Hi Annie! It's been 20 days since I gave up alcohol. I recently wrote about reading your e-book "30 days without a drink" I feel fantastic, I feel like I want to change my life. I have a huge flow of energy and control over my life. I have an excess of energy and I feel that I have crossed some threshold. My body strives to heal I wake up in a very good mood, and this new energy is a good sign of that. I can't imagine how much I could change my life. I can't forget how bad I felt after drinking alcohol - the drugs, stress, depression, anxiety. Remind you of hangovers and remorse I've learned so much about alcohol that while listening to your e-book "30 days without drinking" I regain consciousness when I listen to, for example today, "How to deal with boredom without alcohol?" Remembering how much alcohol had taken from me, how much I had lost because of it, how it had taken away what I loved because it had power over me... and those social gatherings based only on drinking, where most of my friends had alcohol as entertainment, that was the only thing that connected us. There were people that I could talk to them about other topics, but when I got drunk, my mind became dull and I thought slower, and after a few minutes I had to reach for another one to get stimulated again, I couldn't get out of this vicious circle. At some point you may have had a bad day and you decided and tried to drink alone. In such moments when I was drinking, no one sees you, so in such moments you can drink quickly and a lot. There is no social context to slow you down. The level of alcohol in your blood rises quickly, and you immediately feel a rush of happiness You feel euphoria for about the first 30 minutes of drinking. Of course, if you have experienced it, he is My own experience is the belief that alcohol helps deal with loneliness, but that was not the case. The more field, the more I detached myself from life, from people It has become embedded in your psyche and has become a permanent home for you. When you drink to forget about the pain, alcohol. Perhaps one day many people who drink once a month will find out that alcohol is a strong drug and decide to stop drinking just like smoking cigarettes. We will realize how many people have lost their lives, lost their self-respect, that the worst crimes, violence and fatal accidents have occurred because of alcohol or have suffered because of alcohol. I am very grateful for this program and for what I learn, that I can apply it to my life, and I look at alcohol completely differently than before - convincing even my subconscious. Thank you Annie 🙏 Krystian.
I really relate to this. I have achieved one week AF a couple of times & then either consciously chose to drink, or did so without wanting or planning to. I'm on day 4 AF today. I do still feel demoralised. I'm telling myself I only have to stay AF for today, and if I want I can make a different decision tomorrow, or even at the end of two weeks. The only other thought I can think of is to tell myself how tenacious I am being to keep trying over & over, despite repeated failures to quit completely. A lot of people stop trying to quit. I'm, at least, still trying. The other thing I'm telling myself is that I never have to go through how bad it feels to be in these early days AF again, if I just keep going & don't drink. That's all I can think of for now. Thoughts of doing the opposite are coming quite a lot but I'm distracting myself by listening to quitting content instead, trying to boost my resolve.
Good video! For those looking for a "challenge", consider the "75 Hard" program. No alcohol for 75 days along with 4 other challenges/day to keep focused on! It has helped me!
I really liked Annie's recent video about finding the positive reason/s (carrot vs stick) to quit/reduce alcohol. (I couldn't locate which video it was.) For instance, six months ago I joined a CrossFit box for the first time. And because a few folks at my box were doing it, two weeks ago I did the online qualifier event for my first ever CrossFit comp. The comp isn't until September, so I have plenty of time to try to train and get in better shape, for if I decide to actually do the comp. I'm not a contender, so I'm thinking that it's dumb to embarrass myself at the comp, not to mention spend a bunch of money. But I have to say that just having myself on the Qualifier leaderboard, and the possibility of a comp looming, has given me a bit of a purpose, and that little extra has helped me to stay away from the wine & salty snacks, because I want to feel good in the morning, and have good workouts. I am also enjoying easily fitting into my size 4's, when six months ago I was the Pillsbury doughgirl, rolls and all, busting out of my size 10's. And as a 61-year-old woman...shedding the fluff isn't easy haha! And/or I would suggest signing up for Annie's Free 30-day Alcohol Experiment.
