The Effects of Alcohol

All year I have been eating clean and drinking only water, with the odd coffee thrown in every now and then.  I do have 3 children and a partner who is only just beginning to understand why I do what I do, so I need something to calm the cravings. Normally I wouldn't have consumed soft drink if it didn't have some type of alcohol in it. So giving up soft drinks was easy, and the alcohol I haven't missed at all. During the past year I've had three occasions where I consumed an alcoholic beverage. Two of the occasions I stopped after the fourth or filth and one I didn't. Recently I consumed an excessive amount of different types of alcohol, and let me tell you it is not worth it. 

The changes I have noticed to my body and the way it reacts to certain foods and beverages is amazing. Away on holidays with my family we stopped at hungry jacks and I ate a chicken burger which my body violently rejected! I didn't even enjoy eating it there was no taste in it what so ever. I have become accustomed to the concept of the whole "cheat meal" and I wonder why sometimes. After eating something I think I want my body tells me otherwise. It's amazing where our hunger comes from because, the majority of the times it's in our head. 

Saturday night I went out on the "town" with girls from the gym. Started with a lovely dinner and ended in a drunkn sausage fest. I mean come on guys some of them couldn't hold a conversation and the pick up lines pathetic! Just so you know I am happily partnered with three children so I wasn't looking for anything. I really just wanted to have a conversation and that didn't happen. So why go out get absolutely plastered to have NO conversation with people I have NO interest in anyways?

Great question you say maybe wrong place and a little moderation goes a long way. I do deem myself as a lady these days and I should have gone home earlier because ladies don't stay out till 5am drinking shots and talking shit! 

I have spent the last 3 days detoxing my body of the alcohol it's so desperately trying to expel from my system. Not to mention the vial nasty red bull that has done nothing but give me heart palpitations and migraines. But aside from these symptoms I'm experiencing what else has it done to my body that I'm unaware of? 

It's called binge drinking and the effects are astonishing. We all know it's bad for us no good for our health, yet so many do it. It's been 3 years since I've done this to myself and I can only imagine the damage done back then. Especially when I was so over weight my body was already struggling to survive. Yes I use the word survive that's how extreme the health implications were of having so much weight. 

I continue to make informed choices to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We live we learn. Unfortunate I've been one of those people who only learn from their mistakes. Especially as a teenager! We all make mistakes and true this is how we learn but I knew the effects of my actions. Yet still continued on that path. Life is a series of choices and I've chosen my new lifestyle over the old one.