It is difficult to always eat healthy. Cooking fresh every day is impossible for many people at lunchtime – especially at work. Still, everyone can do a few simple things to make their lunch a little bit healthier. We tell you 5 mistakes at lunch that make you unnecessarily fat.
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Lunch: These 5 mistakes make you fat
1. Eating late or not eating at all
Especially when we are stressed at work and hardly find any time, we always push the lunch break a little further back. Just make that call while our stomach growls louder and louder. Take a break between 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. at the latest – otherwise you are threatened with a nasty ravenous hunger attack. Once this occurs, we often no longer have the patience to look around for something healthy. Instead, when we get hungry, we increasingly turn to fast food and sugar bombs.
If we even skip lunch altogether , our body switches to the back burner when we are very hungry. The metabolism is reduced to a minimum and we hardly burn any calories. Stupid side effect: our ability to perform and concentrate decreases if we don’t supply our body with enough energy. This is very impractical at work! In addition, we often get overwhelmed by cravings in the evenings and cramme unhealthy foods indiscriminately.
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2. Lunch in front of the laptop
Eating in front of the screen can come in handy in the office. This saves us time, we can also check emails or finish a task. But stop! If you spend your lunch with a computer, television or even a smartphone, you run the risk of putting on extra kilos. Because these distractions keep us from focusing on the meal. We often ignore our body’s own satiety signal and eat more than we need.
3. Eating out or ready meals
Do you always go to a restaurant for lunch? Of course, a change of location during a long working day is good – especially if you can spend the break with colleagues in a nice way. Nevertheless, this should ideally not become a daily routine. Because in restaurants, the menus often entice you with dishes that contain many (hidden) calories. In addition, the portions are often larger than what we would put on our own plates at home. But once it’s there, we often eat it up.
If you don’t go to the restaurant, but make a detour to the supermarket or kiosk every day to get a pre-packaged sandwich or a sushi box, you’re not necessarily doing your body a favor. Even if the food seems healthy, countless preservatives, stabilizers and thickeners are usually hidden here. Unhealthy and high in calories!
Instead, try to limit yourself to such outings every once in a while, and cook something yourself most days to bring to work. Here you have full control over ingredients and ingredients – and your wallet will be happy too!
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Eating salad makes you fat ? I beg your pardon?! Well, lettuce itself is of course healthy, that’s true. But this means above all the green leafy salads and pure raw vegetables such as cucumbers. They contain hardly any calories, no fat, no carbohydrates, but lots of water and vitamins.
However, we often spice up the greens with unhealthy toppings: croutons, cheese, breaded meat, shrimp and lots of ready-made dressing. And with a false good feeling we eat a supposedly healthy meal that is actually no longer healthy.
5. Drink diet drinks
The situation is similar with light drinks. Cola Zero, Light and Co. often accompany our canteen lunch or a visit to the lunch restaurant. We think we’ll save a few calories by doing this – after all, the drinks don’t contain any sugar.
That is correct, but the light lemonades cause an unfavorable effect on the body: the sweeteners in the drinks fool our body into supplying sugar with their sweet taste. This then waits longingly for the announced energy – which he does not get and then reacts with ravenous hunger. So how about a delicious and healthy infused water next time?
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