Anyone with a Desk job?

Hiya, I'm an IT engineer so I know aaaaaalllll about sitting at a desk all day! I'm a Fitbit user and try to hit at least 9k steps a day. I'll send you an FR

Have one here, and can go hours without leaving my office. How do you like the Fitbit and how do you use it?

I've had a desk job for years. I do try to get up and stretch every few hours. I rarely leave for lunch so I eat quickly and get back to work. I do live in my office especially when junk food is brought in by vendors. It gets irritating when there are bagels, cookies, subs, etc in the kitchen for all to grab. The worst is when Mexican food is brought in (yummmm); which is my #1 weakness.

Yep - desk worker here. The days I am in the office, I get to walk to and from the station which helps enormously. Days I work from home I do struggle. I take the time to take a proper lunch break and go for a walk or find a short online workout that I can do from home. I agree with @MaddMaestro - good diet is vital (and restraint). I work in a team of eaters - who eat in the office when they are celebrating something, happy, sad, stressed - and I have learnt that I simply have to say no to joining them. It gets comments some days but hey - I'm more concerned about my health than eating to please someone else!

I've got a fitbit which buzzes every hour on my wrist with a nudge to get up and walk - I will walk to the furthest kitchen on the floor, fill up my water and walk back. By the time I've taken a couple of detours to talk to people that I need to, I'm close to my 250 steps an hour.

@Amyfinch0 - I work in central london so prices for food are ridiculous. We make meals at home in the evening, freeze leftovers and I then take a portion of something into the office to reheat and I will stock up on fruit, yoghurt and snacks as part of our weekly household shop. If I go for a walk at lunchtime I now deliberately leave my purse in the office so that I can't buy crisps, chocolate etc. Works for my diet and my bank balance!

I don't know if this helps but when I filled everything out I put down a sedentary lifestyle.
I am 50 I now have 20 lbs left to go but mfp gives me only 1270 calories.
Right now I am not on a machine that will let me add friends but feel free to add me or I will come back later.
I work full time and am lucky to get 400 steps in at work. I make an effort at lunchtime but this job serves food to us a couple times a month. Today is pizza day last week we had donut day. More than half the workers are overweight.

I would definitely like some friends who have desk jobs.

I have a desk job - and I'm there ALL day. I drink lots of water so I make myself walk to the restroom that is far away and I always take the stairs. I go to the gym for an hour during lunch (thankfully we have a gym on campus).

@Amyfinch0 - I eat ALL DAY LONG. The things that have changed is what I eat now. I have a mini fridge at my desk and bring all my food in on Tuesday (work Tues-Fri). This week - boiled eggs, cheese sticks, cottage cheese, peaches, yogurt, watermelon, fajita chicken (w/sour cream and cheese) over a bed of lettuce, and protein shakes. I'll eat at least 4 times while I'm at work - maybe five if I work late. In an entire day I eat a total of 6 mini meals.

I am in a desk job too. I went from being in an office where I was moving around fairly often to a new job where I sit all the time. I adjusted my program last night because of it and I'm a little freaked out about the fact that I have about 300 less kcal a day now. But, that just means I have to make better choices, right?! I'll send you a friend request!

I'd be happy for anyone in this thread to add me as well! I think support from people who deal with being at a desk all day would be wonderful.

I have a desk job and I get 10K before leaving the office at 5. I come about 40 minutes early and walk to get coffee at McDonald's then I take 2 five-ten min breaks, morning and afternoon, and I walk around the outer perimeter of my building. On lunch I have an hour so I walk 20 minutes each way to Wendy's to grab a chili for lunch. By the time I go home my sedentary job is a 10K step day plus what I do in the evenings.

I also spend all day sat at my desk! Used to walk to my old job so losing weight was easy, but now I work too far away and drive, so spend all day sat down I hate it! Add me too, would be good to see how other desk workers eat throughout the day

Standing desk job here.

Thank you AshEvelynn.

@thewindandthework what sorts of meals are you making? I'm thinking about at least prepping lunches on the weekends, and I am trying to get all the ideas I can.

sunilkherain wrote: »

i hve question.. I want to shredd 4 kg... and ...as per MFP my daily goal is 2250 calories ... At the end of the day..MFP tell me that more than 1000 calroies left.. then why do i gain weight ... if i don't do exercise and eat much less than my required quota of calories.

Are you weighing and measuring everything you eat? If you don't have a digital scale, consider getting one and using it to track everything. It's a great way to get in the habit of eating rational portions of things.