Beauty Tips For Body Care
TL;DR: My acne was bad and I stopped eating sugar-stuff and now it's not so badSo starting when I was around 14 I started getting some acne, nothing drastic just what you'd expect at that age. But slowly it got worse and worse, and by the age of 16 I was at that can't-even-make-eye-contact-with-you stage. Y'all know the drill.Anyway, during this whole time I (and my mom, bless her heart) tried everything I could to get rid of it. Absolutely everything Benzoyl Peroxide, AHA, ice, accutane, you knowwww.And here's the thing, I did accutane (not accutane, but whatever it's called now) for a while and it helped. A lot. It hurt my back like crazy though, and one time after falling asleep on the couch I woke up with back pain so intense I thought it would stay like that for eternity. Not fun. Then they want me to start another round but I wasn't having it. I tend to be really distrustful of pills, it's just part of my personality.Anyway it was at this time that I started eating cereal again. Before I had been eating oatmeal, just because I like plain things, but I started pouring some cereal in my oatmeal because I was missing it.And my acne just revolted, it was like Kronstadt all up on my face.So obviously I'm thinking there's some sort of link here. I'd heard whispers here and there that sugar was bad for your skin, and I just brushed it off. Sugar, bad for your skin?! Pah! You need sugar to live dum-dum. I can eat all the chocolate I want and it won't affect me, you know?But now I'm curious and I do some research. Long story short I decide I'ma go on a low-glycemic diet. I have a job, I can pay for my own food, so I do. No more cupcakes, no cookies, no candy bars, no bread or grapes, or yogurt, or cheese, or cereal etc. etc. Felt like a grumpy diabetic. Didn't really realize my choice would limit me so damn much.First thing that happened: I had to pee ALL THE TIME. Every few hours, and it was a lot. The urine was of the watery variety too. Felt like I pissed out gallons by the end of the week.Second thing: I started losing a lot of weight. Now, in my case I wasn't too happy about this. I'm a skinny dude already and losing weight didn't help much. Thankfully I didn't become anorexic-like or anything. But I did lose like 10 pounds in about two weeks.Third thing: THE ACNE STARTED TO RETREAT. Fuck yea, I said. Get the FUCK outta here I said. It wasn't some sort of miraculous cure, though, just a slow, gradual facial recovery. I was in high school at the time, and I'd been putting on cover-up (some people knew I did and it made me feel like absolute shit, but having my acne be visible made me feel worse, so oh well) so I got to feel the little bumps on my face, and now I can tell my face feels SO MUCH SMOOTHER goddamn. Yea I still had bigass zits all over, but where I don't have them? Feels like a baby's ass.Fourth thing: Tongue starts doing some weird shit. I didn't drink milk because my mom was convinced it was bad for me (I listened begrudgingly, but she was absolutely right.) I drank almond milk instead. Now with this diet I started drinking unsweetend almond milk, and it tasted TERRIBLE. But after a few days? It tasted not-so-bad. After a week? It was actually TASTY! And cucumbers were tasty. Fucking beets and CELERY, I looked at them and my mouth did that tingly thing it does when you want to eat what you're looking at. Cookies? Cereal? Brownies they're bringing in every damn day at school? They looked tasty too, sure, but in a different way, a gluttonous way, kinda hard to explain. Point is I started eating a lot more vegetables. I enjoyed the flavor.And yea, that's where I've been for a while. Still skinny as fuck, because working out makes me sweat and I don't want to take no chances. Still got a lot of red marks, which were going away until I started eating oatmeal again a few months ago, which I just said goodbye to. Point is, my face is better and I feel better. I still put on some tinted moisturizer, which doesn't make me feel that bad.So yeah, that's where I'm at. Now I'ma browse this sub to see what else I can do to fix these damn red marks.
Girls Blog 2015
Submitted by FuckSugarandFlour
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