I feel like most people have been feeling the weight (pun intended) of Lockdown coming down on them. I know for me I managed to get started in Lockdown 1.0 with the motivation and mental capacity to keep my version of home workouts going. Then I had a fall in my house (we call it the great fall of 2020) and broke my finger and injured my leg so that put a wrench in the home workout plans. Then Lockdown 2.0 came around and it just felt different, there was a level of entrapment and incarceration that came with the extensive restrictions that were placed upon the Melbourne residents.
Once I was healed I started back up with my home HIIT workouts and what little weights I had on hand, but the thing that let me down the most was my eating. When it’s so easy to just sit on the couch and bring up one of the many home delivery services on my phone and get any food to fill that void in my soul from being locked in my house. My daily walks with my dog Ringo were the only respite I felt from being isolated in my 2 bedroom apartment where I live alone.
So, I tried the fad keto diet for a few weeks to give me something to concentrate on and control when there were so many aspects I felt like I wasn't in control of in my life. There was a level of situational depression that came on in the second lockdown, that lockdown just hit different.
It’s been a few months since the gyms have been opened and I am still working on my mental health and physical health, the damage I did to my body in those 9 months is going to take some time to rectify because there are some eating habits I still need to work on.
I am an ongoing work in progress, there is no perfect.
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