How to lose weight when I sit all day

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  • runshellersrun123
    runshellersrun123 Posts: 21 Member
    My husband has what's mostly a desk job. Him and a few coworkers sometimes do push-ups or sit-ups a few times an hour, but that may not fly at your workplace. He also goes to the gym on his lunch hour.
    You could keep weights at your desk and do a set once an hour. Walk the stairs on breaks, if you have any.
    And as almost everyone else said, adjust your caloric intake.
  • Bry_Fitness70
    Bry_Fitness70 Posts: 2,480 Member
    I don't complain about my desk job. Part of the benefit of obtaining an education is working in a profession that requires a lot of your mental capabilities and few of your physical ones. As a teen I worked jobs where I bailed hay, lifted boxes in a factory, lifted crates in a grocery store, planted trees at a nursery, etc., and that was fine for a young man with a strong back. But if you are still doing manual labor like that into your 30s and beyond, while you will certainly burn calories, you will also start to wear down and be gnarled up with aches and pains. So don’t mourn the plight of the desk-ridden, billions around the world are burning a lot of calories while working their fingers to the bone.

    Ok, stepping down from my soapbox - so I sit on my a** 8+ hours a day at work, but ensure that I engage in some sort of exercise 4-5 hours a week. I run or lift before work, at lunch, or after work. On weekends, I’m pretty much in motion the entire time, so those two days of activity seem to mitigate some of the damage that sedentary habits inflict on the other five days.
  • CherylJHicks
    CherylJHicks Posts: 2 Member
    strong_curves wrote: »
    I sit all day too. Walk on your lunch hour, get up earlier to work out. It can be done.

    I agree. You just gotta get creative or shift your discpline - whichever you want to call it!
  • dragon1ady
    dragon1ady Posts: 335 Member
    edited May 2015
    There are a lot of desk jobs where getting up and moving about during the day simply isn't possible. For those jobs, you will simply need to become more active outside of work to compensate.

    I don't think anyone has mentioned this so I'm going to step out of the box and suggest something radical: Get a dog.

    If that is not an option for any reason, pretend you have a dog. :)

    Make sure your imaginary dog needs at least half an hour of exercise every day, in the form of brisk walking. Also pretend large and very expressive eyes that makes you feel unbearably guilty if you skip that walk... there is a reason they call them sad puppy eyes.
  • CherylJHicks
    CherylJHicks Posts: 2 Member
    bw_conway wrote: »
    I don't complain about my desk job. Part of the benefit of obtaining an education is working in a profession that requires a lot of your mental capabilities and few of your physical ones. As a teen I worked jobs where I bailed hay, lifted boxes in a factory, lifted crates in a grocery store, planted trees at a nursery, etc., and that was fine for a young man with a strong back. But if you are still doing manual labor like that into your 30s and beyond, while you will certainly burn calories, you will also start to wear down and be gnarled up with aches and pains. So don’t mourn the plight of the desk-ridden, billions around the world are burning a lot of calories while working their fingers to the bone.

    Ok, stepping down from my soapbox - so I sit on my a** 8+ hours a day at work, but ensure that I engage in some sort of exercise 4-5 hours a week. I run or lift before work, at lunch, or after work. On weekends, I’m pretty much in motion the entire time, so those two days of activity seem to mitigate some of the damage that sedentary habits inflict on the other five days.

    Well said.
  • ChantelLorimerGeorgeous
    ChantelLorimerGeorgeous Posts: 2 Member
    Hi sweetie if you are holding water a great way to get rid of it is to take a bath with epsoms salts in them... I have found that this is so effective I have even had to get up out of my bath half way through to take a big wee!! (sorry if to much detail lol) check with your doctor if you have any preexisting issues and get your epsoms salts from a good health food shop if you can as they will have a better type/grade especially for bathing in xx Good luck x
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Eat less.

    Even if you sit 9 hours, it still leaves 15 hours in the day though... take 8 hours of sleep, that's 7 hours you have to be active.

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