I realize this is a ridiculous problem to have, and I feel silly to write it. But I’d like to hear if anyone has come across a similar issue.
I have always worked out of a home office (IT telework), and that was a major stumbling block to my weight, as it became habit to just eat and eat, to make time pass and make difficult or tedious work more palatable. Finally got fed up with being overweight, and feeling shit and helpless about binge eating, so I tackled both of those things. Stopped buying as much fast food and junk food, started cooking more together at home, started using Lose It! the app, all that good stuff. (officially lost 55 lb to date!)
But the compulsive eating while “at work” is the last thing left to tackle, because it’s literally affecting my work performance and productivity. It sounds terrible, but when I’m not eating, I get easily distracted from the task at hand and unmotivated to get anything done. I have successfully worked around/worked with this to lose weight by substituting foods (roasted vegetables instead of potato chips, Greek yogurt instead of ice cream, and yes, I’ve tried having coffee or other drinks, but it doesn’t help as much). But, I still often go over my calorie amount, and I feel like I’m just prolonging the habit by continuing to indulge it, so that sometimes when I’m under extra stress or a deadline, I break and go back to bingeing on high calorie snacks again, to get me through it.
When I don’t have any food in the house to eat but a craving or urge hits, I just blank. Can’t think. Can’t concentrate. Some of my work is creative, and that’s the worst because I just cannot make any headway. I end up taking long or frequent breaks from work in order to avoid eating, for the sake of sticking to my calories for the day and not eating myself into a coma, because that sucks. And I can do to a point since I am self-paced, but obviously I can’t avoid work forever, and it causes time conflicts with other things going on, stress getting behind schedule, so on and so on... I end up losing weight over the holidays (ironically) and do fine on weekends, but then weekdays, it offsets everything.
Sorry for the novel. If anyone got through all that - short of quitting my job, any suggestions I haven’t tried to figure out how to stay focused and productive at work WITHOUT using food? If some people struggle with emotional eating, I struggle with productivity/motivational eating. Please help!
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