Gaining Weight ?

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Walks

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Being locked up for the past 6 - 7 weeks, is anybody getting fat ?

My Daughter is working from home. She orders food for lunch everyday. One of the perks. She orders something for the old man too.

I'm not used to eating Lunch. Can't seem to get Her to stop. Can't resist the good food.
This crippled up old man Can't do much, Can't get around.

Shoot, Don't want to hurt the Kids feelings.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Have to change your diet! Breakfast is lightly sugared coffee and teaspoon of milk. Eat the daughter's lunch as described. Dinner is a chicken bullion cube in a cup of hot water. You are set to go. You have to get down to less than 1200 calories a day. HTH
 
fiver

fiver

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nothing has changed for me but the weather.
I might have even lost a few lbs. there just isn't a lot of outside stuff to do besides shovel snow in the winter around here.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

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10#-12# gain. If I can get my lazy frame outta bed in the morning, we will do a day trip tomorrow. Meant to do this today, but overslept. Supposed to heat up A LOT this week, so the local mountains sound like a good idea. Still supposed to be "Sheltering in place", but BLEEP that. We need OUT.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Beats me. Hungry all the time. Eating lots of good stuff as my wife is an excellent cook. Creative and with a pretty good repertoire. Wine with supper, bourbon and a piece of chocolate before bed. I should be gaining weight but so far so good. My doctor says I'm technically over weight, yeah well, I look around at the rest of the herd and feel pretty good.
 
Hawk

Hawk

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I've lost about 10#.
We are cooking/preparing every meal. We're not eating the junk/fast food that we used to eat 3 or 4 times a week. Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, fries and burgers, etc.
We're eating a more balanced diet than we used to.
 
Will

Will

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I think I may have gained a little bit. I’ll have still been working as normal on the farm and at the refinery.
My problem has been that my wife is off from work since school is shut down. She is constantly cooking good food and snacks that I can’t stay out of.
 
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Walks

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Breakfast is yogurt w/Kashi, a banana an hour later. Lunch a protein shake.
Dinner is what ever My Wife makes.
Bedtime snack is 2 saltines (no salt) 1oz cheese and 2oz 1%.

Coffee with milk & sugar. GEEZ !! If I have to drink that unholy concoction, I think I'd rather be dead.
 
Rick H

Rick H

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Take my coffee strong, unsweetened and black, thank you!
I had a battle with my Gall Bladder Christmas Eve, I won, the gall bladder got tossed out. The upshot was I was under 200# for the first time since I quit smoking 14 years ago. This house arrest stuff has been a challenge keeping it off. I'm afraid to get back on the scales but feel like I gained 5-7 lbs back....this in spite of walking 3 miles plus each day.
 
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JonB

JonB

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I have always (35 years) struggled with my weight.
In January, my Knee was getting worse, so in February, I checked out having the Dr put in a new knee. They said I should lose some weight (well, DUH), so I started the Low/No Carb diet, it's the only one that worked for me in the past, but it's impossible to stay the course...6 months or so is about all I can do it. So anyway, I've been on that diet for 10 weeks or so, but only limited exercise, due to knee pain, not quarantine...living in a rural small MN town, there is plenty of things I could due, if my knee didn't hurt. Well, I havn't lost any weight :( ...but luckily I haven't gained any weight either.

Yesterday, I took an extra pain pill, and started moving one firewood stack to the "next up" location. I did feel better after that little bit of exercise. Today, I plan to move some more firewood.
 
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popper

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She is constantly cooking good food and snacks that I can’t stay out of. Same here but I haven't gained anything, just tested this morning after this warning last nite.
 
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blackthorn

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Before self-isolation I was SLOWLY losing a bit of weight. Two or three weeks into the isolation, I lost strength and sank to the floor. Could not get up, wife could not help, wound up calling the ambulance. Off the hospital, blood tests identified a bacterial blood infection. They could not find where it originated and on day three of tests they gave me a CT scan. Gall bladder plugged up so here I sit waiting for the doctor to call with a tentative surgery schedule. Strangely, there was no pain from all the pushing and prodding the Doctor did. In retrospect I may have had some minor bladder attacks but did not ever associate them with a gall bladder problem. Problem is now wife seems to think I am almost totally incapacitated and watches me like a hawk to see that I do not over-do. But to get back on topic, as a result of self-isolation combined with a loss of appetite, I am down to 208 form 225 before all this started. Trick now will be to keep the weight off.
 
Ian

Ian

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L Ross said:
Beats me. Hungry all the time. Eating lots of good stuff as my wife is an excellent cook. Creative and with a pretty good repertoire. Wine with supper, bourbon and a piece of chocolate before bed. I should be gaining weight but so far so good. My doctor says I'm technically over weight, yeah well, I look around at the rest of the herd and feel pretty good.
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You also DO more in a day than three young men put together, every day. You even play hard. Sedentary lifestyle is much more subject to the bad effects of extra calories than an active person, at least in the short-term.

I am very slow to gain or lose weight, but packed on 15 lbs in 6 years working a desk job, passing 40, and then the last couple of years having two babies that kept me from my normal evening activities around the property and reduced my activity to virtually nil. I've lost ten pounds since February at my new "essential" job, took me about three weeks to get back to 10 hours of constant hard work on my feet again without feeling mostly dead when I got home. I could stand to lose a little more but seem to be trading belly fat for shoulder muscles at this point so it's all good right now. I see what everyone talks about with having to work harder and harder to stay in shape and not get fat past 40 when the T drops and the metabolism bogs down.

Reading about all this cabin fever and lockdown stuff is like reading a foreign language, I'm so busy I don't have time to say grace these days between work and family.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Ian said:
You also DO more in a day than three young men put together, every day. You even play hard. Sedentary lifestyle is much more subject to the bad effects of extra calories than an active person, at least in the short-term.

I am very slow to gain or lose weight, but packed on 15 lbs in 6 years working a desk job, passing 40, and then the last couple of years having two babies that kept me from my normal evening activities around the property and reduced my activity to virtually nil. I've lost ten pounds since February at my new "essential" job, took me about three weeks to get back to 10 hours of constant hard work on my feet again without feeling mostly dead when I got home. I could stand to lose a little more but seem to be trading belly fat for shoulder muscles at this point so it's all good right now. I see what everyone talks about with having to work harder and harder to stay in shape and not get fat past 40 when the T drops and the metabolism bogs down.

Reading about all this cabin fever and lockdown stuff is like reading a foreign language, I'm so busy I don't have time to say grace these days between work and family.
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I feel like a truck ran over my sorry butt this mornin'. We put all of the maple syrup tapping jugs up in the trusses of the pole shed. That involves about 25 trips up and down an extension ladder and moving the ladder every three jugs for 48 jugs. Then got the patio furniture down, (more ladder trips). Having had the ladder skid out and fall out from under me twice in two years, I know tie it off before I climb it much. The shed floor is smooth concrete with a coating of sand and dust on it that falls off the cars in Winter. No matter how much I sweep, the traction just isn't good. Trying to walk the 800 lb. motorcycle backwards our of the roller doors is always a challenge too.
Hoping to have a pretty easy day today with a bunch of mask, gown, and head band deliveries to make. That involves some easy driving and listening to a John Sandford book down loaded on my phone through Blue Tooth.
It is almost windless right now. I believe I will go out and knock down a row a chickens with the High Wall before I get too busy.
 
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Ole_270

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I'm lucky to be pretty mobile for my age, late 60s. The shut down has stopped me from going to the gym so when the weather is decent I've been hiking hard in the hills behind the house and playing golf at the local goat pasture they call a course. I've been on a much stricter diet since the end of january and have lost 18# since then, now at a 30 year low for weight. Trying to lower blood sugar enough to get off the pills.
 
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