Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is a reminder to not let yourself get too hungry.
Speaker 1: You are more likely to make bad decisions, and it
Speaker 1: is usually pretty easy to avoid a problem with a
Speaker 1: little planning. I've been on several long plane flights recently
Speaker 1: where there's been something of a lack of food, I mean,
Speaker 1: not even much available for purchase. On one particular flight,
Speaker 1: I had switched bags when packing and accidentally left my
Speaker 1: usual snacks at home. Not surprisingly, I found myself quite agitated,
Speaker 1: and I was having trouble focusing on work as I
Speaker 1: hoped that maybe there was a stash of peanut butter
Speaker 1: crackers in my carry on that I'd forgotten about. Being
Speaker 1: even mildly hungry is no fun. Of course, we have
Speaker 1: to eat, and so our brains become very fixated on
Speaker 1: eating when we don't. The issue is that when we're full,
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine being hungry, and consequently we can
Speaker 1: underprepare for those moments. That doesn't really matter. In some cases,
Speaker 1: my getting a little less work done on the plane
Speaker 1: is just no big deal. But when it does matter,
Speaker 1: It matters. One famous study found that judges were more
Speaker 1: likely to grant parole to prisoners if they heard the
Speaker 1: case right after lunch versus before. A hungry manager might
Speaker 1: snap at an employee, when a manager who'd had a
Speaker 1: few peanut butter crackers might have listened to the explanation
Speaker 1: and calmly suggested a way to solve the problem. A
Speaker 1: lack of food food means you wind up with a
Speaker 1: demoralized and probably unproductive employee, So keep snacks in your
Speaker 1: work bag, keep snacks in your desk drawer. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: you might want to even go on the offensive. Are
Speaker 1: you going into a very important presentation or meeting, try
Speaker 1: to time a small, healthy snack, something with some protein
Speaker 1: for about an hour before the meeting. Not right before
Speaker 1: so as to avoid tummy gurgles or the smell of
Speaker 1: peanut butter lingering on you, but an hour before should
Speaker 1: be good to get the energy boost without the digestive noises.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, look through each day's schedule ahead of time.
Speaker 1: If you can see that it will be packed with
Speaker 1: little opportunity to get lunch, then you need to prepare
Speaker 1: for that three or four healthy and substantial snacks could
Speaker 1: be eaten over the course of a workday, each in
Speaker 1: five minutes. While it would be better to take a
Speaker 1: lunch break, if that is not possible, you want to
Speaker 1: make sure that you are still fueling yourself, so pack accordingly.
Speaker 1: I would also suggest not relying on their being food
Speaker 1: various places. Often there is, but in this post covid era,
Speaker 1: with supply chain and staffing woes, you never know for sure.
Speaker 1: I plan to feed my kids at the airport once
Speaker 1: before a night flight, but when we got through security
Speaker 1: at eight pm, only one place was still open. You
Speaker 1: might get on a flight where somehow they're even out
Speaker 1: of snack boxes, and so we need to become like pioneers,
Speaker 1: bringing our provisions with us. Perhaps it would be nice
Speaker 1: to pack lighter, but being hungry can easily lead to
Speaker 1: bad decisions. Some mistakes in life are unavoidable, but this
Speaker 1: is one that can be easily solved. Best to do
Speaker 1: so when we can. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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