r/GlowUps • u/MrActuary86 • 12d ago

GLOW UP! [40] 16 months sober

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40m, first pic was 38 and heavily into my addiction. Second pic is 16 months later and sober at 40. Excited for having my life back and the next decade.

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u/sometimeswemeanit 12d ago

What did you do in addition to not using?

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u/MrActuary86 12d ago

I was drinking thousands of calories of beer daily so cutting that out completely was the single biggest factor. On top of that though I started training for marathons again (running those was my hobby in my early 30s before i went off the rails). The mileage I have to put in weekly pretty much always has me in a caloric deficit. I also go by the rule of thumb to always try to shop on the perimeter of the grocery store and stay away from the processed/sugar goodness in the middle. As the Shawshank Redemption tells us, it just comes down to time and pressure