What do you associate “holidays” with? Fun, lie-ins, travelling, new places … and good food, along with some inevitable weight-gain. Perhaps you don’t mind putting on a couple of pounds for the sake of really enjoying yourself … but what if your colleagues’ holidays are making you fat?
A couple of my workmates have already been […]

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(This is the second post in the Dieting Basics series.)
What are fats?
Fats, like carbohydrates, provide energy – in fact, they’re an even more concentrated source of energy (containing 9 calories per gram.) They’re made up of fatty acids (chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), and just as with carbohydrates, the length of the chain varies […]

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I had one of those days today; slept badly, felt a bit grotty, struggled into the office anyway. And of course it’s days like that when the boss seems to be chasing up every little thing, including emails that somehow slipped my mind a week ago (oops).
Suffice to say that by lunchtime, I was feeling […]

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What are carbohydrates?
We need glucose for energy, and carbohydrates are the easiest nutrient for our bodies break down into glucose. They also contain fewer calories than protein and fat, weight for weight (3.75 calories per gram.)
There are two main types of carbohydrates:
Simple carbohydrates or Sugar (the “bad carbs”)
These are sometimes called “simple sugars” or “refined […]

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Since it’s a bank holiday weekend, there won’t be another post on The Office Diet till Tuesday. So here’s a few great posts elsewhere which I’ve enjoyed reading during the past week:

From The Ririan Project

For everyone who’s got kids, was once a kid, or is still a big kid at heart (I know I am), […]

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Here’s five things you can keep telling yourself throughout the day, when you’re getting to a sticky-point at work. I call them the “I’ll just…” tricks.

“I’ll just finish replying to these emails before I get a cookie.”
Waiting twenty minutes outlasts the craving – you’ll be able to resist that cookie without much effort. And if […]

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