The virus made me gain weight
It felt great, but it was not enough.
The complication with taking time off is that it’s difficult to go back to how things used to be. When the virus first hit, my gym shut down. My thoughts at the time were those of relief, because I was too scared to go out in public at the time. I became more stationary, spending a lot of time on the couch watching shows. Before I knew it, several months had gone by in addition to I had not worked out once. I was not sleeping well, my health was terrible and I was lazy. I needed to get back into exercise. When the gym finally opened back up I had put on thirty pounds, had lost all definition, and felt love a sack of crap. I suppose from personal experience that people don’t go to the gym to mock other people, they go to take classes and lift weights. People at the gym are focused on themselves in addition to their own bodies, in addition to yet I still felt too self conscious to go back! I started to take long walks while both of us were in the evening, to genuinely work up a sweat, in addition to after that I would do yoga stretches to cool down after. It felt great, but it was not enough. I realized I was just trying to lose enough weight to feel comfortable returning to the gym. My old personal trainer would have scolded me for thinking in such a way, but it was the truth. After I lose 5 pounds maybe I will feel confident enough to go back to the local gym.