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How to hack your home—or office or car—to stay on track

Weekly technique

By Weight Watchers
Published 11 October 2022
How to hack your home—or office or car—to stay on track

A hot interior design/life tip: You can tweak the setup of your space to encourage healthy habits. Here’s how.

Try this!

Create visual cues for what you want to do. • Swap your countertop candy dish for a fruit bowl.  • Bring ZeroPoint™ foods to the front of your fridge.  Help out Future You.  • Store your meal-prep tools where they’re easy to access.  • While cleaning up dinner, take out everything you need to make breakfast.         Designate rooms or places for healthy behaviors.  • Move screens out of the bedroom so you can focus on sleep, not TV or TikTok.  • Make your table the only place you eat when home.  Got habits you want to stop? Disrupt your default  • Store foods you may see and then mindlessly (over)eat in rarely used cabinets or the back of your fridge or freezer. • Move your alarm clock across the room to avoid snoozing through a morning workout. Bonus: Set your workout clothes next to it.  • Stash healthier grab-and-go eats in your car or at work so you aren’t tempted to make a drive-through detour.

Let’s dive a little deeper…

Have you ever been going about your day then suddenly see, say, sweets or cookies (or anything, really) and just pop ’em in your mouth? Most of us can probably relate—the see-it-eat-it urge is real! In fact, research suggests our environment often plays a big role in what we eat and do (or don’t).

Luckily, you can harness its power by making healthy choices more visible, accessible, and easier, while also creating spaces that are less conducive to behaviours you want to change. (*Cough* mindless snacking.) And it doesn’t only work for food: Try keeping your trainers and headphones by the door to prompt a daily walk or buy smaller plates to encourage right-for-you portions.

As we move into a season when high-Point foods and drinks may be plentiful and time for activity, meal prep, and sleep often becomes scarce, start asking yourself: How can I optimise my home/office/car/bedroom (wherever!) to help keep me on track? Building these types of habits now can help you finish the year strong.

Did you know?

More than 91% of WW Success Registry* members keep low-Point foods easily accessible for snacks compared to only 32.1% of the control group. Whether you’re setting up your kitchen, car or desk drawers, stock grab-and-go food so you always have a healthy option.

*The WW Success Registry is a research study composed of WeightWatchers®members who lost at least 20 pounds and maintained it for one year. Sound like you? Share your success and join today.