Workout Zits... Annoying Little Buggers

Have you ever started an exercise after a long period of very little or no exercise only to have a mass breakout later? Or after changing from a bad food diet to a great food diet? I have. Many times! It's called detox people, learn to love it as I haven't.

When I was in my 20's I went 'healthy'. For me, this meant that the majority of my foods were cooked at home except for Wednesdays when I could eat whatever I liked. I kid you not, within a week I had the worst acne ever. After three weeks I complained vehemently to a friend who explained it was just bad stuff coming out of my skin. No one knew the word 'detox' then.

With exercise this happens because the exercise gets everything moving. It's helps us get more oxygen in, our blood pumps through the body faster and our lymph system gets a clean out. With the skin being one of the bodies major elimination organs, you can bet your bottom dollar that it's going to show up somewhere. The stuff that comes out of my skin appears on my neck usually, but when I exercise, I also get pimples on my chin and forehead.

I'm in my forties and yes I feel a little ripped off about this. I know it's a good thing, better out than in right? But seriously, if I'm doing good I wanna be looking good. I always thought that only teenagers and drug addicts had pimply skin. Not healthy women in their fourth decade of living! Grrrr... what to do about this?

In the past I've actually reverted to my old eating habits or ceased to exercise to clean my skin up! I never said I was smart. A lot of other people say that I am, but I think the previous sentence proves that I'm right, they're wrong. Ha!

This time though, I'm going to keep going. I'll be washing my skin more just in case, and being careful in the sun etc, but I'm getting this stuff out. It's not as bad as they used to be way back when I drank alcohol daily and junk food almost daily. Back then the acne presented as minature mountains of pain on the side of my neck. The zitters I have now are mostly tiny but very red, and they sting! But they are better than the others that I used to get that were similar to boils. Better out than in, better out than in, better out than in. This too shall pass dammit! And I'll be all healthy and glowing and people will stop me in the streets to oooh and aaaah at my gorgeous dewy epidermis.

I plan for my skin to be a glorious glowing fleshscape that my own kids will be jealous of! Hehe.

So yes I'm a 40 year old zitter head, but who cares! Where would that stuff go if it wasn't coming out? Perhaps the body would have to make a 'bin' for it (tumour anyone?).