FROM FIT TO FAT IN 21 DAYS!
Quit the lockdown munching; the dreaded extra pounds are steadily creeping up on us
Along with financial uncertainty of the lockdown another issue really bothering people is weight gain. When every day is a Sunday, and the current craze is to show off your baking skills on Instagram, munching is becoming a serious consequence. So how do you keep those calories at bay?
Movie stars, our poster children for eating clean and otherwise unappealing food to stay in shape, have turned to be turncoats. They are whipping up cakes, Thai Cuisine, cookies and every other sinful treat, finally enjoying something tasty as there are no shoots around the corner.
If the stars are posting their delicacies, how can we not follow the trend? Everyone has become an Insta baker and nothing tastes more delicious than your own baking, so it’s time to polish off that cake and marvel at your hidden MasterChef talent while preparing for the next round of dessert.
We may claim to be more active around the house, upload pictures of doing a little bit household chores or tag people for the thirty-second squat challenge, but none of that is anything like a high-intensity gym workout. Also, binge-watching Netflix and hanging out virtually on Zoom and Houseparty are not helping.
Drawstring everything (pajamas, shorts, trousers, joggers, etc.) is in fashion, which is great comfort-wise but leaves the waistline with lots of room to grow.
Drinking all that good wine while doing date nights at home (or after home-schooling kids maybe?) is lovely, but even that encourages all those pesky calories to settle back in us.
DISTANCING OF A DIFFERENT KIND
So now we have some surprising issues to deal with, such as the buttons on our jeans social distancing themselves from the button hole, the weighing scale asking one person at a time to get on when you want to check your weight and that tight dress of yours coming out once a week just to make sure you haven’t gained too much .
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