What does everyone even do in the evenings?

I need to lose a stone. I lost 1.5 in 2020 simply by not eating between meals or after dinner. Now I've slipped up again. This is a great idea. I just need to stay upstairs away from food every evening!!!

Once the kids are in bed we watch telly, read, chat, do some work or life admin, play games (board and on the Switch) and do jigsaws. Our youngest is still tiny and currently cluster feeds between about 8 and 10 so I'm generally stuck on the sofa with her and we've watched a lot of TV. We were rewatching taskmaster but I kept laughing so much the baby would pop off the nipple so now we've switched to the much more calming X files.
I cannot understand all these people who go out and do hobbies in the evening. Once I'm home I'm not going out again for love nor money bar emergencies and, under extreme duress, school related stuff like parents evening.

Shower, tidy up, play with cat and then work on the laptop from about 9-11pm. Then bed. DH has not been well so he goes to bed early at the moment. Sometimes he hangs out with me for a bit and we watch videos/chat/have sex/sit in the garden. Mostly work though, and when I get to bed I play stupid games on my phone too long and then I'm tired in the morning.

Build a fort??? Where did you see that suggested?

We talk to one another, my DH reads to me (we have the same interests in books so it makes sense), we play games, be them TTRPG or video games. We are playing a Star Trek game and Hogwarts Legacy atm. We have sex in the lounge sometimes, we do a few chores sometimes, and sometimes we watch something. We also do arts and crafts, write, plan camps and costumes for conventions etc. Our lives are quite varied and interesting!

We only watch the telly for something specific, we don't watch the telly for telly's sake.

I struggle.

I used to think " after work" was my real life and now I think work is my actual life.

I run or do yoga then shower, get in my comfies and do some work. I'm 38 and have a goal of a complete career change by the time I'm 40 so I work towards that pretty much every evening I'm at home. Dh reads or watches something on the TV. It's boring but it's important to me so I'm getting it done.

We do exactly the same as you! Except I also read a lot, and listen to the radio or podcasts sometimes. DH often listens to podcasts whilst he washes up. He plays his switch or does sudoku and other similar puzzles. We both sometimes do crosswords together. When we are not exhausted, I sometimes do a short workout at home (body weight exercises mostly) and DH sometimes goes for a short run. Now and then we have a group of friends round for drinks, snacks, and board/card games together which is always fun too.

My child goes to bed late, we chat & play with him.

I usually do some sort of sport in the evening, or if not something active then a walk. I have a desk job and love my exercise so it's my time to do something I enjoy.
Cook dinner. Eat with DS.
15 yo DS goes to bed about 10. I'll often have left the kitchen tidying until then, so I'll put on an audio book on my headphones and tidy up.
Then I have some fruit a decaf coffee and watch some telly before bed, Candy Crush and reading. I always intend to do something admin wise from list, but rarely do.
I am single.

Eat
Drink wine
Watch TV
Scroll on my phone

We got into board games during COVID and that has continued.
Also recently got a second hand table tennis table which is great on summer evenings.
Keeps us away from screens

Eat, chat about random nonsense, have sex

Walk dog
Work out in my bedroom
Shower, defluff, tan
Do laundry
Clean
After 10pm watch TV in bedroom so I'm not tempted to eat.

I've lost a stone since March and it's a combo of the walking and evening work outs that have really helped. I do my workouts before kids go to bed.

Eat
Dishwasher
Play dominoes and/or scrabble with the teenagers. Or I play Wordscapes and every time I get extra words I delete a page of emails (so if I have two extra words, I delete two pages, I do check first to see if there's anything I have to deal with, car insurance reminder or whatever).
May enter the odd competition but this is when the teens decide to talk most to me and I can't do two things (properly) at once.
Bath
Moisturise feet with Aveeno (had a bad case of athlete's foot last year and don't want another).
Read a book or read Mumsnet
Sort washing or other housework
DD and I would have been cycling but it's never really stopped raining; we've managed a walk sometimes.
Watch tv sometimes.
Tonight I have done absolutely nothing except moisturise my feet, but I've been at my friend's all day then met other friend's at McD for tea (which was cold!) then went to card factory where kids bought Father's Day cards and I got 10 cards for £1

Walk dog. Play tennis

I drink.
And I know things.
(lighthearted!)

On a rare night that I’m in then eat and tidy up until 8ish, bit if pottering in the garden, then tv and read.

most evenings I’m out - Pilates classes, bell ringing, book club, work meetings, random other meetings, driving children around, volunteering

What are you made of? Tell me your secret!

Term time:
Mon- Thurs I'm usual home by about 6. Unless i go to gym. Talk to kids/sort tea. Work for a couple of hours. Do any offspring related admin. Bed to read.

Dh: home roughly same time. Sorts tea/ wash up. Watches TV and phone all evening. I feel he doesn't appreciate the freedom he has.

Holidays: I never really know what to do with my evenings, although i read more and widely. Remember i have friends, but that they are busy. It's sad. I've become institutionalised.

Single mum, virtually no outside support. DC goes to bed and I do too. Watch stuff on the TV in bed, ideally asleep by 10pm. Work Monday to Friday. Assume at some point it'll get better.

We go to bed early, and quite often we have sex! Also loll around in each others' arms for a bit,, murmuring nice things to each other.

I invested in a TV for the bedroom recently too - best £200 I ever spent. We watch all kinds of reality crap. Sport sometimes too (we both love the snooker). Maybe a stupid action film on a weekend.

I am an avid reader. He reads shit on the internet.

Once in a blue moon we go to the theatre or a gig or the cinema. That's really unusual tho. I would like to do it more, but we don't.

As little as possible. After dinner is served and dogs fed I sit down and look at stuff on my phone then I go up to bed and watch tv and scroll phone. I don't do any chores, I am up at about 5am and work and do everything that needs to be done the whole day so by the evening I am knackered.
My children are grown up late teens and twenties

Watch TV generally - although we have teens, so there is no such thing as what do we do when they've gone to bed, as normally we're in bed before them

I'm surprised no one has said posting on MN? It's usually busy around this time 😆