Using the internet can be hazardous to your health. . .

Hiya GG, When I have cleaned and mopped the Floors and as the air runs so little here I have to have all the doors open to dry the floors quicker and there is a huge cold blast on my back if I try to sit on the Computer so I get up and move around a bit. I can get nervous too and feel like a snack but I do try hard to kerb that as well but I can get to give in but I don´t overdo it usually. xxx

It does not matter where I am, I still have the desire to consume snacks throughout the day. As a general rule I use my desktop computer while at home, which is in a spare bedroom that I have used as an office. This makes it quite convenient since I have a desk, chair and filing cabinet etcetera, My laptop is used either while away on holiday or as a second option if I am running a long task on the desktop at the time. There is no specific place that I would tend to use it, so the issue of location does not arise. When I first read the title of your discussion I wondered if you had downloaded a virus and needed medical attention.

I have a habit of snacking any time I'm on the computer if there is something handy. If I stay in the office and keep the food away, I don't even miss it, but if it's there, I'll eat it. Doesn't matter what room I'm in!

Well it's the internet that keeps me up well into the early hours of the morning, I get so engrossed with what I am doing that the time speeds by, but not that engrossed that I don't snack whilst I am working away and they do say that it's the worst time to eat before you go to bed, late at night, because you are not moving around or taking real exercise to burn it off. I do try to eat fruit if I can, but then my fingers get sticky and that's not ideal when I want to use the keyboard!

I'm okay if I am online at the diningroom table but cannot stay there long as one leg in particular swells. So I have my laptop on my stomach and am lying on my bed propped up with cushions. This is awful as I feel hungry all of the time. Not good as I am regaining weightg and this is not hbealthy for me. Haved to just make up my mond to do a cleanse then eat sensibly (after my lunch on Friday)

I don't want to snack to often when I am online. I am more likely to not eat at all, which isn't good either. I guess it hits all people a little differently. Although when I see recipes I am always thinking about when I might be able to make a certain dish to share with my family.

I do the worst while at work. I cannot accest myLot via my tablet as no Wi-Fi there, but do access it from my phone. I am always munching on something it seems then. Probably out of boredom since it is slow.

I recommend that you relocate your on-line environment. Sense it involves a laptop, it shouldn't be too tricky to do. Take your little laptop and put it on your lap in the living room with a pillow to protect said lap. Presuming the living room is not an eating room, you have solved your problem.

Snacking is good for me. I need to snack, or I won't get enough calories in to maintain my weight. I wear a size 0 or 2, so maintaining my weight is sort of necessary. I tend to sprawl in the living room with my netbook. If I'm swiping my boyfriend's laptop, I am either in the living room with it or the bedroom. I have a tendency to snuggle up in bed and use his computer long after he has fallen asleep.

it is, at some point it is if we are infront of the computer too much., just like infront of the tv too.. too much of something is very bad i guess.

Using the Internet became hazardous to my assets. I had my computer upstairs which we called our office. Excepting the computer it was never used for any other 'office' work. Our 'office' was our dining table downstairs. I had a maid who I had got married after she worked with us for 9 years. In fact we had sponsored her future and so even got her married. When she was with us she was a paragon of virtue and I thought she would be so even after marriage. She would occasionally help me out. I had full trust in her but while I was busy on the Internet upstairs she robbed me - heavily. The price I paid for not being vigilant about the change that would come over her with a rogue husband was huge. I have now shifted my computer downstairs (I still use the desk top) and all is well as I am more relaxed here which is next to my dining table. No I do not get any urges to eat. I am a disciplinarian when it comes to my diet. Heartfelt sympathies GG

What an interesting thing! Perhaps that was a sort of conditioned reflex.You were distracted by the dining room table and it put you in mind of eating someting .I do it at a desk in bedroom,fortunately it has never made me fall into a drowse.

I find there is on exact place which creates terrible situations for me. I just used to enjoy surfing internet all the time. It doesn't matter where the place i put myself to it and enjoy as much as i can.

the desktop pc is in one area of the dining room and it used to annoy me how my sister would always eat all kinds of meals while using it and never even cleans the table. there was a time i was getting bitten by ants one after another and finally noticed a line of them traveling along the keyboard cord! i used to turn around and eat at the dining table, even if it's just a snack, but guess what, i'm now doing the same! sure i clean up afterwards, but eating your words never tastes good!

I don't think it is the internet for me, it is whether or not I am bored. For example, if I am here, on FB, or even working on my story, hours pass by me and sometimes I forget to eat. But when I am working on my schoolwork, most of which is "BORING" I tend to eat a lot more, so can I say "school" is bad for my health???

I think you need to change your situation and the place where you use the laptop. I use mine on my bed. I can lay back if I want to and relax or set up like I am doing now. Maybe have a last snack and then leave the kitchen and go elsewhere. Good luck. I know that this sort of thing is tough.

If I am not sitting in a comfortable chair it is bad for my back. I have had back problems for several years and sitting in an uncomfortable chair just kills my back. My comfortable chair was brokey a few months back and I am now using a kitchen table chair. It is really bad for my back. I can only sit so long before it goes to hurting.

Good day GardenGerty, I guess, excessive use of computer all the time will result a risk to once health. As they say, anything excessive is not healthy anymore. With the situation that you have encounter, I think, it is just normal though you shouldn't eat a lot of it as this will result in excessive eating.

Oh no, its one of those things. You're sitting at the table you are habitually used to eating at and so you feel the urge to snack. I suggest having a glass of ice water or something healthy like that at all times. Then the urge may be reduced.

Surfing the Internet in bed with my phone is the most hazardous to my health. I know that it's bad for my health especially for my eyes,however,I can't change this habit since I feel relexed to browse the news or fashion in bed.