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10 MAJOR Benefits Of Quitting ALCOHOL For 30 Days

• Leon Sylvester

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When you stop drinking alcohol for 30 days, your body will go through a tremendous amount of changes. So let's start with the very first benefit. Now, the very first benefit is going to feel very, very peculiar. When you stop drinking alcohol, you stop putting a drug in your body. Not only is this a drug, but it's a poison, it's an addictive drug. And when you stop taking it, at the beginning, not everybody feels 100%. So a lot of people will go through some level of adjustment. If you've read any popular stop drinking book, they'll all talk about this period. But you might feel a very low level of withdrawal. Now I'm not here to downplay the severity for some people who stop drinking alcohol. It can be a severe problem. But my opinion, this is not medical advice, this is my opinion. My opinion is that the fear that alcohol companies put in people when it comes to withdrawal and making it feel like stopping drinking alcohol is dangerous is pushed a little bit too hard. So I've spoken to a massive variety of people who are drinking half a bottle of wine a night, up to a bottle of wine a night, and they are afraid of stopping drinking. But either way, if it's a worry of yours, if you are drinking heavy, then you probably want to seek medical advice. But for most of the population, for most of us, we're just gonna not feel quite right. And the important thing here is to realize that this is the first benefit. Not feeling great is actually your body starting to heal. It's repairing, your body is doing its magic, and yeah, you might feel a little bit poop. Can't think of a better word. And you might feel bad. But how you approach these first few days and your mindset will make a big difference. If you see these negative feelings as a benefit, as your body repairing, then you can kind of get through it. But if you're like, man, this sucks, I hate this feeling, I feel terrible, and you're very negative with your self-talk, then it's gonna be a grind. So you can expect in the first few days to not feel 100%, but that is the first benefit. Now, the second benefit is when you don't drink alcohol for 30 days, is the memory of what it was like when you were drinking are very close. So days seven, days 14, days 21, days 28, the memory of how things were when you drank is very fresh. So you can remember the bad sleep, maybe hangovers, not feeling 100%. And what you've got in the first 30 days of stopping drinking is a contrast. And that contrast is very, very clear. So what can often happen for people in the first 30 days is they almost get to this peak. So they'll get through this kind of like this adjustment period where things aren't feeling quite right, and then it'll all of a sudden be like this euphoria. And it's like, oh, now I feel like me again. And I've heard this many times from the people I've worked with, with my coaching company, with soberclear.com. I hear people have a breakthrough. And it doesn't always happen, but for a lot of people, because the contrast is so severe that they kind of get through that rough time and then all of a sudden they're like, oh my gosh, I feel amazing. Now that feeling doesn't last and it doesn't happen to everybody. It certainly happened to me when I stopped drinking seven years ago, but you can expect to feel just so much better because you can remember how bad things work. It does level off, but in those first 30 days, it's pretty awesome. And the third benefit of stopping drinking for 30 days are in your energy levels. Now, in that first week, maybe two weeks, energy can fluctuate. I'm not gonna lie. Some days you're gonna feel tired, lethargic, some days you're gonna be bouncing out of bed and feeling good. But what should happen, depending on the severity and depending on how long you've drank for, is energy levels will start to stabilize and then they'll start improving. And again, because we're talking about the first 30 days here, the contrast and the memories of being lethargic and kind of drained because of alcohol, those memories are fresh. So, of course, energy is going to feel better because you can remember how lousy you felt before. We're not designed to drink a poisonous substance and put that stuff into our body. Alcohol will drain your energy. So, again, just expect it maybe to fluctuate in the first few weeks, but eventually it will stabilize and then energy will start increasing. And for 90% of people, probably 95% of people, they're gonna experience this in the first month. There are some people whose dopamine levels will be very up and down, and the energy stuff might not happen until days 30 and beyond. Some of my clients, that's happened with them, but most people are gonna feel a significant energy boost. Number four, the fourth big benefit of stopping drinking for 30 days comes down to your mental clarity. For me, this was the number one benefit. This was the biggest benefit in the early days of stopping drinking. Now, seven years later, it's just standard, right? This is my baseline, I can think clearly. But because I could remember the brain fog and really not being clear with my thinking, when I'd finally stopped drinking alcohol, it was like, oh, I can make plans, I can think critically again. Now, clarity in itself is an amazing thing. You're able to articulate yourself better, you're able to solve better problems and bigger problems and fix things and do so much. Whilst clarity is a nice feeling, it's really what you do with that clarity that counts. Of course, that feels good, but that can spill into every area of your life. But just wait till the tenth benefit and we'll go deeper on that. The fifth thing, which is pretty obvious, are the financial benefits. What a lot of people don't do is if they're thinking about the financial cost of drinking alcohol, is they just think month to month. Okay, I don't drink and I save whatever, 300 bucks, 500 bucks, a thousand bucks, depends. But we've also got to think about the money that we could be making. When you've got more clarity, when you've got the other benefits I'm going to talk about in a minute, your ability to add value, create money, progress in your career, all of these things start improving. Your executive functioning gets better, your creativity gets better, so many things start happening. Now, obviously, if you're retired, then it's a little bit different. But I know people who have retired who have gone back to work. Not because they had to, but because they wanted to. They wanted to give back. And some of these retired people have helped. They say there was no way I would have done this if I kept drinking. I've worked with people who have stopped drinking alcohol and started businesses. So if we think about it, yeah, sure, you might save 500 bucks, whatever, but that's nothing compared to the opportunity cost of drinking alcohol and the gains. See, as humans, we're wired to not want to lose things. And we're much more afraid of losing things than we are at the prospect of gaining things. But if you can use this first 30 days of stopping drinking alcohol and continue it, I mean, I don't want to exaggerate, but that first 30 days could be the foundation of literally tens of millions of dollars. No exaggeration. It's what you do after the first 30 days that's really gonna count here. But if you think back, if you stop for 30 days and continue on that path, you have literally broken a pattern of tens of thousands of dollars wasted. So the financial benefits are huge. The real thing with the financial benefits though is it snowballs over time. The sixth benefit are in your relationships. Now, I can't promise that if you've drank for a long time and you've your relationships have strained because of alcohol, I can't promise that all of a sudden it's gonna go like that and things are gonna be fine. Often it's not the case. When I drank alcohol, I caused a lot of damage in my personal relationships. I'd ruined romantic relationships, I'd upset friends, I'd send texts to people, I'd, you know, my family kind of lost trust in me. But not only that, but my family were incredibly worried about me. But I'll be honest, I'm a younger man. I wasn't married when I stopped drinking alcohol. And it wasn't like I'd been drinking for 20 years and, you know, really upsetting my wife for all of this time. But a lot of the people who I've worked with, they are in that situation where they have been drinking for a long time and alcohol has caused strain with their children, with their spouse, with their family. And stopping drinking for 30 days, you can usually start to see relationships repairing. It doesn't mean that all of a sudden everybody's gonna forget and forgive. Not everybody is going to. But the good thing is that if alcohol has caused strain in your relationships, is you're doing the most important thing that you can do, which is stopping drinking. The problem here is if you've made promises to your family and friends or whoever you've upset with alcohol, and you've made promises that you're gonna stop in the past and then relapse, there's a possibility that when you stop for 30 days, people aren't really gonna trust you. They might be supportive, they might be positive, but in the back of their mind, they're probably thinking, here we go again, which is why the first 30 days should really be the foundation. Now we'll get to this in point number 10. Wait for that. But the seventh thing that you can expect, and the seventh benefit in the first 30 days of not drinking alcohol is in your self-confidence. So when I stopped drinking alcohol, what I did is I used something called first principles thinking. This is a mental model where you really break a problem down into its component parts, you study the individual component parts, you put them back together and build a new worldview. When I did this, the decision to stop drinking alcohol was instant. It literally felt like somebody had flicked a switch in my brain and that was it. Now, that sounds a little bit crazy, and you know, most of the people I end up working with, they're very skeptical when I tell them this. But I hired an academic psychologist to go through my data and go and look at the feedback that we get on the program, and he noted people talking about this theme in the feedback. They said that people felt like a switch got flicked. Now, if you want to see this scientific report about my method, about how it works, you can click the link down below. I'll link you to the scientific report. This is written by an academic psychologist with a PhD who has peer-reviewed addiction research published in his name already. In full transparency, my company did commission this guy, but he goes and breaks down the science behind what we do. Now, because I'd made such a clear, unequivocal decision that I wasn't going to drink again, I felt like I'd rebuilt that trust in myself. See, my problem is I'd promised myself that I wouldn't drink alcohol more times than I can count. And I'd break that promise to myself. I'd say, right, Leon, today you're not drinking. And then a week later, I'm back at the bar. Sometimes I might go a month, sometimes two months. But the problem is that spilled into all areas of my life. I stopped trusting myself. So when I set a goal for, I don't know, some fitness goal or something like that, I've really got this terrible relationship of following through with goals. So then when I'd finally beaten it, the self-confidence came back, the self-trust got rebuilt, the self-esteem improved. But again, this is why the first 30 days is really the stepping stone into what's next. The eighth benefit of stopping for 30 days will come to your sleep. Now, going back to the first point, sleep can be up and down in the first couple of weeks. But usually at around week two, sleep will normalize, energy will normalize, all that stuff will happen. And what I've experienced and what I've heard other people say is they say that they forgot what a good night of rest felt like. They say that they feel like they are sleeping the best they've ever slept in their life. The problem with alcohol is that it does reduce something called sleep onset latency, which is the amount of time it takes you to fall asleep at night. And from experience, I know this to be true. If I've gone out boozing and I get back home, I'm out like that. The problem though is it destroys the quality of your sleep. So when people stop drinking alcohol and things have normalized and they're starting to feel a bit better, that's when you can get some of the best rest of your life. And I don't know if this is true, but there are athletes out there that say that the number one performance-enhancing drug that they use is sleep. Practice does not make perfect.

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Practice with a night of sleep is what makes perfect because you come back the next day and you're 20 to 30% better in terms of your skilled performance than where you were at the end of your practice session the day before. Wow. I mean, sleep is the greatest legal performance-enhancing drug that most people are probably neglecting in sport.

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Having perfect sleep helps them recover and feel better and whatever. Who knows? Maybe that's their public answer, maybe they're filled with performance-enhancing drugs, really, but I'm just joking around. Sleep gets so much better, trust me. Number nine is in your weight. So you can expect some weight fluctuations, but you can expect some weight to start falling off. One of the problems with alcohol is when we drink alcohol, is our body doesn't account for the calories consumed by drinking. So, for example, if you drink a thousand calories worth of vodka, your body doesn't register that as food. In other words, if your basal metabolic rate, if the amount of calories that you need to eat to stay alive is 2,500 calories a day, and you drink a thousand calories, your body doesn't then only want to eat 1,500 calories. It still wants the full thing, the 2,500 calories. And when you drink, inhibitions are lowered. So our food choices, our nutrition choices, can become worse. So you can expect some weight to go, you can expect some bloating to go, some skin improvements to happen. And for some people, they'll get some weight gain, but good weight gain, especially if you're building momentum with exercise. But the tenth benefit and the most important thing of all is that by the end of the first 30 days of stopping drinking alcohol, is you've got momentum. And when you're here, you have two choices. You either go back to the very thing that did nothing for you for your entire life, it's never added anything to your life, or you continue not drinking alcohol, you make your community proud, you make your family proud, and most importantly, you make yourself proud. If you want to help stopping drinking and you want to apply for the Soberclear program, where we work with business owners and professionals and we show them a new method to getting in control of their drinking, you can click the link in the description, you can fill in an application and book a free consultation, and we can see if the Soberclear system could be a good match for you. There's no charge for the call, and you'll walk away from that call with a ton of useful insights. So if you want to apply for that, click the link down below. We'll speak with you soon.

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