I work in an Office, and losing weight is so hard!

I have a FitBit to track my steps.
I bring healthy snacks, so I don't waste money in the lunch room.
I exercise after work, so I look forward to that.
I drink a lot of water, so I'm always walking to the bathroom.
I stand as much as possible.
For me, I typically don't eat "lunch." I walk for my lunch. I have 2-3 snacks per day at my desk.

It's hard to fit exercise in during working hours but it's not impossible to find time when you've got the right motivation! If the gym is too far away (or in my case, too expensive!) find a way to get your exercise in other ways.

For instance, I walk to work. It's 20 minutes each way but that's 40 minutes of walking that I'd rather have than lose. Have you thought about maybe going for a run/walking more around home? Or even go back to your dancing - just do it sober in your living room. You could even think about some fitness DVDs, whatever keeps you moving and motivated

I have a fitbit too, and LOVE IT. My favorite thing is a chart it has showing calories burned vs. calorie intake.

I get up once an hour to walk around the office. Each "set" I do of about 2 laps has about 300-ish steps, so if I get up 7 times, I've done 2100 steps by the time I leave work, not including whatever steps I take at lunch and after work.

I have a dorm fridge in my office. I keep healthy snacks in it - yogurt, light string cheese, bottles of water, diet soda, etc.

2 things I keep in my drawer:
Special K protein water mix - pink lemonade. 30 cals, about 5 g protein, and about 5 g fiber.
Chocolite protein bars (www.healthsmartfoods.com) - about 100 cal's, 10g protein, 10g fiber, gluten free, sugar free

Take as many trips to the copier as you can, trips to the bathroom, trips to the shredding bin or shredder. Find excuses to get up and move around as often as possible.

do you work in the city, or out in Long Island - one of the things I did when I lived in the city was get of the subway a stop or two earlier and walk part of the way - I lived out in Washington Heights, but worked on the upper east side on 2nd Ave - so if time/weather permitted, just stayed on the west side trains and walked crosstown.

Living in Long Island, I suppose you can bike - or at work, do office exercises/chair exercises, you can exercise/walk in your neighborhood at home

you are on your own with the cafeteria, never had experience with an office that had one of those - but you can try bringing your own healthy snacks to munch on instead

I have a FitBit to track my steps.
I bring healthy snacks, so I don't waste money in the lunch room.
I exercise after work, so I look forward to that.
I drink a lot of water, so I'm always walking to the bathroom.
I stand as much as possible.
For me, I typically don't eat "lunch." I walk for my lunch. I have 2-3 snacks per day at my desk.

^ This (although I do eat lunch). I don't go for walks at lunch at the moment as it's stupid cold where I am, but I do go out for walks during breaks once the weather improves.

Take breaks and find some obscure corner of the building and get a quick workout in.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
Watch your intake. Don't take in what you can't burn off.
Drink lots of water.
Get off the train. Get off one stop before yours and walk the rest of the way.

I work in an office, too. The most important thing is to plan what you're going to eat. I take my lunch every day. If I don't, then I will absolutely fail. I am also a grad student and a mom so my schedule is very structured. I carve out an hour of exercise time before I go to work. You just have to test the waters and try to find a good time frame for you to work out. It took me a couple of months to really get into it - sometimes I work out before work and after work. Sometimes I do squats and lunges at my desk!

I don't have a gym membership, either. I bought some used dumbbells at Play It Again Sports. The world is my gym! Good luck!

My 10 year anniversary of joining the working office world is this August, and I've gained 50 pounds since then! My goal is to lose those 50 lbs by August

Here's what I do:

*Carefully carefully watching what I eat and staying within my calorie limits. There are dozens of fast food options within short walking distance to my office, which I have overindulged at for my entire working career. I allow myself one fast food meal a week, and then everything else is homemade. I have a breakfast heavy on protein, pack my own lunch and have a healthy snack for the afternoon.

*Walking over my lunch hour. I'm lucky that I live in the frigid north and our downtown area is all connected by skyway, so there's lots of indoor walking. If there isn't anything like that near you, perhaps a mall to walk in?

*Go to a gym that is on my train ride home. Once I get in the door, all I want to do is sit on the couch and veg, so I need to make sure I get my exercise done before I get anywhere near home.

I work in an office too I just try to get extra steps in. I will walk to the water cooler( 33 steps from my desk) about 10 times during the day. I do squats in the hallway for the 2 minutes my lunch is heating up. People just roll their eyes and walk on by, I dont give a flying you know what!! I also bought a bunch of workout DVD's at goodwill and pawn shops to do on my lunch break if I have more time. It can be done!!! Good Luck!!!

it's funny because my story is the complete opposite of yours. I gained MOST of my weight in college. 80 pounds after gaining about 20 in highschool. getting a full time job after college is what helped me lose weight believe it or not. the office job gave my life some structure.

You said you lived in Long Island? I'm from NY so I know how the commute is. Instead of working out near home why don't you just work out near your job? I get most of my workouts done right after work on my way home. And on the weekends you can always do a workout at home. Also, instead of eating the cafeteria lunches and snacks you should be making your own food and bringing it with you. Try to plan out your meals for the day so that when you do get home after working out you have an idea of what you are going to eat.

I know it's hard to adjust but it really is easy to lose weight with an office job. You just have to want it enough.

1) I bring my food in from home, that way I'm in control of what I eat.
2) I take walking breaks. It's not necessarily anything timed, but it's ususally something like using the bathroom a floor below / above and using the stairs.
3) I have the "You are Your Own Gym" book and app. No gym necessary. Even now that I have a gym in walking distance, it forms the foundation of my exercise program because I don't need to worry about open hours or crowds in my back yard.

I work in an office. I've managed to lose weight. So have many other people.

Track your calories. Eat at a moderate deficit. Exercise at home. There are plenty of exercise videos online - youtube, amazon, etc are your friend. Buy some dvds if you want. Get outside and go for a walk or run.

You can either make excuses for your situation or you can find the best solution and work at it.

I think you're being unnecessarily harsh here. It's obvious this person has a professional office job for the first time, and getting used to that scene takes some time. If the OP is asking because she doesn't know, why is that making excuses?

One of the things you need to do when working in an office is to get your body to the point where it burns a high amount of calories even when you are sitting. Strength training will do wonders for you, because your metabolism will still be relatively high even when you are inactive. The last time I worked in an office, it was hard because our workload was measured in terms of how much we accomplished at our desks-- making it nearly impossible to get up and move around as much. In fact, we were yelled at for having low productivity and then would get asked why always left our desks-- even if it was 3-4 times a day! I'll never take a job like that again.

The job before that was much easier to move around in. I would get up and walk to the printer to get my documents. I would stand and work as much as I could. I would go for walks during my breaks. Our supervisor was also health-savvy and he bought a couple of exercise balls for us to all sit on, and we'd even fight over them! LOL. Find a few good strategies that work for you in your office and implement them one by one.

The meal planning is also necessary. A pitfall of an office is people will bring in "bad food" all the time, there are potlucks a lot, and snacks sitting around. Controlling your eating habits and portions is going to be a given no matter the work environment.

Does your office building have stairs? Use them all the time. Get in a few flights when you arrive, some at lunch, and some before you go home.

Get yourself a lunchbox and pack it each day with food you like--stuff that's good enough to keep you out of the cafeteria.

Get a 32 ounce bottle and fill it with water when you get there and again after lunch. Drink both of them.

I work in an office as well.
Bringing your own lunch really helps. I leave everything ready the night before so I don’t have to wake up early to prepare my food. I just put it in my bag and off I go.
Keep healthy snacks at your desk so you can munch on fruits and nuts instead of the more caloric office canteen stuff.