Coaching for Mindful Drinking and Alcohol Guidance
Celebrating?
If it’s your last day of work before a seasonal holiday and you’re partying tonight, my mindful drinking guidance below may coach you away from a hangover tomorrow…
First Let’s Put Things into Perspective
Alcohol will:
Increase your risk of getting a cold, flu or infection
Keep a cold, flu or infection going longer
Reduce the absorption of vital vitamins & minerals required for optimum health & immunity
Increase stress, anxiety & depression
Impact sleep quality & duration making you more susceptible to colds & flu
Put added burden on liver function, potentially resulting in poor skin, digestive symptoms & increased risk of infection
Cause weight gain due to the high sugar content
Deplete your friendly gut bacteria contributing to digestive symptoms, low mood & reduced immunity.
With the above in mind do you still want to go ahead with that glass of fizz?
Do you have a cold?
Have you been unwell recently?
Do you want to get better quicker?
Do you want to mitigate your infection risk?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, what can you do to avoid drinking alcohol at the moment?
Choose your glass carefully!
Choose a glass like the one second from the left that fits only 120ml of liquid
Avoid more than one alcoholic beverage per hour
Drink a glass of water in between alcohol
Buy mini bottles so you don’t have an open bottle in the fridge luring you
Don’t drink on an empty stomach and include protein in snacks
Spend time with those who support your health & wellbeing rather than those who inhibit it
Avoid drinking more than two occasions in a week
Include protein with healthy low carb snacks
Try my gluten & dairy free smoked salmon buckwheat blini recipe to help stabilise hunger hormones and reduce the risk of a headache.
Try The Gut Coach Morning After Detox Tonic
Paracetamol blocks glutathione production- a vital substance in liver detoxification that helps you remove alcohol from the body; therefore paracetamol may increase the length of your hangover! If you have over indulged check out The Gut Coach Morning After Detox Tonic complete with nutritional guidance. Follow the instructions to avoid the need for painkillers.
It will be Friday night again next week!
Alcohol is so prominent in our society. Celebrate- drink alcohol! Commiserate- drink alcohol! It’s Friday night- drink alcohol! It will be Friday night again and again and again.
What can you do to gain control of this substance instead of it controlling you?
Be kind to yourself
Love,
