COVID lockdown success

Whydahdad71

My covid lockdown went alright, I gained one inch on my arms and got my Bodyfat down to 9%.
I also learned how to use resistance bands for training instead of weights.

wmweeza

I've gained 3 pounds, but 3 pounds over 4 months isn't bad at all...and I think it's just because my gym was/is closed. I didn't eat my way through my house and stayed on track.
Oh, and I learned how to sew! I've been sewing tons of face masks to give out to the community and friends and family. A new skill is always a god thing

miriams76

I restarted Jillian Michaels Body Revolution after 6 years and have lost almost 15 pounds in the past 8 weeks. Vlogging them daily has really helped with accountability - I feel I have to post them/be careful with my diet if people are watching

deepsea117

My silver lining is that I got to come face-to-face with myself when life was giving me it's worst...and me getting a chance to see exactly what I was made of.

I am going through hemo-dialysis (HD) by myself at a center, which is scary because I am now at-risk (just started in February due to a very tough death I had to deal with alone), and after my car broke down from lack of driving enough, I was taking a shuttle to-and-from dialysis alone. Here are the choices:
If you don't go to dialysis, you can die.
If you get Covid-19 while commuting at-risk and going about your day, you can die.

Funny how your choices have a way of leaving you no choice, sometimes.

3 days a week HD can be physically draining. After 4.5 hours each session of lying still in uncomfortable positions and no talking (if I did those, my catheter would slow the flow down--true isolation), I'd leave dialysis rucking unknowingly with a 22 lb backpack to the supermarket for groceries. Short of breath from exhaustion from dialysis, freezing in 40-degree rain in JUNE (thanks, bi-polar-*kitten* Seattle), no seats inside (Covid-19) and on the verge of collapsing occasionally...I dug DEEP to make it through.

Rising to the challenge, I made it through quarantine. Much stronger mentally and physically. Emotionally a wreck, then toughened--I got to see what EXACTLY I was made of. Which was a gift in hindsight because coupled with my weight loss over and doing physically better after quarantine...I am now on FIRE!
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charmmeth

wonderchu wrote: »

Well, food became less appealing when I lost my taste so I dropped 13lbs pretty quickly Didn't think I'd ever be in the situation of trying to keep my weight up!

I really hope you are OK and have recovered well.

wonderchu

charmmeth wrote: »

wonderchu wrote: »

Well, food became less appealing when I lost my taste so I dropped 13lbs pretty quickly Didn't think I'd ever be in the situation of trying to keep my weight up!

I really hope you are OK and have recovered well.

I appreciate that and I'm just fine, thank you I still don't have much taste but I didn't have any other symptoms for the most part so I count myself lucky.

KeriA

I agree that losing anything now is not a small victory especially given how most are putting on 15-16 pounds. I was just turning around a regain when we got our stay at home order. My main source of exercise was Aquafit and of course the gym/pool closed. I have knee problems and had to find land exercise that didn't hurt it. I too was concerned about my weight with the threat of covid-19. So I just found a way to lose and exercise. I am still struggling with the later. But I managed to lose 16 pounds added to the 16 pounds many gained I think it could be seen as a 32 lb victory. I lost what I had regained and kept going. I have much more to lose. I am on temporary furlough still. My work is in phased opening so I am waiting to hear when/if I will go back to work since there will be lay offs. I plan to work at home if possible.

What helped was making healthy food at home, getting more sleep, concentrating on drinking more water and a supportive thread on here. Not having a commute was helpful. The loss has slowed but is continuing. With the loss of work I lost routine which is important. I started a bullet journal on OneNote. That helped.

Yes June was cool in Seattle but March and April were unseasonable warm and beautiful. May was a mixed bag. Hope we have a nice July and you are much better @deepsea117.

thelastnightingale

@miriams76 Well done, the weight loss is really obvious.

m3lodym4ker

Congrats on the victory!

Lockdown has been unexpectedly great for me. I started managing my diet in January, but had not incorporated exercise. I hate mornings with a fiery passion, but my commute was leaving me drained in the evenings. Now that I work from home permanently, I added new equipment to my home gym, and have been consistently getting in 6 workouts a week. Now I can get in a workout as soon as I'm motivated (usually midday for me), and my dogs are getting more exercise too. Lost 22 lb. since Jan, the bulk of that since the pandemic started.

*high fives all around*

worsthorse

I've been in stay-at-home mode now since mid-february and, at least for getting back to regular exercise and a workable diet, it has been a good thing. i've lost thirty pounds (twenty-seven of it after the pandemic rules went into effect) and i am working out four to six days a week again. the big changes? realizing that being out of the habit of eating well and exercising elevated my risk profile for covid (not to mention diabetes, etc).

The other big change? Not going out to eat or ordering take out, which i was doing way more than i'd like to admit. Preparing all of my meals (or almost all, as i've had take out three times in the last five months) again and being mindful of ingredients and portion sizes, i am much less likely to eat a lot of high calorie, low quality stuff.

So far, i haven't had to impose any rigid restrictions on what i eat and i am still a member of the clean plate club; the plates are just smaller and healthier these days. That said, I am pretty sure the next ten pounds are going to be harder than the first thirty but that is how it goes.

springlering62

When my gym and yoga studio shut down in March, and my trainer said,”See ya when this is all over”, I was in shock.

I was terrified I’d put back on some of the weight I’ve lost. I immediately cut my daily back to 1900, made it a goal to make Facebook (and later Zoom) classes a habit, and decided to walk further every day than I had been. I also started running more frequently, and riding my bike. Getting out of the house saved my sanity.

I ended up walking several times a day, and out of boredom found myself doubling up on Zoom classes most days. I have favorite instructors, and my daughter also teaches and wanted (needed, she took lockdown hard) me to take her classes, too. We were even running “together” for a while, me on the East Coast and her on the West.

I had been hovering between 140 and 145, but within a month had dropped ten pounds.

Friday, I weighed in at 130, and decided that was just too low. I had a real rebound pig out, and made myself sick as a dog. (Which is actually positive reinforcement not to pull that stunt again. Merciful heavens!)

So I’ve decided the more reasonable course is to increase calories again and to force myself to decide which classes to cut back on. That’s particularly hard for me. I like to stay in motion, and have a hard time justifying sitting down. I really struggle with exercise class FOMO.

On the plus side, working out at home via Zoom, I felt more confident trying poses I was afraid to try in “public”, so can now do headstand without a wall, crow, assorted bakasana variations, and some other exotic positions I never ever thought I would master, and have been able to translate those into classes at the studio, which has reopened to limited attendance. Oh, and I got balance! Ten stinking years of humiliating toppling over, and suddenly, I can stand on one leg. It just “clicked”.

tuckerrj

since they started quarantine/social distancing/nonessential business closing here in middle March, I've dropped an additional 10 lbs. and upped my bench press significantly, since we have a bench and free weights. Put a pullup bar in the garage and I've gone from being unable to do a pullup to being able to do SEVEN consecutive pullups.

AnnPT77

Congratulations OP, nice work!

And congratulations to everyone who's taken what others consider the pandemic's lemons, and made some good lemonade!

I'd been working on chipping away ultra-slowly (half a pound a week or less) to lose a few pounds here in year 4+ of maintenance, starting last October. It had been going OK. But the lockdown made it a lot easier, and more consistent - without the temptations involved in a more active social life, and no restaurant meals. (I haven't eaten anywhere but home since March 13, and only got take-out once so far. Home cooking all the way!)

I'm down around 8-9 pounds or thereabouts, which makes me happy, even though it wasn't super important to do (for health or something).

I've never been so grateful to be an even-keel introvert with a home rowing machine, weights, 3 lifetimes worth of craft supplies, and the ability to cook!

I'd prefer more of a social life, but I'm adequately contented as I am. I feel for those friends who are higher in social needs than I am: That makes it harder to stay upbeat. I'm lucky.