The Original
Desk Job Diet
Meeting the Weight Loss Challenges of Life at a Desk
By Scott Draffin M.Sc.
Table of Contents
Meeting the Weight Loss Challenges of Life at a Desk 1
Understanding Energy and Calories 7
The First Law Of Thermodynamics- The Hard And Fast Diet Rule 8
Understanding Cave Man Syndrome vs Modern Day Living. A Question of Energy. 9
The Brain (the thing that tells you to eat stuff!) 11
Requirements for modern living 14
We need to be alert for at least 8 hours a day 14
Meal organisation how our body is evolved to eat and how we should eat. 16
Your stomach needs attention too. 20
A List of VERY Useful Daily Diet Tips 26
The Need for an Eating Schedule 31
Biological triggers and internal alarm bells 32
I Don't Need That...But I Want It! 40
Strategies for Healthy Workplace Eating 41
Better Routines for Great Results 43
Top Foods with a "Low" to "Moderate" Glycemic Index 43
Introduction
It is Tuesday afternoon of a typical work week, and you have just told yourself that you will "make up" for your late lunch of takeout food and soda by doing a bit more at the gym. The problem is that you're never sure when you'll get to the gym AND it is only the second day of the week, but you're already slipping into bad eating habits.
This isn't an unusual problem. Whether you call yourself a white collar worker, desk jockey, or office personnel doesn't matter; what DOES matter is that you probably face a lot of difficulties in weight control because you tend to sacrifice your waistline to your work life.