Junk Food and Checking Email Have a Relation

The Less You Do Email, The Less Junk Food Goes In

Penelope lost forty pounds in two months simply by changing her work lifestyle. One of the rule she implemented was “no-checking email so that I could be more present with my kids. But the lucky side benefit was no more junk food.”

She writes - I was checking email all day. Sometimes because I really needed to, but mostly it was a way to take a break from being with the kids. It’s more fun to play email lottery to see if something great came in than to watch kids chasing each other up and down slides.

The worst part about checking email when I am with the kids is that I feel bad ignoring them. But the second worst part is that I sort of check out when I check email and once I check out then my junk-food guard is down, and I find myself watching kids and checking email and eating Cheetos all at the same time. Link.