Office Lunch That Won't Make You Sleep!

Wellness

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By Anwesha Barari

Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 11:42

Post lunch time at work is a time to snooze. You feel lazy, sluggish and to make things worse everybody is yawning widely around you; its infectious. Why does lunch at office make you sleepy? May be you are not eating the right kind of food. The problems with most of us is that we miss our breakfast and try to eat a heavy instead of healthy lunch to compensate; then you end up feeling sleepy after lunch. The whole concept is wrong. Your lunch should be as light as possible if you are planning to work after eating it.

Here are some office lunch ideas you must consider if you want to stay alert and work better post lunch hours.

Office Lunch Ideas That Won't Make You Drowsy:

• Switch To Roties: If you are a rice eater then there is bad news for you. Feeling sleepy after lunch can be attributed 9 times out of ten to a heavy lunch and rice is heavy. It may be easier to digest but it fills your stomach making you doze. You will have to make that difficult move to bread or roties from your starchy choice that unfortunately doesn't make a healthy lunch.

• Say No To Potatoes: Your office lunch should ideally not contain potatoes in fattening forms. Mashed potatoes or hashed browns or the unhealthiest of them all, french fries. Potatoes have a high glycemic index, in other words they make your blood sugar level rise sharply making you feel lazy. Boiled potatoes in salad might fare better.

• Honey Desserts Are Banned: Do not have honey glazed buns or cookies for dessert because milk and honey as they say is the perfect combination for sleep. Try eat as little sweets as possible which takes us to the next point.

• Sugar And Flour: This is basically the recipe for baking and cakes and bakes make sleepy food. They will fill you up and make you feel bloated; that is not a welcome feeling when you have to work. So no pastas, pastries, puffs, white breads etc.

• No Junk Food Pledge: All the trans fats from the junk food you eat don't make a healthy lunch and they make you feel gassy too. That contributes to your sluggishness.

• Heavy Breakfast: To have a light lunch it is a must to have a heavy sumptuous breakfast. Wake up half an hour early to eat breakfast like a king so that you are not ravenously hungry at lunch time. When you are having hunger pangs you tend to eat food with emotional value or craving food and that is more often than not unhealthy.

• Watch Your Portions: Eat a little less than you can or want to. Don't stuff yourself to your neck. If you cultivate this habit then you will feel comfortably full not bursting at the brims.

Use these good health tips to plan an office lunch that does not make you snooze!

Disclaimer: The information provided in this article is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or a qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.