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To ask if you have given up alcohol and/or sugar and if it has made you look better?

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ChristmasGutPunch · 12/05/2024 18:32

My face is sagging and I have a jowl on one side (who knew it happened like that sometimes!). Just wondering if it's worth starting a clean life now in my mid 40s or if the ship has sailed and I should just embrace the good things in life.

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ChristmasGutPunch · 12/05/2024 19:17

Same re looking awful. I was never pretty but it's getting bothersome now! I do know it's what's inside that counts but yknow... I suppose I could try for a month and see.

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Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 12/05/2024 19:00

Thanks for this thread, I was wondering the same thing. My face is getting so puffy. I expected wrinkles to be forming at 47 but this is way worse. I look so ugly I don't allow photos anymore. When I smile my eyes are like slits between 2 rolls of flesh, I may need to give up smiling altogether. But first I'm wondering if giving sugar up will help, I have a diet very high in sugar. I eat a lot of chocolate and rubbish treats.

Happyinarcon · 12/05/2024 18:55

I gave up sugar and I’d say it took several years off my face. I looked in the mirror one day and got a pleasant surprise

Solidlump · 12/05/2024 18:44

I gave up alcohol and I lost weight. Tbh knowing I'll put the weight back on if I start drinking again is the main reason I'm still not drinking.
Ive definitely got a lot more energy without alcohol and my skin is a better tone - lost the redness . My memory is better and my head clearer.
I've never tried giving up sugar. I don't think I could cope with no sugar as well as no alcohol but I do try and eat a reasonably healthy diet.

crumbledog · 12/05/2024 18:38

I don’t think you can stop time tbh. I think those suggestions may be reflected in your overall health, which in turn will give you more energy and vitality, that will make you look better.
Those are the reasons you should be focussing on to improve your diet, not to try and stop gravity.

insidenumber9 · 12/05/2024 18:37

Friend of mine gave up the red wine after many years and she looks much brighter in the face now and skin looks clearer

Bruciebogtrotter · 12/05/2024 18:37

Redyced alcohol by about 95% (not quite teetotal) and there’s a massive improvement in my skin. But it’s cleared up spots on my chin that I’d had for years. No improvement in sagging. I think my skin may also be a little brighter .

Alwaysaway · 12/05/2024 18:35

Have given up alcohol (6 months) and I am making better choices re food. I am 47. Best I have looked and felt in years. So excited now for the next decade.

Octavia64 · 12/05/2024 18:35

I gave up alcohol

No change in anything

CoralReader · 12/05/2024 18:35

I think sugar causes aging though

CoralReader · 12/05/2024 18:35

Sugar made me loose weight

PotatoPudding · 12/05/2024 18:35

Some people’s faces just sag as they get older. I haven’t drunk alcohol for the best part of ten years but started to get jowls a year or two ago when I hit my mid-forties.

Redditchcycler · 12/05/2024 18:34

Gave up alcohol. Has made no difference to looks or weight. Disappointingly