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ADs happily share Dave Grohl whilst running in the dark?

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NannyGythaOgg · 10/02/2021 23:41

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Bollss · 15/02/2021 21:57

Thanks everyone. Drowning my sorrows in cake. Can't booze because I've got to be up before 8 for the sodding carpet fitter. Seems pointless now. Blehghhhhh.

ADs happily share Dave Grohl whilst running in the dark?
smallandimperfectlyformed · 15/02/2021 22:14

Ooh please don't say that SirSamuelVimes I am sorry!! TrustTheGeneGenie your cakes have turned out better looking than mine does! Sorry you can't have a lay in or a drink though

Eve · 16/02/2021 00:16

My DS is coming home from Uni tomorrow, he’s struggling and eventually admitted he might not go back! FFS !

MercyBooth · 16/02/2021 02:18

The cakes all look lovely. Sorry about your mortgage @TrustTheGeneGenie

Blobby10 · 16/02/2021 06:53

@eve my son is coming home at the weekend too but he’s a couple of years post graduation - finally got a job six months ago but really struggling with working from home and no socialising. He apparently needs some mum hugs which I, of course, am not going to deny him 😁😁

Bollss · 16/02/2021 07:28

Thanks @MercyBooth I should really stop whining. I know we have it better than a lot of people. There's nothing "wrong" with our house and there is only three of us so it should be big enough but it just doesn't feel it. And we have a garden which is what I wanted but it just isn't "right" if you know what I mean.

We should never of viewed the impractical house. :(

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 16/02/2021 07:35

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Thanks *@MercyBooth* I should really stop whining. I know we have it better than a lot of people. There's nothing "wrong" with our house and there is only three of us so it should be big enough but it just doesn't feel it. And we have a garden which is what I wanted but it just isn't "right" if you know what I mean.

We should never of viewed the impractical house. :(

@trustthegenegenie ah, we have been there before too, it sucks... Sorry you are in that situation.
LivinLaVidaLoki · 16/02/2021 07:43

I'm going to spill this out here as it feels safe to do so. I know I'm worrying about nothing but need a kick in the bum to tell me this.

I'm a bit scared that I'm developing some kind of eating disorder.

Growing up I was always a "big girl". I would yo yo diet and lose some, put on more.
After having ds I was almost 20 stone. I realised I wanted to set a good example for him, I didn't want him to be unhealthy and miserable. So I ditched the diets and looked at my relationship with food. I changed the way I eat completely, eating a balanced diet and I exercise. I treat myself to the occasional takeaway and we took advantage of eotho last summer. I'm honestly in the best shape I've ever been in in my life.
As a family we are all so much healthier.

Now even though the gym is closed I do classes at home. But I am still sedentary for most of the day. No walk to and from the car park, walking meetings, pottering round shops at lunch.
Just mostly sat on my arse. Aside from an hour of exercise.
Now what I have found this last couple of weeks, I have stopped eating in the day time. Unless it's fruit. At first I said to myself that it's stress, giving me a lack of appetite, but it's not.
DH made us a delicious 3 course valentines dinner. Aside from porridge at breakfast it was all I ate all day.
I realised I am consciously making a decision to not eat if I'm going to be having a later or a heavier dinner.

I have never done this before and it scares me a bit.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 16/02/2021 07:43

Sorry if that sounds a but garbled, it's early...

DrRamsesEmerson · 16/02/2021 07:47

Flowers, @TrustTheGeneGenie. Hoping for a more affordable house to come along soon.

Don’t give up @DWPmisery1972
I’m sure the assessment service finds lots of people hang up on them. Hopefully you’ll get someone you click better with.

I always give up MN for Lent, which last year spared me the initial bonkers cheese in the coffee lockdown dementoring. Apart from this thread and all of you I think it’s not doing me a lot of good this year either, so I shall drop off after today and come back on Easter Sunday. Wishing everyone all the best and hoping that by then the news is better, the Government is taking the ‘live with it like flu’ line once everyone at high risk has been vaccinated, and the lockdown has ended never to return. Cake Wine Flowers to all of you, and thanks for helping me to keep going.

Bollss · 16/02/2021 07:58

Thanks @DrRamsesEmerson it's funny really I never wanted a bigger mortgage in the first place really! Fingers crossed.

chocolatesweets · 16/02/2021 08:01

@LivinLaVidaLoki eating disorders can flare when we perceive we have no control over our lives.

I've started dieting and I told myself it was because bigger people were at greater risk of dying of covid. I know it's not that. I want to feel good about myself and feel in control. It feels good when people say you look slim.

Pleasedontdothat · 16/02/2021 08:03

Dh saw the consultant yesterday - he has atrial fibrillation caused by too much exercise and exacerbated by being very tall. He’s going into hospital this week to check there’s no blood clots lurking and if they’re happy his heart will be shocked back into normal rhythm which will make him feel much better. Then in about three weeks he has to go in for another procedure which should cure it (fingers crossed) but he’s going to have to stop racing and intense training which is going to be very hard for him ...

Sorry for the Fail link but this is an interview with the professor we saw yesterday (weird timing!)

On the plus (?) side, he’s now officially ‘vulnerable’ so has been bumped up the vaccine queue so gets his on Thursday Shock

Will catch up on the rest of the thread now ..

starfish88 · 16/02/2021 08:17

Just typed out a massive post defending us on a thread that has just been deleted Grin

LivinLaVidaLoki · 16/02/2021 08:20

I'd been posting there too @starfish88

Thought some of the posts were quite interesting.

Worldgonecrazy · 16/02/2021 08:27

@TrustTheGeneGenie. I hope this thread is one where you don’t have to apologise for having a house with a garden. It’s not a race to the bottom and some of us are luckier than others. We are ALL allowed to moan 😎

starfish88 · 16/02/2021 08:27

Loki, I wish I could offer you some advice but I find I'm doing the same thing. I haven't been underweight for nearly 10 years but I feel myself sliding back into it too. The 'safe' foods, the restriction, there's also an element of survivors guilt living in a country where I can go to the shops and I often feel like I 'should' live off only rice or tinned food or other 'essentials' to stick it to Boris and Drakeford although I have no idea what I'm sticking to them and I'm certain they don't care. Honestly I can't see a way out of it for me (mental health services here are even more difficult to come by than the UK) except by ending covid. So while I can't help or offer advise, I can say I'm here for you and I'm listening Flowers

SirSamuelVimes · 16/02/2021 08:28

I missed that one. What terrible things are we supposed to be doing now? I have barely murdered anyone lately. Flocking opportunities thin on the ground in this weather.

Worldgonecrazy · 16/02/2021 08:29

@LivinLaVidaLoki firstly I am really impressed. Making the change and loving yourself enough to get healthy is a continuous challenge.

It’s good that you recognise that an issue is arising. No other advice but really hope you get your mojo back.

Mrsfrumble · 16/02/2021 08:29

Oooh, what were they saying about us? That we’re fascinating and witty and the best thread on all of MN? Grin

Bollss · 16/02/2021 08:29

[quote Worldgonecrazy]@TrustTheGeneGenie. I hope this thread is one where you don’t have to apologise for having a house with a garden. It’s not a race to the bottom and some of us are luckier than others. We are ALL allowed to moan 😎[/quote]
Oh it definitely is I'm just dealing with my own guilt about it because I dismissed so many houses for having a small garden and actually a small garden probably would have been much better. Is ridiculous but I'm sat daydreaming about my old house with a yard on a shit street and wishing we'd never moved.

starfish88 · 16/02/2021 08:31

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I'd been posting there too *@starfish88*

Thought some of the posts were quite interesting.

Maybe when we next start a new thread we should automatically put the explanation of who we are on the first post the way the data thread does/did(?). Save having to explain ourselves and I think lots of people would realise who we are and almost as importantly who we aren't.

I also refute the covid deniers and antivaxxer label. I'm double dose vaccinated, there aren't many of us about!

SirSamuelVimes · 16/02/2021 08:45

I'm not vaccinated because I'm late 30s with no health conditions. But I will be when they eventually get to me. Not because I'm scared of Covid (had it, fine) but because I can't see the gov letting restrictions drop without mass vaccination and I'm happy to bump up the numbers. I'm very, very pro vaccination for childhood diseases, to the point where I almost agree with compulsory vaccines for access to state education (but just about come down on the side of individual choice and bodily autonomy from the state, because I think it's a very tricky moral area).

I am also not a Covid denier. I don't really know what they think that means. To me it suggests a person who thinks that either the whole thing is fake or thinks it's not really a virus but something transmitted by 5g towers or other such conspiracy theory bollocks. However I think over there it might mean someone who thinks that Covid isn't the worst and only thing in the world. Well, that's just silly.

Bollss · 16/02/2021 08:50

I think people will still willfully misinterpret what we say because some people are just twats Grin

starfish88 · 16/02/2021 09:02

I was vaccinated for much the same reason. I'm fairly sure I had covid last February so I wasn't worried for myself but I want to be able to travel and see my family again. I also want to add to the numbers in the hopes that it ends restrictions for all. Plus other reasons relating to how covid was managed here early on but I don't want to get myself in trouble so I'm speaking carefully. I do think the vaccine is a great thing particularly for those who want/need it. I did a happy dance hearing my grandma in her 90s got vaccinated and so has my dad, my mum shoul get hers in a few weeks too hopefully.

I agree that what counts as conspiracy is very strange.

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