Lockdown Weight Gain

Down 10lbs. Just too bored with cooking to bother most of the time. Result is a lot less caloric intake.

 

I’m up 5 lbs since lockdown. Sucks.

 

If I had that babe hangin' on me I wouldn't care ....up about 10-15

 

I know !!! . If she doesn’t mind I don’t mind.

 

I have ... not I’ve ...mega pet peeve.

 

I'm about the same or a couple of pounds lower. I don't drink or eat much junk food.

 

I dropped 15kg in the year before 'rona, have just weighed myslf and put 2 back on. I'm ok with that - i've not been able to do my regular workout for a couple of weeks as i sprained my back chopping logs. 2KG is simple to drop - a week of steamed veg and no carbs will do it.

 

Pants started getting tight. I’m on a roll, lost 10 lbs over the last 3 weeks. I feel so much better.

3 eggs for breakfast and a small roll
No lunch. Just say NO
Smaller helpings for dinner, no more than one pop or beer a day.
No ice cream or French fries more than twice a month.
Stopped eating candy about 8 months ago. Finally.

There was nothin like a Butterfinger to fuse your teeth together

 

I've been pretty stable until the last couple of weeks. I've been fortunate to maintain a full-time job during the whole debacle, and during the peak of NY's crisis was getting 10+ hours of overtime each week. Thanks, Costco.

A couple weeks ago I decided to cut my sugar/carb intake and get out of the house more for physical activity. I don't have a scale to measure what I've dropped thus far, but my shirts are fitting notably better. Lol.

 

Seriously back on my diet....

 

Down 30 pounds! Started intermittent fasting in April (I was also walking 2-4 miles a day April-June, but stopped to work on a project)

 

I gained 15 since April.

I also retired from the Navy, moved to TX and started a new job. I’m a stress eater and it’s caught up to me.

 

Down 30+... Still more to go. Calorie restriction, walking (treadmill) 2miles a day at 3.5 mph, weights, and this... Satan's tricycle. Sometimes called a Schwinn Airdyne.

 

Mrs. Engle gave that a shot...
1950
Fernwood Elementary
Portland Oregon
Third grade

 

I am now down a few pounds. Cycling 20 plus km a day in the am before breakfast.

 

Down 10 or 12 lbs. thanks mostly to less late-night snacking. I’m determined to make this a positive experience in as many ways as I can.

 

Granted, with at least one foot on the near end of the spectrum, there are a lot of things I can't relate to. But this one particularly. Weight in 1975 - 160, weight in 2020 - 160. Of course, I'm almost an inch shorter now, so I guess my BMI is up a little. I went through a weight lifting phase in my 20s, and made it up to 185 for a little while. But I didn't like it and let it go. Covid related changes to my routine are far too minor to disturb such a long term trend.

 

I was in the midst of a gradual weight gain when the pandemic started. That accelerated when the lockdown came into effect. Too much beer and late night snacking that became more frequent during lockdown.

A few months ago I decided to start calorie counting and reverse the trend. I became a little more active skate boarding with my kids and bike riding through the neighborhood. Nothing crazy. I've dropped 10 pounds so far. I have a ways more to go, but just dropping 10 pounds has me feeling better already.

 

Oh there’s been a little gain. At 49, one mountain bike ride a week and yardwork is not enough to offset the increased beer consumption. However, last week was the 2nd week in a row that I’ve gotten out on the mountain bike twice a week so I’m gonna try to keep that pace going, if not increase it.

 

I started working out a little 3x a week just before lockdown started and am doing fine. Have a dumbell bench and 2x 25lb dumbells.

weight disks became as rare as toilet paper when lockdown started so I resorted to doing more reps. Doing 3x35 reps on exercises like bench press with the same dumbells I started out with lol.

Seems to be working, I was starting to get man boobs since I hit 45 a couple of years ago. All gone now, no more upper backache though my lower back sometimes suffers. Hovering around 194 - 198 lbs. Drink almost a gallon of tea a day.