Eating at work

So I'm at an all morning work training and lunch is being catered. Breakfast consisted of muffins and danishes from Panera. Fortunately I had eaten my standard breakfast of oatmeal and blueberries. Lunch was a little more difficult. Chicken salad sandwiches, salads, chips, and chocolate chip cookies. It all looked great. The only problem was self control. I decided that since I had worked out this morning I could splurge for the cookie. After entering my food into Livestrong, I still have 700 available calories for dinner...which should be plenty.

So my question is: What delimas do you face with having to eat a work lunch and what are some good ways to still make good decisions?

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Water

Proof that I'm drinking my daily intake of water...at work today

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watering trough

I'm thinking the more water the better. I know the standard recommendation of daily water intake is 8 glasses but what do you think? What is your daily intake or what do you think it should be? Water: calorie free since 1776.

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Falling off the wagon

I thought my subject appropriate since I started a blog several months ago about healthy lifestyle choices and then in early May, stopped posting to the new blog on healthy lifestyle choices.  You can only imagine what has happened since.  I have not made the best decisions regarding diet & exercise, so I thought I would consider the subject of falling off of the wagon.

Often times when life catches up with us, we revert back to our past; and this often includes the tendency to do what is simple and easy.  I'm referring to the way we eat specifically, but this can happen in almost any aspect of life.  We get busy and we do what is easy.  McDonald's Drive-Thru is easy.  Wendy's $.99 cheese burger is easy.  "Cooking" pre-packaged meals at home is easy.  Eating sugar loaded cereal for breakfast is easy.   But after some time passes with the cruise control on, you realize that easy and fast does not equal good and healthy.  Your body starts to give you signs that something isn't quite right.  You learn that you've been ingesting too many calories in one meal than you should be eating in an entire day.  So, how do we get back on the wagon?
In short, I'm not sure.  I can't get you back to a place you once were without knowing what cause you to derail in the first place.  So for now I'm going to focus on what I'm doing to get back on track and hope you find it helpful.  First things first, I'm starting my day off right with a good breakfast.  Right now I'm eating old fashioned oatmeal with a teaspoon of brown sugar and a few blueberries.  Lunch is usually something left over from the night before, so a health dinner feeds a healthy lunch for tomorrow.  I'm back to using livestrong.com which is an excellent program that one of my earlier blogs discusses in detail.  They have almost every food known to man cataloged for quick entry of entire meals.  And besides meals I have been exercising at home on a semi-regular basis.  My goal is to have 4-5 good workouts throughout the week.  These are my first steps.


So, what are your techniques for starting fresh and getting back on the healthy lifestyle wagon?