seriously though 😂
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Looking like they ate nine cans of ravioli!!
Working outside gives you a good appetite
Am a construction worker. Am fat. Hours suck. Everything hurts. Meal prep time limited. Exercise is painful. I still try really hard for the sake of my family. I doubt I’ll ever be thin again.
Eat to much and once you’re good at it, it’s not that hard.
I blame all the beer I have to drink to self-medicate after the workday.
Bad diet and lack of sleep. For most of my teens and adult life I worked out religiously. Getting into construction made that harder but as the years went on it became very hard to keep up with 8hrs sleep, exercise and life balance. I’ve went from strict diet and exercise to fast food and suboptimal sleep back to strict a few times. It’s not easy. For me anyway.
1500 calories of Beer at night to celebrate surviving another day!
Poor diet.
I walk 10+ miles a day. Easy. The machine I operate has no cab and it gets hot as hell.
Yet here I am 50+lbs overweight.
I can throw my co-worker 15 feet but I can’t walk up a set of stairs without being winded.
But my diet consists of some of the worst shit a human can eat day to day. And on top of that I have a coffee a monster or whatever.
I’m not proud of it but when you stay in hotels and work 12-14 hours a day you can only do so much.
Also hard work doesn’t equal exercise. Had a sales guy say once, while I was doing flooring work, “you’re lucky it’s like being paid to exercise!” bitch my knees are in in shambles.
Because we’re mostly miserable and food is the only dopamine hit we get that doesn’t leave us hungover and that the job doesn’t test for.
The fat ones are the only ones not addicted to pills, cocaine, or nicotine.
Alcohol and terrible diet
I blame the beer and booze and the stress hormones
Trade wisdom is stored in the belly
Fast food and energy drinks. Smoking weed makes you hungry for some sweet stuff too.
Alcohol. That’s literally it for many. Or gas station burritos & Monsters.
Greecy breakfasts
Most guys feel like their job is exercise enough, that they don’t need to do any other physical activities to stay in shape. That may work when you first start out in the trade, but after a while, muscle memory prevents any more gains. Plus there’s typically no cardio involved.
Once I started exercising after work, I made significant gains in overall health
Sugar addiction. Huge carb intake. If we stop drinking sugary beverages and carb filled beer. Then cut back on the carb heavy fast food and such it would be an easy fix. Bring your lunch drink water. Smoke weed it’s carb free.
Beer, gas station food, crappy diet
My diet of monster energy drinks and weekend cocaine have kept me in peak physical condition
You help build and maintain an entire country and then are constantly dismissed and pushed aside. Your economic class is dismantled and mutilated by same said country.
You either go crazy, live in therapy, or…..self medicate.
But you still wake up and strap up those boots. Others depend on you.
In the end, your body pays the price, sick, hurt, or tired.
We get to rest when we are 6ft down……
Beer after work to kill the pain. Shit food during the day because it’s convenient. And on bigger jobs a lot of the heavy labor is done with machines
Apparently the answer is self destruction, these comments are wildÂ
It’s the alcohol+diet. Lots of beer
Most construction work is active, and it will keep your strength up, but it isn’t that much cardio.
Throw in a bad diet and low activity outside work and you fat.