I've been both of these guys. In unrelated news, I fucking hate Subway™
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Mix of different physically demanding jobs while I was building up money to pay for college. Farmwork, construction etc during the day. Unloading package trucks for UPS was probably the most energy intensive in the evening. Hand unloading 2,100 packages per hour an emptying 3-4 trailers in 4-5 hours was one hell of an aerobic workout. On a normal day I was burning 4-4500K calories in the spring and fall from the high level of activity working 12-14 hours per day. I had strongly defined abs and built a lot of muscle mass.
Winter however was something else. It was a very cold, -10F to 10 for most of the winter. It takes a lot of food to just keep warm when you are in those temps all day. I was outside enough I had to keep my house cooler (50-55F) as my metabolism shifted into high gear.
Eating 4,500-5,000 calories is pretty easy. Larger portions at meals plus a few calorie dense snacks easily gets you there.
That extra 2000-3000 calories is hard. Half a package of oreos or a dozen donuts when I woke up starving at 2am was what I resorted too. Lots of carbs and fat.
I've never been big. Even now, at my largest, I'm 6' and 200 lbs. Spent a lot of time in the 165-175lb range.
I spent most of my days stomping though fens and forests, and digging holes when I got there. While it sounds scenic (and parts of it certainly were), I've huffed it through some of the shittiest terrain imaginable while carrying gear.
My least favorites were dense shrubby fens and old burns. A buddy and I spent 20 mins moving 100 m once lol.
I'd work 300 hr months from mid May until end of November and then go on rotation on the mines to recover with 240 hr months.
10 years of that was enough. I've been luxuriating behind a desk for the last 5 years. It's a nice way to retire from the field, and my hips and back are much happier