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Anyone want to join me for a detox as i am totally abusing my lovely body ?

214 replies

fakeblonde · 11/05/2007 00:50

I have been working myself up slowly to a much needed detox for too long now.

I really am abusing my body by

Drinking at least half a bottle of wine 5 nights a week

Smoking too much and mostly in secret !

Eating crap when the kids are in bed

Not making time for exercise and not swimming which i love because have usually downed a glass of wine with dinner !

Does anybody else want to join me for a full 7 day fag free wine free junk food free lots of water horrible horrible week-at the end of which we will shine from the inside out and feel somewhat marvellous !
pleeese

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harrisey · 14/05/2007 00:36

I('ll join you
Am 36 but last time l looked in the mirror reckon I looked 45-50 - tired, bagggy eyes and thats just my face, dot wqant to look at the rest.

Lots of fruit and no booze would do it for me - have never smoked but do like a glass or 3 inthe evenings! Plus would liek to cook more healthily for the kids!

MrMariella · 14/05/2007 01:07

Torn between WWW's Boot Camp, Frances' 10/10 thread, or this De-tox malarky.....

I think I am going to give this a go fakeblonde...

Individual plan....

  1. Water - two litres, or more when...
  1. Cardio exercise (minimum 30 mins) on alternate days
  1. Weights exercise 4 times per week ( not incl toning up press up regime.)
  1. Calculate for at least 5 fruit/veg...

Hey! This feels like the 10/10er!!....

MrMariella · 14/05/2007 01:13

ooh, and lights off on a school night by 11pm.

talcydoesjacksparrow · 14/05/2007 08:15

Okay, so far so good
8.16 and not stuffed face with sugar...yet

moondog · 14/05/2007 08:19

Attila you are either completely overreacting or taking the piss.

Half a bottle of wine 5 nights a week, while perhaps not ideal is certainly not the mark of an alcoholic. FGS!!!

The fags and crap food are more of a concern but otherwise Fake sounds like the average British woman.

Sheesh!

MrMariella · 14/05/2007 08:26

Morning shiney ones!

Agree with moondog. Perhaps a reason why it hadn't ocurred to you is that there is nothing wrong as far as Attila is talking about.

But, that isn't a reason to give yourself a bit of a boost, and shovel some sh*t out of your system.

Have a good day all.

FrannyandZooey · 14/05/2007 08:31

Well, habitually needing to drink twice the recommended limit each week, does suggest some dependency on alcohol, doesn't it? It will be damaging your health to drink like that, certainly.

MrMariella · 14/05/2007 08:53

When you put it like that Frances, it does ...um..sound a lot...>....well, no more at least!!

FrannyandZooey · 14/05/2007 08:55

Yes well good luck to everyone wanting to make changes

LucyJones · 14/05/2007 08:57

agree with moondog

kazzia · 14/05/2007 09:44

Have been up 3 hours and so far have only drunk water/ fennel tea & eaten fruit (apart from licking peanut butter off knife for DS pack lunch) & have walked to school & back.

Am now off to shops to buy fruit/ veg & more 'erb teas.

Gald to see there is healthy diversity of healthy threads. May have to try all if this is successful.

Original poster
fakeblonde · 14/05/2007 10:05

Sitting here with lovely glass of water and a slice of lemon (convincing myself its better than Kenco ).
Had smoothie with banana and strawberries for breakfast.
Will try and set up yoga dvd if ds1 lets me later otherwise i might have to wrap up and brave the rain !

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AttilaTheMeerkat · 14/05/2007 10:12

Thank you FrannyandZooey. That is what I was trying to originally say - not by overreacting or taking the mick. There is a big problem here; not necessarily related to alcoholism but binge drinking and other habits. What started this all off?. Fakeblonde has given some revealing answers in her earlier post. Perhaps I could be accused of overreacting but the other points raised in my original post have been ignored. Did you not also disagree with those points made?.

Abusing your body with excess alcohol, food and cigarettes can be indicative of underlying emotional problems; such actions are often done to try to claim some control back in a person's life. Fakeblonde has had a very tough time previously; I am wondering what made her drink like this, smoke too much and in secret and eat junk food now. Her second post indicates a lot of previous problems and to me she has been emotionally scarred by these happenings. She cannot let these people hurt her any more, doing these things to her own body gives them more power.

The issues that made her start this in the first place need to be properly addressed; a detox is only but a temporary measure.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 14/05/2007 10:16

Fakeblonde

I wish you all the very best with your detox but I would urge you to seek counselling as well. I don't know what happened to you years ago and I do not expect you to at all but you need to fully confront those issues now. You have never properly addressed that but that's not your fault at all. Life's copers often do the very same.

Something drove you to start drinking, eating crap food and smoking in secret. I would ask you to look at why you started such things.

Original poster
fakeblonde · 14/05/2007 10:41

At-
have just booked a session !
£45 and hour though so i hope she doesn`t go i find out something i dont even remember

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Original poster
fakeblonde · 14/05/2007 11:44

Have also joined a yoga class again which i used to enjoy.
Trouble with all this water is i`ve been to the loo about 5 times this morning already !

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noddyholder · 14/05/2007 12:56

Oh god attilla you would have a field day with me!I am on and off detoxes etc like a yoyo its what women do and doesn't really necessitate running to a shrink.I have been to carluccios this morning and had breakfast but had no bread and just scrambled egg mushrooms tomato orange juice and a coffee with no sugar Drinking lots of water now and going to have a big salad for dinner xx

kazzia · 14/05/2007 13:43

I'm with you noddyh. Lets not get too heavy about this. BTW I love the idea of detoxing in Carluccios.

I am being far more Spartan and have had lunch of rice & veg with DD & am planning evening salad of leaves fresh from garden.

All this water is resulting in a lot of weeing - think of all those toxins being flushed away ..

hellobello · 14/05/2007 13:49

I think Atilla that you would certainly have a field day with me too!! No to worry - 20+ years of councelling and this and that, and still plenty of room for improvement! Anyway, anyone who's worried about celulite need worry no longer. I've noticed that even my babies' bums have it! We don't spend much time gazing at our own bums, so it comes as a shock to realise what's there.

sandyballs · 14/05/2007 13:52

I really don't think sharing a bottle of wine with your DH 5 nights a week is a drink problem by any means .

What a peculiar reaction Atilla.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 14/05/2007 14:01

You miss the point; I would not have a field day with any of you honest.

I was concerned for Fakeblonde because I was trying to question why exactly she was abusing her body in such a manner. My original question to FB was what started this all off?. Something did and her answer was quite telling.

FrannyandZooey · 14/05/2007 14:25

The OP seems to have thought Attila's questions and advice were quite relevant, not peculiar at all.

Drinking 25 units every week doesn't constitute a drink problem, but it is creeping near the level at which your health is going to be affected even in the short term, and near the level at which risk of alcohol problems becomes a lot higher.

I thought the comment about "I am always on and off some detox - that is what women do" was quite depressing.

noddyholder · 14/05/2007 14:32

Franny its not depressing if you enjoy it! but all my friends are cleaning up their act at one time or another and we all love food and are none of us a size 0!

talcydoesjacksparrow · 14/05/2007 14:43

i was doing so well
till just now

moondog · 14/05/2007 14:52

Oh and I really loathe the kneejerk exhortion to 'seek counselling'.

Why is this presumed to be the answer to everything? Most are useless charlatans anywhere.I'd rather have Jim Davidson take me up the bum than go anywhere near a 'counsellor'.