If you are often feeling hungry in mid-morning and beginning to dream about what you can satisfy your growling stomach with during lunch break. But you may want to lose weight, so you may want to read this article – because here are the biggest lunch time mistakes you may make, and how you can prevent these.

EATING OUT DAILY

Instead of eating out every day, why not consider sometimes cooking at home and preparing your own meals to eat at work. When you eat out with your colleagues, your meals may tend to be less than healthy, for example, tucking into chicken rice or the char kway teow from the local hawker centres or fast food options.

So even though preparing your own meals may be more time consuming, it is more healthy in the long term and will better suit any weight loss goals you may have. If you do not have the time in the morning to prepare your meals, why not do so the night before and keep your food in the fridge overnight, to be all set and ready to go – in the morning.

EATING ON THE GO

This is one of the biggest mistakes that you may make because eating on the go, while rushing from one meeting to the next, means that you are not really concentrating on your calorie intake and may inadvertently end up consuming more calories than you may have wanted. So try and make it a point to sit down properly and focus on eating.

EATING TOO FAST

Because the brain takes 20 minutes to register that it is full, eating too fast means that you have gobbled up a lot of food within those 20 minutes and thus taking in more calories than you may have initially intended to. This leads to weight gain and sabotages any weight loss plans you might have.

To slow down your eating, it may help to chew your food slowly before you swallow it and make sure that you do not finish eating your lunch in less than 30 minutes.

EATING SALAD

Yes sure, salad is very healthy but just eating salad only is not a balanced meal and it will not last you till dinner time. And when you choose salad, make sure that it consists of all three macronutrients – those are dark leafy greens as a base, together with cut veggies such as carrots and cucumbers and a protein source such as chicken or beef.

Then top it off with a complex carbohydrate such as quinoa or brown rice and you are good to go. If you want to add in some healthy fats, why not include avocado or olive oil.

With the number of grain bowls that have now become easily available in Singapore, it is easy to purchase a healthy salad with macronutrients from all of the food groups that you require.

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