How Has Betting Changed Your Body?

[DublinDegen]

weird one but hear me out...

lost about eight kilos over the last two years... not trying to... just forget to eat when im in a betting spiral... whole day goes past... realise at 9pm i havent eaten since breakfast... grab whatever's closest...

sleep is completely wrecked... checking scores at 3am... american sports finishing at 4am... lying awake after a loss running through what i did wrong...

looked in the mirror last month and genuinely didnt recognise myself for a second...

betting did that... not directly... but it did it...

anyone else notice physical changes?

 

[TaffyTipster]

Yeah mate.

Drinking more than I used to.

Pub betting means pub drinking.

Wasn't always like that.

Also sleep. Six Nations period I'm a wreck. Late European kickoffs, checking scores, lying awake after Wales lose.

Wife says I look tired constantly between February and April.

She's right.

 

[SharpEddie47]

Sleep is the main one for me.

NFL Sunday nights bleed into Monday. Late West Coast games finishing at 1am. Then lying there processing what happened.

Win or lose doesn't matter much. Brain won't shut off either way.

Started tracking my sleep with an app two years ago. Average sleep Sunday night during NFL season: 5.1 hours.

Rest of year: 7.3 hours.

Two hours of sleep every Sunday night for eighteen weeks. That's not nothing.

 

[CoachTony_Bets]

The tension is the thing for me.

I carry it in my shoulders and neck. My wife notices before I do.

She'll put her hand on my shoulder during a game and say "you're like a rock."

That's cortisol. Sustained stress response over hours.

I'm a coach. I tell my players about recovery and sleep hygiene and stress management.

My body during NFL season contradicts everything I teach.

 

[ParlayPrincess_88]

Oh wow I never thought about this.

But yeah actually.

When I have a parlay going I get this knot in my stomach that doesn't go away until it settles.

Sometimes that's four or five hours of low-level anxiety.

Every Sunday during football season.

Multiply that out... that's a lot of hours of my body being stressed.

 

[Klaus]

Have noticed the following over fourteen years:

Resting heart rate elevated on Bundesliga matchdays compared to non-matchdays. Tracked via fitness watch. Difference approximately 8-11 beats per minute.

Sleep quality measurably worse on days with significant bets. Data confirms this, not just subjective feeling.

Headaches correlate with losing periods. Noticed pattern three years ago.

Had not connected these things to betting until reading Conor's post just now.