If you knew we were going to be in lockdown for a year ..what would you of done different???

[Kab30]

Just been thinking what I would of done differently...

Definitely try to loose weight
Definitely be more lenient on myself and try to chill a bit more
I should of decorated and gardened etcetcetcetc lol

However my five year old has kept me sane ..insane .happy and mad all in one xx

@StopGo

I wish I'd realised the NHS would close down to anyone without Covid. I'd have fought harder and maybe, just maybe I wouldn't now be a widow and single parent. I'm just one of thousands.

StopGo

Emigrated

Grown out my grey roots for a full year THIS.
Also had braces fitted, I'd have straight teeth by now.
Most of all, I wish I'd kept & read the books I had on IF.
If only I'd known how easily I could take to this way of eating...

@StopGo

I wish I'd realised the NHS would close down to anyone without Covid. I'd have fought harder and maybe, just maybe I wouldn't now be a widow and single parent. I'm just one of thousands.

God, this just got me massively. Sorry for your loss 💐

Gone part time or taken unpaid leave. Working full time whilst trying to entertain my DD4 broke me. I’m still suffering now. I was not the mum she needed when she needed me.

Bulk bought pasta and loo roll

I would like to third dyeing hair a cool random colour. Have never been able to do it. I still had work but they were desperate so I think they would’ve sucked it up

@StopGo I am so sorry for your loss.

Gone on a diet.

Looked for a new job, I would have liked to become one of the legions of nurses who found themselves able to work mostly or completely from home.

Done some decorating, gardening, something, anything that wasn’t working.

Got some exercise.

Not obeyed the rules and avoided seeing my 93 year old father in law for the first three months. His mental health has tanked and he will now have fewer good quality of life years left. The isolation of the very elderly was criminal in my view.

@Bargebill19

Opted for a job where furlough was a possibility instead of working all year 70 hours a week and no time off.

You did ask!

Same.

Worried less about home schooling in the first lockdown. Worked harder at losing weight. I’m exactly the same weight I was 12 months ago which isn’t great. Other than that not much. I kept in touch with friends and got plenty of exercise. We live in the SW so plenty of beach and moors trips. Made the most of seeing friends in the summer. Had a lovely UK break in October half term. Made the best of a shit time.

Thank you everybody. I'm in a shit place but the important thing is I'm one of so many.

Got married a year earlier. It went ahead eventually but it was so stressful not knowing if it would be cancelled a second time.

Not cancelled my last dental appointment in February. Haven’t been able to get one since. Got two loose fillings and in desperate need of a hygiene appointment.

I’ve lost a stone and haven’t drank booze for a year, though, so I can still polish my halo 😇

Bought my Accumulated Leave card home!!

Got my mum moved here. She’s still trying...

Let my grey hair out, I'd have been fully grey by now.
Not spend the first lockdown ordering brownie boxes, treat boxes, takeaway, drinking wine every night. I gained 18lbs and am still to lose it.

With hindsight I don't think I would have done anything different. MAYBE socialised a bit more during the interim periods and bought less emergency tonic water but on the whole I don't think I would have changed anything else.

Not turned into a balloon drinking ALL THE WINE for 12 months.

Not ordered a loud of comfort food (biscuits, crisps and chocolate) to cheer up the family and, therefore, started a hideous precedent.

Oh yeah and actually done a course rather than pretended I was just about to.

I would have seen my mum on mother's day last year. I also would have done more. Maybe gone on holiday when it was allowed. We had very little time with eased restrictions where I am and I wish I had made the most of it.