![]() ![]() I am always careful about what I eat/drink (non alcohol wise/put on my skin/exercise, all the while turning a complete a blind eye to what I’m doing to myself when I’m drinking alcohol. Wow this is the first blog and post that I’ve found since I decided to quit alcohol that totally describes me! No one would ever know from looking at the outside ‘healthy’ me that my insides are probably completely the opposite due to my wine/Prosecco intake. ![]() If you need any support to stop drinking, click here for details of my online course. Is alcohol is supporting or sabotaging your goals? If you’re investing a lot of time and energy into living a healthy lifestyle, it’s worth taking a proper look at how drinking is affecting that. If you recognise yourself in this blog, then I’m guessing that you, like me, really value your health. And yet I’d happily self medicate with alcohol, ignoring the fact that it was, ahem, also a drug… one that kills and harms a lot of people. I’ve never liked popping pills for any old reason – it just feels wrong. I wrote more about that here.Īntibiotics? Painkillers? I’d only take them if I really had to. Was it my cleanser? My moisturiser? Maybe I just hadn’t found the right brand for my skin? Well as it turns out, the right beauty ‘brand’ for me (and many others) is alcohol free. I was always trying to work out why my skin was going haywire. No e-numbers, weird ingredients or nasty chemicals for me, thank you very much! But when it came to wine, I liked to think it was just mashed up grapes. That myth has been busted.)īy day, I’d scrutinise food labels so I could be sure of what was in the products I bought. A little bit is good for you, right? (It isn’t actually. And yet I was perfectly happy convincing myself that I was drinking red wine for the ‘health benefits’. If you told me you eat chocolate for the milk content, I would’ve rolled my eyes. The information I did retain was remarkably one sided, which brings me on to my next point… ![]() That was a bit of a vague area in my mind, because frankly, I didn’t want to know. Sadly, my waistline did notice…Īs a drinker, I could’ve told you all about the merits of quitting gluten and the risks of not getting enough exercise. Calculating liquid calories was too complicated (and depressing) so I’d pretend they didn’t exist. But as soon as I started drinking, all that went out the window. Throughout the day I’d try to keep track of how much I’d eaten, in a bid to shift a few stubborn pounds. But sobriety? That thing where you learn to relax naturally, without inhaling a glass of wine first? That was a bit too weird. When it came to most health and fitness crazes, I’d give anything a go. Hula hooping classes? Hot yoga? Soul cycle? The maple syrup diet? Sure thing. You’re really open minded about everything… except sobriety Here’s what happens when you’re a health nut by day – and a boozer by night: Most people would’ve described me as ‘health conscious’.Īnd that’s the inspiration behind today’s blog. Yes, alcohol was causing me problems and making me unhappy… but I was also doing a pretty good job of making sure everything looked fine on the outside. When people find out that I no longer drink, they often expect to hear some crazy tale of drama and debauchery.īut if you’ve followed my blog for a while, you’ll know I was never a rock bottom boozer.Įven at the height of my drinking career, I was firmly in the ‘grey zone’. ![]()
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