Ok this is a place for us office workers to exchange tips.

I work here 7am - 5pm 5 days a week and i travel about 11 weeks of the year from Oct to April on and off.

Right now in our lunch room there are Haloween Cookies and im avoiding it like crazy!

I can share some of my office eating habits and a few tips.

Ok here is the first. I keep a 12LB dumbbell in my cubie and when im talking on my hands free cordless phone i just curl away. I wonder what the guy on the other end of the phone would think!

Yeah, I had forgotten all about the chocolate calcium chews. They are yummy! I'll have to get some. I do notice since being banded that my sweet craving has dwendled just a bit. I have found those weight watchers carrot cake snack cakesare awsome, I reward myself with those. The carrot cake is the best, the chocolate ones are not that great to curb my sweet cravings cause they taste like diet chocolate, but the carrot cake ones do the trick.

I've found the best hunger curbers are boiled eggs and pickled gherkins. I always keep gherkins in my drawer and they're low-calorie!

I have trouble eating Breakfast first thing in the morning but I find a couple of boiled eggs just as I'm about to sit down to work will keep me going right up until lunch usually!

I am so glad that somebody else thinks these things are almost as good as candy. Right now I can control myself with just 1, but I sure do hope that one day I don't binge on calcium chews and overdose.

My box says up to three per day!!! I usually have one but if I have a cup of tea or coffee and everyone else is having something yummy....I have one of those!

I love those chews...but........the fact that it says made by a woman for a woman on the box really wants to make me stop eating them! I think this is such bad adverstising....i keep thinking im going to grow breasts if i eat them......wait....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I love the Playdo. I have a small radio control helicopter at my desk to keep me entertained.

Whsyadaddy - I want your job! You can curl, you can play w/radio controlled toys!!!

I'm sooo jealous!

Its because i work tech phone surrports and i know the product so well i can do anything while im on my hands free headset.

But thanks Im just a big kid.

I also do Tech support. I play with playdough and I have other toys that I twirl when I get irritated with a caller.

My office constantly has food in it. We have vendors that drop off donuts, boxes of muffins, coffee, scones, and pastries on a regular basis. Halloween is coming up so now they are dropping off CANDY. At Christmas we get regular shipments from Harry & David, someone even got a smoked turkey. THERE IS ALWAYS FOOD IN MY OFFICE.

We have FOOD DAYS. There's one next Monday. It's a fundraiser, so I can't really be too upset by it, but there will be tables UPON tables of food, hot food, cold food, Desserts, a regular smorgasboard.

We also have a "snack shack" that they run to raise money. Luckily they stock it with those 100 calorie packs and other "figure friendly" Snacks, but it's tough walking by the open display of SNICKERS and MILKY WAYS and SWEDISH FISH (my fave).

I keep healthy snacks at my desk and I always have a huge container of Water on my desk. So far, so good....I'm keeping my fingers crossed I can make it through the holiday season! :faint:

What - in heaven and on earth - is a Swedish Fish?

Swedish Fish: Chewy candy shaped like fish, no fat, but mostly sugar, with a good unique taste.

My office mates so far, are going to be very helpful to me when the surgery rolls around and have promised no candy or treats near me. I have no willpower, so if I see it, I will eat it.

Wow thanks for being honest Chrisann.

Ok here is a new one. As i have to be out the door at 4.30am to make it to the Y and then be at work at 7am i dont eat Breakfast at home.

I found i can buy egg beaters (SouthWest is my fav) and heat them up in the microwave at work for a really good protien breakfast. All the Protein and none of the junk in eggs.

When i get bored of that i heat up some oatmeal.

Imagine, I had my surgery last Tuesday - didn't tell anyone at work what was going on. My birthday was Sunday and on Monday (first day back to work) they have a big CIDER AND DONUTS (donuts are my second biggest weakness) party for me !!

Most of them knew I had had some kind of surgery, so I was able to say that I just didn't have my appetite back yet and thanked them as they all ate my birthday party goodies.

I could say I'm proud of myself - but 6 days after surgery even a nibble of a donut would have been a bad choice for me. I suppose I could have had the cider, but I'm not a cider lover, plus I didn't want to risk the ""digestive"" results of drinking cider.

I'm feeling quite safe with my ProtiDiet drinks, carnation instant breakfasts, Soups and Water. Why mess with it when I'm feeling pretty good so far. We'll see what happens after Friday when I think my Dr will put me on 'soft foods'. Can you really put a cheeseburger in a blender? :mad:

I have three candy jars in my office - and a pretzel jar. I'm not tempted by the candy - never have been a chocolate nut. The pretzels looked good to me yesterday - but I knew that was a no no too.

O they have Haloween cup cakes in the office today. Sticking to my Egg beaters!

Just take a piece or two of candy from the bowls at work and drop them in the trash! It will help them to disappear faster! LOL

Another benefit to this method, is that if the person(s) bringing the goodies SEE you do it, they're a lot less likely to bring more.... :heh:

I have a funny story to tell. I am a sweetaholic, if sweets did not exist I would be thin. Well anyways, I have been under tons of stress and not making good food choices. Well, here I am now 20 lbs heavier and feel like crap. (going to get fill in two weeks, way overdue). I've been complaining about how much I've gained, yada yada... always bitching about it to my friends.. Anyways, we have two ladies that bring in goodies to the office and yesterday, one of them brought me some carrot cake (my favorite thing in the world). Well, I was late getting to work and on my desk was an emply plate with evidence that there had been cake there. On the lip of the plate was a sticky from my best friend. It read: "I stopped by to see you, and you weren't in.. saw your cake.. ate it.. It was for your own good". I thougt it was very considerate of her to sacrifice herself for me that way.. yeah, right.. But she was right, if she had not eaten the cake I would have eaten it up.. Well, thought I'd share.