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Is Uni the most un-healthy thing you've ever done?
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Since starting uni, i have really noticed my health declining, its little things like not being able to see things in the distance and having bloodshot eyes 24/7. It's getting really bad as after 11 weeks I really do feel like hell and cant concentratre for more than about 15 seconds!
Anyone else managing to live normally?
Bopz :crazyeyes
Anyone else managing to live normally?
Bopz :crazyeyes
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Maybe its cos my developing beer belly is filling me out a bit...
You need to find a balance.
Endless, heavy drinking.
Too many smokey clubs and loud music.
Not enough healthy food, chips with everything at lunch, vegetable are inedible and therefore uneaten.
Pizzas three times a week, plus kebab when you go out.
Yet somehow, I've lost a little bit of weight (I think). I've got more spots than I normally do, and my skin's a lot drier, but I wouldn't say it's the unhealthiest I've ever been.
Plus I'm too tired to cook nice meals all the time, tend to buy chips quite a lot. But I suppose I would be tired if I was working all day too.
Other than that, its random sleep patterns, if any, lots of alcohol, smokey pubs etc etc
My diet has improved though i think. I try and go for the healthy option where possible, with lots more fruit than i used to have at home.
Freshers flu is an absolute bitch. You get it for six weeks, then you're healthy for two, then you get a winter cold.
Eeeeevil shit.
I was planning on dealing with this in the good old fashioned way of getting a few early nights, but thats failed.
It may still be relatively early (ie some places are still serving) but still later than i'd planned in order to get a decent nights sleep!
Bopz
try 4 years of it, it really has got to the stage where im getting too old for this shit, trying to do the things we did as freshers is so much harder now and you pay for it a lot more the next day, these 3 weeks off at christmas will be bliss.
Bopz
However I did develop a bit of an amphetamine habit, so that wasnt that healthy.
On the other hand... My eating has got to the point of worrying my housemates, my ex noticed how gaunt my face was looking when i saw him last night, i'm smoking 20+ a day and i'm not sleeping.
So uni is probably actually really bad for me. My concentration is shot to shit as well.
i eat a lot of meat however but overall i have less added salt cause i make fresh food and eat lots o pasta(who doesnt)
the only thing thats lacking is fibre as i started to notice so ive moved onto bacon sandwiches as well, but i have got slimmer, and apparantly taller, if i started going gym, id probably get bigger with the amount of protein i eat
and i drink lots of fruit juice and water (and a healthy amount of alcohol :P only downside)
coming home i snack nd live off ready cooked food :S
Bopz
The Christmas break has been good to me and I now feel sort of healther, quite confusing as most people get unhealther at christmas. Not sure if i can take anouther 11 weeks of hell, but what else is there to do?
Bopz
P.S. I also think that I will die aged 25 due to my uni lifestlye.......
yep the same for me, for some reason i only tend to read the safety audit when im half way through the expt. having handled at least one or two nasties
Bopz