{"id":627,"date":"2017-01-31T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:47:06","slug":"30-days-without-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/2017\/01\/31\/30-days-without-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"30 days without alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, I took a new year resolution in 2017 to quit alcohol and meat till I lose 10 KG weight or I reach below 60KGs. And today, on 31 Jan 2017, I completed 30 days without both. <\/p>\n<p>When I started the resolution, I weighed 70KGs and now I weigh, 68KGs. I did running of 57KM as per Runstatic App while Ia m assuming I must have run approx 70KM, much lower that targeted 100KM a month. I mjst have spent at least 15 hours in GYM doing some weight training as well as some other work outs. <\/p>\n<p>Few of my friends have reduced their visits to my home as I stopped alcohol and meat. I think that is fine. A peson who enjoys alcohol may not like a non drinking partner, specially who has been long term drinking partner. <\/p>\n<p>I have not experienced much change in my, except that, I think, my face looks little better or younger. Worst is, I could reduce just 2KGs, which is far below my expectation. <\/p>\n<p>I had faced many comments after I quit alcohol. One interesting, a typical North Indian comment is, a person who has been drinking alcohol is like a person who has been in jail once, even if he comes out of jail, he remains a jail bird. And alcoholic person is like that, even if he quits drinking, he is still considered alcoholic and can not redeem himself\/herself in the society. I find it quite interesting, specially the analogy. <\/p>\n<p>90% people did not believe that I would stick to my resolution. But then I have been able to stick to my resolution so far. During this 30 days, I cooked chicken at home three times and I did not eat even once. I was eating fish though. I even ate fish worth Rupees 1000 at Karol Bagh in New Delhi. <\/p>\n<p>Here are few things I realised during this period:-<br \/>\n1. Majority of my friends are alcohol drinkers.<br \/>\n2. People normally doubt that one can quit alcohol.<br \/>\n3. There is serious peer pressure to drink.<br \/>\n4. Quitting alcohol is easier than quitting meat.<br \/>\n5. Smell of cooked meat is more tempting that smell of alcohol.<br \/>\n6. One may not lose weight automatically if one quits alcohol and meat.<br \/>\n7. One looks younger when one quits alcohol. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading this far. I will update more when I actually reach below 60KGs and if I get to hear more interesting comment\/feedback from others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, I took a new year resolution in 2017 to quit alcohol and meat till I lose 10 KG weight or I reach below 60KGs. And today,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,37,47],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-new-year-resolution","tag-quit-alcohol","tag-weigh-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}