Going Sober

Benefits Of Going Sober for A Month

Weigh Loss or Management

When you give up alcohol for a month, you are more likely to achieve a healthy weight. Alcohol is a major source of calories that can compromise your waistline.

Better Financial Health

 You save a lot of money when you avoid alcohol for a month. As a result, your financial health improves.

Improved Sleep Quality

Drinking alcohol is associated with falling asleep faster. While this sounds like a good deal, it actually means getting fewer cycles of REM sleep. The more cycles of REM sleep you get, the more your sleep quality improves.

Reduced Water Loss

Alcohol can delete large amounts of water from your body, causing headaches. Drinking alcohol can also wreak havoc on your sodium and potassium levels, resulting in nerve and muscle function loss, nausea, and fatigue.

Ieva Kubiliute

Ieva Kubiliute is a psychologist and a sex and relationships advisor and a freelance writer. She's also a consultant to several health and wellness brands. While Ieva specialises in covering wellness topics ranging from fitness and nutrition, to mental wellbeing, sex and relationships and health conditions, she has written across a diverse range of lifestyle topics, including beauty and travel. Career highlights so far include: luxury spa-hopping in Spain and joining an £18k-a-year London gym. Someone’s got to do it! When she’s not typing away at her desk—or interviewing experts and case studies, Ieva winds down with yoga, a good movie and great skincare (affordable of course, there’s little she doesn’t know about budget beauty). Things that bring her endless joy: digital detoxes, oat milk lattes and long country walks (and sometimes jogs).

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