Didn't gain any covid weight for a year ... then I did

[Anonymous]

I weigh myself once a week. Not enough to obsess, but enough to know if something is going awry before I gain ten pounds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why not step on the scale? I weigh myself every morning.

Great! That works for you. I want to fit into my pants most of all. The scale doesn’t work in the bathroom and dh sleeps in later than I do and since I prefer to look at the scale with the lights on so I can see the numbers I sing with myself very often.

And what you are doing DOES NOT work for you, else you would not be seeking advice. Get a new scale. Mine has an led display so it doesn’t matter if is dark.

Regularly weighing yourself is the easiest way to avoid “mysteriously” gaining 15 pounds. That’s just so depressing.

Yeah and regularly doesn’t have to mean every day. Can be weekly or twice a month. It’s not good to just have no idea what you weigh— that’s how a lot of weight creeps up.

I really don’t think the “do your clothes fit?” tracking works at all now that a lot of people work from home or are wear athleisure daily. You could easily gain 10-15 lb and your clothes will still fit!!!

[Anonymous]

I'm with you.

I gained 30 pounds since COVID. I've never weighed this much. I've never had a thigh rubbing problem when wearing a dress before. It's depressing.

I think I convinced myself that I was eating OK and I thought, oh well, maybe it's just turning 40 and there's nothing I can do. But I started tracking what I eat and realized I was eating waaaaaay too many calories a day. So now I am eating 1400-1500 a day. I've lost 6 pounds in 3 weeks, woot woot. And I've also lost an inch from my thighs etc.

I'm not tracking my food intake anymore because I mostly eat the same thing every day and I have a sense of where I need to hit. If I start gaining again I can always revisit it. I'm also not interested in completely depriving myself of all joy so there is wine and a small dessert included in there.

In my 20s I exercised a lot and got in really good shape, but now I have a health condition with exercise intolerance and it's bad for me to sustain a high heart rate. So I'm just doing some gentle weight training. But hey, it makes the calculus easier.

I have another 25-35 pounds to go to get to my "mom in her 40s" goal weight. It would be 40-50 to get to my "rocking a size 2 in my 20s" size, but let's be realistic, shall we?

I remember when I lost 20 pounds in my 20s, my clothes would fit differently but the scale wouldn't budge, and then all of a sudden the scale would be down 3 pounds. But now it seems like it's down 0.3 pounds every day or so, with the occasional up half a pound, then back down a whole pound thrown in there. I suppose it's because I have a lot more to lose now. It will probably get less steady at some point.