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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
(00:21):
If you're thinking of stoppingdrinking alcohol for 30 days,
you're about to go through aninsane transformation.
Your brain is literally goingto rewire itself.
Your organs are going to heal,and that's just the beginning.
Today, we're going to dive into20 amazing changes that happen
when you stop drinking in thefirst 30 days.
So, regardless of whetheryou're trying to stop drinking
(00:42):
forever or you're just trying totake a 30-day break, this video
is going to be awesome.
This video is going to show youexactly what to expect.
How we're going to break itdown is we're going to talk
about five things that happenedin the first week, just so
you're properly prepared forwhat's to come.
Then we'll talk about fivethings that will happen in weeks
two, three and four.
So you've got 20 things toexpect, and make sure to watch
(01:05):
this entire video, because I'llbe showing you exactly what to
do after day 30.
So the first thing that happensis you go through a bit of an
adjustment period.
Now don't get me wrong.
There are some people who canhave severe withdrawals and if
you think that's, you definitelygo and seek medical help.
For most people they're goingto have some feelings of almost
like a small flu, a bit of acold.
They'll feel a bit drained andthose first few days can be a
little bit rough and we canalmost feel like something's
(01:28):
missing, like something's notquite right, and it's a bit of a
strange feeling, but it doesn'tlast very long.
So if you feel this way, justknow that it's totally normal.
Just be kind to yourself, getplenty of rest, eat plenty of
good food, drink plenty of water, and just know that it will
pass.
The second thing that can be bigin the first week and a lot of
(01:50):
people don't expect this is thatsleep can initially suffer.
See, alcohol can reducesomething called sleep onset
latency.
It can help you fall asleepfaster.
So it's a sleep aid.
That being said, it destroysthe quality of our sleep, but
when we remove it it can beactually quite difficult to fall
asleep and stay asleep.
So again, just expect in thatfirst week sleep might not be
great.
But I tell you what it's a verysmall price to pay for what's
to come.
The third thing is in yourenergy levels, and they can
(02:12):
fluctuate.
So whilst I've said that, yeah,you're going to have some low
days, you also, in that firstweek, might have some really
good days, but then they'refollowed by really bad days and
it can just be a bit of a rollercoaster.
Day one you might feel rough.
Day two you might be out in thegym running around hanging out,
and then the next day you justfeel terrible.
So don't necessarily expect itto be linear, where you're just
feeling better and better andbetter and better and better.
(02:33):
Just expect a bit of a rollercoaster.
The fourth thing is in yourappetite.
You might find yourself cravingsugar, craving snacks.
You might be really hungry oryou might not want to eat at all
.
You can have big fluctuationsin your appetite, but sugar
cravings are one of the mostcommon things that happen.
My mindset here is go easy onyourself In that first week.
If you want to have some icecream, if you want to get some
(02:53):
chocolate, it is what it is.
It's a damn sight better thandrinking.
But what you don't want tostart doing is trying to replace
alcohol with sugar.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Now the fifth thing is thatthings start picking up.
For 90 to 95% of people,anywhere between day three to
seven, energy starts coming back.
Sleep starts improving.
(03:14):
There's no more rollercoasterand depending on how long you've
drank, for how much you drankfor, you can expect this to
happen somewhere in the firstweek.
Obviously, for some people thiscan continue for two, three,
four weeks, but for most peoplearound this point they'll have
turned a corner.
So let's get into day seven to14.
The first thing that happenshere is that energy really
(03:34):
starts to come back.
By this point you might beexercising again, you might have
got a gym membership, you mightbe going out walking, running.
You just start to feel prettygood.
But in day seven to 14, justexpect some big changes in your
energy.
The second thing is sleepfinally starts to improve
massively, and what I mean bythis is for many people that
I've worked with in my coachingprogram, in the Sober Clear
program.
They start to say that theyalmost forgot what it was like
(03:57):
to have a full night of rest, tosleep really well, and again,
this is most people in day 7 to14.
However, for some people, thegood sleep might come a little
bit further down the line.
Day 7 to 14,.
The third thing that happens isthis bloating starts to go.
When I drank I used to retain alot of water, especially in my
face.
I used to look like a bitchubby and I always noticed
(04:17):
around a week into things thatjust disappeared.
Now don't get me wrong.
It doesn't mean that if you puton weight and stuff like that
through a result of drinking,that it's all going to fall off,
but you just start to see anoticeable difference,
particularly in your face.
The fourth thing is that youcan still feel a little bit
mentally foggy.
For some people that fog clearsup the clarity's there, but for
(04:37):
most people the clarity doesn'tkick in until a little bit
later on.
A lot of people in the secondweek they're not able to like
concentrate on something reallychallenging mentally.
And the fifth thing that canhappen is you might find
yourself eating more.
That first week you might havebeen having a lot of sugar and
my recommendation around thispoint is to really just try and
dial in your diet.
Make a simple rule that you canstick to.
(04:57):
Maybe for you it's no moredesserts, maybe for you it's one
snack a day and three meals aday.
Just try and stick to a simplerule and make sure you're
packing in the protein.
You really want to make surethat you're fueling your body
with the right nutrients,because your body's going
through a pretty miraculouschange, so the more high quality
food that we can get in, thebetter.
So day 14 to day 21,.
(05:19):
The first big noticeable changewill be in your body weight.
So by this point things havereally started to stabilize,
hopefully.
By this point you're eatingwell, you're eating healthy, you
might be exercising a bit more,you're not consuming all of
those additional calories fromalcohol and your body's just
really adjusting to things.
So most of the population willlose some weight.
They might find clothes arejust a little bit looser, they
(05:40):
might need to start wearing abelt, but for most people they
will find a large amount ofweight loss around.
This time Might be as much assix to eight pounds, and that's
without really changing too much.
The second thing here is thatyour social confidence should
start to grow.
Now.
(06:00):
This depends on what methodyou've used.
If you're just really likeresisting this 30 days and
really just trying to not drink,you might have gone into a
social situation with alcoholinvolved and you might have felt
this pull to drink, but youresisted through it.
But then if you've done what Irecommend and you've changed
your perception and you've justmade a decision and said that's
it, I'm putting this behind ofme, I'm not drinking anymore
it's very likely that and builta positive reference experience.
What I mean by this is that youmight have gone to a place
where you would have normallydrank a restaurant or hung out
(06:22):
with a certain friend, not drank, had a good time, and then that
just builds upon itself andthis should just grow with time.
You'll become more and moreconfident being in social
situations without drinking.
The third thing that happenshere is you will start to learn
how to deal with stress better.
A lot of people go to thebottle to escape stress, but the
sad thing is is more often thannot, alcohol creates stress in
(06:43):
the first place, and what we endup finding is that, whilst
stress doesn't disappearcompletely when we remove
alcohol from it, it becomes alot less and a lot easier to
actually deal with, and youstart to realize I don't need
alcohol to de-stress.
You actually feel a lot lessstressed, and that can happen
around the two to three weekmark.
Now.
The fourth thing that happenshere is there's this really
(07:03):
strange switch where you startto feel healthy and it's really
hard to put this into words ifyou've never experienced it.
But there's just this feelingof like I feel good, I actually
feel healthy, sometimes for thefirst time in years, and if
you've ever experienced thatbefore, leave me a comment down
below.
It would be really cool to hearfrom you.
But it's kind of like you'vegot a few workouts, you're
eating well, the weight's down,you're building that confidence.
(07:25):
Then all of a sudden it's likethis feeling of oh, I'm feeling
good, so expect this feeling ofhealth to kick in.
And the fifth thing that canhappen around this mark is
memory starts to improve.
Now, listen, I'm not talkinghere necessarily about blackouts
.
I used to black out when Idrank.
So clearly there would be somenights where I would remember
nothing.
But for me, when I was drinking, even when I wasn't drunk or
(07:49):
even when I wasn't intoxicated,I had a pretty bad memory.
People would often say thingsand I'd just have no
recollection of that, or they'dtell me the name and I'd forget,
or I'd miss certain details.
But then when I stoppeddrinking, I'd remember the small
things, I'd remember thatperson's name, or I'd tell
somebody I'm going to dosomething and then I wouldn't
forget.
So that's another great thingthat happens around this time.
So week four, day 21 to day 28,slash 30.
(08:09):
The first thing here is you canreally expect your skin to
change.
For a lot of people that arepeople that have drank for a
long time, they may see theredness go down in their face
and skin improvements just keepgetting better.
But around this mark you'llreally see visible improvements.
The bloating that started to goaway around week two will be
even better now, and you mightfind people commenting asking
what are you doing?
Like you look great, you lookyounger.
(08:31):
So that's obviously a nicething, getting compliments
looking younger who doesn't wantthat?
The next thing that can happenhere is that mental clarity
starts to have a real noticeablereturn.
You might now be able to reallydo mentally demanding tasks
with your work or your business.
You might be able to haveconversations where you're not
getting distracted or yourmind's drifting off.
You're really able toconcentrate on that person and
(08:52):
you might start getting ideasand setting new goals for what's
in your life next.
You might start really thinkingthrough things.
So that's a pretty great thing.
The third thing that happenshere is at this point you should
if you've been going outsocializing, you should find
some big gains in socialconfidence.
You should feel better andbetter about going out and being
in a place of alcohol and beingtotally fine with it, because
(09:13):
by this point you might have hadthree or four positive
reference experiences.
Now the fourth thing that canhappen in this final week is you
start to feel emotionallystable.
Whilst the first couple ofweeks can be up and down good
days, bad days and so on aroundthis point you really just start
to feel calm, grounded.
What might have upset you inthe past and stressed you out
like I don't know a kid crying,you're just kind of able to deal
(09:34):
with things a lot better andyou have less of an emotional
reaction to them.
Now we will talk about what todo after 30 days in a second,
but the final thing you canexpect at this point are the
financial gains.
You'll have saved a prettypenny stopping drinking for 30
days.
Most people are going to spend$150,000, $200,000 on alcohol in
the course of a lifetime andwhen you stop drinking for 30
(09:54):
days, that money goes right intoyour pocket.
So you can expect to saveanywhere from $200 to $500.
Or if you're going out torestaurants ordering expensive
wines, going out for meals, itcould be upwards of $1,000 to
$3,000.
And then for a lot of people isthere more productive, so
they're able to produce morevalue, do more work, get clients
, get promotions.
These financial gains just getbetter and better over time.
(10:16):
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking Podcast by Sober
Clear If you want to learn moreabout how we work with people to
help.
Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help
you make stopping drinking asimple, logical and easy
decision.
We help you with tips, toolsand strategies to start living
your best life when alcohol-free.
If you want to learn more aboutstop drinking coaching, then
head over to wwwsoberclearcom.
(00:21):
If you're thinking of stoppingdrinking alcohol for 30 days,
you're about to go through aninsane transformation.
Your brain is literally goingto rewire itself.
Your organs are going to heal,and that's just the beginning.
Today, we're going to dive into20 amazing changes that happen
when you stop drinking in thefirst 30 days.
So, regardless of whetheryou're trying to stop drinking
(00:42):
forever or you're just trying totake a 30-day break, this video
is going to be awesome.
This video is going to show youexactly what to expect.
How we're going to break itdown is we're going to talk
about five things that happenedin the first week, just so
you're properly prepared forwhat's to come.
Then we'll talk about fivethings that will happen in weeks
two, three and four.
So you've got 20 things toexpect, and make sure to watch
(01:05):
this entire video, because I'llbe showing you exactly what to
do after day 30.
So the first thing that happensis you go through a bit of an
adjustment period.
Now don't get me wrong.
There are some people who canhave severe withdrawals and if
you think that's, you definitelygo and seek medical help.
For most people they're goingto have some feelings of almost
like a small flu, a bit of acold.
They'll feel a bit drained andthose first few days can be a
little bit rough and we canalmost feel like something's
(01:28):
missing, like something's notquite right, and it's a bit of a
strange feeling, but it doesn'tlast very long.
So if you feel this way, justknow that it's totally normal.
Just be kind to yourself, getplenty of rest, eat plenty of
good food, drink plenty of water, and just know that it will
pass.
The second thing that can be bigin the first week and a lot of
(01:50):
people don't expect this is thatsleep can initially suffer.
See, alcohol can reducesomething called sleep onset
latency.
It can help you fall asleepfaster.
So it's a sleep aid.
That being said, it destroysthe quality of our sleep, but
when we remove it it can beactually quite difficult to fall
asleep and stay asleep.
So again, just expect in thatfirst week sleep might not be
great.
But I tell you what it's a verysmall price to pay for what's
to come.
The third thing is in yourenergy levels, and they can
(02:12):
fluctuate.
So whilst I've said that, yeah,you're going to have some low
days, you also, in that firstweek, might have some really
good days, but then they'refollowed by really bad days and
it can just be a bit of a rollercoaster.
Day one you might feel rough.
Day two you might be out in thegym running around hanging out,
and then the next day you justfeel terrible.
So don't necessarily expect itto be linear, where you're just
feeling better and better andbetter and better and better.
(02:33):
Just expect a bit of a rollercoaster.
The fourth thing is in yourappetite.
You might find yourself cravingsugar, craving snacks.
You might be really hungry oryou might not want to eat at all
.
You can have big fluctuationsin your appetite, but sugar
cravings are one of the mostcommon things that happen.
My mindset here is go easy onyourself In that first week.
If you want to have some icecream, if you want to get some
(02:53):
chocolate, it is what it is.
It's a damn sight better thandrinking.
But what you don't want tostart doing is trying to replace
alcohol with sugar.
That is a recipe for disaster.
Now the fifth thing is thatthings start picking up.
For 90 to 95% of people,anywhere between day three to
seven, energy starts coming back.
Sleep starts improving.
(03:14):
There's no more rollercoasterand depending on how long you've
drank, for how much you drankfor, you can expect this to
happen somewhere in the firstweek.
Obviously, for some people thiscan continue for two, three,
four weeks, but for most peoplearound this point they'll have
turned a corner.
So let's get into day seven to14.
The first thing that happenshere is that energy really
(03:34):
starts to come back.
By this point you might beexercising again, you might have
got a gym membership, you mightbe going out walking, running.
You just start to feel prettygood.
But in day seven to 14, justexpect some big changes in your
energy.
The second thing is sleepfinally starts to improve
massively, and what I mean bythis is for many people that
I've worked with in my coachingprogram, in the Sober Clear
program.
They start to say that theyalmost forgot what it was like
(03:57):
to have a full night of rest, tosleep really well, and again,
this is most people in day 7 to14.
However, for some people, thegood sleep might come a little
bit further down the line.
Day 7 to 14,.
The third thing that happens isthis bloating starts to go.
When I drank I used to retain alot of water, especially in my
face.
I used to look like a bitchubby and I always noticed
(04:17):
around a week into things thatjust disappeared.
Now don't get me wrong.
It doesn't mean that if you puton weight and stuff like that
through a result of drinking,that it's all going to fall off,
but you just start to see anoticeable difference,
particularly in your face.
The fourth thing is that youcan still feel a little bit
mentally foggy.
For some people that fog clearsup the clarity's there, but for
(04:37):
most people the clarity doesn'tkick in until a little bit
later on.
A lot of people in the secondweek they're not able to like
concentrate on something reallychallenging mentally.
And the fifth thing that canhappen is you might find
yourself eating more.
That first week you might havebeen having a lot of sugar and
my recommendation around thispoint is to really just try and
dial in your diet.
Make a simple rule that you canstick to.
(04:57):
Maybe for you it's no moredesserts, maybe for you it's one
snack a day and three meals aday.
Just try and stick to a simplerule and make sure you're
packing in the protein.
You really want to make surethat you're fueling your body
with the right nutrients,because your body's going
through a pretty miraculouschange, so the more high quality
food that we can get in, thebetter.
So day 14 to day 21,.
(05:19):
The first big noticeable changewill be in your body weight.
So by this point things havereally started to stabilize,
hopefully.
By this point you're eatingwell, you're eating healthy, you
might be exercising a bit more,you're not consuming all of
those additional calories fromalcohol and your body's just
really adjusting to things.
So most of the population willlose some weight.
They might find clothes arejust a little bit looser, they
(05:40):
might need to start wearing abelt, but for most people they
will find a large amount ofweight loss around.
This time Might be as much assix to eight pounds, and that's
without really changing too much.
The second thing here is thatyour social confidence should
start to grow.
Now.
(06:00):
This depends on what methodyou've used.
If you're just really likeresisting this 30 days and
really just trying to not drink,you might have gone into a
social situation with alcoholinvolved and you might have felt
this pull to drink, but youresisted through it.
But then if you've done what Irecommend and you've changed
your perception and you've justmade a decision and said that's
it, I'm putting this behind ofme, I'm not drinking anymore
it's very likely that and builta positive reference experience.
What I mean by this is that youmight have gone to a place
where you would have normallydrank a restaurant or hung out
(06:22):
with a certain friend, not drank, had a good time, and then that
just builds upon itself andthis should just grow with time.
You'll become more and moreconfident being in social
situations without drinking.
The third thing that happenshere is you will start to learn
how to deal with stress better.
A lot of people go to thebottle to escape stress, but the
sad thing is is more often thannot, alcohol creates stress in
(06:43):
the first place, and what we endup finding is that, whilst
stress doesn't disappearcompletely when we remove
alcohol from it, it becomes alot less and a lot easier to
actually deal with, and youstart to realize I don't need
alcohol to de-stress.
You actually feel a lot lessstressed, and that can happen
around the two to three weekmark.
Now.
The fourth thing that happenshere is there's this really
(07:03):
strange switch where you startto feel healthy and it's really
hard to put this into words ifyou've never experienced it.
But there's just this feelingof like I feel good, I actually
feel healthy, sometimes for thefirst time in years, and if
you've ever experienced thatbefore, leave me a comment down
below.
It would be really cool to hearfrom you.
But it's kind of like you'vegot a few workouts, you're
eating well, the weight's down,you're building that confidence.
(07:25):
Then all of a sudden it's likethis feeling of oh, I'm feeling
good, so expect this feeling ofhealth to kick in.
And the fifth thing that canhappen around this mark is
memory starts to improve.
Now, listen, I'm not talkinghere necessarily about blackouts
.
I used to black out when Idrank.
So clearly there would be somenights where I would remember
nothing.
But for me, when I was drinking, even when I wasn't drunk or
(07:49):
even when I wasn't intoxicated,I had a pretty bad memory.
People would often say thingsand I'd just have no
recollection of that, or they'dtell me the name and I'd forget,
or I'd miss certain details.
But then when I stoppeddrinking, I'd remember the small
things, I'd remember thatperson's name, or I'd tell
somebody I'm going to dosomething and then I wouldn't
forget.
So that's another great thingthat happens around this time.
So week four, day 21 to day 28,slash 30.
(08:09):
The first thing here is you canreally expect your skin to
change.
For a lot of people that arepeople that have drank for a
long time, they may see theredness go down in their face
and skin improvements just keepgetting better.
But around this mark you'llreally see visible improvements.
The bloating that started to goaway around week two will be
even better now, and you mightfind people commenting asking
what are you doing?
Like you look great, you lookyounger.
(08:31):
So that's obviously a nicething, getting compliments
looking younger who doesn't wantthat?
The next thing that can happenhere is that mental clarity
starts to have a real noticeablereturn.
You might now be able to reallydo mentally demanding tasks
with your work or your business.
You might be able to haveconversations where you're not
getting distracted or yourmind's drifting off.
You're really able toconcentrate on that person and
(08:52):
you might start getting ideasand setting new goals for what's
in your life next.
You might start really thinkingthrough things.
So that's a pretty great thing.
The third thing that happenshere is at this point you should
if you've been going outsocializing, you should find
some big gains in socialconfidence.
You should feel better andbetter about going out and being
in a place of alcohol and beingtotally fine with it, because
(09:13):
by this point you might have hadthree or four positive
reference experiences.
Now the fourth thing that canhappen in this final week is you
start to feel emotionallystable.
Whilst the first couple ofweeks can be up and down good
days, bad days and so on aroundthis point you really just start
to feel calm, grounded.
What might have upset you inthe past and stressed you out
like I don't know a kid crying,you're just kind of able to deal
(09:34):
with things a lot better andyou have less of an emotional
reaction to them.
Now we will talk about what todo after 30 days in a second,
but the final thing you canexpect at this point are the
financial gains.
You'll have saved a prettypenny stopping drinking for 30
days.
Most people are going to spend$150,000, $200,000 on alcohol in
the course of a lifetime andwhen you stop drinking for 30
(09:54):
days, that money goes right intoyour pocket.
So you can expect to saveanywhere from $200 to $500.
Or if you're going out torestaurants ordering expensive
wines, going out for meals, itcould be upwards of $1,000 to
$3,000.
And then for a lot of people isthere more productive, so
they're able to produce morevalue, do more work, get clients
, get promotions.
These financial gains just getbetter and better over time.
(10:16):
Thanks for checking out theStop Drinking Podcast by Sober
Clear If you want to learn moreabout how we work with people to
help.
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