It’s 3pm. You’re in the office, and you had a really early and insubstantial lunch, so your stomach is rumbling, even though there’s still a good chunk of time before dinner.
Have an apple, your brain suggests. But you don’t feel like a damn apple. You’re tired and kind of bored and you know that the situation can only be rectified by your favourite kind of snack – Tim Tams.
So you pop to the shop and get a packet of Tim Tams. You leave them in the top drawer of your desk and grab a couple to munch on while you get back on with your work.
And then a couple more.
Before you know it, your fingers are scraping against the end of the packet rather than another biscuit. You’ve demolished the entire thing in the space of about half an hour. And, now that you think about it, you feel seriously unwell.
Does the mindless office snacking sound familiar? I know I’ve done it a thousand times – crammed my face with random junk, not because I particularly wanted it, just because I was bored and wanted something to do.
Office snacking is mindless eating. You’re not paying full attention to what you’re doing, so it’s obscenely easy to overeat without realising just how much you’re eating. And, of course, it can have a significant impact on your health.