Comments on: Could You Go 30 Days Without Alcohol?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:36:40 +0000

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By: P

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:58:26 +0000

Mike, you’re crazy. Why cut out something so great?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:56:12 +0000

hi Dani,

Great comment, thanks for your story.

I totally know what you mean. Its the absence of the freedom to just have “one or two” drinks during the evening that really gives you a new perspective.

But if I can offer a small piece of advice, you HAVE to go to all of these BBQs, and happy hours, and friendly outings to really understand the challenge and put yourselves to the test, this is where you learn the most. Because it’ll start with people laughing at you, or giving you shit for their own inability to do what you’re doing, but at the end of the night you’ll notice how people’s tunes change. And those that don’t, are usually the borderline alcoholics. haha.

But avoiding your friends and parties is like how the nuns take a vow of abstinence and then live in a church for the rest of their lives, haha, how is that a challenge? lets see those nuns go out partying till 4am in Vegas once a month and keep that vow, now that’s a challenge.

these past two weeks I have been dead sober and have somehow managed to have the greatest time ever out at the bars drinking only seltzer and lime while watching my friends get boozed up and completely unravel in front of me. So go enjoy the summer as you normally would, just without the booze and come back and tell me how it went.

Also, I probably wouldn`t recommend the whole, `no-carbs’ thing, I know I`d be pretty bloody miserable as well. Sounds like you and your boyfriend are pretty serious about cutting down on the calories, I might be able to help. I run another website called The Fat Loss Authority

check it out and let me know if you have any questions or if there`s anything I can do to support you two.

thanks again for sharing.

By: Dani O

Dani O — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:51:56 +0000

This post couldn’t have come at a better time for me. My boyfriend and I are currently on a “diet” (I prefer to just call it “a lifestyle change”) and this includes no alcohol, for all the reasons you stated. We, like you, typically only drink on the weekends except for the occasional glass of wine or two at dinner. However, it is when the weekends roll around that we are really, really struggling. In your reply above you spoke about alcohol being used as a social crutch and I never thought I was one of those people until now. Without drinking at all, we find ourselves not going out with friends at all and also not enjoying some of our normal weekend activities like BBQing and laying by the pool or going to our local Farmer’s Market on Sunday morning where we typically enjoyed live music and a few cold beers. It’s hard to explain, but we never realized how much our social life revolved around having a beer in our hand.

I hate to admit it but over the past two weeks which we’ve successfully eliminated all alcohol (not to mention carbs), we’ve been kind of depressed. That sounds pathetic, but it’s been really hard to have to skip out on fun, social happy hours with our friends or brunch with mimosas. We find it easier to avoid the temptation than suffer through it, which will probably have to change or we’ll never leave our house. But it’s definitely been eye opening to realize how much we depend on alcohol to have “fun”!

Thanks for the post and good luck!