Eating on Overtime

A few tricks to keep your diet healthy even when your job has you working late.

You've worked a long time to get where you are at your job. You've worked even longer to get yourself into healthy eating habits. Suddenly, you're at a pivotal moment when your job has you working over and you're stuck wondering how to avoid falling back into your unhealthy-eating ways.

What can you do to keep your diet and that of your family from suffering because of your late hours?

Plan Ahead

Is working overtime a given for you? Then stop making excuses and start planning ahead of time. Know you're going to stay late at the office or the work site a few days each week? Don't wait until you're working overtime to figure out how you're going to avoid dropping by the fast-food restaurant on the way home. Think about it a night or two ahead of time and do something about it.

What exactly can you do? Do what busy people across the planet do. Cook a week's worth of meals on your off days and toss the food in the freezer. That way, when you're pressed for time, all you have to do is toss dinner in the oven for a few minutes, and you're good to go. If you aren't motivated to cook a week's worth of meals at once, cook too much food every time you cook and eat on it for two or three nights. You'll get tired of eating spaghetti after two nights, but eating leftovers will save you an incredible amount of time and prevent you from making poor food choices.

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