Is Your Job Making You Fat? by Lloyd, Ken -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Corporate Foodscape

The Handy Candy Bowl

Locations Galore Succumbing to Sugar

Putting The Kibosh On The Candy Bowl

Finger Food Looks Can Be Deceiving Viscerally Speaking Search Party Committing Yourself Candy Toss

Counters Filled With Crap

Bagel Basics Donut Duty Tricky Treats

Countering The Offerings On The Counter

Exploring Options Splitting Time To Your Health

Calories From Coworkers

Just Being Friendly In Pursuit of Praise Think Twice Lovely Leftovers Repeat Performances Kids in the Kitchen

The Peer Pressure Cooker

Ulterior Motives Extra, Extra!

Visitors And Your Viscera

Chapter 2: Don’t Let the Morning Eat You for Breakfast

The Breakfast Breakup

Time Troubles

Breakfast Backfires

Breakfast and Your Brain Morning Sugar Fat Facts

Bringing Back Breakfast

Getting Up for the Challenge Egging You On Cereal Fanatics Turning Up the Heat Sweet Replacements A Matter of Liquidity Coffee Conundrum Tea Time

On-the-Go Breakfast Going Out for Breakfast Staying In for Breakfast

Smooth Moves Plug and Chug

The Pre-Work Workout

Exercising Options A Matter of Timing

Chapter 3: Taking the Weight Out of Your Commute

Whether You’re A Driver Or A Passenger

Commuting and Your Wellness Commuting and Your Waist

Looking Behind Commuting And Weight Gain

Prolonged Sitting Reduced Time for Other Pursuits Stressors and Commuters Slow Commutes and Fast Food

Exercise In Motion

Exercising in Cars Heads Up Shouldering the Load Back to Work Stomaching the Ride Handy Exercises Rear View Leg of Your Journey A Feat with Your Feet

Exercising In Buses And Trains

Hold It!

De-Stressing Your Commute

Breathe Easy A Sound Decision Pre-Commute Planning More De-Stressing Ideas

Commuting And Consuming

Putting on the Brakes

Commuting Outside The Box

Bike It Commuter Combo Exercise This Alternate Rides Boredom Busting Management and Your Commute

At The End Of The Journey

Chapter 4: Becoming Round by Sitting Around

Side Effects From Sitting

Inside Information

Who Said You Have To Be Sedentary?

Initial Steps to Avoid the Scourges of Sitting A Moving Experience Standing Phone Calls Standing Visits Standing Meetings More Moving Opportunities Water Works Copying, Printing, and Walking Trash Talk Park and Walk Is It Any Wander?

Working Out While Working At Your Desk

Up on Arrival Leg It Up Touchdown! Sit-and-Run Tight Situations It’s a Stretch

In-Between Moments

Range of Motion

Accessorize And Exercise

In a Squeeze

Furniture, Fitness, And Fatness

Standing Desks and Risers Treadmill Desks Liking Biking Pedal Pushers Have a Ball Get the Message

Chapter 5: Let’s Do Lunch

The Lunch Crunch

Consumed by Technology Job and Lunch Elimination

Today’s Lunches

In a Hurry Desk Diners Passing on Lunch

Reviving Lunch

In the Bag Making Lunch Work for You Sandwiched In Pack Smart Drink Up, Weight Down

Unlucky Potluck Out to Lunch

Local Flavor

What The Truck? Location, Location, Location

Doing the Noon-Walk Stuck to the Desk

All Work And No Lunch

As a Matter of Snack

As Lunch Would Have It

Chapter 6: Prevent the Event from Getting You

Consumption At Company Events

Hippy Holidays Pouring Food into Feedback Just Because

Eaten Up At Employee Events

Celebrating Non-Events

Immediate Steps To Mediate The Damage

Desk Drop-offs Bakeoff Backfires

Midterm Steps To Mitigate The Damage

In Good Company Lightening the Load at Lunch-and-Learns

Longer-Term Steps To Mitigate The Damage

Off the Recognition Chuck Wagon Walk the Walk A Fair Alternative Go with Yoga Losers Who Win Even More Events

Chapter 7: Shedding the Heavy Burden of Job Stress

First Things First Origins Of The Stress Response Stress And Your Body, Your Thinking, Your Emotions, And Your Actions

Physical Damage Cognitive Damage Emotional Damage Behavioral Damage

When Cortisol Calls Your Stress Management Plan Sources Of Stress On The Job

Stress by Design Stress by Others Stress by Yourself Stress by Climate Stress by Working Conditions

Resources For Dealing With Sources

Act Assertively Join Forces Management Steps

Manage Stress Before It Manages You Proven Tactics To Tackle Stress

Take a Deep Breath In Meditation Mode The Exercise Factor Walk It Off Write It Out Stress Mitigation by Affirmation Cut the Clutter Perhaps a Nap Progressive Muscle Relaxation Valuing Voluntarism Picture This But Wait—There’s More

Chapter 8: Traveling without Unraveling

Fast Food Damnation Travel Tips That Won’t Tip The Scales

Bring Your Own

The Alcohol Abyss

The Booze Snooze

Have Money, Will Travel

Desiring Dessert

Conventional Wisdom When The Conference Calls Get Back With Your Ex . . . ercise

Hitting the Trail Pooling Your Assets Room to Move

Party On Winner Takes All

Cruise Control Cruise and Choose Wisely Shipshape

Chapter 9: Conventional Strategies for Unconventional Jobs

When You’re Working At Home

Telecommuting Pros Telecommuting Cons Alone at Home Unwanted Ennui The Kitchen Beckons

Healthy Telecommuting Tactics

Marking Your Territory Staying on Track Out and About Working-at-Home Workouts

Shift Happens

Night Shift Pluses Night Shift Minuses Drowsy Dining Questionable Quenching Let’s Get Personal

Righting The Night Shift

Give It a Rest Night Walking Night Napping Fighting Fogginess Talk It Out Amending the Vending The Home Front Feeding Time Bring the Best Caffeine Fiend

Food, Notorious Food

In the Food Biz

Recipe For Success

Just Bring It A Matter of Taste Prime Choice Exercises Perks that Work Wrapping It Up

Attention Unconventional Jobholders!

Chapter 10: Let’s Do Dinner

The Dinner Dilemma

Technologically Speaking In the Zone-Out

Dinner Winners

TV-Free Dining Downsizing Post-Work Food Fest

Fine Dining

If You Cook If You Don’t Cook

Restaurant Realities Making Dinner Work

Home-Course Advantage Shining While Dining Out

So Much For Your Six Pack

How to Handle Happy Hours

Overtime And Overweight

Behind the Extra Hours

Overtime Overhaul

Order of Operations The Buzz on Caffeine

Exercise The Demons

Right after Work Fitting Attire Through Thick and Thin Friends with Benefits After Dinner Movements Excuses, Excuses

The Rest Is History

Technological Awakenings Sleeping and Weighty Issues Less Sleep, More Problems Work Woes as Sleep Goes

Shut-Eye Strategies

When Duty Calls Restfulness, Not Restlessness Sleeping Potpourri

Epilogue: Food for Thought and Thoughts for Food

Looking To The Future A Work In Progress You’re In Charge

Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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