6 Life-changing Benefits of Quitting Alcohol
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I’m 28 days FREEEEEE from alcohol!!🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🤸🏽♀️🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
congratulations. god speed.
I will be 65 come this December. I've been drinking alcohol since I was 15, daily. I'm nine days free from alcohol, and I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Well done to you...
keep it up, it will be hard but its worth it and age doesnt matter
Us older folks still using are just buying precious time. The house of cards will fall, just a matter of when. Good on ya mate!
I am finally on a conscious path. I am 68, drinking religiously since 18. Only one sober stint of 60 days in all that time. June - so far so good. Congrats to all on this path. A lapse is not failure. Get up, brush off and return to the trail.
Thank you, Kevin. 57 days today. Every day is a battle. Went to an event last night. Nice to drive home with no worries about how much I had to drink. Thank you again for all you do.
Great job!
Way to go. It's so freeing when you don't have to worry about drinking and driving!😊😊
Every day is definitely a battle. Keep fighting!
so used to drinking beforehand, that not worrying about driving makes me giggle now . peace.
Man I do not miss that. Had several close calls getting pulled over! Usually they'd never even ask had I been drinking. But one cop asked me to blow my breath in his face. Thankfully it had been maybe an hour since I had drank and I had a strong flavored vape on hand. That stop was part of what made me start cutting back and eventually quitting..I can't afford a dui and I sure don't want to die of liver and organ failure.
Kevin, you've motivated me to stop drinking numerous times, but my idiot brain always returns to the poison. I'm currently 68 days alcohol free. Maybe this is the last time? Miracles happen.
It's not a miracle. Just determination and perseverance, my friend.
I’m in the same boat, I’ve quit a ton of times , I listen to these videos try and motivate myself, the pain goes away and I tell myself o can drink . It’s crazy. You go for a quitters mindset to a drinkers like a flip of a switch
Yea I finally stopped yesterday morning, I quit many times , it breaks me I two, so I’m gonna stop again, I can’t wait to start exercising. Soo glad I stopped
@@silvermonster2598 I am at eight months now. Far from the first time. It’s nothing new, but I think we all just get kind of bored when we realize life is not a series of dopamine hits. We’re never going to feel the same way we did drunk we have to deal with that.
@@happydog6537 I don't feel much when I'm drunk but I get your point. Eight months is brilliant.
Thanks for getting me through the first 4 days. They were really tough! I'm a week in now (7 days) You're awesome!
Stay with it...the first week is the hardest week all
Well done, Lucy :)
3 day
@@HabitsV2 Thanks. You have no idea how much you helped me. Having you on my ears while doing my walks. 17 days now.
@@Larsholden702congratulations I’m three weeks sober myself it gets easier and easier as the days go by my alcohol is walking 30 mins everyday at the park sometimes at night it’s so freeing ❤
I found I was drinking as I was lonely. I would go and sit in a bar until 5am, by myself, alone. I was percieved by people who knew me as successful in terms of money, education, etc. What they did not know is that I was lonely. I am 18 days off alcohol and I like the new me.
Great to hear :)
Hi Dave, I live in Alaska, alone.. work from home and rarely even see another human.. think of me next time you get lonely as ill be thinking of you.. we both need to rediscover that passion.. cheers
Keep it going! 5 months so far myself!
@@ruthrose1000I'm thinking of you too ❤
So happy for you.., Don’t give up.
I must add that the 2 things I've noticed since stopping the swill , just 3 weeks or so in, is my eyesight has improved dramatically!! Things are crisp and clear and my ability to shift from dark to light is not a problem. I attribute the change to being rehydrated . I'm drinking tons of fluids now. I'm sure theres alot of reasons but it's incredible. The other thing is this physical calmness in my body. I was having tension across my shoulders and pain in my joints . It's all gone. The only way to describe it is ...smooth and floaty in my overall entire body. I think my nervous system is cooled off and relaxed. It's very comfortable and unexpected!
You escaped from the Prison m8
Well done, Jenny. The long term results are stupendous!
Well done! The eyesight improvement is probably from the decrease in sugar intake! I noticed that when I gave up sugar, it was drastic.
I will be a year sober in October
Me too.
I haven't drank anything in 15 months I've lost 54 lbs
I quit for a month about 6 months ago but I wanna stop for good now after drinking 7-12 fireball shots a day for a few years.
On Sundays I’d drink 3-4 of those Clubtails since the liquor store was closed.
Anyway I’m on day 10.
My last drink was the last day of September.
I really need to make this stick.
My grandkids count on me.
Have a great day!
41 days. Longest streak since I took a year off in 2010.
I worked in the entertainment industry for a decade. Bar scene every single night. Alcohol went from a party drug to a sit-at-home-alone drug towards the end.
I went on a camping and hiking trip back in May. I asked God to help deliver me from booze while climbing Mt Marcy in New York State.
Since then, every time I tried to drink, the beer tasted like absolute shite. So I just stopped. I thank God for giving me that.
Bit of advice tho: Don’t worry about over eating on cookies and sugary drinks in early sobriety. You WILL have intense sugar cravings. But a sleeve of cookies is much better for you than a six-pack of Sam Adams.
Give yourself some forgiveness along the way too. Its a disease.
I forgave everything years ago. Don't think about it as a disease, only a choice. That's my personal take :)
@@HabitsV2 Oh i know. I just mean people who are new to this. Especially in those first few days when you start getting a tad more clarity and memories of bad behavior coming back
Of course. No point in regret. The past is the past. You can only change what you do right now 😀
I've often actually thought the "disease" concept was put forth mostly for social and economic reasons. There's a lot of money in the rehab business! Best to you and Cheers on that chocolate chip cookie 😅😅!
@@jujumulligan43 Good point. Ive never really thought of it like that. Create the “problem” and sell the answer.
Been looking for channels for advice. Personal stories and strength. Came across this channel a few minutes ago. Im 4 full days sober.
Great thoughts kevin . I find myself wandering around the ranch here, seeing all the things that need to be done and that I've wanted to do but supposidly didnt have the time. Now all of a sudden there seems to be nothing but time! Hmmmm howd that happen I wonder!🤣 (not wasting the daylight sitting with a beer in my hand or walking back to the cooler to grab another) 👉 onwards....☝️and upwards!
Well done Jenny
Spot on!! At 37 days now, and I've no intentions to go back. Life is too good this way! Thanks for the video.
Im an alcoholic and really struggling. I went to a meeting the other day. I will get there. Thank you for the video.. Stay strong and healthy mate.
Stay strong dude
You got this. Remember when you see others drinking that you're not missing out on anything. You've already been there, you know that false high and the misery of the hangover, you're not missing out.
@@redfourenot to mention the feeling of always being tired and depressed.
I'm 74 years old and stopped drinking eight years ago. This was after drinking for fifty years and with the last thirty-five years drinking excessively every day. With expectations that certain benefits would quickly take place. One of these were I would immediately lose weight, but the opposite occurred. I literally gained around thirty pounds because of the sugar craving that started when I initially stopped drinking. Once these cravings stopped I not only lost the thirty pounds but around another twenty pounds as well. Five years into sobriety and with more time on my hands, I decided one day to calculate how much I spent drinking yearly. Which was concvertibly just over 15K. With that in mind I realized that 60K magically disappeared over that span. It apparently was swallowed up by everyday expenses or my wife has a secret off shore account in the Cayman Islands
145 days, thanks Kevin.
Good words, spoken in the right form. I haven't been drinking for 14 months. The main benefit in my experience is clarity. Better conversations, clearer thoughts, better decisions, more conscious experiences. It is worth it!
I'm at the dangerous phase now. 50- 60 days. I feel great, so great in fact that I'm struggling to remember the feeling the lead me to stop drinking alcohol. Fortunately I've been here before and I know that if I start again, I'll just end up right back where I started..... needing to stop all over again.
Not this time.
Had a sober weekend today, feels good didn’t have a hangover this week. Will keep on going sober.
Great video Kevin. I listen daily. Kevin you were my foundation for my recovery journey. Now I listen to you daily then go to AA right after. I highly recommend Kevin's program.
16 days. A long hard road to get here
Keep going man! 34 days in after 17 years. Can't stress this enough but eat healthy stuff!!! Drink carrot juice, yes it's nasty but it's good for your liver, eat fish, fruits, white meats, take B vitamins and most importantly vitamin D, eat bananas too. All that stuff will make you feel better on the inside and out brother. Also add a tablespoon of raw honey a day to the regimen to heal your gut.
Instead of looking forward to a drink now I look forward to my morning yogurt, my supplements, my cup of blueberries, my glass of pear juice and at night I look forward to eating a juicy apple and drinking some chamomile and lavender tea which provides some epic relaxation 😉.
If you start getting cravings keep some L-Glutamine handy and try it out for a few days. I swear it helped me around week 3 when I was feeling a bit down and thought about a drink.
We spent a lot of time putting nature's poison in our body. Now it's time to start putting nature's gifts into our body.
And I know groceries are getting expensive and health foods have always been expensive. The most expensive thing on the foods listed above is the corrot juice but a gallon of that stuff last like 2 weeks. Pear juice is next, also expensive but great for any gut issues and acid reflux especially.
Stopped the booze but now too much sugar consumption (i.e chocolate) and junk food in general is an issue
Your aware of it though. Doing the same myself. Years of alcohol feeding high sugar into our bodies. I'm not going to give myself a hard time though. Chocolate better than ethanol. 👍
220 days and i never plan on going back, i dont do casual drinking. Everything you say is correct, life has thrown me a few curve balls since but i never saw alcohol as a way to fix anything because it doesn't ❤❤
This is the best information I've listened to for quite some time, the most important thing is that I listened very carefully and I have taken it in properly. Articulate and very considered valuable information and I would like to say. Thank You .
Glad it was helpful!
Kev is top banana
Soberiety is addictive.
I agree. I joke all the time about my "Nightmarish addition to life" lol.
Im 27 and have been a heavy binge drinker for the last 8 years. Currently in the process of shifting to a sober life, so dealing with nboredom is the hardest part 😆. I've been sober for a month now. My goal is to get past Christmas with zero alcohol.
I deal with boredom by staying on top of eating health foods, taking vitamins and researching healthy stuff. We spent a lot of years putting poison in our body so it's time to start dumping good stuff in bro. I'm at 1 month sober also after 17 years.
Another thing since I use to drink at night before bed is I realized I needed something to look forward to. So now I take this chamomile and lavender tea combo at night that's one hell of a relaxing ride.
Just eat healthy bro....some drinkers have died a few years later only to find out it was because all the years of drinking. Alcohol deaths aren't always "get sick, go to hospital and die 3 to 6 weeks later".
There's a story about another guy that decided to quit drinking until he was retired. He retired, started drinking and boom 2 years later, liver failure, dead at 53. Almost the same thing happened to my friends dad, only difference is he was 68 when he retired, started drinking again, dead at 70.
This is probably due to the liver not fully recovering from years of drinking then adapting to operate at a low functioning level then it gets alcohol again after years of running at 40% and gives out.
@Unmaleable Yeah, no doubt. I've been off work for 4 months bc of an injury, so I was drinking a lot and packed on some belly fat. I am currently trying to lose some of that. On top of that, I've been working on hygiene and even skin care. I want to get back to the gym, but I have to wait for the green light from my physiotherapist. I've also been using the time to sort out some things I've been neglecting for years. I will admit, though, I have been craving more sugar and carbs, so I eat a bit more junk food 😆.
@@Unmaleable Yep, I felt better from not drinking so I decided to learn how to cook well too. That removed some boredom (by being in the kitchen at night) and I felt even better for eating quality food. Replacing those bad habits with good ones is key though - Boredom isn't ideal for me either.
Right on. The drinking buddies absolutely need to go. One of them died recently and I quit right away. I found out that I was drinking I wanted approval of my deceased dad (did shadow work) and I chose drinking buddies over friends. Once I did introspection, I was able to flip the switch. Didn't touch alcohol ever since.
Not sure if I'm happy or sad that you are almost to 60k subscribers. It's too bad that so many people are suffering, but at least they are trying to get educated and recover...
Great video, Kevin. I hope your videos are monitized and you get big fat checks from youtube. You deserve every penny! Thanks for everything. 👍❤️
It is what it is. I don't take much notice of the subscribers to be honest. The most value for me is in the comments, always has been, even when I was just starting out. Subscriber count is just a number. They call it vanity data. The comments are real people expressing themselves in the moment. Much, much, much more important. I appreciate every comment I get, even though I can't answer them all 🙏
8 months sober here
I've been watching these videos off and on for a couple years now. I keep bouncing between drinking and not, but I always find myself coming back to these. Maybe one day I can stop for good.
Keep fighting for your own good, never give up, one day you come strong enough to quit it completely.. I failed more than 100 times but every time I would drink I would take the oath to not drink again, and after fighting 4 years I am 3 months sober..
We should be like Dogs .they just live in the moment
Haha... We can get to that state as well. The difference is, for us it's a choice, for dogs that's just a natural state.
Looking out the car window and loving it 😀
Another benefit Sobriety gives you is a baseline for who you really are so you can finally start working on yourself. for example in my first year of sobriety I learned how severe my anxiety is, it wasn't all the alcohol doing it. I used to miss days of work and thought it was all the drinking doing it, now I realize it's the anxiety during the workday that makes me not wanna come back, not the alcohol making not wanna go to work.
It's all a viscious cycle. Choices and tradeoffs. That's much much deeper than people realize.
It happen to me at my intenship ....i miss a lot of jobs because of hangover
I drank because I was anxious too, not the other way around. I’m forcing myself to cope and self soothe… it’s uncomfortable, but I’m finding different ways to calm myself- sober.
Alcohol massively reduces increases your baseline sober anxiety levels. It might be true you were anxious and that was the reason you started drinking BUT it additionally increased it through the years. It’s literary like a deal with the devil
Can completely relate to this, I've been sober for 8 weeks and the other day i saw a couple and a man arguing drunk. I felt so much anxiety seeing it unfold and with my sober mind I was able to conclude that the anxiety comes from childhood trauma of my parents fighting every day as a kid. That's why I hate confrontation. I can now begin to possibly heal those neural pathways!
I'm 13 months clean and sober today and I don't have any cravings whatsoever thank goodness. I don't miss anything about it and I don't ever want to go back to drinking alcohol again. Once I started to treat alcohol like the poison that it really is it becomes so much easier to leave alcohol behind. I've left that chapter of my life behind and am trying to live a better life without self inflicted negatives...
If I quit alcohol I feel like I would lose all my friends and social life that's the sad thing for me but deep down i know its right...
I've not a had alcohol in a month. I am going to be in control instead of alcohol controlling me .
Thanks buddy! watching you always feels like someone is by my side, talking, like a close friend.
Glad to hear it
Lovely video Kevin. So happy of joining your program and asking for help as well as working towards a better version of myself. If anybody watching this video is struggling with alcohol, please, ask for help, join the community, get out of your bubble and trust, you can do it.
There's much more coming in the community over the next few weeks :)
Great information as always Kevin, with the help and advice on your videos alone I now have 20 months sober👌oh and where abouts do you post your videos from looks great
Spain/Andorra
I find it impossible to quit for long. It's not the cravings or withdraw, its the boredom. Without boize everythingnis just so boring. I hate it.
375 days
Very nice kevin.
Thank you..💜🇨🇦🙏
I have just found your videos. Where do you film these looks so beautiful. Amazing words.
Another great vid brother. Appreciate all the effort you give to our community 👍
Thanks brother. Need more people like you on Earth and the human race 🙏🙏☯️🌎
One thing that made drinking so dangers for me is after a while I never got hangovers. I started drinking around 11 or 12...it's cool having a rich best friend but not when the money comes for his parents owning several bars. The garage basement and fridge were always full of liquor. Boxes and boxes to try. Some had been sitting years so parents never checked. On our 13th birthday we drank 13 shots and got alcohol poison. I was so sick the next morning I walked 5 miles home just to go back to bed. And ways that evolved into skipping class in highschool just to hit up the liquor store for a half pint. I didn't quit until I joined the military. Flipped a vehicle hammered drunk before going to basic. Escaped a dui. Man of course after basic...started drinking again and over the course of the next 10 years from 23 I was on and off drinking having maybe 1 to two year breaks...then when on a 3 year daily binge after covid happened. 3 weeks sober today. My mind is so much more clear. Alcohol is poison man. It's nasty stuff. If you haven't quit yet if I can do it you can too! I'm not going back this time. You need these videos...watch one maybe 3 times a week constantly remind yourself about the damage this alcohol poison does to your internal organs...don't go back!!
IWNDWYT
I loved this dialog. How old are you now, and how old when you stopped drinking?
I do not have an issue . I would be too terrified of the consequences of drinking ie liver disease and horiffic tests and treatments
Seven years ago, I quit drinking after many years. This had a tremendously positive effect after a year. I lost weight, looked better, became fitter, had more energy and felt I could do a lot more and I did. However, to date, my relationships were demolished to the extent I have not one friend left now, I became very unhappy and severely depressed, extremely anxious and paranoid. Both my businesses were completely destroyed. I have lost my money, lost my residences, lost my businesses, my vehicles, my wife. Basically, everything in my life went to hell. Whist not perfect whilst I was drinking for over 40 years, this is so, so, so much worse.
Love this. You have such a soothing voice. Thank you for the inspiration and motivation.😊
Awesome video thank you! I’m 25 days alcohol free & counting. 😊💪🏽
Thankyou kevin obviously ive just joined this ive been watching you videos on and off for a while and ive always thought youve spoke a lot of sense compared to other things ive been involved with to beat the booze i also thought it was a really nice touch with the msg you sent me 😊
You're welcome... 😀
4 years today I stopped drinking,feeling great I didn’t drink a lot or often but every now and then use to make me sleep so bad .
Thank you for your videos. they really help reinforce why I'm doing this now 6 months sober. I love me again.
Keep it up
Thank you, very helpful. 3 weeks.
A life beyond your wildest dreams without alcohol
Excellent video
Thanks.
Apparently and evidently, I get seizures after I stop moderately drinking. I had a seizure in front of my daughter and father! My anxiety goes through the roof, to begin with! But, I’m trying ❤️🔥
Go see doctor, be honest with him.. there’s help if u go find it..
Thank you for this video
Thank you! 💪🏻
i just relapsed. shit sucks
Thank you for this 😊
Only being 21 years old, I’m embarrassed by the fact that I have years of alcohol abuse behind me. Really hoping last night was the last night I spend in a drunken stupor. Feels like shooting in the dark with it, but all the liquor and beer are in the dumpster now and hopefully it stays that way.
Great advice as usual Kev 👍
Thought i would drop a 2nd post on this video from a month ago. Its been 7 weeks since yesterday and im not out of the woods yet but doing better now than i was. That stuff alcohol is deadly, no good and i had no idea how bad it really was.
I just kept it social at the weekends so theres me thinking I would be ok because it was just at weekends but how wrong was I!
Anyone struggling during the early stages of giving up this stuff, heres some tips thats helped me. Eat healthy, so in the morning have an apple, orange, blue berries and a banana. Boring i know but mood boosting is whats needed trust me. Exercise, go for long walks even if you dont feel like it and you're too anxious make yourself do it anyway. If you cant go out then just do a load of squats indoors just any form of exercise to tire yourself out. Watch a load of breathing exercises on youtube, do a load of breathing exercises and hypnosis sessions for anxiety/depression etc.
It takes multiple ways to battle this but try and make yourself do these things consistently everyday until you start to feel more at ease. There wont be instant results but results there will be at 1 time or another nonetheless.
True talk, facts.
:)
3 weeks for me
Drink ruined my young days, all I was , was a nuisance, and missed out on great opportunities, I married an alcohol to fix him, ah ha and I not fixed myself. Love the sober life, no hang overs. Keep up the good work Thank you
Thank you brotha, I just started placing myself o. The right path to stop hindering myself by my consumption and abuse of alcohol. It's Def a challenge but I know my life is more precious then a bottle.
LOVE not drinking. Proved myself enough already right? Relapse is good for you for perspective but drinking can definitely let that slide. Sitting without it is nice!
70 years old and I have at least 4 drinks early evening daily. I tell myself to stop it everyday cause effects my body for the worse and not to mention my budget. Still talking to myself but no reaction yet.
I envy your ability to be in the mountains and see all that amazing beauty..I live in Florida and there is nothing like that here..and what's left of my local woodlands is being destroyed to make way for more and more humans..depressing to even think about it..makes it even easier to get sedated and that's what I've done every night for 10 days while on vacation from work...got to go back to work tomorrow morning ..not drinking tonight or thru the week but damn it there is another weekend coming up..feeling sick and not feeling smart is not a good way to go through life
29 days sober!
I think it really takes someone who feels at the end of his ropes to be able to appreciate sound advice.
It doesn't end there, though. You still have to go through the process of detoxification. Mood swings and doubt are a foot. You should never rely solely on one individual for encouragement. We humans and attitudes change one minute to the other. Maintaining relationships is a two-way street. This man expects results from its listeners.
Let's keep up so that we can give him a good report at the end of the day and show him that his efforts are not in vain
You look amazing, cant imagine if you hadnt taken that fork in the road many years back. Thankyou for all your help and insights
This is beautiful. I've been trying for the last year and half to quit. Thank you
Love the way you made this video. The music, spectacular views and knowledge. You was here and helped when I quit over 5 years ago. Thanks dude.
One month off the alcohol. I would binge drink. Over a month ago i woke up feeling absolutely awful. Im done.
This is the best motivation video for quitting alcohol with the music and the scenery, and just the wisdom. Made me feel at peace
I’m on day 10. I knew I had a problem when I would wake up early pour a drink before I even ate breakfast
Thank you I love your videos
I'm so glad!
Didn't recognize your face but as soon as you began to speak...
❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤍
Thank you. Thank you. Your message is so beautiful.
🎉❤
AA programme of 12 steps off recovery sobriety rocks
This is a beautiful genuine video well done!
You are a gifted guide. Calm voice. No pressure. Just the conviction of experience and maybe suffering. I stopped immediately 9 months ago (2 drinks a day) after watching a RUclips scientific video but I understand it can be harder for many...
Thank you and well done to you.
been off booze a month...l miss the buzz and listening to music but l do not miss waking up feeling like shit the next day. also l have more money...l was blowing about 40 bucks a week on gin. that adds up eventually. lm not saying l will never drink again but giving the body a break from booze is a good feeling.
40 a week? That’s 3 hours for me.
This is pure gold, Kevin - pure gold.
This is amazing. And so well done.
I would really like to know what your views are on NA beer?
I've made quite a few videos on the channel. Do a search and you'll find them mate... :)
It's the same as mental masterbation
Inspiring, thank you.
one day at a time.
Too right!
Thanks for your valuable content Kevin. The poison is now out of my life and I find major value from your videos which we can apply to other issues (mindset/attitude) in our lives too.
Glad to help
thanks
No problem
Day 22! Feeling great.
You have helped me loads ❤
I drank excessively 2 weeks ago from today and the anxiety has been too much. Ive been drinking since 17 and approaching 41 now. But im still not fully recovered from it.
Can anyone tell me if it takes longer than 2 weeks to recover from the damage done to the brain and nerves?
2 years not 2 weeks keep going
@@funwithfergie
Takes 2 years to recover??
Thanks Kevin! I appreciate your good work.
My pleasure!