the Covid 19 pounds

I was doing well. 2 years ago I started low carb (not no carb) and lost about 70 lbs in 1 year. I held that pretty well until I had hernia surgery in January where I picked back up about 10 pounds. I couldn’t walk as much for a bit and wasn’t as careful with carbs. Since the COVID crap started I have picked up another 10 pounds. I tend to be a stress eater and a grazer. Living in the same house as the refrigerator all day hasn’t helped. Once school opens up again maybe I can get back into a routine and at least shed the most recent 10.
 
I started going to F3. Good group of guys and I'm enjoying the morning workouts before work.
 
I need to drop about 10. I love to run but the 60 year old knee with 30 years of Army shit on it just won’t cooperate anymore! Even walking any distance gets to hurting, so I’m trying my best to stay out of the house by fishing, swimming, and scuba diving. So far I’m down 5 ish.
 
COVID really hasn't impacted my eating, but it is definitely cyclical: two kids with winter birthdays, two with spring birthdays, and two with summer birthdays. So right now, we're in 'summer birthday season,' so I am eating more. I am also drinking more. With the dew point and humidity I am also exercising less. In the fall, I will drop a few pounds like I always do.
 
fieldgrade said:
So how many of you had to order pants the next size up from Amazon the past few weeks?

Both my boys were at the house the past couple of months after both being away at school the last several years so the wife was trying to fatten them up while they were here.

Guess who got fattened up?

I think I’m what they call “collateral damage”.
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It's bad. I had to pull out my fat pants. I am trying to walk at work and do my total gym which i pulled out of storage. I haven't been going to classes at Apex like normal and they closed my YMCA so no weights. Older you get the harder it comes off too.
I need to pick up heavy weights and put them down again, it is basically in my DNA.
 
One of my coworkers has been bitching about not being able to go to crossfit, and that's why he has gained weight. I told him, put down the fork, get outside, run, do burpees, box jumps, pull-ups... he's using crossfit being closed as an excuse.
 
I gained 5lbs in the first month or so of the COVID. Since then I've reversed course and lost 15. So I'm net -10 from my pre-COVID level of sexiness.
 
I have neither gained nor lost weight. Very little in my routine has changed other than having things delivered rather than walking into stores to shop. I get plenty of exercise running up and down the stairs at home trying to find what I forgot I was looking for.
 
I did get back on drinking a little too much, and my nutrition fell off a little when the grocery stores got weird. But I’ve been getting back where I should be for the last 2 months and working out harder. Lost some fitness motivation when all my summer vacation plans were wrecked.
 
Hammer21b said:
I need to drop about 10. I love to run but the 60 year old knee with 30 years of Army shit on it just won’t cooperate anymore! Even walking any distance gets to hurting, so I’m trying my best to stay out of the house by fishing, swimming, and scuba diving. So far I’m down 5 ish.
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Hoka shoes. You'll look like forest gump but I can run 2 miles non stop and zero pain. Im 57
 
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Funny enough, I've actually lost weight. :) I've lost about 14 pounds so far, and that was while still drinking Coke like a Deuce and a Half drinks gasoline. I think most of it is a mixture of muscle loss from not going to the gym (the bad) and eating a lot less takeout fried food since I'm working from home (the good). This past week I stopped drinking soda mostly (I'm limiting myself to the equivalent of one or two 12oz cans a week as a treat), to see if that'd help, as well as making an effort to eat less/no fried takeout food. Between those, I've got my caloric intake greatly reduced, so I'm expecting good things there.

I'm also really committing to doing my free-weight exercises. I don't have the room for an impressive home gym, and before Covid I was just going to Planet Fitness three times a week. But I'm doing a full suite of arm exercises plus some situps every day. I also *intend* to start walking and hiking more, but I haven't really done so yet. I need to though. All the nice gear in the world won't matter if my body's not fit to use it. My goal is to lose at least 45 more pounds. We'll see if I can do so! :D
 
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Tailhunter said:
You must be about the same size as my 10 year old grandson.
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Both my grown boys are 6’3” with 32” waists.
They don’t like being skinny. I told them their turn to be fat will arrive soon enough.
 
fieldgrade said:
Both my grown boys are 6’3” with 32” waists.
They don’t like being skinny. I told them their turn to be fat will arrive soon enough.
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It kinda sneaks up on you all of a sudden.

I always had a 36” waist, then it went 38” and I thought the end of the world was upon us.

Nope, there was more to come.
 
Not an issue I have to worry about, I keep loosing weight and am down to 143, my pants are in danger of sliding off when I put on my gun belt. Amazing what a great weight loss strategy loosing my mother in law, one of my dogs and stress at work can be.
 
Six months with no gym access = lost fifteen pounds. Definitely have felt a lack of explosiveness in position work at recent matches, which I blame in six months without oly lifting. I thought six months without access to free weights and ropes/TRX would have done a number on recoil control, but Captains of Crush have been a big gamechanger on that front. Bought a T and a 1 at the start of the stay at home orders; the gun actually tracks better now than when I was doing ordinary workouts.

Apartment complex recently reopened the gym. Hallelulah. King Koopa has decided I can be healthy again.
 
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