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Mine has not changed, but then I did not have a regular training routine, and I always trained at home.
I also work from home, so that too did not change. Corona has meant I have had much less office work to do this year, so I have had more time to do other things, mostly physical.
I started WW in January 2020. I was at 197 lbs. When COVID hit, I decided my eating and exercise was the only thing I could control and got yo my personal goal weight in June. I’ve been maintaining since then.
So how is it everyone on THIS "pandemic weight change" thread LOST weight, and everyone on the other one GAINED weight? Must be in two different forums...
Much (most?) of my diet was sit-down meals at restaurants. When restaurants closed, the replacement was carry-out fast-food.
Much (most?) of my fitness was at the local gym: weight lifting odd days, running around the track on even-days. With closure of the gym, effects were devastating. Not only was access lost to the equipment, but I felt deeply personally jilted and "dissed" by the very principle of the lockdown. Finally it is becoming possible to build a "home gym", and this ought - one hopes! - to help.
Formerly I had a heavy travel schedule, and would do exercises in the hotel gym. Curtailment of travel meant a breaking of my routine, "home" being an ill-equipped and tawdry place.
Result: strength has fallen and weight has increased. I've aged in the past year, more than in the prior 10.
You just answered why you've aged and strength has fallen because you're eating too much outside meals.
It has nothing to do with gyms, anybody here can practice strength training at home. Like Arnold says, you just need a good set of dumbells, the right proper form, and good bench.
You should avoid eating out completely, the stuff restaurants use is bad for anybody's health the long term especially fast food places and even ethnic places unless you know the ingredients.
For example the cooking oils that 100% of fast food chains used it bad for you and leads to long term cardio diseases. McD, KFC, Wendys, etc all use Soybean oil to fry their fries and nuggets. It is not only highly inflammatory, soy bean oil increases estrogen in men which leads to decrease sperm counts and muscle loss. Ask any body builder what they think about soy bean oil.
Weight gain is the result of either too much carb storage or eating too much junk the body can't get rid of quickly. The longer junk stays in the body the more likely they can become a free radical and leads to cancer.
Just a point of order: Carbs aren't the only thing that is stored (you must have a carb phobia but, being keto, you would); any excess calories, from any food source, will be stored as body fat.
I was 207 and now am 157. I used the time to get myself in shape since people that are overweight didn’t do well with Covid.
I went from 225 to 195 for the same reason. I wanted to be stronger in case I got covid. Well I got it anyways and hit me hard. I lost another 10 pounds. Now 185 which is about where I want to be.
Nice to see here that a lot of people lost weight this past year. Good for all of you! All you hear on the news is that everyone is fatter now.
I started a long-term weight loss project in November of 2019. While there was disruption in March 2020 when we actually moved into the limited operations, work-from-home, mask-buying, teddy-bear-in-the-window, Tiger King phase of the pandemic, I've managed to remain successful. I think the isolation and the ability to focus on health without a lot of other distractions has been of benefit to me.
11/10/19: 335
02/27/20: 302
02/27/21: 227
Onward and downward.
Very impressive! For me being home more gave me the ability to control the food around me. I never bring into the house food that will cause weight gain.
I lost weight with Covid. I didn't have an appetite for a month.
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