I must confess I'm not great at taking daily lunch breaks. I'll usually stop to grab something from the kitchen, occasionally I'll even be super organised and prepare it the night before, then usually I'll hot foot it back upstairs to return to my laptop screen and what I was doing.
The trouble with taking this approach on a regular basis is: it's bad for your health and your waistline.
Research from Bristol University reveals how eating at your screen can lead to you eating twice as much as the day continues. The reason for this is, not too dissimilar from why it's bad to eat your dinner in front of the TV too; the distraction of focusing on the screen makes you eat more.
When you decide not to take a break to eat your lunch and choose to cram in eating around reading emails or watching a soap repeat for 30 minutes, your tummy does not realise when it's pleasantly full. Instead, you continue to feel a little peckish and will be prone to snacking in the afternoon. On this front, I'm guilty as charged, as I'm currently eating a biscuit while typing this.
My next week resolution starting Monday is to start taking a lunch break every day...who's with me?
