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

175 replies

YoungDino · 13/10/2020 23:59

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.

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DobbyTheHouseElk · 15/10/2020 19:58

House is clean, I’m clean. But I’m not going out. At all. I’m not seeing anyone.

I fear I’ve got agoraphobia. Its been 8days since I went to the end of the road.

Occurred to me, I have no where to go now. All my friends have fucked off, they are also too scared to come outside and meet up.

We are in the low rate area so technically it’s a bit bonkers behaviour.

I think I’ll go out for a walk, then later, then maybe tomorrow......

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 15/10/2020 20:35

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.

I miss my occasional danish and their fruit and oat cookies. Even the chicken Cesar baguette.

I want my old life back, the one where I dressed nicely, washed my hair and bought lipstick. And met with real people, not just voices on the phone or frozen images on Zoom.

Sodamncold · 15/10/2020 21:24

Guessing those that are staying up in the night, getting up late, not leaving the house, living on junk.... don’t have children?!

I need to be in car to drop 7.30am, so means that starts my day! It’s provides a great structure to the day but does mean that the above kind of life simply isn’t possible. In fact, impossible!

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BlusteryShowers · 15/10/2020 21:41

@Sodamncold I have two children under 4 and my sleep is terrible.

I get up with them and do a nursery run for the eldest with baby in tow three mornings a week. I'm still rarely asleep by 2am as I'm just wide awake. I can't usually nap in the daytime as my eldest doesn't nap.

My diet is not great because I'm in all the time so I'm just picking. It's not necessarily junk but just extra slices of toast, cereal for breakfast, more elaborate dinners as I've more time to look up recipes etc.

CountessFrog · 15/10/2020 21:42

High school aged children. I set my alarm for 7.15 to be around for them.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 15/10/2020 21:43

I have two dogs and I have to get up early.

I just can’t sleep. despite knowing I have to be up early. It’s not a choice, not being able to sleep.

I hate Covid and lockdown,

tinkywinkyshandbag · 15/10/2020 22:16

So happy to have found my tribe. I'm back at work so do actually get up and dressed in the morning but I'm constantly eating crap, spend way too much time on my phone, and do no exercise. I'm finding myself becoming more reclusive, can't see people face to face but have no interest in emailing/phoning/zooming. Nothing to say, it's all so boring! Can't se to settle to reading a book or doing anything meaningful, I just want to surf MN and read the Daily Mail ( sorry!)

BlusteryShowers · 15/10/2020 22:33

The phone addiction is bad. I've deleted Twitter and feel better for it but I do like mumsnet for a bit of adult talk during the day.

I have read a lot of books, truth be told. I've done 18 since lockdown which is great for me these days but it could have been double that if not for my phone!

tobee · 15/10/2020 22:44

Buying and eating too many packets of crisps and biscuits and chocolate. Bought stuff for the family that I normally only really buy at Christmas and we've eaten loads!

Sleep absolutely atrocious! All 4 of us are either self employed or unemployed and can make our own timetable so sleep verrrry late. Go to bed at stupid o clock every night. No real motivation to change it.

Not very clean or tidy in the house. I try to write myself task lists but don't do them most days. What's the point? We're shielding so no one has come in the house but us since March.

Washing my hair less. Not worn make up for yonks. Usually don't dress til just before cooking dinner. But we don't smell though! Wink

tobee · 15/10/2020 22:46

Also, I have to lie to family and friends about sleeping habits. It's none of their business but I cba to explain that it's actually fine and works for us!

LunaNorth · 15/10/2020 22:50

Packed in housework, all but the bare minimum. Nobody’s coming round, so fuck it.

Stay in bed very late on my days off, and regularly don’t bother getting dressed until after lunch.

Constantly on my phone.

Kaiserin · 15/10/2020 22:58

Mumsnet. Came for the early (and very accurate!) lockdown rumors, stayed for the gossips Grin

technotstarnotechstar · 15/10/2020 23:02

YoungDino, I like you!

Saratustra78 · 15/10/2020 23:11

Checking mumsnet every day

Mydogmylife · 15/10/2020 23:18

Oh gosh - slipper feet! Elastic waists!!! It's all so true. Im definitely developing a touch agrophopia though, I've a dog so I walk him quite happily (dressed like the monster from the deep ) because im lucky enough to go from my back gate straight out onto a country park so I'm not meeting anyone. Having to go anywhere else is starting to give me the gip a bit and I'm finding myself making excuses not to go out !!! Need to get a grip on myself , get my hair cut and put some decent clothes on !

Glitterbubbles · 15/10/2020 23:25

Spending far too much time on my phone

iwanttobeanonymous · 15/10/2020 23:37

Late nights.

Making clothes last longer before I launder them and maybe not so many showers but then Im not doing much to get sweaty so....

tobee · 15/10/2020 23:44

Oh yeah and another bad habit, still bought nice clothes for summer, as if I still had a life, and now buying for winter, even though I'm not going anywhere and won't wear them for months. Confused

thenightsky · 15/10/2020 23:56

@BlusteryShowers

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 was 3.30 last night too. I can't really do much as DH needs to sleep as he is up at 7am for work (from home), so I just lie there, thinking, ruminating and wondering what my life has become Sad
Woui · 15/10/2020 23:57

I think i have been 'dressed' less than 20 times since March.

I'm working from home (was sheilding) so rarely go out (other than my parents where I go in my pjs).

I've worn a bra 4 times since March.

MumbleJunction · 16/10/2020 07:21

Oh God, thank goodness it's not just me! I'm a giant sofa slug eating so much shit all day Blush

Somuchroom · 16/10/2020 08:54

I cracked two days ago and have fully succumbed to self pity. I’ve told my DH I can’t pretend anymore. I took myself to bed and have only moved for the toilet. DH is forcing me to eat random bits of toast. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep. I don’t want to do anything. I feel guilt as my dh is having to do all childcare but I just can’t muster any want to participate in life right now.

LunaNorth · 16/10/2020 09:08

@Somuchroom

I cracked two days ago and have fully succumbed to self pity. I’ve told my DH I can’t pretend anymore. I took myself to bed and have only moved for the toilet. DH is forcing me to eat random bits of toast. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep. I don’t want to do anything. I feel guilt as my dh is having to do all childcare but I just can’t muster any want to participate in life right now.
Please contact your GP. Flowers
kittensarecute · 16/10/2020 14:26

@Somuchroom

I cracked two days ago and have fully succumbed to self pity. I’ve told my DH I can’t pretend anymore. I took myself to bed and have only moved for the toilet. DH is forcing me to eat random bits of toast. I can’t eat, I can’t sleep. I don’t want to do anything. I feel guilt as my dh is having to do all childcare but I just can’t muster any want to participate in life right now.
Please seek help. Sending love xx
Youngatheart00 · 16/10/2020 14:38

@Somuchroom sometimes we just need to hibernate and press the reset button, and that’s completely fine, but if you’re still feeling this way after several days please do as others have said and speak with your GP. You could be medically depressed and need treatment rather than the covid-times-blues and lethargy many of us have described.

I feel like my energy tank for the working week is completely and utterly done. I’ve just declined my last zoom meetings of the week with no explanation and am under the duvet.