Again, when calories are not burned, they are stored as fat. It is logical that when individuals eat more and absorb more calories while maintaining the same level of inactivity, fat is gained. Fear also plays a role. Many of my clients have expressed a certain amount of fear around losing weight. This is completely false.
Muscle is what the virus prefers.
It does not matter how much fat is on the body, the virus will attack muscle stores before fat stores. So it makes sense to increase muscle rather than fat. The more muscle your body carries, the more protected your body will be. Fat plays no part in this type of protection. There are also emotional factors that play a part in this epidemic.