Lifestyle tips

I have a relative that is a long distance truck driver....started out when he was 24....probably 34 now and 150 + lbs. later.

I see long distant truck drivers that have some of the hugest guts for men that still do a little bit of walking around.

For women I would say telemarketers or the sort. Women that stay in these sort of jobs blow up to some large proportions.

I knew a young lady who worked as a receptionist at a local telemarketing agency initially average in size. After several months of always having junk food at her desk she became large. Another receptionist had said that she could not believe how this young woman could just keep eating junk food all day. According to her, everytime that she would look over at her, she was eating some kind of pastry.

Another vote for office job... at my desk for 90%+ of the day.

Yes office jobs are the best way to gain my old work friend was so super fit watched what she ate loved the gym etc she didn't socialise or go out much she basically just loved fitness, then she left to have a baby in which she obviously gained weight while pregnant, but after having the kid she slowly got back to her Original fitness and weight through exercise, then she got a part time office when her maternity leave was up what with looking after the kid and working it left her very little time to exercise so she had to totally stop her exercise which she said was very difficult because it had basically been her life up till the pregnancy and starting the office job but she soon got into a routine at her new job what with not exercising and work mates bringing in snacks she soon started to put on weight very quick because she learned to love food at work and she is heavier now than during her pregnancy and says she is much happier being a size 16 then being all toned up and the extra weight has given her more confidence to go and enjoy herself socially which she has put down to her new office job she loves it

Between that and your prior post mentioning occupations, I'm surprised.

The industries with the highest percentages and those occupations are more likely to be active, no?

Sure, physical activity may not burn a lot of calories but I doubt someone with an active job would have an easy ability to snack on the job, which would limit the amount you can eat.

Not sure how many opportunities an ER nurse would have to snack, for example.

The lower percentage in the industries of finance, insurance, or professional services is also curious. Seems like most of the work those industries provide would be desk jobs where you'd plop down your expanding gut and widening ass into a desk chair all day, typing at a computer while you snack on doughnuts, candy, cookies, and drink coffee all day.

But, there's probably something I'm missing.

THIS.
It's not about the career, it's about the tribe, lol.
My wife got so fat mainly because she got into a rhythm with some fattie coworkers that normalized eating behaviors for her that I never could have done at home. Before long, the constant social pressure to tag along with them and pig out had her just another fattie on the team.

Yet she'll always have that competitive girl reassurance, "yeah I've gotten super fat. But I'm not even close to as fat as X team member. I'll never get THAT big...... 🙄

That's the point. Most people don't develop personal habits in a vacuum; they're assimilated from their environment and social pressures. So if you're a skinny girl who came from a thin family, spouse is thin - the workplace becomes the primary place for exposure to different eating habits, particularly since you're around coworkers more than you're actual spouse.

When all of a sudden you're on a work team where everybody's overweight and your boss invites you along to McD's and ice cream - regardless that you don't like fast food, you don't want to be the lone anti-socialite of the bunch.

Doesn't take long before you're tagging along daily with the tribe, dessert after lunch is a given, you're actually the one picking up the donuts with the corporate card in the morning. Then it's not long before those habits start bleeding their way into your home life.

At least that's how it's been for my wife with her last two jobs where she was surrounded by very heavy web designers.

Good point. I've seen both sides. Her prior job was working around skinny millennial chicks that constantly made her self-conscious and always made her feel like she was the whale on the team.

But now that she works with a bunch of heavier girls, she's one of the "smaller" ones. And because they're all gaining, they all mentally play the "well at least I'm not as fat as ______". But they don't understand that they're comparing themselves to a moving target as they gain together.

My partner and I own a photography business together. When he stopped doing field work and basically just sits around for post development, he gained about 100 lbs in 9 months. Sits all day, goes home and drinks a massive amount of bear, sleeps and repeats.

I work in a call center and sit all day and don't hava to get out of my chair all day