What dreadful habits have you developed in the past 6 months?

[YoungDino]

Fair warning: absolutely no positivity allowed. I don't want to hear that you've started running or yoga or achieved inner peace. I am misery and I need company.

I went from eating a healthy diet and only occasionally eating chocolates, ice cream and sweets to munching on junk almost exclusively. I think I eat more chocolate than food at this point to be quite frank.

I've also given up all forms of movement. I used to do 15-20k steps per day and now I have no idea because I've taken my step tracker off.

I don't shower as often as I should. Personal grooming has fallen well down the list of priorities for me. I find myself wondering how long my moustache will grow.

I also often stay awake until 2am wasting time online and drag myself out of bed at 9am.

Chocolate consumption has gone up hugely.
I do tend to eat chocolate if I sit in front of the TV in the evening. In pre-Covid life, I wouldn't sit in front of TV that many evenings as I would be out and about at meetings or hobbies or volunteering. Now, I sit down every night (even though sometimes can still 'meet' on zoom, I can still pig out on chocolate.

I have a really hectic corporate job ... and I'm doing well at work but failing at life 😫😫

Constantly eating junk and barely moving like you ! Need to get my act together as gained about 5kg

Wake up about 10-15 mins before first meeting

Sometimes don't leave the house in 2 or so days

Work in pjs. Throw a smart jumper on and earrings for meetings ;)

Oh god I missed your last line "I also often stay awake until 2am wasting time online and drag myself out of bed at 9am"

Are we the same person?! 🤣😫

Me too, I only just made my 9am meeting this morning. I was still in bed at 0855.

My wine and junk food consumption has increased and my physical exercise has decreased with the inevitable result of weight gain. I'm going to have to sort it out, but lack the motivation at the moment. Sigh.

Staying in. I used to be out constantly. I do a job where I couldnbe on the go all the time and be pretty active. Now I'm never out. Big reason is I'm 6 months pregnant and feel like absolute crap though. I've been really ill, so I just sit around eating most of the day.

I've become ridiculously addicted to my phone. I'm on it almost every waking hour. Seriously considering trading it in for a brick.

Also wine. So much wine.

Drinking heavily, even on a workday. I'm not sure i'm safe to drive some mornings😳

@YorkshirePud1

I've become ridiculously addicted to my phone. I'm on it almost every waking hour. Seriously considering trading it in for a brick.

Also wine. So much wine.

This. Exactly this.

Drinking most nights (I rarely drank before March)
Not going to sleep until 1am! This was fine when I could get up at 9 but not anymore!
Eating way too much crap

I just joined the low carb bootcamp which is sorting the first and last points but sleep is still an issue.

Getting up at 12:30pm every day. 😳

I start work at 2pm but used to go straight to bed after finishing and get up early for the gym. Now I watch Netflix till the wee hours and spend 1.5 in bed before getting up (scrambling for a coffee and back to bed doesn't constitute 'getting up').

I dont do a single bit of exercise. I have very little spare time and when I do, I piss of to bed to spend ages on my tablet. I am absolutely huge and utterly fed up with everything.

I've become addicted to toast. That's a lot of carbs.

Way too much time on my tablet (mostly YouTube), also going to bed stupidly late. Just frittering away the days at the moment.

Far too much wine. I used to be out most evenings ferrying the kids to clubs and going to yoga/keep fit. Now I’m not I like to have a glass of wine...or three...or four. Inevitable weight gain. Trying to reverse it now but it’s bloody hard.

I feel like I'm starting to look like a female bodybuilder. 😥 I've been training slightly less but due to stuffing my face I've put on a worrying amount of muscle (I was mainly just getting stronger before).

Turns out if no one really sees me and I don’t have any parties or fun to look forward to, I basically just eat

I've stopped taking the dog for proper walks (he's well looked after and husband and occasional dog walker take him out)

But I am feeling overwhelmed and he's last on my to do list.

The less i do it the worse my fitness is and the less i feel able to do it.

Alcohol consumption has increased. I never used to drink in the week but now find myself having a glass of wine. Not every evening but more often than I used to. Also do not walk as much and spend way more time browsing online.

I’ve managed to lose nearly a stone, but my chocolate consumption has gone up massively. I’m eating it every day. I think it’s been offset by the fact I gave up alcohol in lockdown. So I don’t feel too bad about my nightly chocolate habit.

So much snacking. And for some reason I'm drinking much less water. In the office I had a 750ml bottle I drank every day and often refilled. At home I keep finding myself having had nothing but tea or coffee all day.

Oh, yes to all of the above.

I spend whole weeks in a daggy old dressing gown, with a sweatshirt over the top for Zoom calls. I angle the camera so my colleagues can only see the very top of my shoulders.

I can't get in to any of my work clothes any more, largely because I've lived on beer and carbs since March.

All of the above. Also sleeping in the afternoons even when I'm supposed to be working. Wash my hair about once a week. No exercise

Same.

Wine most evenings and snacking for England. I can no longer pretend my jeans have shrunk in the wash.

Oh my god, SAME.

I have found my people.

978 steps yesterday, got a sore hand from constant scrolling, my ass has sort of flattened and spread like a melted brie because of all the sitting, and i am incapable of getting to sleep like a functional human being.