{"id":5367,"date":"2024-11-23T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:32:32","slug":"focusing-on-my-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5367","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on my health"},"content":{"rendered":"

TLDR: I’ve been getting healthier this year. It\u2019s gone well, and I\u2019m pleased… so pleased that I feel the need to look back at what I’ve done.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last year, we started a house extension project. <\/p>\n

This was the most stressful thing I\u2019ve ever done, by a long way. Moving house, getting married, having a baby… even combined, none of those came close to how hard this was. <\/p>\n

It felt like everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. There was surprise after surprise, and disaster after disaster. What we thought would be safe was damaged or destroyed. New problems kept emerging. The money we\u2019d put aside to pay for it was all spent, and then what was left of our savings… and the increasing costs kept coming.<\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t handle it well. <\/p>\n

I got depressed. Stressed. Comfort eating and junk food became my go-to coping mechanism. From June 2023 (when the builders first started removing the tiles from our roof) to February 2024 (when the builders left us), I put on about 25kg. <\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t sleep. I became snappy and short-tempered. Angry all the time. I could often hear my blood flowing in my ears. I had a constant knot in my stomach. <\/p>\n

With a lot of help from family and friends, the house is now almost done. But by March this year, it was obvious that I needed a reset to fix myself as well as the house!<\/p>\n

I started working on myself more.<\/p>\n

Losing weight is the most obvious outcome: <\/p>\n