Quarantine lessons and first successful weight loss in years!

I have been lurking here for a while but never actually taken any concrete steps to losing weight. I have been in quarantine for five weeks now and have been weighing myself weekly. I try to log the numbers to have back data — for when I “really start trying” I tell myself — but don’t really look at them or think about them. Except for today, when my curiosity got the better of me. To my great surprise, I have consistently lost every week I’ve been in isolation and am down just shy of ten lbs. What!!??

After a mental review of the past five weeks, my only thought is that my stress has been wayyyy down these weeks. Strange to say seeing as there’s a virus eating its way through the world at present, but I have been working from home and that has lowered my day to day stress tenfold. No spontaneous calls from angry clients, no boss randomly walking into my office and commandeering my day, no gossipy coworkers, more leeway in response times, no long and miserable commute. All while having the security of a full time paycheck and benefits during the current uncertainty. And a stimulus check and no student loan payments..... you see the pattern.

I have not consciously been changing my eating and I’m not exercising at all (beyond walking the dog, which hasn’t changed since Before). I’m in good health overall (y’know, except for being obese). I’ve always cooked for myself and eaten whatever I fancy in the moment/had on hand. But I had noticed that I’d been dealing with more leftovers than usual and running out of containers. I’m cooking the same amount, so I must be eating less. I’m going to start tracking my meals to see if this is actually true (I have some data from about two months ago to compare to).

I just had to share. This is so crazy! My first weight loss in five years and all I had to do was have a less shitty job for a few weeks...

Tl;dr apparently stress eating large portions has been my problem all along, and now I’m down 10 lbs in 5 weeks.

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