Fruit at Work

I love sweets and I could eat them any and all the time if I let me myself. So to try to curb my sweet snacking and increase my healthy eating one of the first places I started was by adding fruit. DON'T RESTRICT ADD! I found its easier to start by adding good food than cutting not so good foods. 

If I say "Self, you cant have a donut." What do I do? I think about donuts, day dream about donuts and binge eat other junk and still really just wanting a donut. So that is not how I like to create change in myself.

I instead added fruit to my day. This requires some planning ahead on my part but I try to go to the grocery store Saturday or Monday and buy the fruits I will eat each day at work. Then when I get hungry and in particular really want something sweet I think "Self, there is an apple in the drawer you need to eat that." Sometimes I am hesitant but it usually tastes good and I am pretty satisfied after.

If I'm not satisfied then I still have a banana and some raisins that need to be eaten as well. Then later if I still really want it I will get the donut but by then I've eating 2 cups of fruit so i'm in a better place than if I just ate the donut. Plus sometimes I lose the donut craving.

Extra awesome tip: Keep a apple slicer in your desk at work. It makes eating that apple so much easier and more enticing.