Here’s What REALLY Happens When You Quit Alcohol For 30 Days

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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):
So the first thing you canexpect when you stop drinking
for a month are changes to yourweight.
For some people, they're goingto lose a bit of weight.
For some people, they mightgain a bit of weight, but good
weight.
The second thing you can expectis increased clarity.
You're able to think throughthings clearer.
The third thing you can expectare better energy levels.
You're usually waking upfeeling a lot more energetic.

(00:41):
And the fourth thing you canexpect is true peace of mind.
But if sitting here and talkingto you about all the good
things that will happen to youwhen you stop drinking alcohol
for a month was actually goingto help you, then we can end the
video right here.
But I'm actually going to go toa totally different level in
this video today.
The goal of this video is notto sell you on stopping drinking
for a month.
The goal of this video isdifferent.

(01:02):
It's to actually help you makethis a real change, a
sustainable change.
So, whilst I could go on andtell you 300 benefits of
stopping drinking, there'salready 500 videos on the
internet about this.
What I'm going to do is I'mactually going to give you the
real, raw truth of what you canexpect in the first 30 days of
stopping drinking.
I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
I'm not going to persuade youto stop drinking.

(01:24):
See, I'm going to teach you atotally different way to tackle
this issue altogether.
And why can I talk to you aboutthis?
Well, I myself haven't drankfor almost seven years.
I'm the founder of a coachingcompany called SoberClearcom,
and I've worked with hundredsupon hundreds of people helping
them go through this exact samething.
So I'm almost like on the frontlines when it comes to this
topic, and I have seen so manypeople go through this first

(01:46):
30-day period that I'm going toshow you some things that you
might never have even consideredbefore.
So, whilst I've already made Idon't know 700 videos talking
about not drinking alcohol, I'vemade videos talking about the
science of what happens to yourbody when you stop drinking for
30 days, this video is going tobe different because it's going
to be applicable.
It's going to be applicable.

(02:08):
It's going to be stuff that youcan actually use to help you
make this change permanent.
And you might not be ready tomake it a permanent change just
yet, but just watch this videoall the way through, because
this might just be the missingpiece in your mindset.
So the first thing that weactually need to look at is how
hard will this actually be?
Is this going to be a reallydifficult thing?
And it's going to be this monthof just fighting the urge to
not drink.
But then there are millions ofpeople out there that say
stopping drinking is the easiestthing they've ever done in

(02:30):
their life.
In fact, they say it's as easyas making a sandwich or taking
the mail from your mailbox.
So what's the differencebetween these two groups of
people?
Well, it all boils down to yourmindset and how you tackle this
problem.
See, I told you this videowasn't going to be your typical
stop drinking yay, more energy.
See, I did warn you.
I'm not just going to sit hereand tell you about the good
things that are going to happenwhen you stop drinking.
I want to be realistic when youstart this journey.

(02:52):
If you start with a frame ofmind that you're giving
something up, that you're trulymaking a sacrifice, and if you
believe that alcohol addsimmense value to you in your
life, guess what's going tohappen?
It is going to be hell.
You're going to look at otherpeople that drink and you are
going to feel this sense ofmissing out when a friend sends
you a text saying do you want togo to a restaurant?
And you see them have a glassof wine or whatever.

(03:13):
If you haven't changed the waythat you view alcohol and you
still see alcohol as somethingthat enhanced your life, you
will sit there and it will suck.
However, if you havesuccessfully changed the way
that you view alcohol and youhave stopped seeing it as
something that adds value toyour life, then 30 days of not
drinking alcohol will just be aseasy as making a sandwich,
because it's a logical,effortless choice.
And you start to look at peoplethat drink and you think why

(03:35):
would I want to do that Now?
Reframing the way that you viewalcohol is a totally another
topic, but if you actually wantto learn how to do that, then if
you click the link in thedescription, you can access a
free video training.
You'll just click the link.
Put your name and email addressin and then a video training
will start playing that showsyou how to reframe the way that
you view alcohol and that makesstopping drinking feel like the
flick of a switch in your brain.

(03:55):
And this is actually what mycompany does.
It helps people go through thisreframing process.
We recently commissioned anacademic psychologist to go
through our method and if you goon Google Scholar and you
search sober clear system,you'll actually find the
scientific report.
But reframing the way that youview alcohol changes the game.
So if you want more informationon that, just go and watch the
video training down below.
There's six 700 videos on thisYouTube channel talking about

(04:17):
how to do it.
But I just want to be realisticwith you.
If you start this 30 day thingor whatever it is that you're
trying to do, if you start itlooking at people that drink
alcohol, thinking that you'remissing out on something, it
will suck.
If you see those people astaking a drug that does nothing
for you, I'm telling you you'llalmost start looking at people
as though they're drinkingbleach.
Anyway, let's get into thefirst few days.

(04:39):
Let's just say you've eitherreframed how you view alcohol or
you haven't and you've stoppedanyway, it doesn't matter.
Either way, it can feel kind ofstrange.
I'm not going to lie.
It's not just like you stopdrinking alcohol and then all of
a sudden you're waking up,you're feeling refreshed.
That's it, problem solved.
It doesn't really work likethat.
Usually it'll be somebodythat's stopped drinking for 30

(05:01):
days.
They'll look back and they'lljust think about the good things
that have happened, because itis an amazing change.
Good things will happen, but Ithink a lot of people forget
what it was really like.
So what you can expect isthings just might feel a little
bit off, almost like something'smissing.
If you've read any popular stopdrinking books, they'll always
talk about this adjustmentperiod and it's a real thing.
But this all depends on howlong you've drank, how much

(05:21):
you've drank, how severe theaddiction is.
There are people out there thatneed to do this with medical
supervision.
Let's not downplay that.
But for most of us it's justthis weird feeling.
And here's one way to describethis feeling.
Imagine you've had a familymember or a friend that's come
to stay with you for three weeksand you're waking up.
You're used to them being there, you sit, you have breakfast
together, you have your coffeetogether, you're hanging out,

(05:42):
and then that friend or familymember then just leaves.
And then you wake up the nextday and you feel like this weird
feeling of like something's notquite right and that feeling is
your friend is gone and that'skind of how it feels when you
stop drinking.
It just doesn't feel quiteright and I want to let you know
that that is totally normal,it's totally okay.
Now that strange feeling willgo away, but it's going to be
replaced with something else,which will be replaced with

(06:03):
something else.
So make sure to just stay tunedto the very end of the video.
But after this adjustment periodis, we can just go on this high
.
So you got to think right whenyou drink you, when you drink,
you kind of feel like this, andthen when you stop drinking, it
kind of goes like this You're upand down, some days you feel
good, some days you don't feelgood, and then you reach this
turning point where all of asudden it's like I feel like the

(06:23):
old me is back, and thishappened in the first maybe
three or four days Like I wasjust like oh, fire Others.
It might take a couple of weeks, but you'll reach this turning
point where that's when thebenefits start flooding in and,
like I said, different peoplewill experience this at
different points, but that'swhen you start having this
amazing sleep again.
That's when you start feelingthat true clarity All the things

(06:43):
that I was talking about in thebeginning of the video.
They do happen, but you need toactually be very careful of
these benefits.
Now that's going to soundstrange, but I'll explain that
in a minute.
But a lot of people will go onthis emotional high and it's
fine.
There's nothing wrong with this.
But I want to be realistic.
That emotional high will notlast.
What is happening is when youdrink alcohol is your emotions

(07:04):
are down here.
And when you stop drinkingalcohol and you kind of finish
that adjustment period, you'llfeel kind of up here.
And because you have thisreally severe point of contrast
of how crap you felt when youdrank compared to how good you
feel when you don't drink, thememory in your mind of what it
was like when you drank isreally clear.
So of course, you're going tofeel so much better than you did
.
But what ends up happening is,eventually, that feeling will

(07:25):
just start to flatline and thisnow just becomes your new normal
.
And when it becomes your newnormal.
Guess what happens?
Well, it's not like all of asudden you're looking in the
mirror with a six pack.
All of a sudden, your businessis fixed, your marriage is fixed
.
Sure, you're going to feelbetter, but eventually that will
just feel normal to you.
And I wanted to warn you ofthis, because it's not like you
stop drinking alcohol and then,all of a sudden, all your

(07:45):
problems go away.
You have to face life and we'regoing to start talking about
the emotional side of things ina minute, because this is so
important.
But just because you've stoppeddrinking alcohol, it does not
mean that all of your problemsare going to go away.
When I drank alcohol, I'dbasically destroyed my life.
I destroyed my personaltraining business, I was
borrowing money off my family.
I was living in my friend'splace because I ran out of money
.
Listen, long story short issure.

(08:06):
I stopped drinking alcohol, Ifelt great, but then, all of a
sudden, it was like reality.
I'm looking in the mirror, I'mstill overweight, I'm still
bloated, and you have to come topeace with that.
Your life might not be whereyou want it to be.
That might be what's motivatedyou to even make this change in
the first place, and guess whatthat is going to hit you.
But that's why I wanted to warnyou of this, because when it
happens, you're going to beready.
So let's really talk aboutsustaining this change and this

(08:30):
is why the first part of thevideo was so important and for
me to talk about.
You know, the reframing ofalcohol.
Now, what will have happened bythis point is that you'll have
reached that new naturalbaseline.
You'll be feeling good and thenreality hits and at that point
you will be presented with achoice.
If you still see alcohol as asolution to your problems, as a
way to remove any kind ofemotional pain, and if you still

(08:50):
see it as something like thatand you see it as a legitimate
way to, then you may turn toalcohol again.
But as long as you're okay withthis reality shock that will
come and you really just seealcohol for what it is, as this
poisonous, disgusting, highlytoxic substance that tastes like
crap.
If you see it that way, thenyou'll be at peace and whatever

(09:13):
emotions that start coming upwhen you don't drink whether
it's boredom, whether it'sunhappiness, whether it's a lack
of fulfilment, whether it'syour relationship not being
perfect, whatever feelings andwhatever life starts throwing at
you, instead of going back tothe old you and turning back to
alcohol and escaping with a drug, is you're able to absorb these
things and you're able totackle them?
Right, you're able to justknock them out one by one.

(09:34):
Okay, well, this problem's comeinto my life.
Well, am I going to escape oram I going to fix it?
Okay, I'm three weeks without adrink and I'm looking at my
body and I'm looking in themirror and I'm not.
You know the way I want it tobe.
Well, what do I do?
Do I say, ah, this sucks, I'mgoing to go back to drinking, or
do I fix the problem?
And as long as you stop seeingalcohol as the solution and you
start seeing alcohol as theproblem, I'm telling you you
gain this new power in your lifeto just tackle things head on.

(09:57):
Listen, I've made a lot ofvideos talking about celebrities
that have stopped drinkingalcohol.
A lot of people find itextremely motivating, because
these are people who havestopped drinking alcohol but
then achieved groundbreakingsuccess, and I think a lot of
people love to see that, becausethat's the kind of things that
happen when you don't drink.
That's when people get in thebest shape of their life.
It's when they build thesecrazy massive businesses or, you
know, achieve that top peak intheir career, they become the

(10:19):
best parent they've ever been.
But it all starts with them notdrinking and then tackling
problems head on.
But the thing that you've got towatch out for, and the thing I
want to end this video with, isthat when you stop drinking
alcohol for a month and longer,the pain will disappear, it will
go away and you will forgetwhat it was like when you drank.
And this is the thing that youneed to be careful of, because

(10:40):
when you forget about the pain,that's when this little voice in
your head can start poppingback up and you can start saying
maybe this time is going to bedifferent, maybe I'll just have
one.
Okay, we've stopped drinkingfor a month, we've stopped
drinking for 90 days and I'mtelling you please don't do it.
You've got to have something togo towards.
Running away from the pain ofalcohol can get you sober.
I've done it for six, seven oreight months.
Alcohol caused a tremendousamount of pain in my life and

(11:02):
that pain got me sober.
But that voice in my headpeaked back up and I thought it
was a good idea to have just onedrink, and that just one drink.
Listen, we know there's no suchthing, so make sure you have
something to run towards.
You want to be going towards abetter quality of life instead
of just running away from thepain of alcohol, because one day
that pain will completelydisappear.

(11:23):
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