Diet Tip: Be Tardy For Office Treats

I don’t know about you, but at least weekly in my office, someone sends out an email about some delicious food in the kitchen, whether it’s freshly baked muffins or a box of See’s candy. Getting instant food alerts can be very tempting, but indulging every time could sabotage your healthy eating efforts. One strategy is allowing yourself to give into just one temptation a week , but what if you’re on the fence about whether to indulge in the latest treat? Try this trick: when the email goes out, wait 30 minutes to an hour to go check out the smorgasbord. If the food is still there when you arrive, let that be your treat for the week. If it’s all gone - and we all know that free food goes pretty fast in an office! - then you’ve just practiced some accidental willpower.

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Diet Tip: Be Tardy For Office Treats

Speak Up: What’s the Most Annoying Thing About Your Gym?

There’s no shortage of annoying people at the gym - the dumbbell dropper, the cell phone talker - but sometimes the gym itself gets on my nerves. For instance, right now about 80 percent of the clocks where I work out are not working. How hard is it to reset a clock? And don’t even get me started on how there aren’t enough lockers sometimes on really busy days. But I’m sure all gyms have their flaws, right? What’s the most annoying thing about the gym you attend? Maybe reading them all will give us a renewed appreciation of our own gyms!

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Speak Up: What’s the Most Annoying Thing About Your Gym?