Hello fellow Steemians. I hope to share with you today a great book I've been reading related to health and fitness. Yes, it has to do with alcohol. As I have made a couple of posts in the past about this subject.
30 Day NO Alcohol Challenge Complete!
We all know diet and workouts are a great part of building a physique, but cutting out alcohol is super important for great results as well! I have always talked about alcohol and how bad it is, but I've never actually talked about ways to cut down the drinking. Drinking can be an addiction, and it is difficult to overcome! Allen Carr's book has thousands of positive reviews on Amazon, The Easy Way to Stop Drinking. Allen is actually more well known for Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
." Alcohol is a lot worse than tobacco, and it is more nefarious. Here he gives his method for controlling it...
The Easy Way Method:
"The Easyway method centers on removing the psychological need to drink—while the drinker is still drinking. Following the Easyway:
• You will not need willpower
• You will not feel deprived
• You will lose your fear of withdrawal pangs
• You will enjoy social occasions more
• You will be better equipped to handle stress"
I will give a summary of the philosophy of Allen Carr and how it has helped millions of people quit drinking.
This book has a different guidance than most other guides to quitting addiction. Many ways of quitting alcohol include joining Alcoholics Anonymous, a focus therapy group for recovering alcoholics. Or they say stop drinking slowly so you don't get withdrawals, or seek a counselor. Or switch to a lighter drink and "only have a couple." The problem is alcohol is very nefarious, and there is no such thing as having a few! One of the commenters on Amazon said "he has been sober for 20 years but feels one drink away from being a drunk!"
Carr starts out with a bold statement that "Four things you can't have too much of are time, energy, love, and money. And alcohol ravages all of these things." Carr is very logical in his approach and gives his point across with many different ways of changing your views about alcohol. The process of quitting starts with understanding alcohol first...
Basically everyone in Western Society drinks alcohol. And since everyone does it, everyone thinks it is okay to do. Society isn't ready for others to tell them alcohol doesn't offer them any benefits. Alcohol's benefits are often overstated while its downsides are understated.
The Western World has been fooled into thinking that drinking a poison will give them benefits and add to their life, when really it's making their life worse and taking away from it.
It's great that Carr recommends the reader actually not try and quit drinking until they finish the book! He allows them to consume alcohol, but also to read the book. He wants readers to fully understand alcohol before finishing the book. Alcohol is pervasive in our society and it's one big illusion...
My Personal Experience:
I tried a no alcohol challenge for 30 days and I detailed it in one of my previous posts mentioned above: I actually lasted 38 days, I feel like I craved alcohol the whole time though. After 38 days I went back to drinking again and convinced myself to just a "have a few".
Well when you drink your inhibitions become lower. A few turns into 5 or 6 and then so on. You end up having a night you cannot remember well and you wake up the next day feeling toxic and unhappy. You have guilt and shame from the night before and can't sleep well the next day because your sleep cycle is so off (I detail this in my previous post as well).
I also realized I was drinking alcohol to make me feel good and ease my social anxiety in large crowds. I realized it was only making me feel good for a few minutes and was giving me fake confidence. I realized it's worth it to feel happier for a higher average amount of time and to face my fears about interacting with people in large crowded areas that I do not know...
It wasn't until I read Allen Carr's book that I have felt I'm finally cured. The best part of it is I finally understand alcohol now and how it isn't helping me and if anything it is taking away from my life. This is different than the time I completed the 30-day no alcohol challenge. I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 2 weeks, and I don't crave it anymore.
Conclusion:
I've overcome my small drinking problem before but my mindset has never been as good after reading Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Stop Drinking. I'm really excited for what the future holds in store for me and what I can accomplish now after reading this book. This book has helped millions of people. If you go on Amazon you will read thousands of reviews of it helping hardcore alcoholics quit (people with a lot worse drinking issues than me). I encourage you to read my post thoroughly or my other threads. Go visit Amazon and read people's anecdotal testimonies.
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