Everyone knows that work can be a dangerous place if you’re on a diet.  Margaret Lewin, M.D., the medical director of Cinergy Health, explains that work is the perfect environment for gaining weight.  There is always another brownie to take, a bagel to eat, or other refined carbohydrates to enjoy.

Cinergy Health Diet Tips

Dr. Lewin recommends snacking on small bits of food throughout the day to curb your appetite and to avoid all of these carbohydrates.  Interestingly, in a study she says that people who ate the same amount of calories in a day had different results depending on how they ate them. If they ate all of their calories in one meal, they gained weight; while, if they ate 16 tiny meals throughout the day, they actually lost weight.

Snacking OK Says Cinergy Health

This Cinergy Health expert recommends bringing cut up vegetables and salsa to work.  She says that snacking is fine as long as you’re snacking on healthy foods.

Cinergy Health: Be Inefficient!

She also recommends being less efficient with our work and our time.  Take the stairs rather than the elevator; go over to your boss to discuss an issue rather than emailing or calling.  As Dr. Lewin says, “We have to learn to drift off the weight the same way we let it drift on,” she said.