How does your job impact your weightloss/fitness goals?

THISisTARRAN

I am a sales rep at a retail store and I stand pretty much all day, but I don't get to walk a lot. Most of the time I am standing in the same place or leaning. Before this I was a waitress and I always was thinner and had an easier time losing weight because I was constantly walking.

Marie3391

I am a direct care provider for intellectually disabled adults. Although I'm in a home setting, I do have to run around a lot to doctor's appointments, meetings, different trainings, etc. I do shifts from 5am to 10pm sometimes. Although some mornings I get out at around 10am after a 5am shift so I get my workout in there. It just gets a bit difficult sometimes when I'm exhausted from the 5am shifts which end at 10pm, to go back at 5am the next day.

YcatsFursworth

Work makes the dieting harder and easyer... harder because toast is just there all the time to nibble on.... easyer because I'm running around loads and I don't have the snack and candy stash near by!

youuluvashh

I think my job really helps me with my goals. I am free to take breaks and my lunch whenever so I can workout at that time if I want. It also helps me with my nutrition. On the weekends I almost never eat breakfast or lunch for that matter. At work I pretty much eat breakfast snacks and lunch on time, it helps me stay consistant! I also drink sooooo much water when im at work.......

So beside the occasional donuts and sweets (which is easy for me to resist because im not much of a sweet person) I would say my job GREATLY impacts my goals in a good way

garlic7girl

I feel mine does...increased stress and now I commute vs taking train and later hours so I have definitely changed since my job moved!

tbresina

This is probably why I am struggling to lose the last 7-10 lbs. I work straight nights, which is super hard on the body. I sleep during the day and at night I am up. It gets so hard to know when to eat and my circadian schedule is all thrown off. I sleep from 630am-2pm most days and then im hungry but I can't eat that early and still have a dinner with my hubby at 5or so. I love night shifts otherwise but the eating and getting enough quality sleep does me in!

lexagon

I sit on my butt in front of a computer 8-9 hours a day, that's not good for me either... I just try to set up a ton of reminders for the things that I may forget... like to eat or take a break (and go for a walk).

That's me right there. I get busy with work and forget to eat or take a break. I need to work on that. And I def need to get up and move around more. Some days are better than other, but today is going to be one of those slow days ... LOL

Kany

I'm a tax accountant and on non-tax season days, I sit on my butt 8-9 hours a day. During the busy tax season, I'm at my desk from 10-12 hours/day. It doesn't help that I work within walking distances to over 50 restaurants. This tax season, I asked my boss to leave at 530 everyday so that I can get to my spin class. I'm finally getting used to the daily exercising routine and I don't want to mess it up. So I told him that I will work every Saturday until April. I think it's a good trade-off since I don't really do much on Saturdays anyway (except hydrate and prep for my Sundays mountain biking ride).

Miss♥Ivi

I work a desk job at a recording studio 8.5hrs a day. It blows. We have a fully stocked kitchen in the middle of my office and a chef (I LOVE her, she's like my second mom) that cooks breakfast and lunch for us each day. This is both good and bad. Good because I'm not having junk food or fast food during lunch (the only other alternative in the area I work in) and bad because there are plenty of goodies ALL over the kitchen I have to dodge like her cinnamon rolls, fresh baked breads, and cookies! Luckily for me, my sweet tooth is easy to control but my deep desire for bread is incredible. Smh!

Sometimes she makes things that aren't exactly ideal for someone watching their calories and weight BUT she tries really hard to cater to my diet. She doesn't have to but she does and I appreciate it greatly.

This is one of her spreads for lunch.

jenseye

From a food standpoint no it doesn't interfere.
We have two refrigerators and a microwave so I can bring my own food for lunch and don't have to get fast food (we also have a grocery store close by that has premade salads and fruit salads).
From a workout point yes it can.
I work 8ish to 530-6ish and by the time I get home it's 630/645 so working out sometimes is a challenge at night. Dinner, homework, chores, etc. seem to eat up alot of my evenings.
I try and get up a few days a week at 515am so I can work out before work, but I need to get better at that.
I fit in what I can and usually get in workouts Saturday and Sunday that are longer than normal because I have extra time.
A new yoga studio is opening very close to my house and they have a couple of evening classes so I may just go straight there those nights and then go home to start the rest of the routine ; )

JennyBB125

I'm a third shift nurse who works 3x/week. I work from 7p-8a and its so difficult to adjust to eating and sleeping the right way. Im not sure how it affects my metabolism but when i work I eat throughout my night as if it were my day. I sleep from 830a-6 p when I have to go back to work. One thing is I dont eat heavy meals. If i get hungry I eat some fruit or yogurt but have one real meal (usually a sandwhich) at 1am. Its hard to balance especially with logging in my meals. I eat normal every other day of the week though.

On a positive note, I sometimes walk 6 miles during one shift so thats a benefit of my job. Im also always lifting and pulling people so using my arms a lot. I do get time to sit and do paperwork but never an official break. Id rather be up and doing things than sitting at a desk all day. I could never do that! But I think the eating at night and now that im 26 its starting to catch up with me and the weight is very difficult to lose off my waist (my problem area)

desirae500

Most of the week I'm teaching in a classroom or sitting at my desk. So I walk around the building at lunch. I bring my lunch too. On days when I take students to the hospital, I never stop. Last summer I took the stairs all semester and lost 10 pounds!