NOT EASY: Quitting ALCOHOL: 8 Months SOBER.
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- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2024
- Quitting Alcohol is hard! I struggle just like you. 8 Months Sober, Pros and Cons.
How I quit, Why I quit, and How I can help you Q/A.
Mental toughness (75 hard program) can change your perspective on life and why most people fail in their first year of sobriety.
Let's stay sober together!
/ @megz2.0
Find me here! www.maleanfit.com
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About this video:
My 8-month journey to sobriety and how I can help you stay accountable. Steps to quitting drinking and alcohol. Better life choices.
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There I drank every evening for 20 years then quitted for 13 years and relapsed for a year. Starting right back at the beginning again. We got this.…..🙏💜
13 years!!! Wow! At least you know it’s something you can do! Keep it up 🩷
You quit, not quitted! Sorry, but hey...
Your body benifited from the 13 years clean, so it's not a total loss.
You know that you can do this, just pick a date and do it again...
Alcohol is a funny thing, after you get sober for a while you all of a sudden can't imagine drinking again..1 year clean 😊
💯 for sure 🙌
I'm going on 4 months no alcohol. I was an every day drinker. Feel absolutely awesome..
It’s a great feeling once you let the alcohol go, isn’t it??! 🙌
Day 123 today!! I feel great and have lost weight and doing more than I could have ever done when drinking. Im furthering myself with work. I used to get blackout drunk every weekend and made really bad decisions about sexual partners. Luckily I am healthy and now embarking on sobriety. You are so relatable it’s refreshing. Thank you.
Wow!! So amazing. Yes, very very similar! It’s crazy how awful of decisions we made. It’s sad. Way to go for making a healthier life choice 🤩🥳
Amazing well done !
I quit alcohol just over seven months ago..lost about 50 pounds and feel better 😅. Not going back to drinking 🍺🍻🍷
Losing the weight really helps!!! Never going back
Congrats! Day 156 for me. I was an everyday beer drinker. Life revolved around alcohol.
Went cold turkey after I couldn't recall the previous evening.
I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Feels like sweet relief.
Yes, sick and tired of being sick and tired. If only so many of us could feel the same way and let the bottle go. Way to go for almost approaching six months that’s huge!
No alcohol 2 yr & 1 mo here. Stress-free life. 55 yrs old. Once you decide you're done with alcohol, you can't imagine a life drinking. Love you live!
Aww, thank you so much. I was shaking and terrified 😂. But it was actually fun! I agree, once you’re officially done with booze, you can’t imagine drinking again. Congrats to you! So amazing 🤩
Same! Two years last month at age 53. Just wish I did it sooner. Best decision I’ve ever made. I’ve never been stronger, healthier and more cognitively sharp 🙌
I'm 1 year sober and definitely can't imagine drinking again.
Today I’m 50 days in sober,, you have definitely been part of my sobriety journey!! Thank you!
Absolutey LOVE this so much! Keep up the amazing work ❤️🤩
I quit the day when I realized over the last forty years I had spent enough money on booze to buy a new Ferrari.
Nice to meet you. Invest your money saved and let’s go!
Oh shoot! That’s one way to make you never wanna touch booze again!
You may have drank but you have not failed. Just get back on that horse and ride. Just a bump in the road.
Love this
Your journey has still just started. The first year is tough. Gotta get through all the seasons, birthdays, celebrations, holidays. The second year is better. Keep it up and thanks for the reminder of what we’re not missing out on.
Yes! Thank you! The next couple months are full of birthdays, so I’m excited to get to the one year mark completely without a drop of booze!
Yea you are! I decided to quit 55 days ago and your video was my first ones to watch! You seem so much like me! So I watch you almost daily! Watching old videos. My life is just pouring blessings now!
That is awesome! Thank you for sharing with me, it makes doing what I do, even better ❤️❤️❤️
I’m 76 and finally stopped. 8 months sober
Way to go!
Its been only 12days, I messed up one day, so technically 11 days no alcohol.I feel like shit, always tired, grumpy. 😢 I isolate myself and pushed alot of people away.
Yes, isolating will happen. Which is why is crucial to get outdoors and go hiking or sitting on a river or lake bank. Mountain drives. Reading. Finding a new hobby. You’ve got this 🙌
Yep me too! Went to Lumineers and was a hot mess when I said I would only have one! Horrible. At one time my husband said I will never go again with you. By the grace of God he went with me to AJR and I was sober
My husband said the same thing about concerts 😬. And now we’ve been two since being sober and he actually enjoyed it with me 😂. I get you! Hahaha
I'm with you. I quit 14 days ago and it feels amazing. I got insights (root causes) about why I drank. I'm working on that now. I have absolutely no intention to or crave a drink.
Way to go! It just gets better ❤️
Congrats Meg! Woohoo on 8 months. I’m at 104 days sober
Good job! 😁😁😁
I've been struggling, most I got to was about 30 days or a month twice over the past decade. I did cut out most liquor but still way too much beer. I think it's gonna take a lot of work changing my life situations into something I no longer want to escape from.
It’s hard work, but keeping at it is a must.
Omg Camping the first time sober… I was such a B as well! 2nd time so much better!! I’m glad I’m not the only one❤️
Right?! 😂 I mean I don’t know how else to explain it lol but after that first one, I got better and better! Glad I’m not the only one 😬😉🩷
I don't like to look at drinking dreams as haunting us. I think they are friendly reminders from our subconscious of exactly where we don't want to be. We should be grateful for them because it keeps us sober
Yeah they make me wanna stay even more! Crazy how that’s works 😃
3 months club🎉
Keep up the good work 🤗
❤thank you for being honest. It’s life. Your story is so similar to many of us ❤. Thanks for the inspiration ❤. Thank you for your work and your Husbands Service 🇺🇸
Thank you so much ❤️. I love hearing this and love the appreciation, because I truly appreciate all of you so very much 🥰❤️😊
Eight months as of yesterday! Sometimes it’s not fun, but it’s always worth it. My life is so relaxed now.
I enjoy life so much more without it.
8 month its a moving forward point,FEARLESS walk,to be healthy to help heal❤️👍3 decades isnt that long in reality
Great content as always. Yes dreams are so scary. In mine I was getting pulled over by a cop. When I quit, I had driven hundreds of times drunk. Actually feeling normal, not at all feeling drunk. But I was by then dependent. So I knew I could drive, but I also knew I had alcohol in my system. So driving was always a wee bit stressful. Always looking in the rear view mirror. One of my favorite things, even today is never worrying about drunk driving. Always be thankful for even the small changes :)) Sounds silly, but oooh so real. Keep up your great work!! Change a generation. Just fyi, talk about hypocrites lol. After becoming sober for 5 years I worked for 15 years as a advertising/ marketing employee for a Budweiser distributer. Even won some national awards from Anheuser- Busch. I think I was the only non-drinking marketing director in the system....lol. Not really, but close. My favorite campaigns were our "Know when to say When" campaign's. And of course our famous Bud Girl appearances. Which by the way, I never allowed the girls to drink why working. In fact very few even drank. That's part of why they stayed so beautiful. So yes if you don't want to drink, you just don't. I got offered drinks all the time why working at special events we sponsored. My pat answer" I'm not allowed to drink why working. But I will take a diet coke since your offering..:))) I know aspartame. Hey never said I was perfect....lololol.
Wow, this is freaking great! We can say no, even in positions like this, it’s just the power we hold within. Way to go, sounds like a fun position and you held it together which is even more fun
Congratulations on your 8 months! Proud of you Meghan bet you feel great now! 🎉
Been over 5 months for me, 6 on the 24th of this month. Feeling a lot better in comparison just need to keep it going, 💪🎉
I knew you would start feeling so much better and I’m so proud that you have stuck through it way to go 🙌🤩
@@Megz2.0
Thank you 😊. Still not out of the woods but definitely doing much better. I'm at that same stage as you where I just don't need alcohol. Just has no appeal to me anymore. But I had a dream funny enough that I relapsed and just remember how bad I felt and disappointed in myself that I took myself back to square 1 again after all of these months. Have you had those dreams too?
@@JamesP44 oh, boy have I had these dreams lol I hate to admit it but they have been more often than not and I feel like complete shit after those dreams because I feel like I let myself down my family down and everybody else that has been looking up to me down, which then makes me definitely not want to ever drink.
@@Megz2.0
Aww poor thing hope these dreams get less for you. I've only had 1 so far hope not to get anymore. Not nice but in a way do you also feel relieved that they were just dreams and you think thank God lol. Like with some nightmares you feel that relief after.
Thats something to be proud of! I want to get there too.
You will get there!! Time and effort and patience
I think it's around 98% of abuse/addictions are related to childhood trauma situations. That subject is worth exploring , can surprisingly fill in some blanks
This is definitely really heavy stuff right here that I would love to the research, more on. There is so much truth behind that. It’s just like there was these two boys. Their dad was an alcoholic one chose never to drink one chose to drink and then when asked why the one that didn’t drink said because I watched my father and the other one said why he drinks is because he watched his father. It’s amazing how our minds can be damaged from our childhood in so many ways. Thank you for this it’s a great topic to explore.
Tim Fletcher on you tube is one of the the best educators on this subject. He also has a website and courses. Check it out , let me know what you think.
Spot on ..Or neurological disorders like undignosed ADHD , or Autusm etc ...Or yeah PTSD etc brought on by trauma....
C- PTSD is the culprit , this is often the root of so many diagnoses.
@@sethmonroe I got undiagnosed adult ADHD at 52 , I'm still waiting to get diagnosed, the National Health Service in the UK have an 18 months to 2 year waiting list...My binge drinking is terrible with ADHD , my life us unmanageable anyway at times , and when I binge drink its a 1000 times worse.
Great sobriety advice ❤️
Thank you
Hey Meghan! So happy I found your channel! Listening to you has help me very much!!!
Much Love and Respect 🙏🏻
You're so welcome! I’m so happy I can help 🩷
Loved the stream! Seems real and authentic. Who is on your left haha you keep looking that way... just giving you a hard time. Thanks for the update. God speed!
Someone doing sign language 😂!!! Glad you enjoyed it
8 months club 🙏🏻
Go us 🤩
Glad to find your post. Congratulations to all on the journey of sobriety. Day 293 today. Best thing I've ever done. A true blessing.
Welcome aboard! Great job 👏 to you 🙌🙌🙌🙌! That’s amazing 🤩
83 days for me! Relationships do change. Not exactly in an end but in a change in view/Outlook. When you're sober and clear headed YOU see pretty much everything in a different way. It's amazing for me. I don't judge. If others want to drink- go for it. I have felt that alcohol just doesn't benefit me, my mind, or my body. The hangover and next morning feelings are definitely not worth it. I jumped into a 5 day nashville trip with my wife and a group of friends and family and pulled it off. It was definitely a change and it felt awseome! You mentioned temptations and those will always be there, always. We're in this journey for ourselves, selfish? Nope not at all. When one decides to quit IT IS a single journey. You put your boots on throw the backpack on and head out. If others walk with you and join you for support -all the better! Have a powerful day!🫵💪👍😊
Wow this is so true and so good! Very true that some may not end, but yeah, it does change things, and this is a single journey for sure. Put those boots on and get to work in 💪! I love how you conquered Nashville sober. That is absolutely amazing.
Great job! Keep it up! Thanks for sharing your experience. Helpful to hear how you've navigated your path
Thanks for watching! 😊
Hey I'm sorry. I made a smartass dumb comment on ur post yesterday. Bc I had bn drinking! I'm not funny. Tbh I've all but stopped alcohol. I hate it. And I'm an idiot every time I drink! So anyway great for u and keep up ur good work
I was an idiot every time I drank also, so no hard feelings! Hopefully you’ll be able to shove the booze aside, it’s a much better life without it
You are a star
🤩🤩🤩
December 10, 2024, will be 30 years. I don't miss drinking one bit. Stay away with folks who drink for at least a year or two. And you will be fine after that. Now, I can karaoke in a bar all night and not drink a drop. I am crazy enough sober. I don't need alcohol to have fun.
I love this!!!
@@Megz2.0 Very proud of you!
Megan,you're the greatest and thank you for the advise and sober living,im fine,in my place now and livin the peaceful life,say hi to your husband too!!!👍📵💖
Wow, thank you! 😊
@@Megz2.0 HI, yah its a journey that can get long if losing sight of the 1 year mark,its fun to give a hand along the way to one year,its great progress i think,you arent allowing it in side your place,that is one of the anchors ,for 2nd year prohibit,its a positive outlook,for all,i know its right now and congratulations keep with it!!!too,and your husband also Hi have a great day📵😃☮️
Thanks for the hug,i remember what a mild siezure feels like and the blank,too,im fine but fuzzed,yes im in my ia house,its comfy all the quiet i need😊,9 its the what is taking so long jeezz,everyday was a celebration when i made 5yrs,something that i could never make it to mentally or physly.im thinkn about trying out face book,i never have,soooo i hope im not busted 🫣
I am back to my self,my sis's house can be fun while being extremely stressful,if you wanna see that part of country fall time til march,its hot after that,one day we well meet im sure,i hope its at ypur 1 yr,really truth meghan,it will hap whete is it at and ill plan a trip👍📵👍ok,ive seen pretty much all the usa,i wont get lost,i think it well be just fine
BEING PROUD OF PROGRESS 9MOS.is a step up and in,congratulations,im glad to be an aquaintence of yours really,nice people not saying mean stuff,its a great feeling,9 mo.i never thought id make it a year really,let alone 3 freskn decades,but im out of the grasp,if suffering from the grasp find other things to do ride the bikes motorcycle bycycle you know,to not think of the alcohol addiction is whats it about,or divert thoughts like travelling to coloradoe isnt it,3 mons til 12,and im not missing it ok
Just go 90 days no alcohol and see how amazing you’ll feel - you’ll never wanna poison yourself again.
Yeah you’re right I went for a goal of 75 days and here I am eight months later! It’s a great feeling
I did 4 months felt fucking great fucked up back at a month sloshing it down.
@@Megz2.0 Thanks for the video. I love hearing other peoples stories on getting sober. Congrats on your 8 months and keep it going!
@@TerryWade-xe8os Been there myself! I had 99 problems and alcohol was 98 of them. Now i’m sober and whatever life throws at me is small problems, not large problems! Keep fighting the good fight
@@TerryWade-xe8os just get back up and remember how good it felt not drinking
45 days now an the thought of drinking a beer after work is creeping in. how do I get past this without aa meetings? I pray alot an say the rosesry at least once a day
Get busy, and find a non alcoholic drink to sip during those cravings
so what i do is some new hobbies i guess, as finances allow
Hiking, walking, gardening, baking, reading, anything to keep your hands and mind busy.
I’m a daily drinker aka functional alcoholic as it doesn’t impact my job except from being super tired. I scheduled the next week off work to start my sobriety. Any suggestions of how I can deal without alcohol. I also was diagnosed with adhd and bipolar where I have manic episodes and depressive episodes mostly when I drink too much. I’m worried about how to occupy my time for 9 days with no alcohol. I don’t have friends to hang out with and mostly stay home if I’m not working so it’s just me all day everyday these next 9 days with no work.
From my personal experience occupying my time was reading, working out twice a day making sure I got outside to go for a walks and engaging with like-minded people so this community really helped push me through. Finding a new hobby, a new passion. Listening to inspirational podcasts. Finding a seltzer that you can pour into a glass and enjoy making a Mocktail of any sort. Finding supplements, like health and magnesium really help. Just staying busy overall and coffee helped me a lot not gonna lie. You got this you just have to set your mind to it and you have to want it bad enough. 🙌🤩🩷
I failed made it 60 days. Now I don’t know what to do ….
Don’t give up!!
Dont drink,and dont give up hope,
”Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up” (quote from Batman Begins) So don’t give up!
Reset. You did it before by stopping for 60 days. Do it again. Your stronger than the drink! Have a powerful day 💪😊👍
Hi my name is steve,so a fail its a normal reaction,fig.out what made the drink happen,stress,job action,urgent use,avoid alcohol like poison,and find a good a.a.meeting,its a normal thing,so start again,it took me yrs to break the habit,of going into bars,i did for the live music,have a great day📵🧡😎👍☮️
When do the sugar cravings go away?
I am not sure because I started my journey doing 75 hard and I couldn’t have crap Ton of sugar, so I just made healthy protein treats like rolled up protein balls with chocolate protein powder, I also made healthy peanut butter cups with chocolate protein powder. And found no sugar added dark chocolate. But of course being a female I’m gonna crave sugar or junk every so often lol but I just try to find healthy alternatives to those sugar cravings. Google becomes your best friend for new recipes.
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Yes!!!! 🙌❤️🥰
Two months in
Kroger seltzer water now
Awesome! Seltzer water is life after alcohol for sure 🙌❤️
@@Megz2.0 it must be the Kroger brand for me. All other brands just don’t make the cut in my opinion! I enjoy all flavors! I don’t drink soda either so it’s even better!
i feel bored stiff: another relaps...i guess this life is so boring
I think it’s just figuring out a way to switch your mindset that you don’t want to drink because it’s actually less boring once you get used to not drinking. Now when I look back at it, my life was boring when I was drinking.
even more boring days ahed; oh well at least without alcohol
"boring" until you realize drinking was actually boring ;-)
Hello Meghan Its very telling how at the beginning you are describing the shallow irrational rationalizations as to why you (and we all) drank alcohol. "Because its what you do" but wow I visit small towns all the time and the nature, trails, restaurants, museums, rivers, scenery and outdoors is so amazing that I couldn't possibly find a moment I would want to ruin with alcohol.
When I drank I thought I had ADHD and always felt like I couldn't focus. That mostly went away when I quit alcohol the mental clarity from sobriety is incredible.
8 months sober is when things get better and better. You already noticed a change for the better in all your relationships and will soon start noticing an exponential growth in terms of your maturity and emotionality. I noticed my overall mental mindset took a moonshot the years following quitting. Any year after I quit I grew more than say any five years when I partook in alcohol. But the best part is the more you grow, the more intelligent you become and so the doors you can now open to even more future growth also increase exponentially. So the more you grow, the more you can grow.
I had a small collection of booze left over when I quit and for a while I would just give it as gifts but soon knowing it was a poison it became repulsive to want to give it to people I cared about. Why would I gift anyone something so awful? So I just put it all in a couple big boxes and threw it into the dumpster at work.
I am very grateful I was able to quit alcohol so easily as flipping a switch. The only emotionality I still feel about alcohol is a sense of disgust, at the flavor, the smell, the thought of reeking like it after imbibing.
Our drinking friends all quit as they are all intelligent and educated. They could see the evidence of no safe dose like we did, but what made up their minds was all the awesome things I started to be able to do with the newfound energy in my life from not consuming alcohol. HOW DO YOU DO XYZ/WHERE DO YOU GET THE TIME AND RESOURCES FOR ALL THAT? The answer was easy and highly persuasive: no alcohol!
75 hard seems interesting but no sugar and exercising every day with 2 workouts minimum 45 minutes sounds like a recipe for overtraining and disaster. You need a rest day every week sometimes two or more and fueling your workouts is critical especially if you're moving that much. At the very least if your heart rate stays high for an hour or two you need some fruit and similar. Agree walking is better most workouts should be easy zone 2 is where its at. It depends if you hardly train then yes you need to train hard but if exercising most days then if you do HIT or high heart rate past zone 2 more than 1-2x a week your nervous system will tire out and eventually you will overtrain. Had no idea that your brain is the weakest link, far more fragile than any muscle or tendon or joint. That will get injured first; I did and then taking time off sucks. Now I work out most days and sometimes for hours but monitor heart rates (and power on the bike) and keep it zone 2 except 1-2x a week. Results are much better and I feel far better, more energy. Let your easy workouts all be very easy and almost all of them should be, so you can show up to your (rare) difficult ones being murderous and be able to knock it out of the park. Bimodal training: let the easy workouts be easy and most of them should be so the hard ones can be really HARD.
Thank you so much for your encouraging words and for sharing your journey. It’s incredible to hear how much growth you’ve experienced since becoming sober. I appreciate your insights, especially about the mental clarity that comes with it. Regarding the 75 hard challenge, you’re right-I did cut out added sugars but continued to eat fruits and other foods with natural sugars. It was about finding balance and making healthier choices. And absolutely, I didn’t overexert myself with two-a-day workouts; I found a love for walking and tweaked my strength training to be sustainable. It’s all about a healthier lifestyle, not just a temporary challenge. Thanks again for your support! 💪🩷🙌