selfishly worried about my progress due to covid19

I know this may come off as selfish in the grand scheme of things, but I feel like I need to get it out there in some way.

I’m suddenly terrified that the progress I’ve seen, and was hoping to make this year is going to be unattainable due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It took everything in me to finally get comfortable going to the gym (9 weeks strong!) but now as the number of cases grow, I get more and more paranoid about going to the gym. The amount of people who still don’t wipe down their equipment, or who go to the gym sick is crazy. I get you don’t want to miss a workout, but a few days off to recover is better for everyone else who has to use the same equipment. This is bad enough with standard colds and flus, but with this new virus going around I’m on high alert to how many people are guilty of this, and it’s terrifying.

Add to that the fact that I have 2 kids under 3 (who thankfully seem the least vulnerable) but who would be devastated if they couldn’t see their grandparents for any amount of time if we were to get quarantined, or worse spread it to them, and suddenly going to the gym feels selfish.

I was so proud of myself for missing a workout due to unrelated sickness but not falling off the wagon a week ago, but I don’t know if I’m strong enough to take an undetermined amount of time off from working out. It felt like it was starting to become a habit.

I get that the main factor in weight loss is diet, but the feeling I get from working out, and the strength I feel, and the improvements in body composition are such big factors that I don’t know how good I’ll be at one without the other. A huge motivator for my eating habits has been how active I’ve been outside the house lately and the fact that I work out early and every meal I can mentally ask myself “are you really about to waste that workout so you can have fries with that burger?” If that goes away I’m scared of what else may suffer.

Again, I know this may come off as a woe is me thing in the midst of a global pandemic, but for once in my life I felt like I was getting control of my health and weight, and now I’m scared i won’t be able to keep it up.

Thank you for taking the time to read my rant/worries. I just had to tell someone how I’m feeling about this, and I hope it any of you are in the same boat, that we manage to work through it. I’ve come too far to go back.

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