I quit booze, went on a diet and took vitamins for a month – what did it do to me?
I quit booze, went on a diet and took vitamins for a month – what did it do to me?
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Straight from the hedonism of December, Helen Coffey decided to dive into the most pronounced health kick of her life. The only question is: was it worth it?. This might sound strange but, I promise you, it’s true: until this year, I really hadn’t given my health a second thought.
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I say that from the outrageously privileged position of being a 37-year-old woman with no major health issues thus far. I’ve never had an operation, spent the night in hospital or so much as broken a bone. Heck, I can count the number of times I’ve needed antibiotics on one hand.
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The vast majority of this is down to sheer good fortune rather than any effort on my part. Sure, I’m a fairly active non-smoker. But, other than that, I have the kind of lifestyle to which the term “train wreck” might be reasonably applied: an ingestion of booze that would prompt a healthcare professional’s eyebrows to rocket skywards were I ever to divulge the real number of weekly units (instead of rounding down and dividing by three); a highly processed diet dominated by the three major food groups of refined sugar, simple carbohydrates and Beige Bits; a roster of frequent late nights offering nothing more than a cursory nod towards the requisite eight hours’ sleep.
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And that was before we even got to the hedonism-fuelled bacchanalia that is December, a time in which I ate more, slept less, and replaced the recommended daily water intake with drinks that had the word “mulled” in the name. Yes, I was ostensibly having fun. No, I did not feel good in my body, mind or spirit. I limped towards Christmas fatigued, unmotivated and run-down, oscillating between feverish, frenzied highs and abrupt crashes that left me more zombie than human. Low moods and crying jags, something that had never plagued me previously, were now a feature of my new normal. Fun!.
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