In this video, I'm gonna be sharing with you three tips
to eat healthier at work.
My name is Mark Ottobre,
owner and founder of Enterprise Fitness.
Let's face it folks,
ostracism for most people can feel like a fate,
worse than death.
So often when we try and be healthier,
and we implement these behaviors into our workplace,
sometimes it's met with some resistance.
So, in this video, I'm gonna be giving you three top tips.
So let's start with the first one.
Tip number one, don't explain yourself.
So, when you do start on a healthy routine,
I almost find the worst thing that you can do
is explain yourself to people that don't really care.
So, what does that look like?
You're at the workplace,
people have ordered pizza, maybe they've ordered doughnuts,
they're chugging down their soft drink.
And there you are in the corner with your chicken salad.
And let's say Mary comes up to you and says,
hey Susan, why are you eating a chicken salad?
Why don't you have some doughnuts?
And you start trying to explain saying,
well, you know, I am trying to lose weight,
I'm trying to do this diet thing.
I just started with this personal trainer.
And you know, you can have one it's fine,
and don't you know, it's just about calories,
and oh, you know that gluten stuff doesn't really matter.
And all of a sudden people start to weigh you down.
Maybe Mary also becomes Lucy
and for other people getting involved,
and now they're wearing you down.
This happens on a daily basis.
It's the worst scenario you can play at.
Don't explain yourself.
Instead, someone comes up to you and says,
oh, why are you eating that for?
Simple answer, because it tastes good.
Oh, normally followed by,
Why don't you add some sauce to that?
Why don't you add some salt?
Why? Simple answer.
Why would I do that for?
I like it the way it is.
Don't explain yourself.
The more you give, the more people will try
and convey what they believe.
So, just let it fly like water on a duck's back.
Do what you're doing, you'd be you, let them be them.
Point number two, as the old adage would say,
"Those that fail to plan, plan to fail."
So, point number two is all about planning and preparing.
If you leave the house empty-handed
without your meals in hands,
you will probably be met
with some unfortunate circumstances.
One of those unfortunate circumstances that I speak of,
well, it's someone offering you that bit of chocolate
or that lunch that you didn't expect,
or that can babble, that pizza, or whatever.
It was just in front of you, you were hungry.
Hey, willpower.
People think of willpower as this infinitive resource
that they can just pull from whenever they want.
That isn't so.
You need to prepare the decisions that you've made.
Decision, the word decision,
in fact, means to cut off from
and to kill all other options.
You need to decide that you're eating these foods.
And the best way to do that is to bring them with you.
Leave the house with the food that you decide.
That you might be watching this video and saying,
hey, but Mark, you don't know my lifestyle.
I'm too busy to be preparing your food.
Well, my advice to that
is there's really two types of people in this world.
Those that have more time than money
and those that have more money than time.
And this is regardless of how much money
that you actually have.
You just have to put yourself into one of those camps
because it's like this.
If you have more time than money,
you need to prepare your food.
If you have more money than time,
you need to pay someone to prepare your food.
Because really, let's face it,
if you've got a busy job,
if you've got a busy lifestyle, you need to prepare to win.
Most people in life, don't win,
because they're playing not to lose.
You need to win.
So, you need to play to win.
And that means preparing the day to win.
And point number three set alarms.
Starting a new lifestyle can be difficult
because you're forming new habits in your brain.
So, setting alarms is gonna set specific meal times,
and that also has a double impact
in terms of making decisions.
For example, if you have specific meal times.
Let's say your meal time is at two o'clock.
Let's say your office body offers you a chocolate
at three o'clock.
Well, in that case, you're not any meal time window.
So, you really only have two options.
You could say to your buddy, hey, look, no thank you.
Or you could say, yeah, actually,
I will take one for later out when it's time to eat.
Then when it's time to actually eat,
let's say your next meal time is at five o'clock,
you can decide then and there,
after you've eaten the actual meal, you've eaten it all up,
do I want that extra chocolate?
What that also does,
is it creates a distance
in from when you need to make the decision.
And when you make the decision,
you're out of that kind of hot period of,
oh, I have to have it now.
So, setting clear specific meal times,
put them into your schedule, put them into your calendar,
as part of your schedule,
and setting alarms that this is when I eat.
And outside of that you're doing work,
or doing whatever your day involves.
It's not eating, anything outside of that.
It's just, well, someone offers you some that,
again, two options, you know, no, thank you.
I don't want that,
or I'll take one for later,
depending on where you're at with your goals.
Did you enjoy this video?
If you did, let us know in the comments
and share your favorite tips of staying healthy
in the workplace.
If this is the first time we've had the pleasure of meeting,
my name is Mark Ottobre,
owner of Enterprise Fitness.
Do check us out.
Make sure you've liked us on Facebook
and follow us on Instagram.
Till next time folks,
train hard, eat well, and supplements smart.
(upbeat music)