3 Tips Towards Healthy Work Lunches

Many of us who work white-collar office jobs spend a lot of time just sitting around, whether it’s in front of the computer or in meetings or boardrooms. This sedentary lifestyle isn’t good and means we have to work harder to stay healthy. This health is achieved both through diet and exercise, and while exercise is difficult to do during the workday, maintaining healthy and good eating habits isn’t. Here are a few tips that can help towards keeping your daytime meals healthy and nutritious.

Keep It Simple

If you have to make time in the morning before leaving for the office to assemble or prepare a complex lunch, there’s a better chance you’re going to skip the prep and opt instead to buy something quick and easy from the corner café or a fast-food restaurant.

Instead, keep your work lunches simple by making a wholesome sandwich on rye or grain bread with a nutritious filling balanced between carbs and protein. Better yet why not spend a couple of hours on a weekend preparing a few meals and dividing them into portions and putting into containers and freezing them, so all you need to do is grab something from the freezer and head out the door? You’ll have no excuse then. Even if you don’t prep lunch at home, consider keeping something at work.

Keep Something at Work

There are plenty of shelf-stable options or even canned foods you can keep a stock of in your office or work kitchen for the days you forget to pack a lunch or run out of time. It’ll remove the temptation to buy a buttery and fatty pastry, and it is actually more convenient.

Even better, if you want to shed a bit of weight, then why not keep a supply of meal replacement shakes for your lunch at work? Shake That Weight provide shakes for your weight loss journey that are low calorie and contain more than 20 vitamins and minerals. In addition, their shakes come in a range of really great tasting flavours.

Avoid Delivered Fast Food

Fast food delivery apps have made getting hold of our favourite junk food a click or tap away at any time, and while this is very convenient, it doesn’t exactly do a lot of good for our waistline or our wallet. Avoid the temptation by making sure there are healthy options available to you all the time. If you don’t have a fridge or microwave in the office, it might be a good idea to think about requesting one from management so you can store and heat food whenever you want to. We’re creatures of convenience at heart, so you’re more likely to eat something on hand than seek something out.

A balanced diet is more difficult now than it ever was in the past, as a lot of what we eat and products we put into our meals are processed and high in hidden sugars and salt, but if you keep yourself aware of what you eat, it’s not difficult at all!