How Are You Staying on Track During All This?
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yes a bonus is i dont get badgered to go out since everything is closed1
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Three nights of binges here,I'm super stressed and now the schools have closed the kids are home too 😣10
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I’m eating whatever I feel like. The isolation and emptiness are incredibly stressful to me, which means I’m not terribly hungry and when I do eat, very little stays down. So I’m just going with whatever sounds good and hope some of the calories stick with me. I’m sure that will change eventually and I’ll come up with a different plan, but for now I’m just winging it.
Just remember we are in this together. The isolation really messes with my head, too. I'm trying to remind myself to be kind to myself, check in with my friends and look at a bunch of cat videos! I've also been turning on some upbeat tunes and 'moving around' when inspired. (I would say 'dance', but if you saw me, I'm sure that wouldn't be the word you would use to describe it...) Keep your spirits up, friend!9 -
Rhiwills76 wrote: »Three nights of binges here,I'm super stressed and now the schools have closed the kids are home too 😣
Hugs! I am also adjusting to my 4 children being home.
I will share a few things that have helped me.
When tempted to binge, stop yourself for a moment and ask if binging will solve your stress or will it add to it?Delay binging for 5-10 minutes. Physically remove yourself from the area of temptation. Maybe go for a walk or do something that doesn't involve being near the kitchen or pantry. If it's too dark or unsafe to go for a walk, walk in place while listening to or watching something you enjoy. Don't know whether you are in weight-loss mode, if you are, maybe take a diet break and eat at maintenance for a time being. Diet fatigue plus stress can be too much to handle.6 -
I've abstained from buying wine, although I've done a fair amount of stress baking. One good thing is I've consistently logged over 10,000 every day except for today. Taking long strolls around my neighborhood has kept me sane.4
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Not much for me has changed, except I’ve stopped going to the gym, which is still open (small self-serv box gym. I’m in a rural part of.CA and while the gov has strongly urged all gyms to close, it’s not a mandate. Our county has not imposed that restriction.) I already work from home. No kids, so no change there. I have loads of hiking nearby, including a pretty trail almost in my backyard, which I hiked today. I binged last night and didn’t log today and ate Pop Tarts for dessert and had wine with dinner. I am sad, cuz my 60th b-day is tomorrow and I’d planned a fun weekend which of course is now cancelled and my husband and I can’t even go out to eat, cuz all the restaurants did close. So basically my milestone b-day has been cancelled. I plan to make lemon cupcakes with lemon filling as a treat. I’ll probably binge on those, but I’ll offset some of the calories with more hiking.11
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I'm pretty much eating what I have done for a while. That may change for lunches if I can't get more salad items when I run out, but I have cans of soup and I had supplies of my usual dinner foodstuffs already (I stocked up in December in case of a bad winter) so am not hugely impacted by the panic buying. I have nuts in the cupboard but I don't have chocolate, sweets etc. so the temptation to snack won't be there anyway.
Our gyms are now closed but I went for two long, brisk walks today. I have got some dumbbells at home but they're not very heavy so I may fill some bags with books and lift those instead. A few times a week, I may have to force myself to do some squats and lunges too, as I can't access my usual gym machines. Taking the opportunity to clean out cupboards, do some gardening and generally tidy up will add to my exercise over the next few weeks or months.2 -
Strudders67 wrote: »I'm pretty much eating what I have done for a while. That may change for lunches if I can't get more salad items when I run out, but I have cans of soup and I had supplies of my usual dinner foodstuffs already (I stocked up in December in case of a bad winter) so am not hugely impacted by the panic buying. I have nuts in the cupboard but I don't have chocolate, sweets etc. so the temptation to snack won't be there anyway.
Our gyms are now closed but I went for two long, brisk walks today. I have got some dumbbells at home but they're not very heavy so I may fill some bags with books and lift those instead. A few times a week, I may have to force myself to do some squats and lunges too, as I can't access my usual gym machines. Taking the opportunity to clean out cupboards, do some gardening and generally tidy up will add to my exercise over the next few weeks or months.
I got a suitcase of shoes and grocery bags of books for weights!! We are in this together 💪
I also just heard Joe D on a podcast episode talk about the ‘Kettlebell mile’ where you hold light weights and walk a mile. Sounded interesting. Perhaps I’ll give it a go since I want to work grip strength too.1 -
Long walk every day. Stretching and yoga at home every evening. Keeping to my 3 meals, no snacks.
I usually dine out on Saturdays and not doing that is probably gonna help my calorie count.
I'm still in a 8-5 office job Mon-Fri for the time being (very isolated office close to home, few staff). I think for me that's the best possible scenario, because I really thrive on routines. But if I had to be at home every day I'd try to stick to the same.3 -
The situation is having a positive effect on my weight loss. Before everything got bad, I had the foresight to get a bench and barbell set and setup a home gym.
The inaccessibility of going to the grocery store really makes me reconsider all my food choices and I have been within my calorie limit daily. Not a binge yet.
The extra time means I have weighed and logged everything. I have been very active daily. Nothing else to do haha.
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Long walks so I don't read anything on-line. As soon as it warms up I'm getting my bike out, still snowy here though.3
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I prelog everything the day before and don't allow myself to vary from it much. And make sure I'm getting at least 10,000 steps a day. The exercise helps suppress my appetite a bit and makes it easier to stick to whatever I've prelogged. So far so good. Next week is PMS though so we will.see how that goes 😂3
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’m struggling in the opposite way, I think!
I’ve not stocked up, specifically, as I’m a keen cook and experimenter so I always have plenty of ingredients on hand. Add to that the fact that I’m vegetarian (leaning to fully plamt based) and the rest of my household aren’t, there’s a fairly large variety of different foodstuffs in the house.
Where I’m finding myself is struggling to ‘justify’ allocating any food for myself to eat, in case it might be better used to feed others if/when we’re restricted or ‘locked-down’.
I’m fine with allowing myself to eat the odd thing that I know nobody else likes but when it comes to staples I’m not able to mentally overcome that feeling that if I eat anything it will not be available for others. (Panic buying has left all supermarkets etc devoid of staples/shelf stable products for the time being so I can’t predict when I can replace those items.)
I intellectually know this is silly, but I’m now on the 5th day of not managing to get past about 600 cals per day because I can’t get past the guilt of using up food for ‘just me’. I’m not hungry either because my reaction to feeling emotionally stressed has always been to lose my appetite.
Somebody tell me I’m not alone in this struggle! 😱
You're not, I've been feeling the same way, saving most food for my mother and my son2 -
My friend and I still went out on our weekly run - on opposite sides of the road! We maintained an appropriate distance, could still converse and kept up training. 2m is actually a pretty reasonable distance to manage and there are way less cars out so it wasn’t hard to keep up conversation even across a street. We were on residential streets so that does help.3
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Sleep. Lots of sleep. Can’t eat if you’re asleep. Can’t be bored if you’re asleep. Can’t be lonely if you’re asleep. I’m down over 7 pounds since we got kicked off campus to work remotely. Fitness is probably taking a hit, but I don’t need to be buff to sleep.8
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YellowD0gs wrote: »The only things we have are a couple bands and a way to walk a couple miles outside without encountering anyone else. Not that I'm a gym rat or anything, but the usual exercises at only body weight ain't gonna cut it. Need to find more things that can be done.
Google resistance bands on You Tube, I'm sure you can find something. I've been doing Joanna Soh's challenges, the 5 minute plank challenge, squat challenge, and 10,000 steps are a lot of fun. Sidney Cummings has good videos, both weighted and not weighted. HasFit has some body stuff too. Body Project has good cardio, Leslie Sansone for walking/low impact aerobics, and Les Mills has some butt-kicking videos, Body Combat is the hardest video I did and with modifying it for back problems.1 -
I feel like I have pretty good control right now. Right now I'm dancing and walking in place while catching up on social media, I get in some good steps in the morning and it puts me in a good mood. Then I do workout videos in the afternoon or ride my exercise bike and cool off with yoga. For food I've been looking up recipes for food I have and had checked out two skinnytaste cookbooks so I'm making new recipes for what I can. I organized the heck out of my pantry yesterday, all the dried beans, legumes, and grains are in jars with labels and everything else is organized by type. Sadly it made me super satisfied yesterday! I'm working on a little decluttering a day.2
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It's pretty hard. So far we've been in full lock-down quarantine for 6 days. 5 of them went pretty well, with work outs, and coming within 100-200 of the calorie target. But it's boring to be stuck in the house, and we stocked a LOT of junky food for the apocalypse. We did have one Total Systemic Breakdown day which was probably 5,000 calories, easy. M&Ms, cookies, chips. Hoping not to repeat that. Definitely was caused by boredom, not hunger. No matter how many Netflix shows and kindle books we line up, it's still f'ing boring to be stuck in the house day after day. More working out may be in order.2
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I stay on track with calories but exercise is pretty much non existent these days.0
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Rhiwills76 wrote: »Three nights of binges here,I'm super stressed and now the schools have closed the kids are home too 😣
Same2
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