How the current crisis is helping me to finally continue losing weight

I started my weight loss journey last fall by starting to count calories for the first time in my life.
To my greatest surprise, I found out that I have turned into the classic "boredom eater", meaning I mainly ate "to have something to do" instead of because I was hungry. Never thought this would be me but it explained a ton.

Also, another weird hobby I developed out of sheer boredom was going to the supermarket A LOT. Very often a few times a day, just because I suddenly craved a certain kind of (always high calorie) food I didn't have at home, so I went out to buy and immediately eat it.

I lost about half of the weight I actually want to lose by counting calories for a while, then I suddenly got very annoyed by it (I'm a small woman so I really need to make sure to only use ONE teaspoon of butter per slice of bread and things like that because my allowed calories are so low...) so I decided to take a break from losing and ate up to maintenance for a couple of months.

In my country we now have not a complete lockdown but we are all required to go out as little as possible.
And I tell you what, this has been GREAT for finally continuing my weight loss journey! The thought of going to the supermarket multiple times a day seems insane to me now, so I'm finally just eating what I have at home.
I also make sure to be out the supermarket as quickly as possible so I don't even have time to think about "Do I take some sweets with me or not?" - I buy only the very necessary, most basic things and then I'm home again with zero sweets in my apartment and THAT alone is making staying within my calorie limit INCREDIBLY easy out of a sudden which is so great!
Basically, I only have stuff at home that isn't very rich in calories now which is a huge change to how it was before and it makes losing weight sooo much easier, it's lovely, really!

Anyways, I wanted to share this, maybe it'll inspire some of you to act the same.
Stay safe everyone!

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