I Lost 45 Pounds in a Year After Quitting Alcohol by Eliminating These 5 Triggers.

Adrian Markel
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4 min readNov 19, 2024

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Would you take a magic pill to look like your dream self?

What if that magic pill was quitting alcohol, and you had to take it every single day for a year?

Unfortunately, 7 out of 10 adults choose not to take it, even though alcohol acts as a toxin that disrupts metabolism, hinders weight loss, and damages gut health.

For most of us, the real impact of alcohol stays hidden until we experience life without it. Within a month of quitting, I:

  • Enhanced my mood.
  • Increased my energy.
  • Slimmed down my face.
  • Gave myself a skinnier waist.

And that’s not even the most surprising part.

The real shocker was that I changed nothing else in my routine — just dropped out the 3 Budweisers I had every night…

That’s when I realized quitting alcohol wasn’t just about the calories — it let me fix parts of myself I didn’t even know were broken.

How Alcohol Destroys Your Body in 3 Ways

Alcohol isn’t just empty calories, it’s a calorie bomb.

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