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It's the food. There are 24/7 snacks everywhere, for free, and half of them are not good for you. Even if they were all good for you, you it's too easy to eat
by mahyarm 11y ago
It's the food.
There are 24/7 snacks everywhere, for free, and half of them are not good for you. Even if they were all good for you, you it's too easy to eat too much anyway.
Then all the provided food is given buffet style, so you cannot measure how much you eat, and the barriers to eating more are very minimal. Even services like Zesty who provide calorie counts are not useful, because they serve it buffet style and make it difficult to calculate portions. Food served is usually restaurant food too, so fat is not visible but added for flavor.
All of this combines to becoming fatter.
SV can become a force of healthy weight if they provided packaged weight loss meals that had all nutritional info on them for breakfast/lunch/dinner. Then people who wanted to lose weight would have this very convenient option to do so.
Most employers are not interested although because a very small amount of their employees will use it at a time.
- lgas 11y agoWhy can't you measure how much you eat from a buffet?
- mahyarm 11y agoCalorie counts are often not there, the food are cooked composites where you don't know how much oil has been used for example. Even if the counts were there, you have to bring a scale and hold up the line for everyone else for each item you dump on your plate. You'll piss off coworkers. You also get gravity effects where if your scoop near the bottom of the serving dish, you get extra helpings of oil, adding hundreds of calories.