How Much Weight Can You Lose Being a Package Handler?

MTT Purple Belt
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I work "function fourth dimension" at UPS equally a parcel handler. This is absolute grunt work at its finest. I am stumped every bit to how many calories I am burning per shift. I sort, but as well finish upward on the heaviest truck loading on some nights. Anyone else doing this take an estimate of how many calories they are burning? I am trying to figure this out so I can adjust because I haven't touched the gym in six months, I come up domicile from piece of work and eat like a disgusting grunter and am withal losing weight.. not fat anymore, there is none left. Muscle weight. I would similar to PROPERLY compensate and head back to the gym.
In general, I am there for five-vi hours a nighttime lately. If I sort, the piece of work load is much easier. If I load, I am on a heavy truck only and am touching 275 or so packages an hr, loading them into trucks. The shit office is since the truck is a heavy load, everything is between 50-70 lbs of those 275/hr, as opposed to lower weight packages.

Anyone else doing this grunt work have a effigy?
Don't know what the caloric expenditure is but I feel your pain. I used to work total time loading/unloading containers. Fucked up thing is there are days where I actually miss it.
At least a thousand. Go on your protein intake high to offset the demands of the chore
i used to work in a warehouse years ago.. Surprisingly keeps you lot in decent shape..
nevertheless somehow fatty people who work there manage to stay fatty lol. Prob out of laziness
Yeah I had a few guys on my rotation who were pretty fucking fat. WHen I started at that place I couldn't quite figure it out. Merely later a while I noticed how strategically lazy they were. They also drank a ton more booze than the rest of us.
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hey homo, i accept friends that are coal miners and exercise some pretty strenuous stuff throughout the day and they piece of work with some existent fat guys too. they say those fatty guys eat zip during the day and then go dwelling and drink beer and eat an entire pizza.
so if you put your body into starvation manner and then eat thousands of calories of shit in one sitting yous'll keep the lbs on. gross.
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i worked unload for years i think it was 1500 cals a night but i drank like a fish back then and didn't lose much weight
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I unloaded trailers and package cars at UPS for a few years, and that is some strenuous work, particularly if yous take it seriously (similar I did most of the time). I would say 1,000 calories/60 minutes isn't too high an estimate, if you're unloading one box every 3 seconds (like we had to when I was there). Everyone, no matter their size, would lose weight the first month subsequently working there.
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I've been working at UPS for a fiddling over a year. Yeah information technology's hard piece of work and it sucks. We don't even make much money. Non sure as to how many calories you lot're burning. attempt to snack while at work. I know information technology's busy but something real quick from the vending car? Not sure how clean you're trying to eat, just yous could grab a honey bun or something while at piece of work.
Same here. I worked for a moving visitor for a few years. Carrying boxes and piece of furniture for 10-16 60 minutes days 5 days a week gave me an absolutely insane ambition. No idea how many calories I burned but it was probably super high since information technology was lots of running upward and down stairs with boxes/furniture all 24-hour interval.
I drove for coca cola and take downstacked and delivered anywhere betwixt 700-1000 cases of soda a day. 10 hour route plus 115 degree AZ heat I'd say I burned probably 2000 cal a day. I've as well worked for DHL as a driver and that was a breeze compared to coke. All-time in shape guys around for labor piece of work are the beverage drivers from coke and bud. They get the most business per capita and have insanely heavy routes.