Long hours but good pay but no exercise?

I'm a desk jockey as well. I hate the **** out of it! Thankfully I am able to hit the gym 2 hours a day 7 days week still. Thats on top of my 40+ work hours, wife and 3 kids, and part time schooling.

i am lucky with my job i am at the desk half the time the other half walking in the field..up and down wv hills

I sit at a desk all day. Unfortunately, you just have to make time for exercise now.... Once you get into a routine, its not so hard to juggle it.

I'm a desk jockey, but I find ways to break it up. My office has a small locker room that's normally empty, but any "private" (if you're self conscious) room will work. I drink a lot of water, so whenever I have to get up and use the facilities, my next stop is the locker room for 10 chair push ups (~ 45 degree angle) and 10 pistol squats each leg. Sometimes I'll do some lunges or anything else I feel up to, but always one upper, one lower. In 5 minutes I've gotten the blood flowing, done a little calisthenics, and I'm back to work until the next visit. At home I either play racquetball, or do a Z-WOW (available for free on YouTube). None of this is "easy" for out of shapers, so I do modified versions until I can do the real stuff. This combined with drinking water instead of soda, and eating healthier has made a huge impact on my waistline.

Hello and welcome here. You can do anything you put your mind too. I hope you have a great day and feel free to add me if you wish. Yes your not the only one I normaly work 8 to 12 hour days 7 days a week I do alot of walking at work but it isn't enough for me to loose weight with.

I have a desk job, it's an 11 hour day with commute. Most days I walk on my lunch hour just to get out and stretch my legs and I'm able to workout when I get home.

Yup. Code monkey here. I make my living with my brain, which is incredibly toned and sexy under all that skull, I'm sure. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much for the physique. Like someone else mentioned, I have been "skipping the tube". I broke a VERY strong tv addiction recently so I don't sit on my *kitten* even more after I get home. Instead, I go to the gym a couple of nights a week and lift weights. I've also decided to take the government up on its recommendation (astonishing for me to listen to a damn thing the government says health-wise) to take a walk after dinner. I'm on my feet cleaning and packing bento boxes while I'm waiting for the temperature to go down enough to go outside. Sometimes on weekends I make it out to my friends' house and swim in their pool for a couple of hours. I want to get back to tennis, but I'm afraid I need knee surgery before that happens.

I work at a desk during the day, but I also get to walk around a lot because we have more than one building so I walk in between them frequently. I love my job and the people I work with. I make sure to take walks on my breaks and go to the gym after work or before.

I have a desk job as well. Luckily for me we received a grant to put a small "fitness center" in one of our rooms. This has made it a lot easier to get my workouts in. I usually walk a mile on each of my 15 minute breaks, and have recently started doing full workouts on my lunch.

I work from 8:30-8 six days a week...an hour away from where I live. 13 1/2 hour day=sleepy me when I get home. I try to do as much as I can but just watching what I put in my mouth is helping tremendously.

I work 65+ hours a week and have found myself too tired to work out. I'm exhausted from going to work at 8 am and getting off at 9 pm 6 days a week. This has got me eating at the wrong times as well. There is no time in my day to make a healthy meal. It's is also hard for me to find super healthy and filing snacks due to the fact that I am allergic to nuts and can't keep anything refrigerated at work. I sit for 8 hours and then I am up walking lifting and etc at my other job for 4 hours, this to me is the only reason in not gaining weight. However, I've not been losing either. Does anyone have good advise on how to get myself motivated and energized after a hellish day at 2 jobs.

i use my one day off to make 2 sets of dinners in crock pots. then i freeze in individual portions. i also use this day to plan my meals, down to the last snack, so when i am leaving at 0500, i don't have to think, i just grab what's on my menu for the day (including one of my home made good for you frozen dinners). i work out in the 20 minutes i have after i drive from one job to the next before i have to open my shop. it's only a mile that i run on my 16 hour days, but it's something. i get home at 1030, do a sudoku, and up at 0430 again the next morning. you have to force yourself to use every moment wisely, especially when trying to plan meals.

if you need more ideas, please feel free to ask. it's not an overnight success. it took me 3 months of adjusting to my schedule to be able to do it with consistancy. just don't give up!!!!!