Kitchen right there? How WFH snacking sneaks up on you
Working from home puts the kitchen right next to your desk, so a handful of sev, a buttered roti, and two sugary chais can quietly add about 600 extra kcal a day. You do not have to lock the kitchen - just make a snack plate, keep the chai but drop the sugar, and pick foods that fill you up.
12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Snacking between meals is what makes you gain weight when you work from home.
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It depends. Snacking itself does not make you fat. The extra calories do. A planned 150 kcal yogurt snack is fine. The trouble is mindless grazing. If you add 600 extra kcal every day, that is about 4200 kcal in a week. Since 1 kg of body fat holds about 7700 kcal, that could be around half a kilo a week. Your body fights back a little, about 65 to 230 kcal a day, so the real gain is less. But over a month, even half of that adds up to about a kilo. So it is not the snacking - it is the eating you do not notice.
