There are plusses and minuses to working in a tiny office. For example, one benefit is that there are no vending machines, and now that the bag of tootsie rolls in the kitchen has been depleted, this means that unless I want to chew coffee grounds, I am reduced to sucking down water in the late afternoon when I am hungry. Alhough don’t think I haven’t considered the coffee grounds idea a time or two. Ditto with the plastic silverware.

This is good for the whole ‘healthier me' thing, of course, since I bring my lunch every day (hooray for the joy that is frozen dinners). So if I don’t bring it with me, I don’t get to eat. Naturally, one of the things we purchased shortly after we decided to take the eating plan seriously again was a set of little one-cup containers, providing an easy method of carrying around my current favorite snack food (Lucky Charms). Quit snickering. Lucky Charms has little crunchy marshmallows. There isn’t a vegetable out there that can top that.

On the down side, the size of the office means that there really is nowhere to eat the aforementioned bag lunch unless I sit at my desk. And then I feel really weird not actually doing something productive if I’m at my desk. What can I say - the workaholic guilt thing is a hard habit to break.

Of course this has also worked out well for the whole ‘healthier me' thing, since if I go work out, then I am out of the office for about 45 minutes and I can take a little break from whatever it is I was doing at the time. Granted I still end up eating my lunch at my desk when I return, but at least there is a break in there somewhere. And I suppose the need for a short break from the office is as good an incentive as any to get some exercise.

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