Being healthy is the big one for me. I look healthy. Glowy, I think it’s two years of healthy eating, 3 litres of water a day, minimal alcohol, and working out most days. It really does start from within. You can do all the skin care and make up in the world, but if you’re not healthy inside it shows on the outside.
Plus the wider benefits the drugs bring, I’m on a maintence dose, like reduced inflammation, improved kidney, liver, cardio vascular health, and anti ageing of internal organs as our cells regenerate when the inflammation has gone.
the second big one is sleeping 8 hours a night, I had sleep apnea. It’s gone. And I sleep solidly. A good nights sleep makes a huge difference.
being off the blood pressure meds, they are brutal, so brutal I kept having to have blood tests to check they were not damaging my kidneys.
i lost over 6 and a half stone. Now a bmi 20, size 8, have been for well over a year.
next one is the energy levels, I have huge amounts of energy, bounce out of bed in the morning.
mood, my mood is much better and my mental health. I am no longer sitting feeling deprived and wanting to eat, or guilty as I did eat something. I don’t struggle with clothes, trying to find stuff that’s going to hide the fat. I feel confident in my appearance.
lastly my appearance, I have found my vanity again, lots of lovely new clothes, found my style, enjoying getting dressed in the morning, don’t get worried about what to wear when I go out.
downside. Well cost obviously, attention, both male and female, sometimes positive, admiring, sometimes a little resentful or jealous. I could do without it.
everyone knows I take the meds, never really had any negative judgement, it is hard to be negative and not look like a right wanker when someone visibly looks much healthier in front of you.