Office nutrition

cloudatlas · 02-07-2016 9:46am #1

Part of my job involves starring at a computer all day. I feel myself becoming fatigued.

What kind of snacks can i have in my drawer to give me a bit more energy. At the moment I have almonds, I drink water and coffee but still feel myself wanting to drift off.

02-07-2016 10:04am

What do you eat at lunch

pauldno1 · 02-07-2016 10:15am

Get up and walk about the place every hour or 2. Should help stop you from drifting. For healthy snacks that won't make you feeling tired try the trail mix from Wyldsson. They are an Irish company that sell online only.

ford2600 · 02-07-2016 10:56am

pauldno1 wrote: »

Get up and walk about the place every hour or 2. Should help stop you from drifting. For healthy snacks that won't make you feeling tired try the trail mix from Wyldsson. They are an Irish company that sell online only.

Move more, stand more, sit less; feel better.

http://sigmanutrition.com/episode95/

cloudatlas · 02-07-2016 11:11am

bluewolf wrote: »

What do you eat at lunch

I have a cup of coffee/tea with a sandwich varying last week I had a chicken and brown sauce brown sandwich and an apple, chocolate bar, next day Ardennes pate brown sandwhich on brown bread and an apple, chocolate bar, ploughmans white bread sandwich with a bag of crisps.

I've been getting to bed early.

I get up as much as possible to walk to the water cooler, go to the bathroom, get coffee, but I'm mainly doing stuff with the database so I don't need to 'get' stuff and am pretty much planted on my keister all day.

02-07-2016 11:25am

I figured you'd say sandwich, I used to be in a total slump after an hour if I had just a sandwich for lunch, or that and crisps
Would you try as an experiment eating some more protein like a tin of tuna and some rice & veg at lunch and see if it helps the slump. Try cut out the chocolate bar as well or at least save it for mid afternoon if you really want one

Blacktie. · 02-07-2016 12:17pm

pauldno1 wrote:

Get up and walk about the place every hour or 2. Should help stop you from drifting. For healthy snacks that won't make you feeling tired try the trail mix from Wyldsson. They are an Irish company that sell online only.

They do great bar mixes and yoghurt and porridge toppings.

cloudatlas · 03-07-2016 8:27am

pauldno1 wrote: »

Get up and walk about the place every hour or 2. Should help stop you from drifting. For healthy snacks that won't make you feeling tired try the trail mix from Wyldsson. They are an Irish company that sell online only.

How is that trail mix different from what I might get in say Aldi other than it has some fancy tropical dried fruits?

Alf Veedersane · 03-07-2016 9:03am

The issue is probably more related to the food you ate eating than the snacks you're not eating, like bluewolf said

ford2600 · 03-07-2016 9:37am

In the western world, we are slaves to always having to eat, looking for superfoods, supplements and the like.

By cutting stuff out, your body adapts and gets stronger/more adaptable. We have a whole load of hardware and software just waiting to be fired up.

About once a week on average my work is very mentally demanding, where I need to be very sharp and answers question from very smart people. I do that best when completely fasted; whether it's at 10am or 3pm.

Start your day with breakfast cereal and toast, scones at 11 and a sandwich for 11 will have you a slave to your appetite. Porridge/eggs and the like (or nothing at all) will probably have you in better shape and on a more even keel for the day.

More on the same topic here
http://optimumnutrition4sport.co.uk/2016/02/18/the-power-of-subtraction/

pauldno1 · 03-07-2016 6:43pm

cloudatlas wrote: »

How is that trail mix different from what I might get in say Aldi other than it has some fancy tropical dried fruits?

Most other trail mixes will load the dried fruit with extra sugar giving you a higher blood glucose spike after eating them. They are also a lot more interesting than other trail mixes out there with really interesting fruits. I got sick of aldi trail mixes pretty quickly.

Spanish Eyes · 03-07-2016 6:47pm

Porridge or eggs for breakfast, then a bit of fruit at break time.

Protein and salad at lunch. I found that carbs at lunchtime make you fall asleep in the afternoon.

Try to get out of the den for even ten fifteen minutes in the fresh air, it really helps.

Juice and water all day long. The odd coffee/tea aswell, but not all day.

Then you can have what you like when you get home. Worked for me after many a trial and error.

Mellor · 03-07-2016 10:51pm

pauldno1 wrote: »

Most other trail mixes will load the dried fruit with extra sugar giving you a higher blood glucose spike after eating them.

I've never seen added sugar loaded into in a trail. There's usually plenty from the fruit. Do you have an example?

Office nutrition

Comments