Over the Covid pandemic I gained 50 pounds over 3 years since I had moved out of the city and my activity was minimal. Once I moved into my own apartment I managed to gain another 20 pounds, and was basically double the weight I used to be in college. I've been trying to rectify this, although I tried the gym and hated it, so I've just been trying to not eat and walk more. I've dropped 30 pounds over the past 4 months so at least I'm lighter than I was when I moved in here, but that means I still have 40 more pounds to go, and I seem to have hit a plateau.

Of course that means I want to eat more since I got in the habit of eating my feelings while I was unemployed and back living with my parents, and I'm finding it a very hard habit to break. My diet has never been great, and even though I learned to cook during the pandemic, I was used to cooking for four people. Cooking for one is proving more daunting than I thought it would be, and there's always the temptations to just grab some chocolate, cheese, or a Stouffer's.

My work schedule also doesn't help since I want a hot dinner, but can't take the time out to cook while I'm working because I work 1-10pm. It's too late to cook at that point, and if I cook before 1pm then it's refrigerated by dinner time. It's a choice of making enough on the weekend and microwaving the same thing every day, or getting some variety by cheating with the aforementioned frozen dinners.

The only other thing I can think of is that I need to start learning how to freeze portions of things I make, so I can pull those down from the freezer instead and get some variety that way. I can do this - if I can learn to use 20+ databases I can learn how to Google what are good homemade frozen meals. I just need to gather the effort to do it, particularly if I ever plan on being a normal weight again!