Entering 9th week
25/04/11 • 4 Comments

I recently signed up to a 12 week \”fitness challenge\” at my gym. It included committing to not drinking. I have always been a BIG drinker. 5 to 6 nights a week… at least 2 (or more) glasses, binge drinking whenever the mood took me. None of my friends thought I could do it. I didn\’t know if I could do it… but signed up anyway. I am now entering my ninth alcohol free week, and it\’s been easy. Ridiculously easy. I have gone to parties and dinners and other social situations (been the driver), and easily said no. I am still a bit stunned at the ease at which I have stopped (a small part of me always wondered if I was an alcoholic.) At a recent party I saw some of my usual drinking buddies horrendously drunk and it has really opened my eyes to my past actions [...]

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