Corporate life and gaining weight

[Gmorkster]

What do you do if you're in the office for 12-13 hours a day, sitting on your comfortable chair, in front of the computer? At noon, even though you have one hour lunch break, you're too busy to go out, so you order pizza, and eventually have one or two slices while keeping the other hand on the keyboard. How can you NOT gain weight with such a schedule?

[ishchopra]

Hey mate,

you said very rightly but i guess you are not even maintaining your official cycle.. either you are occupied with lot of work where you need an assistance to help you or you like to work for 12-13 hrs.. in this kind of schedule you can only do one thing.. try to walk as much as you can even in your official routine also..

thats what i can say

[vandy]

Yes you are right that gaining weight is one the burning problems in the corporate world.Officers do tend to sit opposite to computers for hours & they also even forget to take their meals. Well thats too much of a work load for you.I think you should keep an assistant so that your work load decreases and you are able to give attention to your personal health by going for workouts in gyms. You will feel free about your body.

[wellness]

very simple.. when you go home, do some household work. clean your home ,mop the floor and go around the house to do chores..u can also avoid taking the lift thrice a week

[ENGLISH]

Well even i'l working in a corporate but i'm so lean and the thing is i lost my weight with this corporate life of sitting in a single chair for hours.That resulted in lot of problems to my backbone.The corporate life really sucks at big time but what else to do being an IT professional i know only to code and don't know anything other than that.

[christopher kevin]

@ English
You should eat a balanced diet ,make sure the weight u have lost is fat not the lean muscle mass and for your back problem if you do exercise like dead lifts in a period of time you can get the right posture to sit and your back wont pain
@Gmorkster
you can eat your favorite food ,play your favorite sport in the morning, enjoy your life between your busy schedule
cheers

[dick white]

Hello

Eat, Eat, Eat!

It is pretty simple, you need to eat more. What do you want, a get ripped quick pill? Just like the overweight people have to eat less, you need to eat more.
If you can't handle a lot of food in one sitting, eat 8 times a day, every 2 hours. Eat calorie-dense food and you'll gain weight. It may be tough, but it isn't easy for overweight people to lose that weight.
Feed Your Muscles

I have exactly the same problem. I used to be 6' 1" and about 143 lbs. I started going to the gym, but no real results came... then one of the trainers took me aside and told me possibly the most obvious and effective way of putting on mass. She said, "You have to eat, and you have to eat a lot." So I did... At first I couldn't stomach it. So I ate as normal and also used meal replacement powders, which didn't fill me up as much. It eventually kick started my previously non-existent appetite. I have since gone off that and only take pure protein powder after workouts and before bed. My appetite has increased substantially and I make sure I eat constantly throughout the day and combine this with 3-4 gym sessions a week. 8 months later I weigh 182 lbs. And I'm glad to say that it's basically all been good weight. As much as "eat more" sounds like a terrible and result-free option... it's the only way you're going to put on mass. Just be ready to buy new shirts.

[alisha34]

Hello friends

1)Eat Junk After Exercise:We always hear “I’ll work it off” – implying that one will exercise harder AFTER eating junk to burn up the extra calories consumed. A better option is to exercise BEFORE you intend eating junk. This way, your metabolism gets a boost to help handle the extra calories. Also, exercise helps reduce appetite (especially hard exercise),
so you don’t eat as much junk.
2)Go for Chocolate instead of Cake:When feeling like junk food or “bad” food, go for non-starch options instead of starch options. So, where possible, when feeling the need for “junk” or sweet foods, go for chocolate/s, sweets, custards, ice cream, frozen yoghurts, burgers (no bun), fried chicken…instead of cakes, muffins, biscuits (cookies), breads, pastas, pizza’s etc
3)Don’t Drink calories:Consuming too many calories leads to weight gain. Period. Sugary fizzy drinks AND FRUIT JUICES contain loads of calories. Where possible, drink water, tea and coffee and try to limit higher calorie sugary fizzy drinks and fruit juices….
4)Don’t think about 3 + 2:So many diets talk about 3 meals a day, plus 2 snacks….try to eat 3 meals a day, and snack when you want to. Also, don’t snack on junk either - fruit, nuts, yoghurt are best bets. Remember that “junk” should be limited to once-per-day max.
5)Salads Make Great Lunches:Easily reduce calories and increase your nutritional intake by trying to make your lunchtime meal, a salad meal. This also makes eating out really easy.

Thanks

[kathrin]

Hello
A couple of years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a 33-year-old colleague on career goals. He simply said that he looked forward to 240 more monthly pay-checks, with every thirteenth cheque being larger than the twelfth. The rest, he said, was mere detail.

Most of us "MBA-types" find such monumentally phlegmatic heights difficult to attain. And with good reason too - as you climb the corporate ladder, it is easy to get bogged down in a confusing morass of targets, bottom-lines, strategies and vision-statements, many of which are singularly "un-visionary".

Life after B-school is a constant race for promotions, grades and fat bonuses that are as elusive as the proverbial will-o'-the-wisp. You suddenly realise that trench warfare did not go out with World War I, and your B-school never told you what to do when stress-overheating jams your guns.

Here are a couple of quick-and-dirty tips on how to keep your blood-pressure down and last longer in the never-ending race.

For starters, never take yourself too seriously. Sure, you are an important executive who takes many key decisions. But once you leave your office, be nice to the cabbie who takes you home, and the paanwallah round the corner who supplies that much-needed smoke.

Remember that they don't work for you and to them you are just another human being, shorn of all the trappings of corporate clout. You leave your chair and your power behind in your office, and when you start missing that point, it is time to take a deep breath.

Have fun at work - if you smile often, it does not mean that you lack the "senior management" aura. A sense of humour goes a long way in creating sustainable relationships, especially when you can laugh at your own little foibles.

Encourage humour with a dash of irreverence, and you will find that it also creates an atmosphere of openness, rather than grim-faced, grumpy automatons who say "yes" on cue.

Take leave every year, at least two weeks at a stretch. Recharge your batteries regularly - or run the risk of an early burnout.

[christbarr44]

Stress is a vicious cycle. It is unavoidable and it inevitably snowballs until what was initially the cause of your stress is no longer the root of the problem. The greatest point of frustration is now how to deal with the stress. What was originally stressing you out to begin with cannot even begin to be tackled to the best of your ability if your head is clouded with frustration.
use Lavender Oil: It is a stress buster that not just wards off tension but also relieves you of mental exhaustion and agitation arising out of office nuances. It also improves concentration.

[smith007]

I ate as normal and also used meal replacement powders, which didn't fill me up as much. It eventually kick started my previously non-existent appetite. I have since gone off that and only take pure protein powder after workouts and before bed. My appetite has increased substantially and I make sure I eat constantly throughout the day and combine this with 3-4 gym sessions a week. 8 months later I weigh 182 lbs. And I'm glad to say that it's basically all been good weight.

[stevebucknor1]

you are absolutely right that gaining weight is one the burning problems in the corporate world.Officers do tend to sit opposite to computers for hours & they also even forget to take their meals. It is really important to care about it.

[urlelove]

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