Workplace Health - How Does Your Workplace Stack Up?

Workplace Health - How Does Your Workplace Stack Up?
The photo is of a workplace social club fundraising activity.
These days it is a great idea to provide junk food to raise money for social activities at work. Why so, you may ask?
Junk food is the most popular food at most workplaces. It is stuck under you nose, mostly in the main area of the workplace, where you pass it 10 or more times a day.
The foods are a snack and are easy to quickly throw down when you are hungry. It is cheap and convenient and the shelf life is long.
Trouble is, you may have not taken the time to figure out, how damaging the social club snack food is affecting your health.
Here is a typical work day that may apply to you.

• You get up in the morning, then sit down to eat breakfast (some have none).
• You sit down in a vehicle and drive to work.
• You get to work and sit down.
• Morning tea and lunch roll on and you sit down to eat more food.
• You go back to work and sit down.
• Work finishes, so you sit down and drive home.
• You get home and crash on the couch because your tired.
• You have dinner sitting down, then go to bed. You wake up the next morning and start this process again.

The weekend arrives and you may treat yourself to some nice food,wine beer and desert.
Boy, that’s a lot of sitting down and eating, without a hole lot of moving.
So next time you pass the fund raising section of your work, BEWARE!!
If still unconvinced, it’s about time for the “standing in front of your mirror naked test.”

Reasons come first: answers come second.

A famous motivator once said - Reasons come first: answers come second - Anthony Robbins.

So what does he mean, if it refers to me exercising on a daily basis?
If you are currently not exercising on a daily basis, and find it easy to make excuses why you can’t, the following will help explain this famous quote.
When you get a big enough reason to start exercising, you will figure an excuse to use why you have to exercise.
Some of the big enough reasons you may find could be;
I want to look better in the mirror.
I want to feel fantastic.
I want more energy.
I want to feel stronger.
I want to be able to handle stress better.
I want to lose weight.
I want to be around for my children and grand children.
I want to climb those stairs without huffing and puffing.
I  want to feel happy about the way I look.
Pick one or two that you like, and place it where you can see it everyday. This will reinforce the reasons why you must include more daily activity in your life.