Each week the friendly team at the Heart Foundation send us information about what should be our focus of the week. This week it's healthy snacks. Apparently the time between meals can often be a danger zone in our efforts to maintain a healthy weight and reduce our risk of heart disease ... now if you'll excuse me, it's the weekly office afternoon tea and I'm off to see what's on offer ... back now, there were some chilli chocolate brownies, a neat little apple tart and a homemade slice with Maltesers on top. Not necessarily that healthy, I'll give you that, but a good excuse to step away from the desk and have a natter.
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And that's the problem isn't it? Here, it's a habit, I didn't really need two small pieces of the brownie and a bit of slice. I was just doing what you do on afternoon tea day.
And it's these habits that you have to break.
When I saw the nutritionist at the beginning of this program I identified indiscriminate snacking as a bad habit. Since then I've been packing some rice crackers into my lunchbox to thwart off my mid afternoon craving for salt. It's been working.
But I'm a sucker for sweet too. Haven't quite been able to shake the mid morning choc-chip biscuit with a cup of tea, an hour or so after I've got into work and planned out my day. I bake, on most weeks, muffins or cake for the lunchboxes, a little bit of mother love for the kids to eat at school.
Maybe this week I should make this LiveLighter banana cake from the Heart Foundation's website. It looks as though it should pass muster.
Don't forget to keep donating at canberrahearts.org.au.
