Lifestyle Changes

January 27, 2020 My wife and I went out to dinner for our 11 year anniversary. We ate at the Tic Toc Room in downtown Macon, which is a place we save for special occasions like this. We had a lovely time and dinner was nice, but after a couple of beers in, I looked up at the mirror over the bar and saw my reflection. I did not like the person staring back at me. I did not say anything to my wife about it, but I made a decision that night that something had to change. I knew in order to become who I wanted to be, I had to give up alcohol all together. This was not an easy decision, alcohol has been the courage in a bottle to open me up or make me comfortable in social gatherings, or even something to plan my week or day around. Every sense I was 16 years old, alcohol has played a pivotal role in my life! I had to do something different. The months leading up to my decision, I was becoming irritated with the amount of sleep I was getting and weight I was gaining. I wake up early to begin with but, with alcohol, I couldn't sleep the night through and I was developing horrible headaches. At first I could not figure out what it was and I had just ran a marathon and I continued to run but I looked awful. It was the alcohol. I was up to 227 lbs which is the most I had weighed in over two years. I'm not even going to mention the amount of money and poor decisions it has cost me over the past 20 years of drinking.

I gave it up, I quit