I've ballooned right out. I've gone from a Medium/Small to a Large, easily put four inches on my waistline but seemingly nowhere else. I didn't expect us to be in lockdown for so long, or multiple times, or to be made redundant and stuck at home watching how much I spend. If I had I would have made a proper effort to do Youtube workouts and so on. I had a fortnight there where I was doing a dance workout every morning but it gets really boring really quickly doesn't it? My goal for after lockdown is to only socialise with people bigger than me so I look small by comparison.
Before lockdown I couldn't and wouldn't cook much. I lived off ready meals, pasta and pizza, takeaways and tins. There are loads of reasons for why I had developed such an unsophisticated palette, mostly that I didn't want to make the time to cook properly and lose it from elsewhere in my life, and also just general fear of failure, "this isn't for me" nonsense. But I figured at the start of lockdown that if I was going to be in the house looking for ways to kill time and I was going to be Boredom Eating then I might as well embrace learning some stuff about food. The problem is that all my recipe books I've accumulated are designed for hearty meals and group situations, a meal for four in a book easily becomes a meal for two with a plate of leftovers when you're serving it.