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[hrodberht]

I'm currently forming a plan of attack for one of the great battles of working life, viz. kicking my biscuit addiction. My workplace's tea rooms are stocked with five different types of biscuit each day, ranging from chocolate digestives to ginger crunch to chocolate fudge crunch to Party Rings to shortbread, and I'm not very good at not eating

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[highfantastical]

Are you going completely cold turkey? That's probably what I'd do because I'm rubbish at just having one of something. And biscuits ARE very nice.

the way that whole packs of digestive biscuits and Tesco Finest white chocolate disappeared in one sitting during Finals

I think this is the norm for Finals...

[hrodberht]

I managed to only have two biscuits today, which is pretty good for a day where there were caramel biscuits, two types of chocolate chip cookie, and double chocolate Fingers!

I'm more of a moderator than an abstainer, I think - if I tried to abstain, I'd wheedle myself into having 'just one' and then the floodgates would open, whereas if I'm trying to have 'as few as possible' then I can't say "well, I've broken that rule, might as well have eight".

It turns out that Tesco Value chocolate digestives dipped in peppermint tea can power you through a lot of third-year thesis work. Who knew?

[littlered2]

"Weetabixen"? I despair.

My work's policy on eyesight and VDUs, as I discovered while reading through the giant folder full of policy documents before Christmas, is to pay for the eye tests (possibly also glasses and things) of staff members who use VDUs a lot. i.e. me. That is excellent, although my manager says it's never actually come up. But, as we both agree, it's in the policy, so we should nag work to actually pay for it. Hurrah!

Not buying biscuits is definitely a good thing (the first step to eating healthily is generally "don't have crap stuff in the house", which you don't), and yes, having lots of healthy snacks on hand sounds like a good idea. You know I snack almost exclusively on apples, which I love, and while I was going crazy from work at Oxford I had a period when I ate lots of celery and frozen grapes. (Also unhealthy things, but I do really like celery and frozen grapes.) Just try not to develop any disordered eating habits, because that would be a worry.

[hrodberht]

One ox, two oxen. One Weetabix, two Weetabixen.

I think work pay for one eye test a year as well, plus £49 for glasses if we need them to read the screen.

[littlered2]

I pluralise Weetabix as Weetabix. (I thought it could be argued that it was a plural anyway - "bix" <- "biccs" <- "biscuits".)

Damn. I thought I had a work benefit that you didn't for a while.