Wow, you all make me feel terrible for not slimming down.
I’ve stayed the same. I’m drinking more wine than usual, but I’ve also started running. I figure they’re balancing each other out.
My wife needs to lose weight for knee replacement operation, so I’ve been joining her in eating more healthily; I’ve got more than a few pounds I could lose too. So I’m down about 10 pounds since the beginning of the year, and probably 7-7.5 lbs. of that has been since mid-March.
For me, the big factor has been the improvement in the quality of between-meals snacking due to working at home: here at home, I have cottage cheese, carrots and hummus, and other healthy snacks in the fridge. There just wasn’t room for that in the jam-packed communal fridge at work, so my snacks were largely crackers and stuff that I could keep in my desk without their going bad.
Not only were they less healthy, but since they were right there in my desk where I didn’t even need to get out of my chair to get them, instead of a mere 20 feet away in the fridge in the kitchen here at home, I was eating more of them too.
Definitely have put on weight. Part of that is depression making it hard to exercise (yes, I know it helps, but you have to do it for it to help), partly it’s eating random times of the day, and partly it’s a not-insignificant increase in my alcohol consumption. Also since Planet Fitness closed down for the Corona. I discovered a while ago that my favorite exercise is the stepmill, and that I like tanning. So between those two things, it was a lot easier to make it to the gym. Kind of a dual incentive.
Not sure how much I’ve put on, I keep meaning to step on the scale. Next time I’m nekkid I’ll check and report back. I was around 220 in January. I’m guessing, but I’ll bet I’m easily in the higher 230’s now.
Well, good news? 229.
It’s nothing to do with lockdown, but due to increased stress, I’ve been allowing myself too much latitude in several ways. I just don’t feel like doing hard things anymore. So yeah…I’ve gained probably five pounds, and I’m not ready to start the diet yet. When some things have resolved themselves, I’ll get a grip again.
I’m taking it off but SLOWLY. Frustratingly slowly, even though I know that technically the rate at which I’m losing (roughly 1 pound/week) is considered healthy. It’s annoying to know that if I’d done this even in my mid-30s this would be way easier. Now in my mid-40s, I can gain 5 pounds from sodium overnight but it takes over a month to lose 5 pounds.
Anyway, I’m using noom. This app makes me want to punch someone. It’s overly chirpy, tells me things i already know and my coach is irritating. But…I’m paying for it so that makes me use it (plus I got a discount so I’m not too annoyed about having paid for it), it’s nice to have all the info in one spot and I don’t feel as restricted as I did on other apps. Also, if I didn’t feel obligated to respond to my coach I would probably have stopped trying by now. So there’s that. 6 pounds down since mid-April.
I had gained about 5 lbs over the winter. During Lent, I decided to cut out sweets. No cookies, cake, candy, etc. Instead, when I craved something sweet I’d have a bowl of fruit. I lost 3 lbs by Easter. I was a little concerned because I would always walk 2-2.5 miles during my lunch break at work and when I was quarantined at home I skipped that walk. (I also do two 2 mile walks with the dogs every day and continued with them). I realize now that the lunch break walk did absolutely nothing for my weight loss. It’s all in what I was eating. I’ve lost another 2lbs since Easter. I now limit my sweets to once per day.
I lost 70 lbs on WW last year. I was holding steady from Dec- April, but I’ve put on about 10 in the last 2 months. Drinking more, getting more takeout- this week I started back on the program. Hoping it won’t take me too long to drop the 10.
Fluctuating a bit, but basically gained 2-3 pounds.
Lockdown has shown me that I definitely have a tendency to laze about. Which is why I am here at 9:45 on a Saturday morning instead of working in the garden.
That said, I haven’t had coffee yet as my husband just got started on the espresso machine. So I have a partner in my laziness.
I don’t have a scale but I am 100% sure I’ve gained at least 10 pounds. I am also working twice as hard so my daughter doesn’t have to go back to work until it’s safe so I’m sitting at my desk about 14 hours a day 7 days a week.
And during my off time I’ve been baking, dammit. I hate grocery shopping online. I end up with box junk food. I order fresh and frozen vegetables and fruit but I go to pick it up and “sorry we were out!” almost every week until this one. Finally I got good peaches and all the fixins for my big salads. I got frozen spinach and broccoli, something they are out of every single week I put in my order. So maybe I’ll lose it soon. Maybe.
I’m scrawny as heck since my kidney surgery. My ribs are showing. I look like a starved greyhound.
I’m trying to eat enough calories. It’s hard with all my restrictions.
Also, no scale, and never faced a weight issue, but I’m know I’m up in weight by how my clothes fit!
I expect it’s because I’m feeding hubs three times a day now. Whereas I made a lunch, sent off with him, and then dinner before, and myself often didn’t stop for both lunch and breakfast. Now I’m making food three times a day, and def snacking more.
But since the weather is shifted I’m all about leaner, more summery foods and pretty sure the pendulum will naturally swing back now.
But def a gain for me!