cre804 wrote: »

hipari wrote: »

I'd like to give you some advice from my own personal pain today...

If you're a gym goer or plan on starting a gym/weightlifting routine, don't ever quit or take a longer break from it unless you plan on quitting for good.

I went to the gym yesterday for the first time since beginning of March, so almost 3 months. I went in with the plan of doing a full body workout with *very* light weights, just to remind my body about the right techniques, get a good feeling about being in the gym and to sort of find my muscles again.

If I get sore after a workout, it usually starts the morning after and gets worse throughout the next day. Now, the soreness came already last night, it's worse now that it's morning, and I don't know if I can get up from my desk chair when it's lunch time. The soreness is only this bad whenever I take a break from working out, and the fact that I know this makes me want to kick myself. At least this time the break was not my fault, the gym was closed and the country went on lockdown.

My fitness studio reopened last week. My trainer started me with fairly light weights and reps and I thought I did alright. He said I maintained very well over the shutdown. He had been texting me body weight workouts to do during shutdown and I tried to do most of them (except for the three weeks I had bronchitis). Btw, I discovered I much prefer a gym workout as opposed to a home workout! But that first week-omg I was sore! Not as bad as when I first started training, but more than usual. And I gained like three pounds, which I’m hoping is just water weight. But this week has been much better, even though the weights and reps have increased. So drink your water, take your Advil, and I’ll bet you’ll be back up to speed in no time!

Be_theBest_Me wrote: »

Y'all I have got to get my sleep under control so I can get up in the morning.....I am in a struggle. I need to move more but can not wake up!!! Ugh

hipari wrote: »

I had a little nerd session with my data, and no wonder I'm struggling with losing weight even though I'm eating roughly the same as before when I've had success...

I wear a Fitbit daily and had a look at my past data.
9-11/2019 daily average burn 2669 calories
12-2/2020 daily average burn 2521 calories - burnout issues, -150 calories from my daily burn
3-5/2020 daily average burn 2379 calories - lockdown, another -140 calories from my daily burn

So, in the span of 6 months, I've started burning on average almost 300 calories less per day than I used to. I no longer think it's strange that I'm struggling with losing weight. I already decided I'm returning to the office after next week, so that should up my daily activity levels, and I'm getting back to my gym routine too.

In addition to fixing my everyday activity levels, I'm still working on my eating habits. I've noticed I tend to have more snacking impulses when I'm home, so hopefully returning to the office helps with that as well. Last two nights I've been experimenting with dried figs as an evening snack. I love to have a little sweet snack in the evening with my Netflix session, usually ice cream. That always leaves me wanting more, and a portion of my favorite Ben&Jerry's is 245 calories. Two dried figs is plenty to hit the sugar craving, and that totals 80 calories. I'm still going to have some ice cream occasionally, but having a lower-calorie option hopefully helps.

My current weight loss rate (per Happy Scale) is 0.05kg per week. That's 50 grams. My ice cream serving is double that. My goal rate is 10 times that. Yeah, I'll take any loss I can get, but I need to speed things up. Hopefully in June the reopening and return to some normalcy will help.

biketheworld wrote: »

Am I automatically “in” for June or is there something I need to do? Thanks.

Beka3695 wrote: »

biketheworld wrote: »

Am I automatically “in” for June or is there something I need to do? Thanks.

You are in!!! Feel free to go over and introduce yourself again