I just noticed the other day I’ve put on so much weight from working from home and the extra cooking I’ve done to kill time. Maybe also from the menulog happy hour deals as well.
I also noticed my neighbour has doubled in size as well.
Has This Lockdown Made Anyone Else Fat?
Jumpup on 10/08/2020 - 11:12
Last edited 10/08/2020 - 11:31 by 1 other user
Last edited 10/08/2020 - 11:31 by 1 other user
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Alcoholic? Yes!
Same. In addition to a range of other issues. Shudder.
Opposite for me, I used to eat a lot at work as I'd go out for lunch with people, but now I only eat occasionally, so I actually lost 5kgs.
But the biggest difference is work has jumped up a lot that I've been so busy to actually make something or leave my place. So my ubereats have definitely increased.It depends though, if I have more time and stress and less work I eat a lot, its only because recently I don't have the time to eat away the stress.
Same. Healthier breakfast and lunch for sure. Also I have stairs at home and walking up and down all day has been a real benefit. Currently holding steady.
I took on a new routine/lifestyle since we went into lockdown in March, lost ~8kg so far, pretty happy and don't want to go back to the old me.
Same here, down 12kg so far and hoping to keep it that way.
Same for me too. I have been loosing weight and improved my eating choices and same, want to keep it this way. Feel heaps better for it.
yea gym is close to work. have been working from home since March. cant justify spending 1.5 hours a day on the road to drive back and forth.
I guess I must be a trend setter as I am way ahead of you.
is that a picture of you?
The announcement made me put on 10lbs.
Those announcements are choc full of calories.
for me, and I suspect a few others - its not the work from home, but the annoyance when I get hunger pangs, or when my stomach rumbles
when I get those I eat till im 100% full,
i just don't like to feel hungry, at all.
Stopped going to the gym in March, same weight, but turn muscle into fat. Will start the gym in September.
I walk a lot less and no gym. However I also eat a lot less. I have no scale at home so I have not weighted myself. honestly, i dread to.
I'm happy to blame it on COVID, however my life has been basically unchanged so I'm just a normal fatso making bad decisions and putting on weight.
Name doesn't check out. :(
No, i have worked from home for 28 years lol.
I'm drought and famine resistant.
Got a COVID beard too, Mclovin' it
Does that mean you’re healthy and practice extended dry fasting so you can deal with both drought and famine or are you fat and probably not able to cope with extreme conditions? Or even better, fat but practice extending fasting so you can cope with such conditions?
Yes I can feel three types of softness
I used to go to the gym and lift at least 4 times a week. I can't do that now, and I've stopped doing any resistance training at all. I've decided to do a reset when I get back to the gym and concentrate on technique and high intensity instead of lifting the biggest weights I can. I was developing some RSI at back issues from big weights, which haven't cleared up, but have got better in this time off. I've lost a lot of muscle mass in these months, but I've also been on Keto for a month or two, which doesn't help. I'm down 10kg, but most of that is muscle, not fat unfortunately. I'm hoping the fat will strip off with the next month of Keto, seeing as I've lost most of my muscle from my upper body. I've tried to keep active and get out of the house for long walk or run every day, and I'm thinking to incorporate some body resistance training into my daily routine this week. I am sitting at a desk for hours everyday, which really doesn't help at all, (but I do the same at work, I just feel I'm doing more of it at home- actually I know I am, because my watch stopped at the start of this lockdown, which means I barely moved for at least 2 days).
But I've also been on keto for a month or two, which doesn't help.
Can you explain this more please.
If you are doing it right, it definitely works. You just need to keep carbs and sugar under 20g a day and most importantly, watch your Macros. There are heaps of hidden sugars in foods. All different types of dextrose. I keep it simple, meat, certain veg, certain dairy. For example you can’t have milk in your coffee, it has enough sugar to kick you out of ketosis, but heavy cream is fine. You can drink any juice, but certain diet drinks are fine. You obviously can’t eat any breads or pastas, but you really need to eat whole foods only, and be very careful about what you eat. There is a Aussie keto subreddit which gives you a shopping list each week. (Specials) so it works well.
still rocking my 8 pack
I guess one fat guy disagrees with me….
The weight gain is all part of Daniel Andrews' plan. We get too fat too get out of our front doors so we can't spread the virus.
Worst of all he's spreading his agenda north of the border to NSW. Soon I'll be too round to do anything about it!
Don’t worry, if he introduces food rationing you won’t have to worry about getting fat.
Yes Dan will kill me from a heart attack not COVID.
Actually I think trying to breath through the damn mask is going to give me a heart attack. The masks are a clever ploy to stop people going out so much because it is just too unpleasant.
It is even 10 times more unpleasant if you have to wear glasses.
Thank you Dan for bringing on the dandemic!@DoctorCalculon: Not Dan’s fault. Unless we went for total eradication, which wasn't the Federal Governments idea, we were always going to risk an outbreak. ScoMo said as much on many occasions. We could have an argument on who should’ve been handling quarantine, why Aged care is a mess, why insecure employment with no sick leave is a really bad idea and what ScoMos plan was when the, inevitable, breakout occurred but, right at the moment, we just have to sort this mess out.
I do agree with the glasses. Fogging up is a pain.
*fatter
and yes >_< due to baking more in the year so far than in the previous 15 years combined
The trick is to feed your family the baked goods instead ;)
No wonder that's how I got heavier when it was my wife who did all the extra baking.
but, but, but i have to make sure that it's passed QA. and what if the piece/slice/chunk that i tested was an outlier taste/texture-wise? so i have to do multiple samples… over time, in case it gets better worse.
the only upside is, in my and my families opinion, i've gotten much much better at baking.
bbiab - gotta check the banana bread in the oven.
Haha yes I’ve constantly got banana bread in the oven.
Just tummy coming out (pregnant with 3 months). Everything else looks fine.
Congrats
Yes - put on weight. When in the office I'm normally walking around a large site and would normally walk 5-10km per day just in my daily duties. Now I'm at home, im pretty much just sitting at my desk so slowly putting on the kg.
I know I could just go for a walk, but I live in a new estate that has only started being developed. We barely have real roads, and now its all a dusty construction zone so not the most appealing place to walk, as most of it is just dirt and mud. There is no physical reason why I cant still walk 5-10km each day, theres just no motivation to do now.
So has lockdown made me fat - yes, but its not due to lockdown its just a motivation thing.
I used to just take a sandwich and piece of fruit to work and that's all I'd eat between when I woke up and when I got home. Now I eat breakfast every day, eat some type of junk food during the day, still eat a sandwich but no fruit. Surprisingly I've only put on a few kgs.
Working from home I am eating more, but also exercising a lot more as I like running and can just go out for a run pretty much whenever I feel like it.
Having to travel to the office every day I used to struggle to find time
I also noticed my neighbour has doubled in size as well.
🤣😅
I was already fat. Checkmate COVID.
Apparently alteration places in New York are doing great business letting people’s clothes out.
My bank account definitely has gotten fatter from all that money I'm not spending.
I did notice I was binge eating a lot more so I started doing intermittent fasting but still only on a 16 hour fast. I definitely think I've input a lot less.
I think I've put on a couple of kg although that was on purpose, still want to add a few more at least.
I'm eating less, but drinking a lot more to control my anxiety over the lockdowns, so weight hasn't changed.
Do you mind me asking what’s making you anxious, the fact that you can’t get out or getting the virus?
I’m experiencing anxiety my self over this whole thing.
Nope. Have actually lost weight. 🙄
Yep, probably about 5kg although I'm too scared to check. I know that my moobs have become more noticeable and my belt had to go out a notch. And I'm one of the lucky ones who has kept my job so I don't even have anxiety or depression as a reason like so many people out there. Pretty pathetic really, probably time to exercise more.
You only have yourself to blame.
Rather than cooking, get into a routine of exercise. Forget treadmills or Yoga crap… bet moving, get the muscles pumping.
Get on Utube for ideas. Draw stick figures. Write out a routine with little stick figures.
You do this every day at the exact same time. Start light. Pushups, squats, dumbbell curls, etc.
You only have yourself to blame.
Yes Mum
I'm flabbergasted.
I gained 40 kgs. Bought scales the other day - they're mostly sold out! Finally found some, got on and yep 40 kg gain. Almost doubled my weight. I'm too scared to rejoin the gym due to infectious members all over the place. I'm disgusted in myself, but guess it's better than catching Covid and spring is coming, so I hope I lose it. Life is hard being fat!
You weighed 40kg and you gained 40kg?
Maybe scales set to pounds instead of kilos?
Lockdown doesn't make people fat.
Eating more than you burn makes people fat.
Eat right - exercise right - you will not get fat. This has nothing to do with lockdown.
Yes mum.
I dropping keys now, even my hotpants have turned to baggies with plumbers crack.
I'm also working from Home and not walking as much. I have gained a little only (2 kilos) but it is a struggle. I've cut down on the amount of snacks I buy. But being home has allowed me to do more baking than I have in the past (cakes etc). I live with my nephew and he won't eat the majority of cakes I bake (he is a fussy eater and will only eat coffee cakes), so I cut into portions and freeze.
At my work we call them 'Covid kilos', the four or five kilos we put on in lock down. More baking, even though doing more exercise seemed to be the general concensus.
i found that i’ve actually lost weight - no boozy lunches, or a cheeky pint after work, or no”i better eat now before the meeting starts because i might not get another chance”. Now I just eat when I’m hungry, and my house has relatively healthier options than the food court near the office
A bit fatter, and a quote a lot weaker.
It was more a conscious decision that since I'm not leaving the house anyway, I don't need to look good.
I didn't say it was a smart conscious decision.
I initially went down in weight - lots of my work time included stress eating or similar (eg. eating as a break). Now that the home is the permanent office, that the stress eating is back, and so is the weight.