About lockdown weight gain

[Leanandmean31]

So I was talking to a friend on Zoom and she told me that she has gained a stone and a half during lockdown. I was shocked when I then spoke to other friends and heard the same thing and that I am one of the only ones I know who hasn’t gained weight and used lockdown as an excuse to eat what I like. I am worried about the NHS burden as there are so many patients who have had their treatment delayed due to Covid and the last thing we need is more health issues caused by obesity.
AIBU to think that people should be more responsible? Btw before anyone flames me I am not talking about people who have had a very stressful job during lockdown. My friend said her DH has discovered a love for baking so she has just been sitting there eating bread and butter for 2 months.

Do you always put this much emotional thought into food? It doesn’t sound like you have a particularly healthy relationship with food if you tend to over think and over react @Leanandmean31

I’ve put a stone on - I’m still in my size 6/8 clothes though OP, so it won’t be an issue for the NHS

Pathetic.

Well the shops re-open today so you you can nip out to buy some polish for your halo.

Bread AND butter my god that is terrible yes all the lockdown obese people are going to be rolling into A&E

Okay fine, I admit I am being judgemental. But if this was a disease that was made worse by eg excessive alcohol consumption and people reacted by binge drinking, would people be so tolerant? As I said, I didn’t say anything to my friends about how I felt. I just wanted to vent anonymously here. I have been on here for ages but NCd and chose the username because I do feel like I’m being mean.

So what have you done to manage stress during lockdown little miss perfect? Apart from judging everyone else like your shit doesn't stink

Mrsjayy she was already overweight before lockdown and is probably in the obese category now.

I haven't been able to leave, had a massive flare up of my disability and haven't been able to exercise. I've gained 3 stone.

Well done on being healthy and goady.

You shouldn’t judge how others are dealing with lockdown @Leanandmean31, it’s not helpful or kind.
Instead of feeling upset about other people you could channel that energy into focusing on yourself and how you can develop your personality eg,having empathy, understanding etc. You may even end up feeling happier for it.

ThisShitCrazy the people I have spoken to and am talking about are not doing this to manage stress. They’re just treating it like an extended all you can eat holiday. I don’t judge people who have had actual stress.

So Op you didn’t help your ‘friend’ in any way shape or form but you managed to hurt a lot of strangers.

Good job. Well done.

You really are totes amazing, hun.

I've lost a stone and a half, most through stress.
My son who has autism has put a lot on due to the same.
Its a shit time for most people, be kind!

I had a fall and couldn't walk for awhile which didn't help my lockdown weightloss . Sorry I literally fell short of your perfect standard OP.

Not all of us fatties are a strain on the NHS. You can be bigger and not have to go into hospital all the time.

Well since lockdown ive put weight on because yes I have been reading too much junk... Which I don't like but lockdown on its own has been stressful.. Add in the working from home with a toddler as a sticking plaster and the stress and worry of my mum going through cancer treatment.. Diagnosed a week or 2 before lockdown. We saw each other daily before lockdown.. She minds my son while I work and she loves having him. She's gone through 2 operations, she's now started chemo and because of coronavirus she's been told she wont be able to hug her only grandchild until she finishes chemo... So at least October.. So yea I have baked and I have ate more than normal. We are self isolating as much as possible as it's the only way the drs will give the OK for us to visit her from a distance in the garden so there is also a big reduction in the exercise we would normally do. Everyone I know has put on a bit of weight which I think is only to be expected as lifestyles have changed.

You don’t actually know these people are not suffering stress or having a hard time.
You don’t come across as a person someone could easily confide in or open up to.

Have you considered that your friends might not want you to come onto a public forum and bitch about them?

We’re you hoping everyone would back you up and it would be a massive pile on about how disgusting your friend was for eating bread?

Miserable thread - how about minding your own business @Leanandmean31 ?

HelloMissus why would people be hurt by a stranger’s opinions? Surely it would have been worse if I’d told my friends what I thought?
Also, a third of the population is already obese so yeah if the trend is to gain more than 20 pounds, that will put strain on an already strained health service. I know that some are normal weight to begin with and that it’s not so much of an issue but many of my friends are already overweight.

I don't judge people who have had actual stress
How very fucking good of you.

Oh jog on, people are hardly going to go from normal weight to obese in the space of lockdown. A stone of weight gain will largely be water anyway. This will not strain the nhs

I too put on half a stone, not because of food especially although I was definitely drinking more for the first half of lockdown but because I wasn't moving around as much as usual or going to the gym. Yes we were allowed our exercise outside but I usually go to the gym AND knock off a good 10k steps a day or more just moving around. It was the lack of day to day movement that got me I think because even if I had wanted to go out and walk all day I couldn't because the kids are being homeschooled and don't always want to go out and the DH was working.

I am one of these people that are always working/having to work to keep their weight in the healthy range. I have now lost the lockdown half a stone and hope to also lose the winter half a stone and then I will be happy. But I can EASILY see how people put on a lot of weight during lockdown. I feel lucky mine was only half a stone and I have now managed to get rid of it. It hasn't been easy.

This pandemic and everything around it has literally been a mental and physical health crisis in the making.

Most people are aware of the weight gain and some probably feel bad enough about it without the need for insensitive finger pointing and the 'you should have been more responsible' malarkey.

I think you're entitled to think whatever you want but perhaps keep those thoughts in your head because you never know who is reading them and how much harm they can cause.

I don't think the choice was insult your friends or insult strangers.
You could perhaps have kept your thoughts to yourself.