4 Years Alcohol Free - How Life is Better Without the Booze

In 3 days I’ll be 10,000 days without alcohol 🍺 that’s 27 years, 4 months and 17 days, makes me feel old 😅

I'm 51. Always been fairly active but alcohol is problematic for me. I'm not a huge drinker but I'm also bad at just keeping to a couple of drinks. I gave up drinking for a year back in 2016. I felt great! I'm coming to a point where I need to address the issue again. I feel I'm ready. Thanks for your videos

Been about a year or so since I commented on 1 of your vids and what a completely different person I feel like now. So glad that's in the past with my alcohol binging etc. I made the mistake of counting days as I was wishing the days away to get to x amount of days sober. For me anyway not counting days help. Yourself and other youtubers have really helped me so a massive thank you! Great to not wake up and dread what I did or didn't do the night before 😂

Very commendable that you identified the aspects in your life that held you back, then changed your path toward a brighter future. That’s honorable and inspiring.

You’re looking good mate. Been following your adventures. Hope to see you out and about.

Amazing. I'm 40 and only just getting sober after many lapses. I've had to go to AA to keep myself accountable. Great to see how you've achieved it and very inspiring to others

"Hey Adam, just wanna share a bit. I've watched all of your cycling series as I was planning my own cycling trip around Europe and Asia. Back when you first announced you were stopping booze, I was like "good for him but can't really relate, I only drink in social events, never alone, don't like the feeling of being too drunk then hungover". I do like the way it makes socializing easier sometimes, but even then I never felt I needed it to interact. It's been now a few weeks since I've stopped smoking tobacco and weed though, and after years and years of lying to myself "welp it's my drug of choice, I don't really do anything else". I came to realize that my attitude was exactly the same as alcoholism. I'd smoke almost every day, only managed to stop during my cycling trip and the occasional 1-2 week holidays. Maybe I wouldn't have needed to stop if my weed use was like my booze use, only in social settings, sometimes weeks/months apart and I never ever crave alcohol. But it's not the case, I'm 35 in a few days now and it took 17 years of dependence but now I do feel like I have a more sincere picture of myself and my addiction. Anyway, thanks for sharing, all the best and I'm not sure I've ever commented before but since I'm at it, thanks for the cycling vids, they were a great inspiration alongside with Iohan's. (English isn't my main language, sorry if I butchered some sentences) All the best!"

Great video Adam ! I still remember your "6 months" video a couples years ago. All the best to you !

Well done mate, same here i gave up for a few weeks, I'm now at 8 months. 13-8-2023. Hope you enjoyed Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. Big Si

Really enjoyed this video and have been reducing my drinking so that I can stay active and do biking trips. I just turned 40 and know that if I want to be able to do more bike camping and run every day, which I love so much, I need to keep healthy. Ive gone mutiple years without drinking and Im on 6 months or so now. It makes a huge difference in the way I feel and I find it to be so much less effort to not drink then to try to moderate it.

Thank you Adam! I never drank but I listen to your philosophy on life! GREAT job ❤

Fantastic video, so proud of you son, eight n'half years for me and ye mam.

I’m 105 days in. I turned 60 and want to go the decade with no alcohol. I’ve only had a glass of wine at my daughters college graduation lunch And it was wonderful and right, and then back to not drinking. My son doesn’t graduate for three more years, so I’m good 😂

Brilliant, and thanks for your honesty. I don't drink and never have. Ironically I work with alcoholics so I know how hard it can be to break away. This is a great positive message.

Good advice 👍

It will be a year of sobriety for me in July. I feel great, but I have been part of this group for twelve years, where drinking is part of life. Now I just want to get out of that group, but I am scared of telling that to them.

Don't count, stay sober one day at a time. Can't drink yesterday as its gone,can't drink tomorrow as it hasn't happened yet. As a wise man said to me once,are you counting away from or to the next drink.

My problem was replacing the booze. Buying more to keep high. Driving, riding my bike to get to the liquor store, while buzzed! DUI in States for riding ebike drunk.

I stopped drinking alcohol 6 months ago at aged 58. I feel the same as you I dont want to have "just one" which I know would lead to more. The only issue I have now is a chocolate biscuit addiction, any advice on that ? Theres no stigma about non alcoholic beer either.

I've tried moderating and the buzz roughly last 20-60 mins. It can't be achieve again after the first two beers. I was caught in the cycle of thinking about it during the day, how much, what percentage. A waste of time for 30 mins of buzz.