Fighting hunger during work

[haroman666]

So i've just started a new job, two months ago, and it's office based.

Previously I have worked as a mechanic, warehouse operative, building labourer and a couple of other similarly active jobs. I wouldn't hesitate eating anything and everything my body called out for throughout the day as I knew if I didn't I would become a quivering mess, unable to lift more than 20kg.

Now i'm sat at a computer i'm quite aware that feeding the same feeling of hunger with the same amount will end up with me buying a mobility scooter and asking my employer to widen the doorways for my access.

Breakfast I eat 3 weetabix with enough milk to cover all biscuits.
Lunch I normally buy a loaf of bread, pack of ham, bag of salad and a bottle of Mayo. (Sometimes i'll switch and swap with ingredients). I will generally work my way through over a 3rd of the loaf of bread. About 5 sandwiches total.

Between Breakfast and Lunch I'm currently eating an entire 200g bag of plain mixed nuts and 3 - 6 bananas depending on how much work I have.


So I'd like some suggestions on how I can healthily, economically and effectively fight this hunger on a day-to-day basis...
What do you guys eat?
How do you surpress hunger?

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[recman]

Sausage and egg McMuffin sorts me out.

[DRZ4Hunned]

I'm the opposite, have to force my lunch down or I'll get drowsy in the afternoon.

Maybe stop eating as much and your body will get used to it and the hunger cravings will go?
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[barrkel]

I've had desk jobs all my life, being a programmer etc.

I have a coffee for breakfast and nothing else until lunch at noon. I have a small meal - it varies, it's street food from Leather Lane or Exmouth Market in London - typically enough to cover a normal dinner plate but not heaped.

More coffee follows at 2pm, then nothing until 8pm, whereupon I have a second small meal, about the same size as lunch.

And that's it. Generally no snacks, not even a biscuit.

FWIW, I weigh about 60kg.

I've found that hunger is mostly a matter of acclimatisation. Your body gets used to a schedule; if I'm even 20 minutes late to lunch, I'll start to get a headache. My body expects food at that time.

It's up to you to set the schedule. You'll get used to it.
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Download Myfitnesspal or similar, just to track your intake.

You'll soon realise just how much shite you do eat.

I started 4 weeks or so ago, lost 4kg up to now just keeping an eye on what I eat. I have changed my habits though, from ready meals and rubbish, now I have porridge in a morning with raisins, dinner at 1pm consisting of a side salad (the ones which apparently 2 people split) with my own choice of protein (chickenc with some kind of dressing to liven it up or tuna mayo), along with a protein drink. Tea can be anything but i monitor. Only once since I started have I had the munchies where you gorge on loads of shit, and although I feel hungry at dinner, I find the salad and drink stave it off. I'm on a slight deficit on calorie intake, but rather than stick to mfp guidelines on protein /carb /fat intake, i focus on making sure I get my protein or close to it, with deficit on carbs in the main.

Still eat McDonald's and rubbish now and again. Oh, and one day i did the American platter from hungry horse. 2000+ calories and all my carbs, protein and fat done in one meal.
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[grr666]

Stomach will shrink after a short while and you'll stop feeling hungry. You just need to endure feeling hungry for a bit,
it won't kill you. I was the same when I was on the tools a lot more, but one thing is for sure you can't carry on like that.
So much carbs. Get a book on nutrition and stop eating out of convenience stores. Instead get up earlier and make a salad
box with some chicken breast at home instead of eating all that bread.
Your poo will slip out like a greased otter too if you increase veg intake. I make my wife a smoothie for her lunch each day.

And if she needs a bit more she'll buy a pack of turkey or chicken to eat but with NO BREAD.
If you are desk based all day, honestly you don't need to eat much more than that.
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[MaybeGuy]

order some modafinil. You'll be focused as fuck, wide awake, and won't even feel like eating
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[andyscooter]

I cant eat til about ten anyway so breakfast is a cup of tea

then another when I get to work

then another at ten o clock with half a sarnie from my lunch

lunch is another cup of tea and the other half sarnie, crisps , and a chocolate bar
3 oclock its another cuppa and a doughnut or something

then for tea I will have a balanced nice meal (steak and chips or fish or something)

then I will eat crap at night my worst habit is chees and biscuits at about half ten and then go to bed at 11
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[Rogerborg]

Take the fight to the enemy, punch yourself in the stomach.

Stop buying so much food. You can't eat what you don't have.
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[faffergotgunz]

Feck me! I'd say for starters cut it down to a bag of nuts and one banana, one sandwich.

How much do you weigh, and height? Are you a fat bastard or a muscly one?
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[Dennis_B]

I've lost 2 stone in weight, stop snacking.

Breakfast 3 weetabix with skimmed milk

Lunch whole tin of oxtail or tomato soup (not cream of) with 2 slices of brown bread.

Dinner 1 boneless skinless chicken breast cooked in the oven, 1 medium jacket potato and a small tin of sweetcorn.

During the day if I get hunger pangs I have a salt and vinegar snackajack and a 38 calorie chocolate drink (cadbury options).

As mentioned, your stomach shrinks. After 10 days it gets used to not being used as a garbage bin.

[Loui5D]

You're eating for the sake of eating, I do it all the time.
It's basically a distraction from doing work for a small amount of time.

[Baffler186]

I don't eat breakfast anymore. I find if I do, I'm starving by 10am, but if I skip breakfast I can survive until 12.

I don't eat carbs for lunch, they make me tired. I find keeping a tub of strawberries or grapes to snack on is enough to prevent me from vending 8 chocolate bars from the machine.

I've also tried eating 4 x fist-sized meals throughout the day. Once you start doing this, you'll no longer be stretching your stomach and the hunger should decrease.

e-cigging also helped me but I don't advise getting hooked on nicotine if you don't smoke already.
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[Fin]

Try drinking a lot when you are hungry or getting busy and forget about being hungry.

I'm never actually hungry, I might want some food after watching some cooking video or seeing a nice picture but I always eat because I should do. I'm aiming to get to 80kg or 85kg then lean out but I'm not trying that hard and have being 'trying' for a few months.

[ScaredyCat]

Stop eating all those bananas for a start.
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start doing drugs (if you aren't doing so already).. that will ensure you have money only for just enough food to survive and the drug use will keep you nice n slim

[haroman666]

Thanks for all the replies!

I guess i'll lower my amount day by day, and swap out the bread for something less "empty".

I'm 6' 1/2" tall and my weight fluctuates between 70 - 75kg depending on whether the belly's full, what scales i'm using etc etc. Call it 73kg average.

I go to the gym roughly 3 times a week and when i'm not at the gym i'm riding mountain bikes, or motorbikes or generally something active.

Dinners for me are generally full meals too:
Spag Bol, Meat and potatoes with veg, curry, pasta bake, Stir Fry etc etc.
I generally always cook from fresh, but occasionally cheat with curry sauces and stir fry sauces.
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[stinkwheel]

Mrs stinkwheel has graze boxes delivered which are basically designed to snack out of all day instead of having a formal meal. Costs a fair bit too so she feels obliged to eat it all and not cheat.

https://www.graze.com/uk

Her work has a sweetie box and she can't keep her hands out of it otherwise.

Fruit for breakfast is another good one.

My problem is that I have no self respect and can't walk past the delicious salty, fatty, pork-based pastry goods our local butcher sells out of the filling station I drive past four or five times a day.
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[c_dug]

I've struggled with the same, though it seems I'm about a year further along than you!

A year ago I was a technician walking a minimum of 8000 steps a day, lots of lifting, carrying, pulling etc... Then around 9 months ago I took a promotion to technical supervisor, supposedly still spending a large portion of my day doing hands on work. Over the last six months the job has become more and more managerial. I now spend about 80-90% of my time at a desk or meetings.

The change in routine has had a noticeable impact on my size. I'm naturally reasonably built - I've always been broad across the shoulders, but at a shade under 17 stone and 5'11, I'm looking a bit more rotund than ideal!
I've put on around a stone since the change in job, but more importantly than the figure on the scales, my body shape has changed quite a lot. I'm getting a bit of a buddha belly and moobs!

I've gotten very close to the stage where my stomach touches my thighs when sitting at my desk with my feet flat on the floor, knees and hips at 90 degrees. That was the "oh fuck" point for me. I'm not a completely blob like heifer, but exercise is noticeably less comfortable now.

For me the realisation of future medical issues was the kicker, if I carry on at the same rate, diabetes is a serious possibility - including a practically permanent prescription of medication! Heart disease and various other weight related problems are also high up the list.

Convincing my body that I no longer need four wheetbix for breakfast is easier said than done! It's definitely mind over matter, but having been able to eat what I wanted for a good few years, breaking the habit is difficult.

As I mentioned at the start, I'm about a year further down the line than you. The issue is that day to day you won't notice the difference, even month by month. But about six months down the line you'll look at a photo from a different angle and think Jeeze!

So, do something now - it only gets harder!
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[techathy]

I get graze pure boxes, they're coming in at 550-650 calories for a set of 4 punnets, which is 1/3 to 1/5th of an average person's daily calorie intake.