U.S. Workers Try to Lose Weight Before Returning to the Office
- Trainers, texts about fasting help reverse lockdown’s ravages
- Americans who put on weight gained an average 29 pounds
Jesse Weigel’s jeans barely buttoned and his dress pants were off limits. But he didn’t view his pandemic doughnut habit as a crisis until his 4-year-old had to extract him from a once-favorite shirt that bound his arms like sausage casing.
“She’s actually hanging off my collar trying to get my shirt off,” Weigel, a 35-year-old computer-systems head engineer, recalled from his home in Steubenville, Ohio. “The only way to do it was to rip it off my arms.”