My husband, Bill and I began changing our lives two years ago today. I wrote about how we quit drinking alcohol in this post from 2020. During the last two years, we’ve lost 150 pounds of fat between the two of us, we’ve skipped 730 hangovers, and we are so proud of ourselves. We proved…
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Drive Your Own Change Bus: Step Four
We’ve come to the last step in my Drive Your Own Change Bus series. However, this isn’t the last step in creating change. Change is something that continues to grow and evolve and challenge you. I am nearly two years without alcohol in my life and I am still finding new revelations about it and…
A Life Update and Thoughts on a Social Media Break
It has been such a long time since my last blog post, about 8 months!. My husband and I spent most of 2021 (seven months total) on the road in our RV, traveling around the west. It was a fantastic adventure and I already miss the open road. I don’t write much when I am…
Handy Tips for Both Weight Loss and Avoiding Alcohol
Having lost weight and given up alcohol at the same time, I have noticed some practices I use for one area also work well in another. I thought I’d share a few handy tips that apply to both weight loss and avoiding alcohol. But first, I want to note that these tips for alcohol may…
Giving Up Alcohol
On January 16th, 2020, my husband and I took our last sips of alcohol. After returning home from a trip of a lifetime to French Polynesia, I came down with Dengue Fever. On that day, I didn’t know that those vodka sodas would be my last or that I would wake up the next morning…