Has your job played a part in your weight gain?

I work in the city surrounded by every delicious food imaginable (pasty shop, sushi, pizza, Chinese, Mexican). Not packing my lunch has been my biggest mistake as I've indulged too many times getting takeout.

I still grab lunch from the bodega quite often now, but mostly it's something I can measure. Also, now I have a food scale at work.

Not me. I have always had standing jobs. Retail sales person (for a summer during school), House Painter, Dog Groomer (current job for the last 6 years)

I gained plenty of weight at my last job. My co-workers would always get fast food, pizza, or wings every night. They always asked me if i wanted and i rarely had the willpower to say no. I finally decided to plan out my meals ahead of time and pack my own lunch/diiner. In your case, if you are stuck in the office all day and are going to end up eating because you are bored, i would suggest packing lots of healthy snacks to munch on. You still can eat throughout the day, but things that wont add up as much as what you may be snacking on now.

Yep, I am typing this from my desk at work right now actually. Technically I should be walking around stretching and socialising during my 10 minute break for afternoon tea but like everyone else here you just sit at your desk and hit up the internet...

Stress eating or boredom eating aside at the end of the day if you are in an office job where you are sitting from 9 to 5 then that has to have some effect on your weight, just look at the change in your TDEE and the amount of calories you can consume when you are lightly active compared to when you are moderately active.

Some of us attempt to counter our physical laziness during 9 to 5 by watching what we eat or by going to the gym but an office job is certainly a hindrance to a healthy lifestyle.

Mine did, I was sat in a car a lot of the time, or sat drinking tea, plus the stress of the job meant I often bought junk food to snack on

Desk job also + I had a gaming addiction for a few years -> I used to spend most if the day on a chair

Night shift taxi driver... So, yes! Blah

My job was a massive factor! It's difficult to diet when you work at a veterinary surgery, and you get clients giving you chocolate and biscuits and (on occasion) even a bottle of wine or two, to say thank you for saving their pet. And especially when it's someone's Birthday, all the client's seem to know too and they all make cake (this generally happens for the vets rather than the vet nurses, but still means there's at least 5 birthday cakes in the practice at once!). Easter and Christmas boxes of Celebrations/ Heros/ Roses etc are also not uncommon.

And there's Tesco Friday - the once a month lunch where everyone puts in a fiver and someone goes to Tesco and comes back with a few cooked chickens/ bacon joints, fresh bread and pastries from the bakery, and lots of cookies and crisps and dips with bread sticks.

And there's Chippy Thursday.... Chips and gravy.

And it's impossible to ignore all this, and there's only so many times you can say no before you give in to a bit of something here or there.

It got to the point where I deliberately didn't take money to work with me so that I couldn't participate in Tesco Friday and Chippy Thursday... But the chocolate was still hard to ignore

The job itself is very hectic, and often end up running around the practice, rushing about doing one thing or another, and you're lucky if you sit down at all... Lunch breaks are often limited to 15mins because it's so busy, and even in emergency situations, you may end up without a break at all... So it's easy to snack when you see chocolate.

I work in a call centre too...and did put on weight when I started there but was already big. That said while still working at a call centre (been in the same job for nearly 12 years) over the last 6.5 years i have lost 188 pounds while working there

Absolutely. Before I worked here, I weighed exactly 8 stone. After 2 years working here, I'm nearly 12 stone. I used to jog to and from the train station for my old job, now I drive door to door. There is also a Tesco around the corner which sells so many super yummy treats. There's also nowhere near as much stress with this job, so I'm not just living off half a sandwich and a main meal a day.

But actually, to be fair, I COULD get up off my lazy butt and exercise after work and resist the temptation of Tesco, I just need the willpower!!

Oh yeah, I also work 8.5 hours in an office and the only time I get up is to go to lunch or printer.

Definitely! Office job + boredom eating.

This too

Yes! But due to stress, not lack of movement.

^^^ YES! Exactly this!

My former employer was a devil incarnate, working for her was hell :devil: hence stress eating = 35 pound weight gain.

Once I quit and opened up my own business, new stresses emerged at first, but after the first year I started losing all the weight. Now over 2 years later 23 pounds gone, 7 to go

It certainly has. I work as a Night Audit. I have about 2 hours of work to do on my 8 hour shift so the other 6 hours is down time.

We have a 24 hour McDonalds and convenience store only steps away from my building.

You can figure the rest out lol

my first "growth spurt" of my adult life was when I got the earlier version of my current job, where the coffee break area had inexpensive donuts and cookies for sale. At the same time, moving here and taking this job meant that I wasn't as active as I used to be - I didn't have time, and my life wasn't set up for some of the activity I used to have.

Yep!

I used to be at the more technical end so was always moving around, lifting, bending all day long.

Then they promoted me so I spend most of my day in the office which is right next to the coffee machine and cakes! I know no one forced me to eat them but the temptation was always there (still is, I just don't give in unless I have room in that day's count) and add to that the lovely Italian deli across the road from one of the dealerships I cover and you can see it was inevitable for a weak-willed woman with a fondness for mozzarella and jaffa cakes.

I've got it under control now and even when I hit goal, I'll use the deli and the cakes as an occasional treat rather than an everyday occurance as I don't ever want to end up fat again!