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Looking after yourself

Because cravings are primarily physical, your best route to tackle them is to look after your body. Looking after yourself builds your physical resilience, reducing the frequency and intensity of cravings. Here are some practical ideas.

Sleep

Alcohol actually prevents you from having a good night’s sleep, but you may have come to rely on it to relax and unwind on the way to bed. If you significantly cut back or eliminate alcohol completely, you may find that your sleep is disrupted.

There’s lots of good, common-sense advice around about getting a good night’s sleep. It’s worth experimenting with different aspects of sleep hygiene. But the most important advice is to not worry about how many hours sleep you get. If you wake feeling rested, you’ve slept well.

Eat

Alcohol simultaneously increases your appetite and decreases your ability to make good food choices. So as you change your drinking, you might notice the troubled nature of your relationship with food.

If you’re changing your drinking to lose weight, bear in mind that this takes time. Rather than depriving yourself through dieting, focus on foods that nourish you and make you happy. Alcohol depletes your system of vital vitamins and minerals, so a balanced and nutritious diet will help you flourish.

Move

A drinking life is a largely sedentary life. So as your energy returns, you may find you want to move more. Act on that urge.

But be realistic about what you can achieve. It’s easy to be seduced by other people’s before and after pictures, but remember nobody runs a marathon without putting in the work. Start slowly and take one thing at a time.