Author: Jessica Vachal
There are always those days when you are so tired and worn out from a day at school or the office that the last thing you can think about doing is making yourself a healthy meal. Those are the days where nothing sounds better than the chance to grab a pizza on your way home, and wash it down with some beer, or at least a soda. However, you also know that nothing could be worse for your waistline; so if you are truly a good person, who wants all the work you put in at the gym to pay off for something, you will not indulge in your craving for the salty goodness of all that cheese, and will instead pop some leftover vegetable soup in the microwave, or heat up some of the salmon you have left over from that backyard grill you had that past weekend.
The problem is when you hit that point where all you can think about is how quickly you can get some food into your system because you were pretty sure your stomach had found a way to digest itself as you sat in traffic on the freeway. The problem is when you wait too long to eat between meals and suddenly your commute home from work is enough to make you wish you had an entire fest in front of you full of fried foods and cheesy goodness. The key here, my friends, is that you have to pack snacks. Yes it sounds trivial and silly and one would think that you grew out of this stage in elementary school, but the fact is that mom had it right when she packed you up for school with a lunch sack full of baggies of grapes and cookies. You need to keep your body fed every few hours or else your blood sugar drops and that ravenous hunger sets in and then you, and all your dieting goals, are done for.
You have to try to eat healthfully all throughout the day, but that does not translate to starving yourself by not eating enough. However, most of us don’t pack enough food aside from money for lunch, and as such we get hungry again a few hours after our – unfortunately too large portion of – lunch and then we end up traveling to the vending machine to try to stave off the hunger we know will set in during that evening commute. Your only saving graces here, would be if your school or office is progressive enough to stock a YoNaturals natural and organic vending machines, thus allowing you the chance to get organic juices and snacks that will help you to keep your healthy diet on track and not fall to piece when you are confronted with a Snickers bar ripe for the picking.
