{"id":3635,"date":"2010-07-08T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2010-07-08T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:45:19","slug":"5-reasons-to-pack-your-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons to Pack Your Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of tips I could list for losing weight. I’ve detailed a lot of those things in my page on How I lost 100 Pounds.<\/a> This post is specifically about LUNCH.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Working downtown, there are temptations at every block. From the trendy Food Carts<\/a>, good restaurants, and delis on every corner–there’s food everywhere.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There’s a new sushi joint near my office too–and that’s definitely a weakness of mine.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It takes A LOT of willpower to pack my lunch every day. Especially on days when I’m tired of the food I eat and pressed for time. I think, “I could just get sushi…..”<\/p>\n

But I stop myself. The reason? There are actually 5 good reasons. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

1. Control: <\/strong>Packing my own lunch gives me control <\/span><\/strong>over exactly how many calories I eat during the day. I pack myself a morning snack (fruit or cottage cheese or Greek yogurt) and on days I run, I pack an afternoon snack to curb my munchies. Having specific food gives me control over the nutrition, the calories, the portion sizes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

2. Cash:<\/strong> How much money do I save by not eating out for lunch? Quite a lot! If a quickie to-go lunch is about $5, that’s $25 a week, $100 a month. <\/strong><\/span>If I pack lunch at home, it’s probably half of that cost depending on what I pack.<\/p>\n

3. Calories:<\/strong> Portion sizes are humongous at restaurants–usually 2 servings. And who can just eat half a serving of freshly made, hot, greasy Chinese food? I probably can’t! Say I pick up a lunch of fried rice, spring rolls and chicken…that’s looking like about 900 calories in my estimation. My usual packed lunch is around 350 calories–tops.<\/p>\n

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4. Exercise: <\/strong>As many readers probably already know, I run at lunchtime whenever I can. This was a switch I made over a year ago and I love it! It has freed up so many of my evenings to do fun things I missed out on. When I run at lunch, I have just enough time to run and shower and then grab my pre-made lunch from the fridge. I definitely don’t have time to run, shower AND eat out!<\/p>\n

5. Time:<\/strong> Some employers let their employees leave work early if they don’t take take a full hour lunch. Think how much time is saved eating a sandwich at your desk and then leaving work early!<\/p>\n

I vary my lunches. Sometimes they are Lean Cuisines with some veggies, sometimes they are salads, sometimes sandwiches, or leftovers. I try to mix it up so I don’t get bored.<\/p>\n

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QUESTION: Do you eat out for lunch every day or do you pack your lunch? What is a typical lunch for you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of tips I could list for losing weight. I’ve detailed a lot of those things in my page on How I lost 100 Pounds. This post is specifically about LUNCH. Working downtown, there are temptations at every block. From the trendy Food Carts, good restaurants, and delis on every corner–there’s food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,86,104,159,195,196,224],"tags":[535,584,657,660,763,885,933],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}