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.

I’ve been working throughout , frontline, but my job has changed Atm so I’m not doing stairs all day nor walking as many steps.
Got diagnosed with high blood pressure 5 weeks ago and turned late 40s.. I’m feeling fatter( 8lb) it’s stuck to my middle. I feel shite , like a balloon.sluggish too, I’ve been blaming the bp meds but I’m not so sure

Going to bed at 1 am
Getting up at 10 to 9 for 9 am start (wfh)
Working in my pyjamas
Eating toast all day
I normally love reading and have read around 60 books on my kindle since lockdown but now losing concentration : scrolling up and down MN even though it's boring me (sorry)
I'm a bit worried about forthcoming winter and if I'll completely loose motivation to do anything other than sitting looking at a screen

My sleep pattern is fucked despite me working exactly the same hours (just from home)
I wear leggings and oversized tops pretty much every day
Have gone from being someone who wore full makeup every time I left the house to going "eh, CBA" seriously I'm talking 4 shades of eyeshadow for work and now.. nothing
I think the makeup will return when I'm leaving the house again!

@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.

All of this except replace the word 'chocolate' with 'crisps'.

I used to run. Now I sit on the reclining sofa watching Netflix and eating crisps. I pour my first alcohol drink bang on 6pm every day instead of keeping alcohol for weekends only. I've put on over a stone.

Used to shower and wash hair every day. I've got that down to twice a week now with a strip wash of pits and bits every morning. Epilator has probably rusted up from lack of use now. I could plait my leg hair.

I'm also sitting up half the night MNing and watching shite telly. Get up around 10am usually.

I do feel very down about it all but I can't see a way out really.

@Allmyarseandpeggymartin
Oh, same! I got a hayu subscription a few weeks back and now spend half of my days laughing along with The Real Housewives as if they're my mates! What a sad life .

It seems to have all really gone to pot here in the last few days. I have never felt so demotivated and shite in my life, and I don't know why.

• Showering every other day
• Cannot even remember the last time I washed my hair
• Scrolling for hours and hours on mumsnet, and hunting through classics when I have read everything else
• Eating shit upon shit upon shit

I have work to do, things to do, but just no energy. I was meant to go somewhere today, but could not even muster the energy to leave my bed. It really is quite worrying what this has all done to everyone. I keep telling myself that I'll do better tomorrow, but when tomorrow comes, I find myself once again sticking on another season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and neglecting everything else. Arghh.

Not bothering to cleanse every day. Eating chocolate and/or sweets every day. Going to bed after midnight regularly. Working in the evenings because I never feel as though I've been productive enough during the day. Barely ever making the effort for DP - sex life has all but disappeared.

@DownThePlath It’s like crack I tell ya!!!

This thread has made me feel so much better knowing I'm not alone

Setting my Skype for Business to 'do not disturb' and going to watch Bargain Hunt.

Like a pp, I also can't be arsed with deodorant. I don't need it anyway as my WFH wardrobe is so...loose

Cumbersome

Setting my Skype for Business to 'do not disturb' and going to watch Bargain Hunt.

Genius

Haven’t been to my hot yoga class in weeks. It’s the only thing I craved during lockdown but can’t seem to find the motivation to go even though I know how much strength I gained from doing it daily. Work in my pjs in my bed and cannot be arsed to get out of the house. I skip lunch, which makes me grumpy. Can’t be arsed with online dating. I’ve shut down. The constant barrage of Covid news has affected me negatively, for sure. I’m an introvert by nature but I’ve gone into deep hibernation and don’t see a way out.

I can only get into about 10% of my extensive wardrobe of lovely clothes.

&The constant barrage of Covid news has affected me negatively, for sure*

That's the only time I move with speed is leaping for the telly controls when the news comes on. I refuse to watch anything covid related now as I know it will make me even worse.

I know you don’t want to hear any positives but to add to my previous post and to make myself feel better, I shower daily, brush my hair, and don’t eat junk although I’ve developed a craving for shaved Parmesan cheese. I seem to be going through tubs of the stuff. I’m also craving paint, petrol, musty basement, rubber smells. I’m not pregnant but something weird is going on

I’m booted and suited for two video calls today and the dress has shrink as well, which is a bit strange because it not even washed yet.

I might have a chocolate lebkuchen I discovered hiding in the cupboard while I ponder the mystery.

Gin and cake consumption has gone through the roof. Definitely haven't eaten a single piece of fruit in the last few days, maybe longer. Even my elasticated waists are starting to feel right

*tight not right

@Comps83

This thread has made me feel so much better knowing I'm not alone

Me too. Although I worry I will be led into worse habits

This thread has made me feel better too! Thanks for starting it. Yesterday was a particular low. Dropped DS to school in my pjs with coat on top but went to fill my car with petrol. Realised it wasn’t a pay at pump one and had to go inside. It didn’t bother me that I was in a posh part of C London looking like a sloth. That’s never happened before. I’m losing pride in myself by the day.

I am going to buy myself some new gym gear... not to exercise just that it's the comfiest thing to lounge around the house in :D

I wear a proper bra only about 1 day a week :D

I did a clear out of my wardrobes back in the early lockdown days and found two old bras. I'm now wearing those so they can wear out completely, and I can save my good ones for when we're back to normal.

Even I question the logic in this.

Over eating
Eating absolute crap
Scrolling for hours on twitter, absorbing all of the dire negativity
Ranting

Oh I've stopped shaving. My hairy legs are unleashed upon the world and I'm not sure I care.

Also make up, I make a vague effort at times but usually can't be bothered as it's face mask on, face mask off. I preferred it when it was clay masks we were talking about.

And when people try to touch me I jump a mile and think get off me, you rat.

ChardonnaysPetDragon

Shocked that you're wearing bras at all! My boobs are running wild and free.