Sober is sexy. Believe me this - drinking is not sexy. Drinking slowly deadens your ability to control your muscles and ,causes weight gain and water retention, wrinkles, broken capillaries and redness, lowers your inhibitions so you act outside of how you normally would were you in full control, and lowers your self-confidence.
Waking up feeling like crap, with a sandpaper throat, bloated, with a hankering for a cheeseburger, not remembering parts of your night, or worse, remembering regrettable things you did, and an entire day stretching before you…yuck. Alcohol makes you ugly.
2 out of 3 adults in the US drink alcohol. You're choosing to not consume something that everyone else is a slave to on some level. You're stronger than 67% of the US adult population. Anyone that tells you different is someone who has their own complicated relationship with what addiction is.
Drinking perpetually keeps us from understanding Who. We. Are. It is culprit in developing a false sense of self and a divide between who we really are, and the person we think we have to be. Until we remove alcohol from our lives, we never get to experience the true capacity and depth of self. Removing alcohol allowed me to finally get to the bottom of who I was, and finally give her the fighting chance she deserved. We are all gems, all of us with gifts, all of us perfect little stories to unfold. Removing alcohol allows our real journey to finally begin.
ME 7 years sober...Not bad for a 48 yr old mother of 3!
Health gurus are shunning gluten, dairy, meat, tap water, pesticides, antibiotics, sugar, aluminum, fluoride and conventional medicine....
And then there is booze, and it's booze, and don't fuck with our booze. Our wine and our cocktails are where our madness for wellness ends - so much so that we have begun incorporating it into our wellness - just google "Wine Yoga" and see for yourself.
Alcohol is a neurotoxin, a drug. And consuming it undermines your attempts at health and beauty in countless ways. Some of these things are apparent - how does your breath smell on a hungover Saturday morning, how do your rings fit after a night out, how red is your face the next day or the night of, how bad are those circles? Other effects are sneaky, revealing themselves only over time: Beer gut, rosacea, sallow skin, facial bloat.
Alcohol causes inflammation (which leads to myriad other health issues), dehydrates, disrupts our blood sugar balance (which makes us mood swing, binge eat, get the shakes, disrupts sleep), gunks up our liver (which means our body can't detox and also means we have trouble losing weight - toxins live in fat cells), interferes with the metabolism of nutrients (absorption), replaces healthy calories (malnutrition), changes our pH balance (causing body odor), leads to loss of sleep (which leads to a host of other things that make us look like shit), disrupts the endocrine/glandular system (as in, adrenals/energy, sex hormones/periods/sex drive, sleep cycle), accelerates the aging process, worsens skin issues (like acne), causes bloating, brittles hair, causes memory loss, shrinks gray matter, induces or worsens depressive states, causes broken capillaries/rosacea, leads to other unhealthy and/or risky behavior (like poor food choices, unprotected sex, smoking), is directly linked to certain cancers (like breast cancer). There's also that whole other part about how it addicts us, kills 1 in 10 of us, robs us of years off our lives, our dignity, our freedom, our loved ones and on and on. But it’s glorification and the abuse continues. 🤮https://www.hipsobriety.com/…/yes-alcohol-is-making-you-loo…