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I lost 10lb in 2020 while WFH. Didn’t put any real effort. I just ate a lot more home cooked meals. Didn’t even exercise. Walked very little, drove everywhere.

I lost 10lb in 2020 while WFH. Didn’t put any real effort. I just ate a lot more home cooked meals. Didn’t even exercise. Walked very little, drove everywhere. Then I went back full time to the office in late 2021 and gained all of it back. Only difference is I started eating office food again - office food that is specifically supposed to be “healthy”. I even walked and biked a lot more thanks to the commute.

quest88 3y ago
Calories are king, healthiness of food be damned. You're consuming too many calories is all.
- decafninja 3y ago
  Yes. Just surprising how calorie dense the “healthy” office food is versus home food despite not seeming so. The home food was not made with any particular effort to be above and beyond healthy or low calorie either.
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    It's impossible to consume a healthy amount of industrialized "office-safe" food and still get enough nutrition from it to go on with your day. That's as true for the "healthy" alternatives as it is from the proud to be junk ones.
doublerabbit 3y ago
So why didn't you cook meals at home and bring them in? You can't blame weight gain on laziness.
- decafninja 3y ago
  Because my commute is lengthy and grueling. Whatever time I had to cook for myself is consumed by the commute. My job pays me well enough to bite the bullet and endure the senseless commute. But not well enough to move closer to the office and trade my nice suburban apartment for a (older, rattier, with less amenities) shoebox half the size for more the cost.
  - doublerabbit 3y ago
    So your telling me you don't have five minutes of your life to make food for you to take to work? One baguette, two bagels, three rolls. Throw whatever you wish in there and you'll be done in less than ten minutes. Unless you were cooking roast turkeys for lunch. What about the time it took you to read HN, or even type that message? No judgement but there is always time in the day to make food. [I am an HN Edit Bot and make snide comments when downvoted: 1 person(s) dislikes the concept of making their own food]
    - decafninja 3y ago
      Of course I have five minutes, or even thirty minutes, or more. It's not literally just the time. After a tired long day at work, followed by a soul draining commute on public transportation, I'm simply too - yes, lazy - and tired to do anything productive, even for just a few minutes even though I know objectively it's not that much effort. I'm sure many people know this feeling.

quest88 3y ago

Calories are king, healthiness of food be damned. You're consuming too many calories is all.

decafninja 3y ago
Yes. Just surprising how calorie dense the “healthy” office food is versus home food despite not seeming so. The home food was not made with any particular effort to be above and beyond healthy or low calorie either.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  It's impossible to consume a healthy amount of industrialized "office-safe" food and still get enough nutrition from it to go on with your day. That's as true for the "healthy" alternatives as it is from the proud to be junk ones.

doublerabbit 3y ago

So why didn't you cook meals at home and bring them in? You can't blame weight gain on laziness.

decafninja 3y ago
Because my commute is lengthy and grueling. Whatever time I had to cook for myself is consumed by the commute. My job pays me well enough to bite the bullet and endure the senseless commute. But not well enough to move closer to the office and trade my nice suburban apartment for a (older, rattier, with less amenities) shoebox half the size for more the cost.
- doublerabbit 3y ago
  So your telling me you don't have five minutes of your life to make food for you to take to work? One baguette, two bagels, three rolls. Throw whatever you wish in there and you'll be done in less than ten minutes. Unless you were cooking roast turkeys for lunch. What about the time it took you to read HN, or even type that message? No judgement but there is always time in the day to make food. [I am an HN Edit Bot and make snide comments when downvoted: 1 person(s) dislikes the concept of making their own food]
  - decafninja 3y ago
    Of course I have five minutes, or even thirty minutes, or more. It's not literally just the time. After a tired long day at work, followed by a soul draining commute on public transportation, I'm simply too - yes, lazy - and tired to do anything productive, even for just a few minutes even though I know objectively it's not that much effort. I'm sure many people know this feeling.