Right, 39 and officially losing my mind in the supplements aisle at Holland & Barrett. Every single thing has a before and after photo attached to it. Every reel is someone glowing and holding a tub of something. I stood there for twenty minutes last week genuinely paralysed between four different magnesium products, none of which I could afford all at once, and eventually just put them all back and bought some eggs. I think that's actually the thing nobody talks about, the cost of it. If I bought everything Instagram confidently tells me I need I'd be spending about £80 a month on supplements alone. I'm a 39-year-old with a mortgage and a broken boiler, that's not happening. So I've started writing down what I'm actually taking (currently just vitamin D, been on it since winter) and what I'm eating more of (more protein, more veg, genuinely boring stuff) because I want to be able to go to my GP at some point and have an actual list rather than just saying "I saw something online". She's lovely but I know she'll ask and I want to sound like I've thought about it. Does anyone here just have normal stories? Not transformation stories. Just... tried this, noticed this, cost about this much, didn't fix everything but maybe helped a bit? That's all I want. x
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