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Originally posted by MonkeyJuggleDX View PostProbation are attempting to be somewhat useful, but other than that, I literally have no one. I'll find out this coming week if I can qualify for furlough through my last employer. I got made redundant when the company were making cuts due to the impact of Covid. My biggest issue is missing my daughter, as before this the longest I'd gone without seeing her was 2 weeks when her and my ex went on holiday, but I've not even seen a photo of her since June, which is absolutely killing me.
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Originally posted by teddymeow View PostUpdate: 3 1/4 stone off now.
At the stage where I had to put another hole in my belt buckle as without it my jeans and trousers fall down.
Half a stone to go to reach my target weight and then I can start working on toning up a few areas.
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Originally posted by MonkeyJuggleDX View PostProbation are attempting to be somewhat useful, but other than that, I literally have no one. I'll find out this coming week if I can qualify for furlough through my last employer. I got made redundant when the company were making cuts due to the impact of Covid. My biggest issue is missing my daughter, as before this the longest I'd gone without seeing her was 2 weeks when her and my ex went on holiday, but I've not even seen a photo of her since June, which is absolutely killing me.
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Originally posted by teddymeow View PostUpdate: 3 1/4 stone off now.
At the stage where I had to put another hole in my belt buckle as without it my jeans and trousers fall down.
Half a stone to go to reach my target weight and then I can start working on toning up a few areas.
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The pandemic has proven a blessing in disguise for me. That's not to overlook the lives it has taken or devastation it has wrought upon families, but, personally, putting the financial impact aside, actually, no, largely because of how it's affected me financially, I've adopted a simpler, more satisfying lifestyle and feel happier for it.
Not being able to go to work presented me with an abundance of that most precious thing - time - and I put it to good use. Spending more time in the company of friends and family, I learned to appreciate them more, especially my elderly mother who I see regularly because she requires a degree of care and assistance in her daily life. I've been exercising more, drinking less, stopped smoking dope, learned to play the harmonica, started meditating, read many books I wanted to for years but never made time for. I started going on daily long walks and paying attention and being appreciative to the sounds and sights around me. The food shortages in the supermarkets was a catalyst that got me learning how to make things from scratch. For the first time in my life I started brewing ginger beer, fermenting my own yogurt, making fudge, baking bread and cakes and biscuits, making soups. I even started a vegetable patch in the back garden - although sadly I'm not blessed with green fingers and growing stuff is a great deal more precarious than I imagined.
Perhaps the pandemic's greatest gift is it's led me to the understanding that I don't need to work as hard or as long as I was. I don't need to work all day to make a lot of money because I don't need many material things to be happy, indeed I've come to realise that buying so many things was a reaction to feeling unsatisfied in life, a way of compensating myself for all the boring time spent at work, a vain attempt to treat the symptoms rather than get to the root of the problem. It's been an eye-opener. A life changer. I'm very grateful for it.
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