Return
4 years ago, I began an experiment on myself. For a year, from my 29th birthday to my 30th, I said I would eliminate alcohol and marijuana from my life.
I was unsuccessful. ...in the conventional sense. I cheated almost immediately, with a delicious but guilt-rimmed glass of Jameson. And continued to cheat and feel poorly about myself the entire year. But I did keep trying. And I succeeded in two separate full months and then some of sobriety.
Let’s be honest: This was no triumph. Turns out, going cold turkey on all of your addictions is super hard. It was also during this year that I became a true smoker. Essentially, I just filled the alcohol/weed well with tobacco.
What I did come away with from that year was a much more relaxed approach to weed. Before, running out of weed was like running out of toilet paper. Now it’s like running out of tissue paper.
Five years after casually picking up smoking cigarettes as a fun hobby (and subsequently becoming a pack a day smoker), I quit. It’s been 2 months now and that major act of will power has given me the confidence to try the Whole30. Partly for weight management, partly for alcohol management, completely for health management.
I just hope the new habit I will most certainly pick up to fill the well isn’t murder. I’m too pretty for prison.
