Shielding chat continues - thread 2

[AuntieSocia1]

Shiny new thread for anyone shielding.

You can vent/moan/cry/chat/lurk whatever you need.

people mistakenly believe that illness and disability si soemthing that only affects the elderly. they don't see younger people with chronic illness and/or disability as valid, they see it as temporary. They dont care to see the ongoign issues that younger people face, especially from black and ethnic groups, to get a doctors attention and full and varied disgnosis. Its taken me my whole life to get someone to listen to me about my neurological symptoms and what do you know, i have multiple neuro issues, that i had been begging for attention for my entire life but i was wrote off as young and hysterical and attention seeking. Far too many people dont believe that illness can strike at any time, that its soemthing that only happens as you get old and its a myth that needs to be dispelled as much as possible

Good morning,

I think I'm going to try and shift some weight for the remainder of this lockdown, I'm determined that something will come out of it better than when it went in! No idea what tbh, maybe old fashioned calorie counting.

My sister has asked if she can come and sit in my garden next week if I stay indoors with the patio doors open so we can chat, I'm tempted to leap at the offer. If she brings her own thermos of coffee and doesn't use my loo that should be ok I'm sure, she gets weekly Covid tests at work now and no resident or staff member in the care home she works for has had it, I don't know if I'm just being really selfish though.

i think if it would do you good in terms of your mental health, and your sisters, then go for it. it doesnt sound like she currently poses much risk to you if you obey distancing guidelines

@TitsalinaBumSquash. I think that sounds very sensible.

I'm sorry if this has been covered but can anyone point me in the direction of latest info on sheilding? What's supposed to happen after June 30th, do we just crack on, take our chances and hope for the best? The lack of information is woeful.

Titsalina, a new low carb bootcamp has started here this week, would that be doable? I’m doing it :)

Thanks for the second thread 👍

Nothing to add at the moment as none of us seem to know what the hell is going on!

@BeyondDreamsOfBeyondFourWalls - thanks but Iow carbing is what set off a lot of my health issues and made me really very unwell so I've been advised not to do it. DH found it amazing though, he lost a ton of weight and felt fantastic.
I'm usually someone who eats next to nothing for 2 days then binges for 2 days rinse and repeat.
Whilst I can't low carb I can cut out all the sugar in sweets and puddings which will help but I need my bread/rice and potato options but just once a day rather than sandwiches for breakfast lunch and dinner! 😅

Hi shieldies.

Checking in.

I'm trying to lose weight too - although half term has put a spanner in the works. I need routine to lose weight.

Glad to read that we were at least mentioned in the briefing. I've stopped watching them now. They upset DD, & anyway I'd rather read a précis afterwards.

Morning all, I'm another one who is sheilding and piling the pounds on. I joined the low carb bootcamp and on day 3. Yesterday was so difficult I was craving sugar,DD didn't help as she was stuffing her face with a chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. I decided to drink water and after 30mins was fine. I'm a other one who is missing the bread and potatoes.
For me T25 works but having the kids home it's difficult to get into it again. I need to lose the stone I've put on.

I’m piling on the weight but tbh that is the least of my worries.. getting food deliveries is still hard ( maybe even getting harder now a lot of the smaller shops have opened and are no longer doing deliveries to keep themselves afloat) so I make what I can when I can and living with two adult teens means they are hungry alllllllllllll the time... I’m finding it frustrating and have cut my portion sizes right back but low carbing etc just isn’t possible at min..
I’m hoping we may be allowed to start walking again Soon and that will shifts a few pounds for me

I'm another one who has put on weight over the last couple of months. As much as I'm enjoying DD2 baking and cooking every day it isn't helping my waistline.

I'm also struggling with weight and cheering myself up with food. Maybe the only saving grace is I can't get whet I want on a whim.

I have a perfectly nice healthy dinner planned tonight but what I'm really craving is bread and cheese and meats and olives and... you get the picture! I even went on to amazon prime now on the absolute off chance I'd get a delivery. No chance! Probably for the best and very much a first world problem. Still it's nice to have the occasional trivial problem!

Hope you are all staying cool and able to keep your cool. It is harder knowing people can meet up etc and we can't but we'll get there eventually

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch shieldies made me laugh. Speaking of shieldies I've noticed we haven't seen a lot of regular posters since we've jumped thread. I'll do another roll call soon so no shieldie gets left behind

Hi all, can I join? My husband is the one shielding but as we have small children, just turned 4 year old and a baby, we have decided the only safe way to do it is to shield well socially distance as a family. I’m really struggling today with friends arranging meetings in group chats, the thought of my oldest not being able to go to school and with our family odd mixture of dietary requirements. I’m struggling with home schooling the nursery stuff, fitting in all the cleaning and looking after the kids. DH is working full time from home and I’m SAHM. I’m having a real downer.

Waves to Miles

I’ve piled on weight - appetite was high when we got banged up (marathon training) and since then I’ve eaten too much! I’m not drinking more, but am drinking more often, do them at tends to lower resistance to all sorts of nibbles

I’m still hoping that one day there will be more of a green light to going out to exercise. Because I think when I can increase mileage I shall also be able to get everything back in kilter.

Gain seems to have plateau’ed, so I’m hoping the way back down won’t be too bad. Indoors exercise just does hit the amount of ‘vigorous’ time I need

I’m more nervous of going out this week than I was last - I think it’s because there are just so many more people about.

Shielders in Wales got a mention in today's daily briefing. Apparently we'll be updated next week with what's happening to us.

Intriguing. Not sure I'll do anything different no matter what the update, but it'll be interested to hear what it is.

I'm considering a walk to the beach this evening guys (we live about fifteen minutes walk from several), it's glorious here today. There's been one new case in our council area all week and I just feel like it's maybe safer to do it today than after the weekend when increased movement will probably mean the cases start to rise again? I don't know.

Just had a tearful conversation with DM about the fact that she intends to have the whole family (9 people, 4 households) round on Mon. It’s difficult because if I was officially shielded she’d be the first to say not to go, but because I’m technically not she doesn’t see a prob.

I've been using the Reverse your Diabetes cook book by Katie Caldesi and the other one: Diabetes Weight Loss and my blood sugar has really started to come down. Morning phenomenon is down from 14 to 10 and during the day is down to between 7 & 9. Not great but I was hitting 13-18 before.
Have lost half a kilo finally. Drinking loads of green tea so it's not water weight.

Also about to hit the button on buying some resistance bands so I can tone up at home.

Bladder is back to feeling ok, well as ok with what's going on in there, but no sign of infection now. However have started a little hacking cough, like when I used to have asthma years ago. I think I sort of grew out of it and gave up the inhalers. I don't want to ring the gp again as they're going to start writing neurotic on my notes
It won't be cv as DH and I have been pretty good with isolation, and no other symptoms.

Rang work to find out where my laptop is and the person responsible is on annual leave So another week of no work. More gardening then and getting DH to empty the shed this week so I can finally look through the boxes we stuck in there when we moved in, in 2014!

Can't believe another week has gone by. I've been off since 1st of May no, so not quite the marathon that the early shielders have had. Missing my family so much, especially my youngest. He used to come home at weekends and I haven't seen him properly since he picked up his washing on Mother's Day. I had to sit in the car when we dropped his bike off and it was heartbreaking not to be able to hug him.

It's also my eldest boy's grandads funeral today. So sad for them all.

I'm at the end of my tether this week. 10 weeks away from my own home and I'm fed up. I'm heading back tomorrow to try to get some sense of normality.

Feeling sad because I'd been counting down to see my boyfriend but now we have split up I've nothing to look forward to. It's grim.

@Methtones.

Can’t remember if anyone had linked to this:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/i-had-an-active-life-how-are-shielders-managing-lockdown-covid-19

@Methtones sorry to hear about that.
Hugs.

Nothing about shielding tonight! I’ll take it as 30th June and then back to it?

I’ve heard my workplace hasn’t set up any social distancing measures, my boss is in his 20’s and thinks he’s invincible, thinks this pandemic happens to others. I don’t even think he’d adhere to the test & trace app as that would mean possibly closing for 2 weeks and that would mean no profits, so it’s doubtful he would follow this.

BBC had some financial advisors on this am.. did anyone see them? They were asked about work and ‘shieldies’😊🥴 and the last said that she believed we would be treated as bring in sick leave so we couldn’t be sacked etc and that she believed as furlough was protecting people until Oct that Shieldies 😊should expect to be protected until then..
at least that is what I took from it? The way my brain is this week I could have completely misheard

Did anyone see this this morning?
www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/nick-ferrari/vulnerable-people-may-have-to-isolate-for-several/

Vulnerable people may have to isolate for "several more months," says Environment Secretary