairly rigid system that doesn't permit for all these exceptions for straying from your proper nutrition, you'll never set the limit that determines when enough is enough. Exceptions need to be predetermined by you, on your conditions, and the conditions of those exceptions need to be crystal clear in your mind and in your behaviour.
Society is set up in a way that stacks the odds against you. Food is everywhere, and your colleagues have no clue as to what a healthy choice is. Pizza lunches and croissant platters at meetings are an absolute slap in the face to people who care about their nutrition.
Further, people really don't pay as much attention to you as you think. Sure, in the company of those who don't take care of themselves, you integrate a little better if you do likewise, but to this I ask you, "Do you really want other people and their habits to determine your actions"?
It's time to start getting more affirmative with your goals, but if the group pressure is too much for you; you're going to have to accept that it's your weakness that's at fault and stop blaming circumstances and others.
When you see fit and healthy people, remember that they've attained their goal because they overcome temptation regularly. It never really gets easy; they just feel that living with the pleasure of actualizing their goal is so precious that it can withstand a little peer pressure at the company luncheon.
Society is set up in a way that stacks the odds against you. Food is everywhere, and your colleagues have no clue as to what a healthy choice is. Pizza lunches and croissant platters at meetings are an absolute slap in the face to people who care about their nutrition.
Further, people really don't pay as much attention to you as you think. Sure, in the company of those who don't take care of themselves, you integrate a little better if you do likewise, but to this I ask you, "Do you really want other people and their habits to determine your actions"?
It's time to start getting more affirmative with your goals, but if the group pressure is too much for you; you're going to have to accept that it's your weakness that's at fault and stop blaming circumstances and others.
When you see fit and healthy people, remember that they've attained their goal because they overcome temptation regularly. It never really gets easy; they just feel that living with the pleasure of actualizing their goal is so precious that it can withstand a little peer pressure at the company luncheon.
So true!
People bringing doughnuts into the office and the damn bake sales used to really upset my dieting plans. Once I started to train hard, it was like to hell with all that! Now I give my donation but pass on the sweet table. I think it’s all just excuses when people blame the occasions like parties and office lunches. You’re free to bring your own lunch on those days and just have something light in the restaurant. People couldn’t give a damn what someone else has to eat! If that’s the case that they really do take notice of what we do, why don’t we choose to set a good example.