I need some serious help

Wow, that's a tough spot to be in. I understand...I finished school while working full time, and one semester I added up that with travel time, I had over 86 hours of my week booked before I ever even did homework or slept.

First, it's quite possible to lose weight without exercise. In fact, weight loss depends solely on a calorie deficit. Being a restaurant manager could be to your advantage in this regard: you're probably constantly on the move and on your feet, which means you burn a good bit of calories just from your normal work activities. Also, being the manager, you can go off menu for meals and you have a good idea of the ingredients in everything in your work kitchen, so it should be fairly easy for you to put together healthy meals within your calorie goal.

The only things I can suggest are 1. patience. Look for ways to alter your work situation, but until then, it is what it is. 2. If you can afford it, get a fitness tracker like Fitbit or Bodymedia. Get one which will work with your phone for optimal results so that you can see your progress throughout the day. It will help you greatly to know how much you burn throughout the day and therefore exactly how much you can eat and still lose weight.

Agree with the above! You can totally lose weight without doing extrsa exercise, you sound like you're crazy active at the moment anyway. I can honestly say that most of my weight is from when I stopped being a restauarnt/bar manager!

It's all about the calories. I wouldn't go stressing about not being able to fit in exercise if I were you.

Hello everyone. I am a restaurant manager and i am required to work 60 plus hours a week AND I have a 2nd job as a graphic artist that i work on my lunch break from the restaurant. I have unpredictable hours and only one day off a week. I eat oatmeal and fruit for breakfast, 3 oz grillled ckn on a garden salad for lunch, and usually dont have a dinner break until 9 pm or later bc when everyone goes out to eat, i go to work. I get home around 11 p.m. and wake up at 5 to start all over again. I literally have no time to work out. Im at my wits end trying to figure out what to do. Im at least 35lbs overweight and slowly gaining more. There no chance that i could quit the 2nd job.

I agree with others here, log your food! I think you should switch dinner and lunch... have that big meal at lunch and that nice salad at dinner... If you are gaining your are consuming too many calories so again log everything!

I didn't see anyone else mention this on here...but you're only getting 5-6 hours (tops) of sleep a night. And that's if you're going right to bed when you get home. You're schedule is packed, but it might be worth it to see if you could sneek in a few more hours of sleep. Lack of sleep has been linked to heart disease, increased stress levels, wonky metabolism, and raising cortisol levels later in the day. More sleep won't help you lose the weight by itself, but it would definitely help supplement your efforts.

As others have said, all you need to lose weight is a caloric deficit.

If you want to get some exercise in as well, I would recommend getting some adjustable dumbbells to keep at home. You can get a good workout with those with around 20-30 minutes of work three days a week, and that time doesn't need to be consecutive.

Weight control is all about the calories. Drink protein shakes if you like 'em, don't if you don't. Set a reasonable calorie deficit (plug your numbers into MFP and go by what it tells you, though it is a common mistake to set your initial weight loss goal at 2 lbs per week and MFP will give you 1200 calories, because that is as low as it is allowed to go, and isn't enough for most. Since you don't have that much to lose, I recommend aiming for 1 or even 1/2 lb per week), log all your food, BAM.

It's not that endometriosis can cause weight gain, but hormones being out of whack, can cause both. Also, as the above poster said, you need more sleep. HGH, human growth hormone, can only be made when you are asleep. Without it you lose muscle, and your metabolism will suffer. Are you maybe eating your chicken etc at work. Do they use MSG? or anything like that. Any foods with glutamate of any kind can completely mess up your neurotransmitters, and eventually your liver which makes it very hard to burn fat. As people are fond of saying weight gain is all about calories in vs out. If the body machine is functioning appropriately. If it's not, you gotta work on vitamins, toxins, whatever is gumming up the works, so it can do what it is supposed to. Good luck, :yawn: I need more sleep too.