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Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:30 am
by Marc Meakin
Having spent the first 6 weeks of furlough watching TV or movies on my phone or tablet I put on over a stone .
So for the last 3 weeks I've been averaging 15,000 steps a day and eating healthy and watching my macros.
I've lost half of the stone I've put on and hope to at least get back to my pre covid weight before I unfurlough next month.
I was curious if I'm in the minority here having out on so much weight
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:37 am
by Dan Byrom
I've been running more.
Lost about a stone!
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:52 am
by Bradley Horrocks
Dan Byrom wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:37 am
I've been running more.
Lost about a stone!
Congrats! See you at some co-event parkruns next year then
Similar story here, though it was a conscious ambition - WFH helped as much as running imo as I am far less tired generally.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:17 am
by Matt Rutherford
Roughly half-a-stone upwards. Have been walking a lot more, but that has been far outweighed (no pun intended) by me being slumped behind my laptop, playing Apto, steadily reducing my household's supply of biscuits.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:31 pm
by Ian Volante
A little more maybe, but that's mostly due to an almost complete lack of activity since December - I wasn't in the head space to do my usual yoga/circuits/cycling/korfball training, and then I badly sprained my ankle in a match. Lockdown's been a good chance to reset and consider my future activity.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:49 pm
by Gavin Chipper
No. If anything I've lost weight because I tend to weigh less in the summer and more in the winter.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 1:28 pm
by Marc Meakin
I have found it harder to lose weight since I became a veggie in January and this diet I'm on (Team RH fitness ) relies on a higher protein and fibre intake.
The fibre is easy but the protein less so and I am reluctant to rely on Whey powder
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:32 pm
by Rhys Benjamin
I have, but I appear to be the only person in my circles who has.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:16 pm
by Sam Cappleman-Lynes
I had put on weight, but I just shaved for the first time since lockdown and that must have shed the weight again.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:28 pm
by Dave Robjohns
Typically all of my exercise is social stuff like tennis/rounders etc as I can never motivate myself consistently to run/cycle etc alone, so lockdown and distancing culling uni combined with comfort eating has somewhat ruined me... up a strong 5 stone over 2020! Not optimistic for lockdown 3.0...
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:36 pm
by Marc Meakin
Technically I've lost 9lbs but i wasover a stone lighter after furlough in August
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:58 am
by Callum Todd
Dave Robjohns wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:28 pm
Typically all of my exercise is social stuff like tennis/rounders etc as I can never motivate myself consistently to run/cycle etc alone, so lockdown and distancing culling uni combined with comfort eating has somewhat ruined me... up a strong 5 stone over 2020! Not optimistic for lockdown 3.0...
Do you have a regular circle of friends that you usually play tennis/rounders with? If so, maybe try seeing up something you can do virtually with them. In the first lockdown a group of my mates set up a 'distance league' on an app. They used Under Armour's MapMyRun but something like Strava would work too. It became a bit of a competition as to who could rack up the most km/miles, and got everyone talking about their walks/runs/cycles. It felt like social group exercise, despite the fact we were all technically doing it alone.
I think (please correct if wrong) that you can still exercise outdoors with one person from another household in this lockdown so that should help too.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:53 am
by Fiona T
Yeah I was a little overweight at the start of 2020 and fairly motivated to do something about it. I've now added a stone and got good intentions but zero motivation. I actually feel quite ashamed of myself. Must do better.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:40 pm
by Marc Meakin
Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:53 am
Yeah I was a little overweight at the start of 2020 and fairly motivated to do something about it. I've now added a stone and got good intentions but zero motivation. I actually feel quite ashamed of myself. Must do better.
My advice is to buy a fitbit or use a step counter app.
Use every wasted minute ( usually an add break) to march up and down your living room or on the spot and you can easily hit 15,000 steps which is a step in the right direction and drink at least 2 litres of water
It helped me loose a stone in weight until a knee injury stopped me and i put on half a stone
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:16 pm
by Paul Anderson
Dunno if it's age just catching up, but I only really started to put on weight when I started playing Apto. I'm much more determined this year to be as active as I used to be. Sitting motionless on the couch is self-evidently gonna increase your waistline.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:36 pm
by JackHurst
Getting much less exercise overall, but also eating a lot less food and generally eating healthier. I think being in the house all the time has made it easier to plan healthy meals with fresh ingredients.
I found myself eating a lot less wfh than when in the office.
1) There's quite a lot of social snacking In offices (e.g. bringing in a cake or bringing some chocolate back from your trip to the shop to share)
2) Quite a lot of social lunching which often involved going to the market stall and getting enormous portions for lunch.
The thing I am most happy about over lockdown is having reduced my caffeine dependency. I can get by for the day with one big cup in the morning now. Used to need 2 or 3 a day!
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:38 pm
by JackHurst
JackHurst wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:36 pm
Getting much less exercise overall, but also eating a lot less food and generally eating healthier. I think being in the house all the time has made it easier to plan healthy meals with fresh ingredients.
I found myself eating a lot less wfh than when in the office.
1) There's quite a lot of social snacking In offices (e.g. bringing in a cake or bringing some chocolate back from your trip to the shop to share)
2) Quite a lot of social lunching which often involved going to the market stall and getting enormous portions for lunch.
The thing I am most happy about over lockdown is having reduced my caffeine dependency. I can get by for the day with one big cup in the morning now. Used to need 2 or 3 a day!
Oh I just realised this post didn't answer the question...
I think I've lost about half a stone.
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 9:41 am
by Fiona T
Fiona T wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:53 am
Yeah I was a little overweight at the start of 2020 and fairly motivated to do something about it. I've now added a stone and got good intentions but zero motivation. I actually feel quite ashamed of myself. Must do better.
Following another half stone gain over December and January, I gave myself a kick up the backside at the beginning of February - started logging food on MPF and started a running plan, as well as cutting back on the booze which had got out of hand. Have shifted two stone over the last three months, and am comfortably back in the normal BMI range, and running 5K again. Feel a lot better for it too
Re: Have you put weight on during lockdown
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 11:15 am
by Paul Anderson
I've lost any weight I had put on just from doing renovations, not sitting as much. I need a new belt hole