To think that unlike Adele, lots of us are getting bigger after lockdown?

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Having been reading about Adele's amazing weight loss, I feel as though I've performed a similar feat in reverse! I'm normally slim and healthy, I haven't been overeating that much during lockdown, so assume that it's just that I'm less active. I weighed myself this morning and have put on over half a stone! Speaking to friends, quite a few seem to have the same issue. AIBU to think that lots of people are gaining weight during lockdown? Or am I in denial and others are getting healthier, like Adele?

Adele is looking gaunt my arse. She looks great.

Unless gaunt means not having extra chins.

As for regaining I'm sure she's surrounded by the best help and won't give into old bad habits. She could just read some of the responses on this thread for motivation if needed.

The first is legal. The second isn't. Why have you chosen an illegal example?

Both are against the guidelines. I am talking about people not following the guidelines, not people not following the law.

No, mixing outside your household is actually illegal. Running a half marathon is legal. Totally different examples - but you are spinning them as being basically the same?

It's also pretty obvious to everyone except you that they aren't the same from a risk perspective either. I can only conclude that you're being deliberately obtuse.

LOL @ the press being one collective mind with 'tacit agreement'. They're not the Borg. The press reports to sell their product, they don't give a shit about much else. Grasping at straws that we must all behave as if we live in Hackney so that people in Hackney don't feel so hard done by, bollocks to the 'setting an example'. People there quite rightly give not a gram of fuck how long someone goes for a walk in Benbecula any more than people there are bothered by what those in a huge city hundreds of miles away get up to.

Given that the press are currently reporting joyously on the 'end of lockdown' when no such announcement has yet been made, I think we can safely assume they are less concerned about doing the right thing that Ardvark suggests.

I exercise more (we do Joe Wicks every morning) but probably walk a bit less (still trying to maintain my 15k steps but sometimes that is achieved walking laps around the garden so hardly strenuous) and I’ve been snacking more. My weight is about the same. Ish.

Adele looks fabulous

Given that the press are currently reporting joyously on the 'end of lockdown' when no such announcement has yet been made, I think we can safely assume they are less concerned about doing the right thing that Ardvark suggests.

No, they are briefed in advance. That’s why the report that Boris is “expected to say” xyz.

@TinRoofRusty my explanation had nothing at all to do with acting in a particular way so that others don’t feel hard done by.

ArgumentativeAardvaark

Ok can you link to some totally reliably 'press' article where it says that walking in empty fields for an hour is akin to walking on a busy city street where its impossible to SD for an hour?
Or one that says walking over empty fields and country lanes is going to kill thousands?
If I still lived in Edinburgh then things would be different but I dont and things are a lot less complicated where I live now.

You are deliberately missing the point because it doesnt suit your 'do as you are told because I say so' viewpoint. People cannot infect whole towns if they dont encounter another person on thier walk.. why is that so difficult to grasp? Why is it so damm difficult for you to appreciate we DO NOT all live exactly like other people. We do not all live in tightly packed cities. My 2 nearests friends live 8 miles way in opposite directions. One in a small town the other way up in the hills on a farm. Should the one on a farm stay indoors all day except for once a days 'as short as possible' exercise time because someone in a city cant walk around without seeing someone else 6 feet away?

Thats bonkers.

I’m corona fat. Reckon I’ve put on between 7-10lbs. It doesn’t suit me at all, instead of A double chin, it’s morphed into one big fat chin/neck. I can actually feel my new huge belly when I’m sat down, like I'm wearing a tyre around my middle. I also feel so sloth-like, I just don’t have the energy or enthusiasm to move. I need a rocket up my arse.

Interestingly, there is a thread entitled No point in lockdown anymore where multiple people are saying that in their area of London people are completely ignoring lockdown and are having friends/family round for bbq’s/gatherings. Far riskier behaviour then people in my village walking for 2 hours instead of 1. So, as we seem to be generalising people due to there they live, it seems ‘Londoners’ aren’t quite as selfless as some on this thread would like us to believe.

@Willow2017 if you read what I have written properly you would see that I absolutely grasp that the person on Benbecula is doing no harm. What I am saying is that she should not talk generally on social media about going out and about in contravention of the guidelines because, down the chain, the crucial info that she is on Benbecula will be lost and it will just become “I know that other people are doing it”. In other words, do what you like, but please keep quiet about it.

Interestingly, there is a thread entitled No point in lockdown anymore where multiple people are saying that in their area of London people are completely ignoring lockdown and are having friends/family round for bbq’s/gatherings.
So, as we seem to be generalising people due to there they live, it seems ‘Londoners’ aren’t quite as selfless as some on this thread would like us to believe.

who would have thunk it?

if you read what I have written properly you would see that I absolutely grasp that the person on Benbecula is doing no harm.

I don't think you have made that clear previously.

In other words, do what you like, but please keep quiet about it.

So you want us to follow the law but act like we've got a dirty little secret for not following your interpretation of some advice that is not even aimed at us and makes no sense where we live?

“Even when you are doing these activities you should be minimising the time spent away from the home” doesn't even necessarily mean that you can't go for a decent amount of exercise.

The pp who said that she did a half marathon was out for a bit over 2 hours IIRC. She wasn't taking lots of breaks to stretch out her time outside. She minimised her time outside by doing the exercise that she wanted to do as quickly as she could and then going home. So maybe she was following the advisory guidance anyway.

In other words, do what you like, but please keep quiet about it.

Why the should I? Who are you to dictate to others how they live their lives? NO ONE CARES, Argumentative. There's no law, you're making up shit. I'm miles from a shop, miles. If I walk to it, it's going to be a long time from home, I can chose from 3 routes to get there, some are even longer. So what? NO ONE CARES! It's not damaging a mother fucking thing. Get a life!

Oh, and that means I have to carry what I buy on my back, so I go to the shop several times a week. Saturday my daughter and I took the longer way back. It was 16,000 steps. Beautiful day, we took loads of photos and put them up. Not a single person commented about our being out. Why should they? I don't hang out with doom-mongering Dementors.

I couldn't care less what other people think - I'll be damned if I'm only going out for one hour a day for physical activity. If others can stay sane sitting on their arse all day then fine, but we aren't all wired up like that.

"Lots"? Speak for yourself. No change here as I cycle each day and lift weights.

To be honest, though, it's going to be very easy to put it on if you're doing nothing to burn it off - I usually walk a lot to work, and without that I've had to add additional exercise in. It's very easy to eat more than you burn when we don't do anything or go anywhere.

Government guidelines. “Even when you are doing these activities you should be minimising the time spent away from the home”.

Well I think the 6 hours I spent in school today, with no social distancing - because it just isn't feasible, had a much higher risk factor than if i choose to extend my run (where I ensure I don't go within 2 metres of anyone else) to 90 minutes, rather than the made-up rule of 1 hour.

It's funny isn't it how people are happy to thank key workers for putting themselves at risk to help the country deal with this, but god forbid you exercise for more than an hour - then you're a heartless, selfish idiot.

This is exactly it artie

Not to mention that the obese and unfit are at greater risk of complications from covid. So the more exercise people can do the better.

I am intending to walk 8 miles tomorrow with my household, feel free to call the police. Undoubtedly there will be much judgement everywhere about obesity in children when this is all over.

We walked 8 miles as a household to a beach to pick up some driftwood to make one of those wall trees with fairy lights.