The Devil at Work........

Look at all tasty candy!

It sits there on my desk like a siren singing to me "Desiree I have your favorite, you know you want to eat one of my many treats, just one won't be bad" Have you guessed what haunts my work day? That's right it's the dreaded candy bowl, the great conqueror of good intentions everywhere. Unfortunately the candy bowl isn't the only assailant that I face in the workplace. In fact of the three I would say that the candy bowl is the easiest of my foes to defeat.

I worked at a wonderful water resource engineering firm the owners are great about providing for us employees who often work late. In the kitchen we have a large supply of snack food. Regularly in the kitchen we will have some type of pastry, bagels, cookies, biscotti, fruit, trail mix, granola bars, yogurt, ice cream, otter pops, chips, fruit snacks, popcorn.....and the list goes on. Actually the kitchen is filled with lots of good snacks but every time I go in there I am tempted by the bad snacks. I know the "just say no” strategy doesn't work with drugs, but can it work with snack foods? Only time will tell if I can win this battle, or if this temptation will be my Waterloo.

My last assailant would be the Emperor to my Padawan Learner. It's the horde of starving co-workers who love to eat out for lunch. Okay maybe it's not a horde, and until now I think I was the leader of this horde. There is a group of four or five of us that usually go to lunch together to various restaurants and fast food joints in our area . Besides my own laziness in not packing a lunch, the main reason I became the leader of the lunch horde is one, I like getting out of the office to protect my own sanity, and second because I enjoy the company of coworker. So my strategy in defeating this cycle is one to set as a goal to bring my lunch at least three times a week and second if I do go out for lunch, to help steer the horde towards a healthier option, such as Pluto's which features a custom salad bar and if I can't then go on my own to a restaurant where I know I can get healthier food. Any suggestion or other strategy on how to survive these work related pitfalls?