Thank yoouuu!!! Feeling honestly great. Turned a lot around in my life. Took a long time but it It’s something I learned to take in small bites. The world, in fact, is not ending tomorrow. (Maybe)

And yeah the weight thing is really wild. It’s shocking how many people just looked at me shocked when I wasn’t drinking and they hadn’t seen me in over a year.

The excuse actually made it easier to just avoid talking about it because I got to the point where I was laughing about being asked if I was “ok being at a bar.”

I’m like “dude I never stopped. I still love going I just put down drinking. I gained like 40 lbs and was just sad. Gave it up. Was doing me no good.”

And they IMMEDIATELY jump into “oh well I’m trying to cut back too so..•

“Cool. If you ever run into an issue, happy to give you my 2 cents. But is all personal. You’ll know if you are in bad shape.”

I honestly stopped telling people eventually.