I work in an office environment where most people eat their meals at the desks due to no cafes or places to sit and relax around the office’ area.
So I have plenty opportunity to be a complete creep and sometimes catch on different people’s eating habits. I feel like an anthropologist, observing the feeding habits of the people around me and I noticed a couple of trends.
Let’s start with Subject A and B, who both seem to share the same habits. Both girls are at a healthy weight, healthy hair (both wear fake nails so can’t comment on that). They both stand up frequently from their desks (once or twice every hour which is frequent compared to the majority in the office) to walk around. They need to refill their water flasks equally frequently that might explain standing up so often, since what goes in needs to come out. They have no snacks whatsoever, but both seem to have a little treat (under 200 kcals) after the main meal at lunch, which is usually either homemade food, or a sandwich. They eat quite well,I’d say, not little but not a large amount either. Surprisingly I’ve never seen them eating salad. But. Both of them start the morning with a pot of instant porridge and a piece of fruit. They eat it between 8:30-9:30 and not eat until 12:30-13:00.
The office collectively orders hot breakfast from a local place typical English breakfast items, bacon rolls, sausage rolls, cheese and beans etc. one of the subjects always opt in for a bacon roll and coke, but she doesn’t have lunch afterwards, mind you these breakfast items easily go into the 600+ kcal territory.
Then we have Subject C. He is I’d say class I obese. He sits down at 9 o’clock and starts the day with one of those single serving packet of crisps (they can range from 100 to 260 kcal depending on brand and type he has a variety so average £180 kcal I’d say) He eats 3 of those until lunch which he takes around 12 o’clock. He then has a proper lunch outside the office, but I saw him in Tescos so chances are he is having a meal deal (sandwich, drink and crisps or chocolate), which total kcal can be anywhere between 500 to 700 kcal. Then he also has around 2 packets of crisps during the afternoon. Every time I glance at him I can see him chewing. He is a lovely, smart fella, but the constant sounds of fishing in the crisps bag for crumbs and the crunching of crisps is driving me mental since he started sitting closer to me.
Subject D is morbidly obese. She usually has a large coffee from the brand with the siren logo with all the creams and extras in the morning. She also likes to snack on those extra long chocolate bars from Lindt average two between breakfast and lunch. How she powered through lunch on chocolate bars alone was a mystery to me for quite long since I’d never see her eating anything until one day I had to go into the city to pick up my order during my lunch break and met her sitting on a public bench eating what was pork, chips (fries in freedom country), cheese soaked in gravy. That meal in itself was over 1000 kcal easily. She already overeats at work, and she has dinner on top of it. She once said she had 260 takeaway orders a year. She also had to talk over me and an other colleague as we were discussing gyms in our city to declare she could never bother with it, and that when we’re working out she is in her pyjamas having a nap. Good for her.
So yeah, these are so far the bits I’ve noticed. My conclusion is that snacking leads to no good. Mind you this is not a clinical trial, but thought I’d share as a food for thought.
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