Is anyone else reluctant to resume normal social activity due to lockdown weight gain?

[ContessaferJones]

I know, I know - our friends don't care what size we are, they just want to see us etc etc. Well they may not care about my lockdown weight gain but I do, not least because I lost 2 stone last year and piled it all back on I'm just embarrassed I guess.

Please could someone gently give my head a wobble for me? I seriously considered not going to a friend's BBQ this weekend because of this (am going but cringe at the thought).

I can confirm that I genuinely wouldn't care about it if one of my friends were the one who'd gained, and would just be happy to see them. My problem is just with myself.

I feel 100% the same.

So so glad there won't be school drop offs/pick ups for a while! Couldn't face the looks. X

Me!! But I have signed up to run 40 runs for the 40 years of the GNR... I'm a teacher and so won't be seeing all of my colleagues really until September so determined to get 2 stone off by then! Got about 9 weeks to go!

I lost 1.5 stone in November last year but have put 2 on since! Shocking!!

Oh god yes. A stone overweight, borderline alcoholic face, and hair like am Amish librarian. When lockdown started I was getting advances from a (similarly middle aged) bloke. Despite the fact that I'm not remotely interested I dread the shock on his face when he sees me.

Oh thank goodness it's not just me!! I was wondering if I was a terrible person for thinking like this... Obv I'd prefer for none of us to be fretting but you know what I mean - it is reassuring to not be the only one!

I have finally got back onto my diet plan this week. It is boring and verges on eating disorder-y (i.e. logging every item I eat) but does at least definitely work. I have held off for ages thinking I could find a better, less rigid way of doing it, but on balance I think this will be better for my mental health. However unreformed it is to say it, I feel 100 times better about myself when I'm a size 12 or so (have only been that size 2 or 3 times in my life, mind).

I am telling myself that friends will do the initial 'Wow, she's put on' thing and then more or less forget the fact as it is accepted as the new normal. That's what I do anyway

nermal I know what you mean, I'm dreading the 'first look' faces....

I always feel like this about going back to work after xmas and new year - I change shape completely and feel mortified!