How I did it: I've been consciously struggling to improve my health for about 5 years.  I kept trying, and I kept failing.  I drank most evenings, not masses, but something every evening.  When I went out socially, I drank more, my speech would be slurred, I would forget things, I would smoke, I would fall asleep, I would wake up and write the whole day off.  In fact, I was completely wasting my life, my precious time. 

The more I tried the nearer I got to giving up.  In all my goals I would write, Give up drinking, until eventually I did.  I feel great.  5 weeks on and I don't feel like I'm missing out, I can have conversations all through the night, I can stay up way past I would have before, I can drive home, I actually have more confidence than before.  If I'm somewhere and I'm bored instead of drinking to forget the boredom, I'll leave or talk to someone else, or dance.  Its so much easier to dance and keep rhythm whilst sober. Also I have my time back.  I can get up the next day early and be productive all day. 

Its tipped over to all ares of my life.  I eat better, do more exercise, I'm not depressed, study more, have a better memory, lost weight, have more money, and remembered the nights when I go out.

I feel amazing.

Lessons & tips:

• Keep on trying to give up
  
• If you feel like you you'll be missing out, try it for a short time
  
• I almost never believed I would do it, so build belief, keep telling yourself, you can
  
• I also had a friend that had given up and we did and organised things with our friends that didn't require drinking
  
• Stay in for a bit until the worst is over
  
  
  

Resources: Friends.  Find friends that don't drink and hang out with them

Nov 13, 2008, 01:53PM PST | 2 comments | 3 cheers