Anonymous wrote:I have an hour commute but it's on the VRE. Metro is disgusting.

My DH had a 45 minute commute on VRE. He loved it. He took Metro before we moved and despised every soul-sucking minute of his commute. VRE is so much better. We moved again to a small town and his commute is 7 minutes if he hits the red light. Mine is 4 minutes unless I get stopped by the train.

Anonymous wrote:How do by you gain 10# due to commuting?? Are you eating the entire time?

Is this really that hard to comprehend? The longer commute means less productive hours in the day. If PP normally worked out before school pickup but now spends that hour in traffic, working out was probably harder to fit in plus she was probably more exhausted as a result once she made it to her neighborhood.

I went from working within a 1-2 min walk to work last year to a commute of one hour and definitely fell off of the exercise wagon for months. Drop off and pickups were tighter as result whereas I used to have time to hit the gym or happy hour to unwind first. After gaining weight, I changed our school's bus stop and found a gym a block from there to work out until the bus arrived. I'm moving to a position much closer to home next month and look forward to having some breathing room in my schedule again.

Anonymous wrote:My DH looks at his public transportation time (1 hour plus each way) as time to nap/unwind and he doesn't mind it at all. I on the other hand, have never had to commute more than 15 minutes for my job.
Oh my goodness!!!! How do you do it? I have been doing it for 2 weeks and I actually think I am going to lose my mind! Between motion sickness and smelly, rude people this is too much...
How do you do it?

Try driving for an hour each way...it's worse than public transportation.

metro forces you to be near yucky people and criminals

I had a 2 hr commute for a couple of months. It was hell on my knees. I moved closer to the job for a bit.

I sat on the beltway for 30 min today (drove home from an event a little too close to rush hour). It was brutal. I would hate to have a bad commute.

I went without a car for about six months. It was shocking what a difference it made on everything. Unless you are in the middle of a city with excellent mass transit, not having a car is awful.

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Anonymous wrote:How do by you gain 10# due to commuting?? Are you eating the entire time?

Because its an excuse. Commuting has zero relationship with healthy eating habits. And bad eating habits are the #1 driver of obesity.

Unless your commute severely limits your available free time to workout, which is the problem I'm facing. 75 minutes each way, have to leave my house no later than 6-6:15, in the evenings I'm default parent with daycare pickup, activity drop off, pick up, dinners, baths. By the time DH gets home 8:30 or later, I'm too tired to get a workout in. Plus I often need to work an hour or more in the evening, depending, which can't start until kids are in bed or DH gets home. I try to awake at 4:30 for a bike/run/jog, and am successful 2x week max. I pack extremely healthy foods for my day (fruit, raw veg, salad without cheese or animal protein, maybe just some kidney beans), drink tons of water everyday, park the farthest I can in the metro parking lot, always walk the escalator, get off one or two stops from my office to get a brief walk in at the start/end of the commute. Still, it's not enough, at 40 and needing to lose 10-20 pounds, I need at least 3 or more serious workouts each week. With our current life situation, location of jobs/home, ain't happening.

I''m not complaining, but merely proving an anecdote that it's pretty easy to understand how a long commute could contribute to 10 pounds. No need for the snarky "Tubby" remarks, walk a mile in our shoes before you judge.

I loved taking the Tube to work when I lived in London. The traffic was awful. Most days I could walk faster to the Tube than the traffic. I listened to my Diskman (this was way back in the 90s) or read a book. I got lots of exercise too walking.

Mine is about 50 mins each way with a combination of bus and metro, and I listen to music and read so I look forward to it. It really is the most peaceful part of my day. It would be a totally different matter if I had to drive at all, though.

I have an hour commute but it's on the VRE. Metro is disgusting.