To ask what your best investment in yourself has been?

[HeyItsPickleRick]

Come on mumsnet, creep my lifestyle!

Inspired by the personal stylist post - I’m wondering what is the best thing you’ve bought for yourself?

Mine has 100% been my peloton and all the dumbbells. First exercise I’ve ever stuck to!

Cosmetic surgery. & weight loss

I have a great figure now

i look & feel better in my late forties than I did in my twenties loads more energy

Don’t think I’ve ever invested in myself.

Someone has already said therapy so I'll go with my weekly massage. My 1 hour per week while my phone is off (self employed) so no one needs me and it's just pure relaxation.

EDMR
A house close to family with a garden
Quitting alcohol

Things that haven't:
Personal styling
Luxury clothes, bags, jewelry
Botox
Gyms
Diet pills

It was an in person consultation, I’m in north Scotland, at a practice called Clinic M. It’s was £300. It’s a local NHS consultant who works for them.

BUPA do online consultations with an GP and further support too for a single payment of £250. You don’t have to be a BUPA member to use the service.

It won’t let me paste links. Good luck, it’s a horrible struggle to have to fight so hard for the support you know you need 💐

I think I paid a little over £9k 5 years ago but I had scarring from some very early lasik treatment I had in the early 1990s (pioneer!) which made it a little more complicated - I think your quote sounds about right on that basis

@crystalize thank you for posting about the Pilates/yoga videos on YouTube. I was reading about people doing Pilates and I’ve never tried it (but have heard good things about it!). I’ll be getting myself an exercise mat and giving a beginner’s workout a go.

For those who do Pilates…may I ask please, how often do you do the workouts?

I've done Invisalign and teeth whitening with crowns - it's possible and well worth it x

Ah yes definitely deleting twitter and Instagram. My life is completely different! It’s been 2 years

The WORST investment in myself has been dieting and calorie counting. Utter depressing waste of time. The answer is good food, managing stress and understanding food’s role in that, and exercise, and keeping busy.

I don’t buy this analogy, sorry!

Going part time so I can practise yoga daily.

Mine was 4.5k ten years ago, so sounds about right

@bramblefoot yes, I would be interested to know too. Thank you.

Therapy. Thousands of pounds, over a decade of it. My life has transformed. I’ve moved far away, from town to very rural, ditched the job and spend my days with my animals and gardening.

I joined with a local nutritionist and small local group gym class and love going it lifts my mood and I have lost weight, toned up and feel much better about myself.

Also regularly listening to the music I enjoyed when younger much more often whilst doing housework, walking, in the car etc. I totally enjoy this and it takes me back to how I felt when I was younger and not weighed down with responsibilities.

Fixed hardcore braces at 59. 18 months later I had a beautiful smile, had lost a stone. Worth the agony and ££££

Although I didn’t realise at the time of starting getting a new job with contributed health insurance.

A while after I was diagnosed with severe osteoarthritis in my hips which was an awful shock as I was only 49. Luckily I now have 2 new hips and I dread to think how long I would have been on an NHS waiting list

Love this.

Ditching diet culture will always be an amazing thing to do.

Paying for private blood tests and getting levels of key vitamins and minerals to ‘optimum’ levels rather than the NHS/GP fobbing you off by saying you’re fine when you’re only just inside normal range.

Got my iron, B12 and Vit D sorted and feel like a new woman

ETA: Completely cured my anxiety as well which I had suffered from for decades!

I've only just started thinking about this. Investing in myself. I've been on the weightless jabs and lost 4 stone. I'm no longer on them and still dropping a little more every month. I feel so much better and my hip and ankles no longer ache. I was diagnosed with very early fatty liver disease so I'm trying to improve this as well.

My plans moving forward are
IPL-for my rosacea
Private ultrasound in a year to see if I've improved my fatty liver (can't imagine getting one on the NHS as they were not concerned when it was found).
Thinking about botox but can make my mind up so keep putting it off.
Finding some regular exercise actually enjoy
Starting some sort of hobby i enjoy. Just for me and no side hustle talk. Just doing something because I enjoy it

Which one did you use? I have NHS tests next Friday but know they don't do a full panel, especially active B12. Was thinking about Thriva but the blood extraction thing you put on the arm and have to change the bottles on scares me a little!!!

Great idea for a thread

Laser eye surgery and lipo

Probably my skin care routine closely followed by gym membership