The 7PM Project covered a segment on Hello Sunday Morning on June 17, 2011. The segment includes interviews with: Chris Raine (CEO), Jeremy Phillips-yelland (HSMer) and Emily Yeo (Past HSMer). Watch the segment here:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/video/national/watch/27615101 Chris Raine was interviewed on 7 News to talk about the HSM campaign to encourage people to give up drinking for 12 weeks in the new year.

Wow! Kornage’s post just made me realise it’s been8 weeks! I don’t really count the weeks, I watch the days, so this has kind of snuck up on me… Super-hard day today… cravings were strong. When I left work this afternoon I had a gaping hollow feeling in my chest. I recognised it as my “I need a drink and I need it now” feeling. My plan was to do the grocery shopping on the way home from work, but the supermarket has a bottle store right next door and I didn’t trust myself, so I sat in the car for a while and distracted myself on my iPad until I f [...]

Friday – Day 6. This was the day that I was really freaking out about. This is the night where I would ALWAYS drink, without fail. The toughest part of the day wasn’t the evening though. It was at work…. I work in a marketing position at a winery. It’s a great job, and I love it. However, our workplace (naturally) has a strong drinking culture. Let’s just say it’s the only place I’ve ever worked where it’s acceptable to drink wine with your sandwiches on your lunch break. Drinking during the day is the norm. Don’t get me wrong, it’s n [...]

This is my first Friday night, which for me, was my binge night more than Saturday night – perhaps my ’phrase’ should be ”Hello Saturday Morning”! I would usually easily finish a bottle of wine on my own! Even though I signed up here today, I haven’t had any alcohol since last Friday night – and man does itfeel good! I started my new healthy eating and exercise lifestyle on Monday, andtoday weigh 1.5kg less – already!!! Yay! [...]

“Jacalee” reminded me that you can get sugar cravings when giving up the booze, something I’d heard from a friend who was in AA for 5 years was they recommend trying something sweet when the cravings for alcohol start. So, taking all this advice I went out and bought a block of Rum (I think it’s only rum essance) and Raisin Dark Chocolate to take away with me on the ship…….dark chocolate is full of anti-oxidants don’t ya know! [...]

AndI know this soundsridiculous but I can’t believe it happened. I have been really enjoying notdrinking and I’m only on DAY FOUR !!!My husband andI have a house which is a leaky home. We finally moved out to a new homeabout a month ago. We had brought a claim for the cost ofremediating our old home. The whole thing with the leaky home caused us a lot of heartache & worry over many, many years. Today our claim was finally settled. The case wasgoing to Court on Monday. Now we don’t need to go.We can getour leaky home fixed and sell it.Our best friends came over tonight to see [...]

Well it’s my first Friday evening of my dry month challenge. I like to call the end of the week Champagne Friday, and look forward to it all week. However the past few times I’ve gone out drinking I’ve had far too much and have really regretted it. It is the main reason why I’m doing HSM. My boyfriend and I have been together for over 2 and a half years now. We have lived together since the very first weeks and have enjoyed a very fun, uncomplicated, easy-going relationship. I have always prided myself on how strong we are as a pair. We rarely argue, and if we do, it is [...]

Ironic that drinking expression! I came home from work today because I was already sick when I recieved some bad news. That tipped me over the edge and suddenly I couldn’t face the rest if the day. I felt a little guilty leaving my kids,but I wouldn’t have been able to do my job properly and I hate being tired and cranky around them it’s not fair. Today I thought about my good health and how much I appreciate being well, being fit and exercising and eating healthily. We are so lucky, most of us have privileged lives we only have “first world problems” and yet we f [...]

Here’s how it’s going for me: Weight loss - Another kilo gone. Now weigh 14stone 3 lbs, (90.3 kg). The cheque to the bigots is still there and making me think about what I’m eating. I wonder what I’ll look like by the time the cheque has reached its six month expiry? HSM is solid. And I’ve been thinking about what Catherine said yesterday about how looking towards post-HSM it’s now down to the “one drink” given that hangovers or being in a state of drunkenness itself holds no intrinsic appeal. That makes sense to me too, and like she says, that t [...]

+ It’s not really a competition, but… I have to say, the sign up rate in New Zealand is getting closer to the rate for Australians HSMers… nearly 300 new HSMers in a week !! Seriously, its amazing to see that this program can be just as applicable to other countries as it is to Australia. I guess we all face the same challenges and temptations, no matter where you are from. The succes of our launch over there is most certianly a product of the hard work of Jazz (our Community Manager in New Zealand), our incredible celebrity supporters (Dai, Mikey, Michelle, Daley and Sam) an [...]

So I started off on the no drinking kick after a horrible hangover which coincided with my decision to (again) join a gym. I decided I needed to be dedicated to the gym attending or else it’s a waste of money (and time) so I was going to stop drinking for a month and see how I went. I’m a month in, down 5.5kgs and so far not missing alcohol at all. I’ve been to a 19th, a 21st and had a night out in town which resulted in getting home at 4.30am Sunday morning – that Sunday I didn’t wake til midday however when I did I felt great, I felt alive and like I had been mi [...]