Weight Check - Up, Down or the Same?

I am finding it a little more difficult to maintain the same weight as pre pandemic. I am exercising about the same as prior to the pandemic and I am also eating about the same quantity of food. While I have not gained any weight yet it seems like I gain more weight on bad days than I lose on good days. In a way, my change in weight seems to be negatively convex

Are you Up, Down or the Same?

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Down roughly 7-10lbs, although I doubt it's all good weight loss. My shirt sleeves are feeling a bit looser these days. I never really wished I had a home gym before. Definitely a goal of mine now.

I have been eating MUCH heathier. Not eating out alone has been a godsend. I've been drinking a lot more than usual, or if not more, at least a lot more often though - so that's hardly a good thing weight-wise.

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I'm down about 12 pounds since early March. I think it's pretty much all fat and water weight from fat cells because I've been doing bodyweight exercises and getting a little stronger from that. Eating healthier food and being less stressed has played a big role

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You guys are doing great! I should have realized that the comments would be skewed towards people losing weight. Some people who gained some weight, might not want to comment.

 

5'11" mid 30's male, lost 20lbs+ Starting weight (March 4 2020): 196 lbs Current weight: 175 lbs

Like CRE, been eating a lot healthier. Had been lifting / bulking pretty heavily in the gym prior to corona, and I also don't have any gym equipment at home except, thankfully, a pull-up bar. Have switched to a full regime of bodyweight exercises and really happy with the transformation thus far. I don't really know why I was bulking so hard before but I feel loads better with 20lbs+ off.

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Yeah that was smart. I didn't take exercise or my health very seriously until I hit 30.

Bodyweight exercises just make me feel so much better. I mean, my deadlift and bench surely have declined with my weight drop, but before I couldn't do many simple things like planks, Turkish getups, burpees, etc. and my pull-ups have gone through the roof now that I've lost weight. Snoring at night has gone away and I'm sleeping better. All in all a great move.

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I'm pretty much strictly running and doing some bodyweight exercises at this point, so losing muscle. I have a 35 lb kettlebell and I've been meaning to get into some sort of routine with that.

 

I was already cutting Pre-Covid. Down 20 pounds total and 10 of that has been since Covid/ WFH. Probably another 15-20 to go, had originally planned to lose 30 total but once you starting dropping weight you always realize you weren't as lean as you thought.

Lucky to have a full home gym with 1,000 pounds of weights and have been setting PRs even while in a deficit. Much easier to track macros when WFH as you don't need to plan as far in advance. More time for cardio as well.

 

My lifetime goal is to get a lake house and have a separate home-gym-house with fucking amazing views and air conditioning and AMAZING EQUIPMENT.

 

I'm down ~10lbs from the start of my state's stay-at-home order. Definitely some muscle loss; man I'd kill to touch weights again.

I figured I'm just going to roll with it and cut really aggressively. At first I was getting takeout a lot to support my local restaurants but they seem to be doing fine as everyone else has the same idea so I've been cooking a ton of low cal / high protein meals. Upped the cardio a lot and am doing more bodyweight exercises.

Hoping to come out of this shredded as fuck for a nice slow bulk when the gyms are back. Maybe run 5/3/1 BBB or something.

 

Down about 5lb, drinking less too. I normally don’t really drink during the week and on weekends now I drink less since there’s no reason to get as plastered if there’s nothing to do. Looking to stay that way for a bit. Been trying to eat better in general too, but sometimes I feel like demolishing a whole pizza so it’s not ideal. Doesn’t help that the gym is closed and there’s no space in my apartment to build one, or even a yard for that matter.

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Echo the drinking far less than you previously were. I'm really enjoying the level of productivity I've kept up, both mentally and physically. When I grab for the bottle in the evenings (usually in excess), I'm liable to be in a shit mood without a spark the next day. The state of my mood is compounded several times over due to COVID-19 isolation and a ton of my usual distractions having disappeared. In my opinion, there's never been a time more critical to get right with yourself. And maybe I'm get older, but one of the best parts of my day is at 5:00AM, crushing a bowl of oats + flax oil + blueberries + blackberries with a staunch coffee in my hand while watching an episode of The Last Dance / Peeky Blinders. Reallllly gets the fucking TEST going!

I'm down 10 pounds. My yoga studio shutting down really sucked; yoga was my sanctuary. It was back-to-basics with Beach Body: Insanity but then I fucked up my patellar tendon on a long run. That incident took my cardio for two weeks. It's been boring-ass food (pinto beans, pasta, fish w/ rice, PB&J) and floor workouts that has powered me through. It took a while to find this groove but now that I've found it, I'm cruising. I think with a couple of strategically placed extended vacations towards the end of 2020, this will turn out to be a pretty damn good year.

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DOWN, IM GETTING LEAN LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.

Doing hell lot of cardio these past weeks and not that much weight training with the limited equipment SO PROBABLY ALSO LOST SOME FUCKING MUSCLE. Also bought 4 kettlebells already I think I'll manage to get myself a whole fucking set before the gyms open again. Fuck me I'm ready to get back in the gym let me tell you that.

 

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