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.

Basically we are all just turning into the people in Wall-e but without the spaceship...

I have actually lost weight (not a boast, wasn't intentional, ill and fed up and didn't eat properly) and now I'm only eating small amounts of shit food, nothing healthy at all. Yesterday I ate half a tub of Ben and Jerry's and a scone. With lots of real butter. That was it. The day before I ate half a bar of Lindt dark chocolate with sea salt and a handful of grated mozzarella straight from the fridge. That was it. I have fruit and veg in the fridge getting wrinkly.

DH bought me a new heated throw thing and I fear it has surgically attached itself to me. This week (in fairness I am ill) I have not had showers but a strip wash at the sink like I'm in the 1930s or something. And then back under my blanket (in the same fucking pyjamas!)

The cat is miowing outside my window (she likes the hot blanket too) and I've not got up to let her in. Usually I rush to do her every bidding. I now have guilt.

I daren't look at my screen time figures.

I have a slightly different problem with shaving, I usually shave my head and go over it daily (hair loss so my head is very patchy when it grows its six o clock shadow or whatever it's called). This week I haven't bothered at all so half my head is prickly and the rest is like an alien.

I swear to God I look like a fucking toilet brush and we know how MN feel about those...

(Even DH said last night "oooh you're prickly! Do you want me to shave your head for you tomorrow?" Which clearly means you look like a toilet brush but I don't want to hurt your feelings )

@MrsFlump

For me its definitely too much alcohol, a bottle of wine or prosecco every night and with no exercise has caused me to gain 2 stone. I am in the process of fixing this though. Not getting my hair or nails done, too terrified of catching Covid at the salon.

No judgement But this is a little baffling Terrified of catching it But the overwhelming evidence indicates that being overweight is a key risk re severity of the infection (and thousands of other infections and illnesses too)

Hardly showering, which I hate anyway,
Cutting/colouring my own hair - looks terrible, but I can save nearly a grand a year!

Omfg I've been "working through" these things with my therapist for weeks, thinking my world class sloth and total absence of motivation were new signs of being a shit human being. To the point where I have booked two weeks off from counselling as I'm too demotivated to have my sessions as they are interrupting my vegetative trance state. Turns out I'm normal, thanks to this thread.

@IndiaMay

Used to have a very strict diet mon-fri in the office. Now I snack and eat far too much. Still exercising but not like i was pre lockdown and I've put on half a stone in weight and am no where near as toned as I was.

Spend far too long on my phone and have taken up a hobby of watching brain melting shit. Teen mom, teen mom 2, teen mum UK, teen mom young and pregnant. You get the idea.

Too much phone here And I hear you in the Teen mom crap!

No worries HMSSophie I'll send you my invoice in due course xx

Wearing running shoes, sneakers and sandals or having bare feet all the time. Now I want some sturdier winter shoes and every new pair I have tried feel so restrictive and like they'll cut my feet to ribbons. I'm stuck with some ancient very soft leather Clarke's lace ups that let water in a bit on the seams.

Drinking too much
Going to bed too late after watching box sets with red wine
Living on white bread
Showering every 2-3 days instead of daily
Hair washing once a week
No hair removal

I'm also bad tempered constantly and just a fucking joy to live with.

Constant slipper wearing as rarely go out (nowhere to go). DH says I've developed 'the nursing home shuffle'.

youngdino send it by all means. If you can be arsed!

I'm binging on polygamy relationships.. Sister Wives, my 5 wives
All series about people with 20kids

I've just found 3 wives, 1 husband on Netflix!

Oh the comfort of reading this...
I have put on a huge amount of weight.
I don't exercise anymore.
I haven't worn make up since March.
I live in yoga pants and t-shirts.
My husband away for last 2 weeks and in that time I haven't left the house.
I used to do 15k steps a day, I barely manage 10% of that now.
I don't work and the thought of face to face contact with someone now is utterly overwhelming.
I live on carbs.
My previously coloured every 4 weeks cut ever 6 hair is untouched.
I sometimes don't get out of bed until 14:00 yet am always tired by 21:00, though when husband around I don't do that.
The house is organised and clean. That is truly my only achievement.
It. Is. Fucking. Miserable.

@Meruem I have agoraphobic tendencies too, I really am concerned that I'll not be able to go beyond my local town ever again. I got stuck in traffic 5 minutes from where I lived and the fear I felt was dreadful. Good luck to you!

Used to shower every day, colour my hair monthly (ish) and have my hair cut every six months. Salad for lunch, drank lots of water, walked up lots of stairs in the course of a day and did a weekly circuit training session. Had the odd bar of chocolate if I was walking more than usual.

Now - shower every 2-3 days, haven't coloured my hair since January and haven't had it cut since February. Eat way too many cheese sandwiches, drink tea instead of water, go up a flight of stairs all of twice in the course of a day and circuit training has gone by the wayside. Biscuits are way too tempting when it's cold so I tend to eat them.

I don't think my feet will fit into anything apart from trainers now..

I don't think I have consumed a single ml of water in the last 4 month, I appear to only drink coffee or pepsi max now. Every cuppa sees a biscuit.
I wash my hair once a week if I'm lucky.
I go to bed between 3am-4am, up at 11am.
I have 3 chocolate bars a day, maybe 4. (Rocky bar in the morning, gold bar in the afternoon, kit kat for bed)
The drawer next to my bed has turned into a snack drawer, I secretly love it and wonder why I never thought to do that sooner.
I haven't gained any weight, possibly because I am too much of a control freak usually to drink alcohol, but I've lost a lot of my hair and my tooth snapped off in an apple in April (knew I should have stuck with chocolate!)
Positives: I've found the best thing you can ever do for your comfort is invest in M&S full briefs and an unwired crop top type bra. I am NEVER, EVER, going back to bikinis and wires. Sorry to my future DH.

I have found that I can easily wallow in my own misery, and it is actually quite comfortable - as long as everybody fucks off and leaves me to it in peace.

Ivr become a psychopath if work colleagues try to have a non work conversation with me. I had six months of solitude in lockdown ( live alone). I loved it, walked 15 miles every day so could really enjoy scrumptious meals. Now back at work.

Was having my ten minute, take mask off to eat break today and a colleague sat near me and asked if I'd seen the new bus station in town.

Ahhh bring back solitude. I cannot be arsed with conversation anymore. It's useless unless very drunk with chosen company.

I needed to read this thread. I'm not working at the moment, have very little to do and am currently receiving treatment for depression, so am doing very little.

I'm going to bed at 2am every night and waking up after 11am.

I'm eating way too much chocolate.

I'm watching too much TV, and spending way too much time mindlessly browsing on my phone or the internet.

I'm certainly drinking more alcohol than I usually would, went through a stage of drinking vodka most nights but now have that less often but more beer haha, lose lose situation.

I spend most of my time in pyjamas and wash my hair about once a week. Or less.

I’ve developed a daily Pret habit (the £20 limitless coffees was not a good idea) so pretty much every day I have my free latte and either a chocolate or an almond croissant. They’re massively calorific, and it’s not like they’re my only treat of the day either.

WellTidy

I do love their croissants. I wish there was a Pret local to me. I don't love them enough to travel 30 minutes by bus for one but maybe for 2...

Funnily enough Pret used to keep me healthy with their salads

Sleeping here as well. It 3.30 last night when I eventually fell asleep! I'm a natural night owl but usually being tired enough means I can balance it out and be asleep by midnight but not at the moment. I just lie there.

I’m sleeping more. Regularly asleep by 10:30, wake up about 8:30 and often take a nap too!

Perhaps working and a regular routine is better for us than we thought. I dread to think what shape we are going to be as a nation when this is over, obese and alcoholics. I put make up on today, and smarter clothes. It helped. Small steps!

Wine.