So there was a time when I was trying to get myself to stop snacking, and NOTHING I DID WORKED. I’d wake up, tell myself that I wouldn’t touch any snacks that day, but it never worked. By 4pm I’d get really stressed out in the office, and wander over to the snack corner to gobble down a couple of cookies. Pretty soon, I started to resemble the Asian version of the Stay Puft marshmallow man. Ugh.

And then something funny happened: I stopped snacking.

Nope, it wasn’t because I suddenly developed an amazing amount of willpower, or that some horrific pictures of fat people had scared me away from snacking (aragh!!). Nothing of that sort. Instead, it was because I moved my desk into an office that had no snacks.

No snacks in the office = no snacking. I’d successfully tricked myself into getting healthier.

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