Posted on 11/05/2019 8:58:40 AM PST by steveben
Giving up your vices and guilty pleasures can lead to a happier and healthier life that’s full of purpose. Even though you might not see the changes day-to-day when you give up drinking alcohol, they’re very apparent to others. One of the things that can keep you motivated is documenting the changes and looking at the photos side by side.
Well, one man has made the phrase ‘one day at a time’ fit both his fight with alcoholism and documenting his journey through sobriety. These last three years, Kenny D. has taken snaps of how he looked when he quit alcohol at key stages in his journey of sobriety. The changes within the first month are already huge and he is almost unrecognizable in the final pictures.
Good story. Made me smile.
“Who are these little people in my house?”
“What - I have kids?”
Dang. I feel bad. Love my scotch. Maybe need to cut back.
Such propaganda!
You’d think this was one of those cosmetic commercials where the woman has a full frown in the first picture and the lighting creates medieval shadows and creases all over her visage, and then by the last one the blur out all the lines, use soft warm lighting, and she just has the happiest smile on her face.
Not just his smile, but his eyes.
He looks real good 3 years out.
social media selfies, tragic what this does to good people
I like a drink, but I have a built-in sobriety mechanism at various times of my life.
Mostly, I’ve always moderated drinking because I am a big guy and have to hit the stats for an ejection seat, which does not leave me really any room for fat.
Now, in addition to the above, if I have more than 3 drinks (any kind of booze) in a 24 hour period, I feel like complete crap the next day and can’t get anything done.
If I drink more than two days in a row (even one beer each day), I feel like crap and what comes out of my bowels destroys toilets.
I finally settled on drinking two glasses of wine for Shabbos meal and then only when my wife and I go to dinner with some other couple (which is basically never).
Maybe I just got middle aged.
I’d be happy to help you out and take all that awful Scotch away for you.
Positive lifestyle changes can have dramatic effects.
For him it was drinking/drugs. For others it may be to quit sugar intake and getting off the couch more. Yet others may find joy in a hobby or donating their time to something needed in the community.
It’s enough to make me want to give up drinking. The only problem is I don’t drink much.
Imagine how good liberals would feel about themselves and life if they gave up television and social media. Or if a Democrat was running thungs.
As someone who was raised by a brutal alcoholic...I applaud him
I know I drink too much (whiskey), more or less on a daily basis. And oftentimes more.
However, over a period of decades, I’ve had zero encounters with the law connected with my imbibing, and minimal if any relationship issues because of it.
Still, because of my concern that it was too much a part of my life, I made the decision a couple of years ago to stop cold turkey. And I remained sober for a full year, not touching a drop.
What I learned was that my drinking was a habit, not an addiction; and, frankly, that I didn’t feel or look much different.
I am in no way dismissing the problem alcohol brings to many lives.
There are currently people very close to me struggling with alcohol addiction, and others very close to me that lost their lives to it.
But, IMHO, there is a difference between a true problem drinker and one who simply likes their booze.
I think this is only relevant if you have a drinking problem.
There's always the option of drinking one's self sober.
I knew guys that actually boasted of mastering such a method lol.
A little like committing suicide by shooting yourself, only starting with the big toe and gradually working up.
for later...
Being 31years sober, I can attest to the changes in physical appearance, mental attitude and financial wellness that occur when one kicks that monkey of one’s back.
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