Working from home can bring with it new challenges and opportunities. It’s important to build productive and effective routines early that form healthy habits.
This blog will focus on Nutritional Strategies when Working From Home.
An important thing to remind yourself of is that you are in control and to think of the things you CAN do.
Here are 4 things you can control with your nutrition:
Remember just because you may not be training the way you normally would, it isn’t a licence to forget about your nutrition.
It’s more important than ever to stay healthy with a diet focused on Protein and Plants.
Not caring about your nutrition simply because you can’t train optimally is just like spending all your money because you don’t have an income.
Both a relevant right now.
Don’t write them off.
It’s even more important to take care of your nutrition and your savings.
With working from home or being home more often, there will be new challenges and temptations.
Try to use this time to develop skills in identifying barriers, problem-solving and coming up with possible solutions to test out. That’s what we all need to do now - identify barriers, test solutions.
Being at home a lot more could lead to these barriers with these potential solutions:
Barrier: More temptation to eat being near the kitchen >
Solution: Creating a supportive environment starts with shopping. Buy foods which support you (protein & plants) and limit purchases of foods which you struggle with appropriate portions. With your indulgences, if you do have them at home, keep them out of sight.
Barrier: Less routine leading to more snacking >
Solution: Maintain your meal schedule. How many meals do you usually eat in a day? Continue your usual habits with meal frequency. Me personally, it’s 4 meals around 4 hours apart. That gives me a solid time structure with my meals and if I’m thinking about food in between meals, it’s just a time to test hunger and see that it does come and go.
Solution: Calorie-free liquids. Boredom hunger can often be quenched with a glass of water or a sugar-free soft drink/cordial.
Barrier: Overeating is easier, as there is always something else to eat. Eg. you find yourself going for seconds, adding a dessert to more meals than usual > Mindful eating - eat slowly, taste the food, try to focus on the flavours, try to notice how it makes you feel and when you start feeling full.
Solution: When you portion out your meals put all the leftovers away before you start eating. It’s tempting when the food is still warm in the kitchen to have another plate.
The next blog in this series will focus on 7 Tips to Build Healthy Habits when Working From Home.
If your circumstances, goals and schedule have changed recently, it might be time to get some more individual guidance to help support your nutritional needs. An FNC Coach can provide you with strategies that suit you and your lifestyle to help you remain in control of your nutrition and stay on track with your health and fitness goals.
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The next blog in this working from home series provides you with 7 Healthy Habits.
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