What lockdown habit have you kept up with?

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Obviously hoping we avoid another lockdown. But I was thinking about some of the things we did during lockdown. Yesterday I had a video call with a couple of friends as we were trying to sort out a meet up at Christmas. It felt almost quaint, but something I thought I should do more often.

Daily walks seem to have disappeared from my life too.

What lockdown habit have you kept in your life?

Online grocery shopping. It’s just easier.

Drinking too much.

Weekly walk with my friend
Absolutely love it and look forward to our catch up every week.

Eating out of boredom.
Not getting dressed.
Wearing pyjama top under my coat

Skyping parents for 30 minutes each day.

Daily exercise, healthy eating, jigsaw on the go, tidy house - all those positive lockdown habits have now gone...

Wearing my dressing gown a lot more. Now when i come home from anywhere, work, nursery run, foodshop, I always get cosy in my dressing gown! 😂 i love it. I’m always a bit miffed if someone has to come over and I need to take it off.

Weekly French lessons
I started looking online for a tutor last year and found one back in March. It helps keep me sane and busy at the same time as well which is good.

Lockdown days were pretty close to normal days for me anyway, just with the dc's at home.

Declining to go to the office!

Using the gun scanner thing in Sainsbury’s instead of queuing up to pay - I obviously lead quite a boring life 😂

Online grocery shopping and bad crochet. Sometimes simultaneously.

Not feeling the need to be here there and everywhere every weekend... my bank balance is certainly happier for it too.

I joined an online website and started doing barre exercise videos in the second lockdown and I'm still doing them on a regular basis. I do them after the kids are in bed. I manage 2-3 a week, which I think has helped keep me around the same size as I started the year despite boredom eating and drinking. I had tried videos before and never kept it up - I think I had to find the right set of videos that don't have any jumping, just lots of planks/squats/weights, that kind of thing, and there are enough of them on the website that I don't get bored!

Daily walking ... hence my user name. I'm much lighter and much fitter as a result, so not all bad .......

Wearing a mask wherever it makes me feel safer. Scanner shopping. Extra handwashing and sanitising. I'm retired so no worries about work or commuting.

Reading. I used to be an avid reader but let it go. I read lots in lockdown and make time for it now.

I have a strange obsession with step count since lockdown. I rarely hit my 10,000 though and am 2 stone heavier than when lockdown started so maybe I need to rethink 🙈

I didn’t have time to do anything over and above staying afloat in lockdown, as I had a full time job plus homeschooling 2 primary aged children and looking after a toddler. I got fatter, drank more to block it all out and dropped all my hobbies. I can’t think of a single thing from that time that I’d like to keep up!

Online food shopping

Masks

Stopping to do things just for me, it's liberating

I had a hectic social life pre lockdown (work events, large family, various friend groups) and I’ve been much more selective about what I attend now. It’s been very liberating and made me realise I was completely burnt out.

Online shopping
A love of flannel pjs
Phoning friends rather than visiting
Drinking very good wine

Wearing a mask in shops, on the (not remotely crowded) bus and round the office (mostly).

Ordering things we probably don't need from Amazon way too easily
Ordering over priced groceries from Deliveroo when I could just walk and get them
Rarely wearing trousers that don't have an elasticated waist
Never wearing shoes that aren't flat
Doing very little socially (just seems like such an effort now it's a hard habit to get back into)
I've also become a master procrastinator. Life lost its urgency for a while, and I think maybe I need some urgency back.

Online food shopping