As I've said many times before, January can be a very tough month for me. The excitement and socialising of Christmas is over and the first two months of the year tend to be for hunkering down.
I know I can find this time depressing so I take care to be ready. I have a SAD lamp which is said to help my body produce more serotonin. I've found it effective but I also make sure I have easy-to-cook nutritious food in my freezer and I seek out life's little pleasures.
One of the smallest and yet best pleasures is cold water. I haven't yet found the courage to take cold showers but I do take great care to have very cold water to drink. I pack my reuseable water bottles with ice and then fill up with water I keep in the fridge. Water fresh drawn from the tap just isn't as nice.
I do drink tap water, but I could not drink iced water.
ReplyDeleteEach to her own! Between us we've shown that a bit of experimenting is good.
DeleteI've bought a filter jug thing to filter our hard water to use in my new coffee machine. It fits in the fridge door but I'm finding it not as good to drink straight. I suppose I'm used to drinking hard water straight from the tap - as cold as possible is best- definitely. But like you - I'm not trying a cold shower anytime soon!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to be a wimp, isn't it!
DeleteLike Sue, I filter the water for kettle and coffee maker - East Anglian water is hard, and causes a lot of limescale. Without filtering it, I can taste it in the tea, and there's a film on the top. I keep a carafe of filtered water in the fridge. I did try the cold shower thing (Michael Moseley suggested it was good for you on his radio programme "Just One Thing") I did it Just One Time. Never again! I think SAD is more common than people realise. Trying to get outside each morning, even if just for 5 minutes to get sunshine benefits.
DeleteOur water here is hard too but I find that drinking it really cold helps. Yes, I listened to the Michael Mosley briadcast )and also watched Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall wild swimming) and decided that I am a wimp. But a very happy wimp.
DeleteOne of the habits I wish to add to my selfcare for the year is to drink more water. I now have a bottle or large drinking cup beside me to sip from.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I love my sipper bottle. It's always by me.
DeleteI, too, suffer from SAD AND my house is on the dark side. I will have to try your cold water approach — should be easy to try since I am already trying to drink more water in the new year — may as well make it cold!
ReplyDeleteThe water from our tap is coming from our well and is iced cold and delicious. Nice looking water bottle you have. easy to keep handy and hydrate. Now for a cup of tea. Hot pot just shut off.
ReplyDeleteI must drink more water (write out 50 times)! I'm very bad at remembering.
ReplyDeleteWater from the tap here is always very cold and delicious, but in other places I have found that it is often lukewarm and stale tasting - yuck!
ReplyDeleteI find January hard also! I am not so fond of iced water- I like tap water at the temperature it comes!
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