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I am not missing out on anything at all by leaving alcohol out of the equation. On the contrary, I’ve only gained. I had a habit of drinking 2-3 glasses of wine on most evenings for years. I was drinking to relax after work, to enjoy cooking, to fight boredom, to get...

"I have loved the support I have received throughout this challenge and I do not think I would have made it this far if I hadn’t joined." I was a regular drinker, averaging about 20 units a week. I liked a gin and tonic while I was cooking and drinks with my friends...

Dad jokes are in full effect. I’m almost a cliché but I love it. I wouldn’t say I had a drink problem before OYNB. I had an aesthetic problem. I wasn’t really living. Just existing. I worked hard. Was successful. Was stressed. Unhealthy. Drank most nights and woke up...

Everything in my life is so much better without it and it’s such a joy to remember everything. As a female in the Royal Navy during my late teens and early 20’s, my philosophy was work hard, play hard. Which meant drinking…a lot. Weeks or months at sea would mean time...

Going alcohol-free can open the gate to a more productive, enriching and nutritious life. I have always liked a drink. Like so many other people, alcohol became part of everyday life. I always drank at least once or twice during the week and I would always drink on a...

If a full-time working mom with 3 young girls in quarantine during a pandemic can do it, anyone can! I have been a social drinker most of my adult life, and being a very social person, rarely was there an occasion without alcohol. It was something that most people...

Deep down I knew something needed to change I’d had a fairly ‘standard’ relationship with alcohol… I started at about 16, drank far too much during university years, continued through a job with a heavy drinking social culture, then settled into married life with a...

"I can’t remember ever actually feeling this good" I never really believed I had a problem with alcohol, however, I was aware that alcohol was creating some problems in my life. I had a good job, was happily married with 3 great kids, some great friends and overall,...

As the weeks went by, I was gradually finding parts of me that I had lost over the years. The old Kelly was coming back. I will never see my Day 1 again. EVER! It was a day of anxiety, guilt and hating myself for putting myself into yet another 4 days of what had...

OYNB is so much more than coaching or tips & tricks to drink less. It is a movement, a community. When I joined OYNB a year ago, I was drinking red wine every day after work as a reward, to relax. I drank between 2 and 4 glasses of red wine every night. It does...

"I don’t see any benefit in drinking at all - it doesn’t fit in my new lifestyle." I have always been active and into health and fitness. I also regularly take part and compete in jiu-jitsu. Alcohol was the one aspect of my life that didn’t seem to fit in. Even after...

Every day I said to myself “Imagine if you had kept drinking as you had been. This would be so much more difficult.” The rut of drinking, sleeping poorly, hangovers, UBER rides, spare cash depletion, increasing body weight and the resulting disappointment became...

"The challenge aspect gave me huge motivation and also made it a lot easier to tell people what I was doing" 1st March 2019. The first day of my OYNB challenge and the start of my journey. What had brought me to that point? For as long as I could remember I had always...