7 Changes after I Quit Drinking | Meet Kevin Drunk OVER?

it's official I am 37 days of sober

today with not a single drip of alcohol

including having just spent an entire

week on a cruise with my wonderful wife

Lauren and Jack and Max were there as

well not a single drip on a cruise in

this video we're going to go through

these seven things that have changed for

me after these last 37 days and I want

to give you a heads up on do I plan to

continue this or not also in the mean

time forgive the gloves quite frankly

they're full of black my hands are full

of black paint and I think the black

paint looks more ridiculous than the

gloves so we'll go for the gloves at

least until I get the black paint off I

didn't have any lacquer thinner around

or mineral spirits not that you should

be using that on your hands

anyway but let's stay on track which

Speaking of being on track that is the

first big benefit that I found of no

alcohol it keeps my team and and my

employees on track so maybe you're not

an employer but I'm sure you collaborate

with other people or you work with

people on your team and one of the

things that I personally have found is

when we're not constantly thinking about

oh let's have a shot at three or let's

have a beer at 5: we're actually able to

wake up earlier be more productive at

work and get more done and instead of

socializing around alcohol we're finding

other things to socialize around like

like shooting semi- shotguns because

that's fun just an example though but I

I used to have this mentality of the

harder you work the harder you get to

play but the problem was I kind of

turned into a fool during that play part

so for at least some of the day I was a

clown or an idiot and with seven

children and multiple companies to run I

can't ever look like a fool so no

alcohol is one of the easiest changes

that I could make to maximize the odds

of never looking like a fool because

I'll tell you one of the things with

alcohol is even after Just One Drink

certainly after three drinks it's over

after that almost four drinks you know

that's kind of when you hit the slippery

slope of you're not going to stop

yourself anymore that's when you do one

wrong thing and you ruin a career you

say one wrong thing you ruin a

relationship you insinuate something you

lose your job whatever

so well I'm not saying that everybody

should not drink I'm simply saying this

is one of the big benefits that I found

and maybe other people are just more

capable of balancing that relationship

but personally I never found myself so

good at it for me it was sort of always

like all right the workday is over let's

drink and then you kind of fall asleep

when you're done drinking and that was

sort of the end of drinking when you

fall asleep that's probably a sign that

maybe you've gone a little too hard now

second thing that has been a benefit of

stopping drinking has actually been

reduced anxiety now this was ironic see

because I drink a lot of coffee and

everything you read on the internet says

oh coffee makes you anxious and so I

would drink five cups a day or more

sometimes and I still do uh and so I've

gone through spurts of quitting coffee

and what I would find is I had the

coffee headaches and then I got through

the coffee headaches and then I kind of

just got tired at random times

throughout the day especially like after

lunch and I sort of lost control of when

I could sort of peak my energy which I

can sort of control with coffee I know

there's about a 2hour lag time to Peak

bell curve and if you kind of time that

perfectly is really good uh spoiler the

way that works is if you know you're

going to crash at 2:00 p.m. make sure

you start drinking coffee at 12: or like

11:30 so you start getting the up on the

bell curve anyway everybody said coffee

was what causes

anxiety so I cured that by drinking

alcohol and what I found was drinking

alcohol would just make me anxious to

drink more alcohol now it does cure very

quickly it is like a fast acting

medicine and that's possibly why it's so

easy to fall into the Trap of regularly

drinking because it is very quick

medicine if you're having a terrible day

or you just feel like absolute crap

there's nothing better than a shot at

tequila or maybe you're into a whiskey

or honestly even just a hard day of work

a nice cold

beer so good and I'm going to miss that

because it was wonderful just the Cure

and the relief that it gives you was so

good but

interestingly that relief just led to

that same anxiety the next day like oh

it's 400 p.m. or it's 5:00 p.m. or it's

6 p.m. it's it's time to play with the

kids or hang out with the family oh but

I'm anxious I'm still thinking about

work okay I'll just drink to get over

the thought of work and then be able to

play with the family and then the next

day surprise surprise you have anxiety

leading up to that time because it's

sort of your body telling you hey it's

time to drink again it was so weird and

now I do not have that anxiety anymore

and it's crazy because I feel like I've

always had anxiety of my adult life

since I was 18 years old it's been crazy

uh and so that has been a huge game Cher

for me another one this one's probably a

little bit more straightforward uh I do

find that I'm able to see myself in a

different light uh and that I'm able to

evaluate what I'm doing right and what

I'm doing wrong my successes and

failures better I'm definitely not

always right I make a lot of mistakes

but there are mistakes that I make that

I look at and go oh I should I can I

learn from this and I feel like my focus

has been much more clear over the past

37 Days some folks at work have told me

I seem more productive as well uh not

that I was unproductive previously just

like an enhanced version so if I was

already productive even more productive

and and I think I'm just sort of getting

started in that transition I think

you'll find on the channel some

productivity enhancements over the next

uh few weeks really starting now and I

hope you come to enjoy them and if you

do make sure to subscribe and you know

we can help each other out in the

transition I know some of you are also

following these footsteps and so I I

feel like I I somewhat I owe you an

update uh because you know I know people

have this this impression of me that I

change my mind often I rarely change my

mind unless there's like a really good

reason to change my mind uh like if I'm

driving and there's a better option I'm

going to change my mind right you're

driving a company you're going to you're

you're changing your Investments

whatever right um but uh this this is

important and I think it's also valid to

give a fair update here that I'm still

on the path uh still haven't had a sip

of alcohol and boy it was it was

tempting it's been tempting but I have

not uh relented so I've even gone

purposefully to some of our favorite

drinking spots uh to sort of tempt

myself or go I've gone to bars with

Lauren to tempt myself

and uh I I have not uh which which has

been great so I'll uh I'll show you some

pictures as uh as proof in the pudding

so to speak in just a moment uh but

another thing that I found and so this

is the fourth reason is uh it's a lot

easier to wake up in the morning I don't

know what it was but something about

alcohol does make it a little harder for

you to wake up the next morning uh it's

so I've been really enthused about not

uh drinking and having a really easy

time to wake up in the morning because

I'll tell you there's nothing worse than

drinking a lot the day before and then

the next day you're supposed to you know

be up early and I wake up somewhere

around 3:00 a.m. it's really difficult

to uh to wake up at 3:00 a.m. if uh

you're always drinking uh now uh here it

is here's the photo I wanted to show

this was just uh us on a cruise here we

actually went to this Star Wars Lounge

which was really cool it's called the

hypers space Lounge it's aboard a Disney

cruise uh look at uh just what this kind

of scene here looks like oh there's

Lauren uh want to show the scenery

around here uh yeah I think I kind of

was more interested in honestly some of

the decor and thinking about the

architecture and like how could I how

could I use some of this in a future

office of mine or whatever I was so

fascinated with even like how they did

the lights under here or whatever sorry

probably not the best example but look

at what the lounge looks like when you

look up from the table that's a bar with

a video screen that plays sort of Star

Wars battleships that shoot each other I

mean what a what a cool cool place

man uh yeah

so I you know I went there uh and didn't

drink but it was

tempting uh but yeah easier to wake up

earlier for sure another thing too is uh

the fifth thing uh being oh mind you

just on waking up early I think waking

up early is a productivity hack it's

extremely useful because nobody bothers

me in the morning and I'm generally not

very productive at night because I'm

tired it's the end of the day so just be

very productive in the morning it's

pretty exciting and I really enjoy that

uh number five uh this one's a little

more straightforward but because I have

a 9-year-old a six-year-old now who's

about to turn seven and I have five

children uh one and under it's because

Ella and CLA just had a one-year

birthday isn't that crazy it's been one

year already since my twins were born

and then four months the other three

will be one long story uh but yes I have

seven children so uh I got to be an

example for all of them so I have seven

reasons to be an example for them but

it's not just them it's also my

employees my team uh everybody who works

with me I think it's it's very very

important to be uh an example for

everybody and to prove that you know I

can do this number six this one's a

little straightforward as well well

weight I have a weight challenge

basically what we're doing is myself and

someone else in the office we are on a

challenge to lose as much weight as

possible between like a couple months

ago and the end of the year and it's

basically like a preut phase so we can

bulk after that so that's just something

we're working on and cutting out alcohol

I was surprised but in like a 200

calorie beer probably 150 calories of it

is the actual alcohol I was sort of

shocked by that uh but anyway if you had

three drinks a night you're probably

looking at somewhere between I mean I

know you could get like a a light like

vodka or something that might be 70

calories but let's just go with an

average of uh you know 300 calories a

night or even 400 especially if you mix

a drink go with 400 time 7 it's a lot uh

you know 4 * 7 now you're at 2800

calories I mean that's almost a pound of

fat

every single week so over the course of

a month you're probably at like three

lounds of fat that you're either trying

to you're constantly either carrying or

you're you're having to offset with more

exercise and you're not losing other fat

because of that right so uh that's

something to consider uh and then of

course number seven is this is just sort

of like I I don't want to say that I'll

never drink again I don't think that I

have this critical problem where it's

like oh my gosh yeah you put me near

that I'm screwed uh and so I do think

that there'll probably be times that it

makes sense to after a certain period of

time you know to be able to celebrate

with friends or family or whatever to to

you know have a drink or two uh I think

what I found and I'm not there yet I

probably want to get to at least the New

Year honestly uh and then and then even

in the new year I mean then be at what

90 days or something like that 97 days

or something maybe I'll go for 100 right

uh and then we'll just see I mean like

what reasons do I have to celebrate in

the new year I mean my birthday in

January is not going to be one I know

that is a celebrated reason but that's

not a big deal for me uh I generally

don't love my birthday it's like oh I'm

older now uh but anyway so um but

everybody's different and that's okay

but yeah I think um you know I think

it's like if if there's a really serious

problem it makes sense to stay away

because one drink will just lead to

another and then you kind of get back

into the daily habit I don't think I'm

of that problem but I don't know I mean

I guess let's get through the first 100

first and then see uh the downside is I

feel like it's a very slippery slope uh

and so I just want to be candid about

that I I do worry that like you know if

you do go oh yeah okay I'll have a drink

with you and you're just sort of like

easy uh then everything becomes a reason

to drink again oh yeah let's go to the

bar and get drinks oh yeah let's go you

know to date night and have drinks what

and then it's just every occasion all of

a sudden becomes drinks again and then

before you know it it's just turns daily

again because otherwise you'll have the

anxiety again so I'm yeah that's not

good I do find also that personally like

if you're going to drink as soon as you

hit that fourth drink you're screwed

like your reason just goes out the

toilet and it's so much easier to go 567

is bad so uh personally I think uh the

way to do it is that you go like the

easiest defense is one drink but it has

a floater and then you know like when

that one drink is over no refills maybe

that's a way to moderate it but again I

I I just feel like you're making deals

with the Devil

frankly and I I have no intentions or

plans to go back to drinking at this

point I just part of me says like do I

really see myself as like never again in

my life having a drink like my kid's

21st birthday and I going be like nah

man I don't drink oh go for it on your

own you know like I do feel like I do

have some fomo of that uh so I'll just

have to figure out how to balance that

but for now uh it's going to be a pretty

straight straight shot so to speak

anyway uh and uh I'll just drink my

favorite uh bottle over here toppo so uh

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