At the beginning of quarantine, I put on about 20 pounds.
Since all the gyms had closed, I wasn’t able to lift weights like I used to. I started taking walks around my neighborhood to get some exercise in, and then I started adding in squats and push ups every day, but I wasn’t losing weight. I even bought some workout videos online, and those workouts helped a little bit, but I was still struggling to burn off the fat that I had put on. I was starting to get really frustrated, when I realized that for three months, my fiance and I were pretty much exclusively eating from takeout apps, and we weren’t making the healthiest choices. When it comes to losing weight, there are so many different opinions out there, so many magic remedies and trendy diets, but the truth is, the only thing that makes you lose weight is by burning more calories in a day than you take in. That’s it. If you eat two thousand calories in one day, and burn off two thousand and ten calories that day, you lose weight. Not much, in this instance, but you will. You can incorporate all of the activity and exercise you want, but if you consume more calories than you burn, you will not lose weight. With takeout, it’s really easy to overdo it on the calories, so I changed up my eating habits, I still tried to get in at least some exercise every day, but by not eating takeout every day, I was able to lose the extra quarantine weight in time for Summer ‘21!