Non food hobbies

[Johnnypiratesfriend]

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Trying to lose alot of weight ( over 6 stone). Got diet sorted got family support.
But my old life was centered around food e.g
Finding new recipes and cooking them
Baking
Finding and eating out at independent restaurants (salads are fine but not often what they are famous for)
Afternoon teas at lovely places spending the whole afternoon chilling with friends.
Watching cooking programs on TV.

Now I'm able to make wize choices and suggest going for coffee instead of afternoon tea and everyone is supportive. But I'm missing googling restaurants and recipes. I open magazines straight to food. I can't think of anything to watch on TV.

I was food obsessed and that was probably part of my issue.

How do you lovely normal people spend time? Any normal hobbies etc to keep me on straight and narrow. I tried sewing and drawing but can't do either.
Today I planned some lovely days out /mini breaks but the bank balance won't allow that for long.
I also want to protect my children from food obsessions.
Thanks everyone!!
P.s please ignore my spelling and gammer I'm dyslexic.

I love gardening

Starting seeds off on the windowsill, planting etc

Very satisfying

Also geocaching!

www.geocaching.com

Free, kids love it and you can walk for miles!

Geocaching

PokemonGo

Gardening- growing your own fruit/veg/herbs to use in the new diet

Couch to 5k

Parkrun or ParkWalk

Borrow My Doggy

Jigsaw while listening to audio books or radio

Sewing, crochet, knitting, DIY.

I lost STONES writing fanfic. I would rather type than eat. You could write stories based around food but not actually eat any.

I lost tons of weight because food did was my hobby.
I got into some of the processes, enjoyed making up recipes etc. I also still eat out couple of times a month with no restrictions. Just accounted for it in my weekly calorie count.

You don't need to stop loving food to lose weight. Imho you actually need to well love it to cook tasty but good for you stuff 😁

Wild Swimming
It's more about the social side than the actual swimming, in most groups anyway!

Yoga and pilates
Pokémon Go
Jigsaws
Colouring
Lego
Gym Classes (Zumba, aquafit, boxing maybe?)

I am definitely up for some geocaching 😀

Jigsaws
Reading
Walking

Walking
Knitting
Sewing
Jigsaws
Gardening
Art and craft hobbies
Cycling
Swimming
Genealogy
Reading
Writing

Sorry I forgot to add the non food part!!!

It's January and local councils do adult courses (ours start Jan and Sept usually). Very cheap and quite lots of variety.
Look for adult education xxx council

Ours runs caligraphy, flower arranging, pottery, languages, cooking etc

You can still love food, you just have to do it differently.

I've lost most of the weight I was aiming to and have got into:

Much higher quality wine but only having a single small glass
Obsessing about olive oil tasting
Generally obsessing about fancy ingredients
Mediterranean diet - not necessarily diet recipes but Mediterranean food, missing out the pasta
Breadmaking

If you like reading, join your local library and go once a week. I work in a library and we’ve got many regulars who walk in often for a browse and a chat.

instead of cooking, what about googling aromatherapy ‘recipes’ - for the home, body etc.

my hobbies are reading, tennis, dog walking, gym and I’m amazing at pottering around for hours 😅

How about learning a language? This is what I'm doing (at home at the minute though I hope to start a night class in a few months). It's really interesting and a bit of a challenge. I'm learning using mostly free online resources and text and audio books from my local library.

I'm also really into food and spend hours each day cooking, researching recipes, planning what to make when we next have people over and looking for the next fab restaurant so I do get where you're coming from 🙂

Knitting - keeps your hands busy, great in the evenings when watching TV, stops me thinking about food!

Volunteering - I'm a cub leader, it takes up as much or as little time as you want, but gets you out of the house at least one evening a week. For me, it takes up quite a few hours on top of this. It's also sociable, but without food (usually!)

Geocaching - I don't do it so much any more, but me, DH and the kids loved it when they were little. Makes a walk so much more fun, and gets you to go to local places/walks you may not otherwise have gone to. We still go walking quite often, just without the geocaching

Gym/swimming - can be fun, and sociable, as well as good for you

Jigsaws - got into these over lockdown (as did many people), great to do either on your own or with the kids.

Would doing some voluntary work be an option. If you find the right thing it can be great.

Try the Walk 1000 Miles challenge in Country Walking Magazine. The aim is to walk 1000 miles over a year (or you can do 500 if 1000 too much)
The aim is to walk 1hour roughly a day
Could be great for your weight loss journey and to get the kids outdoors and it doesn't cost much to go for a walk either.

There’s sewing and there’s sewing. Look at kantha stitching, slow stitching, and Kawandi, all by hand, slow probably the easiest, personally love Kawandi and if you get a good stitch length try Kantha. Very restful, I always have a little bit of sewing in a drawstring bag for when waiting for appointments etc.

If you like googeling ... how about finding out about something specific.

Eg. I once read about Petrified Wood and didn't know what it was. Now I want to own a decent sized piece one day.

I also like virtual tours on museum websites.... especially their manuscript section- it's a real rabbit hole!

I'm a bit obsessed with food but a healthy weight. If you're really into it can you not just Google and experiment with really healthy recipes? I dont mean boring salads I mean thinks like say seafood tomato based curries, asian broth style soups (eg japanese ramen with tea stained eggs and marinated chicken) and stuff like that, that's elaborate and interesting and good for you?

Or something volunteering with food. Kitchen for the homeless or something where you can share your enthusiasm for cooking

Horse riding
Walking dogs
Adult colouring books
Where's Wally/Scavenger hunt type books
Reading
Watching documentaries

-Duolingo is fun for Languages and there may be local socials / circles for meeting up and practising/speaking particular languages
-If you’re interested in trying yoga, look up the Jan 30-day yoga with Adriene challenge, it’s lush and free!
-Book club if you like reading?

I taught myself to crochet via YouTube. I tried it in an effort to cut down my wine drinking. Turns out I can crochet AND drink wine 🤣