By Pamela Vachon
It started, as many mornings do, with a bowl of cereal. It was October 2020, and I was having a simple, quick breakfast while contemplating weight loss. The early months of the coronavirus pandemic had created a weight challenge for many people, as baking fads and stress-eating occupied our waking, quarantined hours — and I was no exception. I had also lost my restaurant job in March of that year (as had practically everyone else in the industry), so along with my employment, I’d also given up the active, on-my-feet lifestyle that this kind of work entails — and the “eat whatever I want” mentality that it had afforded me. When I originally left sedentary, desk-based work for the restaurant industry, I lost 15 pounds without really trying, but now that that work had been temporarily eliminated and replaced with inactivity, those pounds had quickly found their way back.
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