One thing that I have learned, after working with lots of people in the same office for many years, is that people have a very different understanding of what they eat compared to the reality.  In other words, if you ask somebody they will explain to you that they are on a diet, that they are eating healthily and that they are reducing sugar from their diet.  That same person however will be sitting at their desk with a carbonated fizzy drink which probably has 50% of your calories which you are allowed for the entire day together with a packet of chips.  It is amazing how many people, who claim that they are either on diet or working on what they eat, seem to have no hesitation to eat bars of chocolates, drink Coke and eat chips all the time while professing to be working on a diet.  

What is also interesting is to watch the moods of such people, because there are many people who don’t realise that many of their moods are triggered by either a sugar rush that they are having or the fact that they are coming down not having had sugar recently.  Sugar is an incredibly powerful addiction, one that I also struggle with, and I think the first key is to accept that firstly it is not a natural thing, your body does not need it and your craving for it is indeed nothing short of an addiction.  That addiction is no different to that of an addict to cocaine or a smoker to cigarettes and you have to try and get yourself off that hook, because sugar is not something that your body requires.  You don’t need to cook vegetables in sugar to make them taste nicer or put it in your tea and coffee and nor do you need drinks that are basically supplying you with what is an overdose of sugar.  Look around your offices today and see what your fellow workers are eating.