Just four days in and I'm suffering from a headache. I've not had a (non alcohol induced) headache in as long as I can remember. Perhaps my body is reacting to the lack of alcohol to remove from my blood stream.

Can livers, in the absence of anything to do, inadvertently start removing helpful things from the blood stream? Like anti-headache hormones?

As a little experiment, I'm going to be weighing myself on a frequent basis over the next month or so. I have no intention of losing weight, I don't feel like I need to and I'm certianly not going to be changing my diet in anyway, I like the foods I eat.

Ever since I was a wee kid, I've been able to eat what I want without putting on a pound. But when I first arrived at Uni, I started to put on weight. I'm interested to see whether the sudden rise in alcohol intake was the main factor in me putting on weight or wether it was a combination of other things such as a change in diet.

I understand from my Mother that one is not mean to weight themself in the evening but rather just after waking up. Still, I wanted to find out my rough starting weight and this evening I read exactly 12 stone 7 pounds, which kindly places my BMI at 25.1 just edging into the "overweight" category.

Just as a thought, it would take my liver, removing 1 unit of alcohol per hour, just under 2 months of work to remove the alcohol I've drunk in the past 5 months. Perhaps that explains the headache, my poor body.