{"id":1910,"date":"2014-11-19T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/ask-will-no-time-to-eat-at-work.html"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:18:48","slug":"ask-will-no-time-to-eat-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1910","title":{"rendered":"Ask Will: No Time To Eat At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Will<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
I have no time to eat. No time. Like No.Time.To.Eat! <\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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What do I do??<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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Respectfully,<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
No Time Is My Present<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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Dear No Time, <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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Wouldn\u2019t it be great if we lived in a place where we had 2 \u00bd hours to eat our lunch? Wouldn\u2019t it be awesome if our happy world allowed us the freedom to sit down, fluff our napkin, and taste food with our pinky knowingly extended? <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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However, welcome to Earth. I know there are people on this planet who have that kind of world, but that may not be the place where we live. If not, you have to tuck your pinky back in and manage what it\u2019s like to have less than no time to eat. Negative time. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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The first thing to do is to make sure that your schedule doesn\u2019t dictate your eating behaviors. If you don’t, and you find that you have 90 seconds to eat 20 minutes worth of food, you\u2019ll end up gobbling your meal with anaconda bites, unhinging your jaws to inhale the entire carnitas burrito or whatever. <\/span><\/div>\n

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The short term consequence of this behavior is overeating, with too many calories, and therefore something that frustrates your weight loss efforts. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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The long term problem with doing your best anaconda impersonation is that it trains your physiology to expect more food more often, leading to more overconsumption more of the time and, ultimately, larger pants. <\/span><\/div>\n

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That\u2019s how this eating behavior can work against you even long after the hoo-ha of your current schedule has finally calmed down for a microsecond. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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A solution for you is to plan to be with your food for some time, even if your life is wooshing by like a Class-5 rapids. Un-tether the pace of your life from the pace of your eating. Just because you\u2019re doing a ton of things at a million miles per hour doesn\u2019t mean you have to eat a ton of things at a million miles per hour. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

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And when you find yourself in a Negative Time Zone, and you truly have no time to eat, don\u2019t feel like you have to have to have to get it all \u201cover with\u201d in 3 minutes so you can get back to the \u201cimportant things\u201d in your life \u2026 you know, like figuring out why your printer has decided to take a break from printing today!  <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Just take whatever you\u2019re eating and plan on having it over time. Even if you taste that ham-n-cheese sandwich or leftover lunch morsel for two seconds, and THEN do your emails or whatever, and then taste again, this one behavior will help prevent your inner anaconda from causing you serious long term, larger-pants problems. Seriously. This one habit will help, making you less likely to over-consume, and teaching your body the lessons of controlled consumption over time. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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