My long road out of hell

[southernstyle]

It is said that the best therapy is to talk about your problems.

Having said that I would like to tell you A little bit about myself and my battle with alcohol and how body building is helping to save my life.

I'm 35 years old and have been working out since I was around 23. As do many young men I began guzzling beer on A daily basis about the same age as I began working out.

I never gave any thought to what that was doing to me or the ones around me until recently when I began juicing.
The truth is that if I had kicked the bottle years ago I would be much further along with my body and may never had to use gear.

I had to decide what I wanted more, My health and family or to get high every day.

Now when I say I drank, I dont mean I had A couple of beers and got loose, I mean I was up to 15+ beers every (and I mean EVERY) day.

I would get up have meal 1, work out go to work, meal 2, meal 3, etc. Until I got home and thats when I'd start poundin' the brew.

My kidneys were killing me (and still do) and I could not eat as much as I should have been.

I'm not sure how things will go in the future but I will say that I'm focused on my health and thats A damn good incentive.

I think it was watching Ron Colemans videos that got me inspired to do something about this so that is why I say that Bodybuilding is saving my life.

Hope this all makes sense and I'd like to keep you guys updated if I may as the members here have been some of the best freinds I have ever had, Thank you for giving me/us such A wonderfull place to talk Big-A.

-SouthernStyle-

 

[BiggerStronger]

It's a very wise decision bro. Drinking that much has caused much damage to your organs. Alcohol in that amount will greatly diminish your gains as well as damage your relations with others. Just remember that you will feel so much better health wise when you choose not to drink as well as your relationships and life will begin to improve day by day.

Stay sober bro. Life is so much better when you are and you will start to see all of the things that were missing before.

 

[readyset]

alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs around. In my opinion, it IS the most dangerous. It takes real strength to pull yourself away from an addiction such as that.

congratulations to you on your choosing to live the life that YOU want to live. Not many can say theyre doing that.

 

[Chrysler]

The truth is that if I had kicked the bottle years ago I would be much further along with my body and may never had to use gear.

I feel that way and I mainly only partied on the weekends. You can't have both from my experience, a great body and a partying lifestyle that is. Best of luck to you.

 

[klowndog]

Big ups bro on the recovery. Stick with it.

 

[blackhole2]

I feel that way and I mainly only partied on the weekends. You can't have both from my experience, a great body and a partying lifestyle that is. Best of luck to you.

Dito.

whenever i believe that I am a rockstar and go crazy I pay a high price: no energy sun, mon, tue, wed; crap diet sun, mon, tue, wed, thu.

Them that throws me in depression and bla bla bla.

My life is not so bad that I need this... The party is over...

Let's know how you're doing bro.

 

[h8tr3d]

i wish i could do what your doin!

 

[JETHRO TULL]

Nice work on deciding to stop drinking.

I have gotten drunk 3x since I was 18 years old. I don't miss booze being part of my life. It does nothing good for anyone. Press on and surround yourself with people who are into your new way of life.