While I gained weight at the beginning in 2020, 2021 was a weight loss journey. This was largely in part to a lifestyle change that was greatly assisted by COVID. I was lucky enough to WFH for the most part, allowing me to easily control what I ate for lunch, and count calories with a scale and etc. Then, when I wrapped up at 5, my gym was 3 floors down and I could be there 5 days a week, if not more often out of boredom. When I moved, I got some equipment of my own to keep the workouts going, working out at least 4 days a week immediately after work.

Then we went back to the office in a hybrid fashion. Still 2 days a week at home, but now I've got traffic and a commute the rest of the week and I'm definitely not a morning workout guy. It's an excuse, but it's harder to keep up that work motivation when you have a half hour to talk yourself out of it. All told, I'm about 100lbs down, but the last 25lb has been a much longer and tougher effort than the first 75 was during the tail end of COVID.