20 Stunning Before and After Photos of People Who Got Sober

Completely changing your lifestyle can be very difficult, especially when it comes to quitting alcohol. Addiction is no joke, and it can be incredibly hard for some people to sober up. However, for a lot of people, it’s a change for the better that represents a new lease on life.

Here’s the proof.

1. “After A Decade Under The Influence And Not Taking Care Of Myself, I Am 3 Weeks Away From 1 Year Of Sobriety. 50 Lbs Lighter And A New Job Doing What I Am Passionate About. Life Is Much Better And I Definitely Enjoy It Now”

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2. “1 Year Without Drinking”

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3. “One Year Of No Alcohol Has Changed My Life. I Lost 53 Pounds And I’m 1000 Times Happier. I Tried To Recreate My Bloated Pic”

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4. “Here Is What 826 Days Sober Looks Like. Left Is Me June 11th 2014, On The Right Is Me Today. Recovery Is Possible”

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5. “10 Years. Sobriety. Good Support Network. And A Firm Dedication To Being The Superhero My Dog Thinks I Am”

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6. “So Proud Of My Brother. Celebrated One Year Of Sobriety And Also Being One Person Lighter. Just Awesome”

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7. “My Recovery Progress Makes Me Smile. 4+ Years Of Sobriety Transformation”

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8. “I Gave Up Alcohol When My Daughter Turned 1. I’m 5 Years Sober Today”

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9. “Left Is Me In The ICU From An Overdose. Decided I Was Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired And Am 6 Months Clean And Sober Today”

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10. “Lost 105 Lbs In 15 Months. First I Quit Drinking. Three Months Later I Changed My Diet (Cut Carbs And Portion Control). Finally, About 12 Months Of Working Out. Change Is Possible No Matter What Your Age Is”

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11. “The Progression Of Sobriety. 24 Hours/1 Year. One Day At A Time”

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12. “Doesn’t Seem Like Much To Some But 100 Days With No Alcohol. Don’t Let Fear Of Judgement Get In The Way Of A Better Life”

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13. “Just Found A Old Picture Of Me On FB. I’m About 9 Months Sober From The Time It Was Taken”

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14. “What A Year Of Sobriety And 60 Pounds Lost Looks Like”

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15. “A Little Over A Year Ago. I’d Had Most Of A Box Of Wine Earlier In The Day And Then Drank Around 12oz Of Whiskey On Stage (Stand Up Comedy) In Front Of A Crowd. Currently, Almost A Year Sober”

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16. “11 Months Sober And Life Has Never Been Better. I’ve Lost 20kg!”

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17. “Before And After 307 Days Sober”

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18. “I Took The Picture On The Left Almost 17 Months Ago, Outside An Emergency Room, At Sunrise, Something Told Me I Didn’t Want To Forget That Moment. I Forget Easily. I’m Going Public With This Now Simply Because I Need To Advocate For Recovery More”

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19. “On The Left – 2009 During A 6 Month Relapse After I Left My Daughter’s Dad And Tried To Convince Myself That Without Him, I Didn’t Have An Addiction. On The Right – 2017 After Celebrating 7 Years Of Sobriety, Dropping The Weight, Accepting My Body, Exploring My Sexuality And Thriving In The Uniqueness That Makes Me, Me”

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20. “Quit Drinking One Year Ago This Weekend. 35 Lbs Loss”

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Way to go, everyone!

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You Can Drink Craft Beer on This Train as It Chugs Through the San Juan Mountains

Don’t get too excited just yet, because there’s (unsurprisingly) a waiting list.

But for those who really want a chance to ride the Durango Brew Train through the glorious Colorado mountains – with local craft brewers on board – it’s worth the wait.

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This authentic 1920s steam locomotive, operated by the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, departs Durango to wind through the Animas Valley. Dramatic views are guaranteed as the train runs hundreds of feet above the Animas River on the way to the spectacular Cascade Canyon.

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But that’s not really the highlight of the trip: the trip also has a full schedule of local brewers, like the Animas Brewing Company, pouring generous samples of everything from pale ales to the darkest stouts.

While they drink, passengers are entertained with a history of each brewery, and brewers also share the stories behind their particular beers. Home-brewers may even pick up some tips from the experts.

Once inside the forest, everyone disembarks for a delicious lunch, live music from local bands, and more excellent beer straight out of Durango. Some of the regulars include BREW, Steamworks Brewing and Ska Brewing, with more coming on-board every year.

The brew train only makes one or two trips each September, so put this one on your train list. If you don’t have a train list, make one. This is an expedition you don’t want to miss. Also…beer.

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10 People Reveal the Worst Thing They’ve Done While Drunk

Oh boy, this should be interesting.

Admit it, you’ve done some seriously stupid sh*t when you’ve been drunk.

And so have these AskReddit users…and they’re here to tell us all about it.

1. Tacos!

“Got drunk, went to a taco shop, loudly exclaimed “these tacos are awesome!” and then wrote a $400 tip on the tip line of my receipt. I honestly don’t remember if I meant to actually tip 400 since the tacos were so good, or 4.00 and forgot the decimal, but I was able to get the charge reversed luckily since I was a poor college kid who didn’t even have $400 in my account. Almost died when I woke up to overdraft alerts on my phone though.”

2. A little accident

“I had just passed out and I must have gotten up to go pee, but the only thing I remember is being in the attic squatting and when I stood up my foot fell through the ceiling.

The next morning I woke up with scratches and bruises all down my leg and a huge hole in the ceiling with a pee stain around it. I honestly don’t remember how I got up there.

What’s crazy about it is, you had to walk through our closet on the other side of the room and climb a flight of stairs to get to the attic. The bathroom was 4 feet away from where I was sleeping.”

3. This is a common occurrence

“Woke up to 20 dollars in my wallet, thought to myself “I left with $60 so I only spent $40″

Look at bank account and realize I took out $200 more throughout the night. Damn you drunk me, Damn youu!”

4. Face palm

“I thought my Xbox broke cause it wasn’t ejecting the disk, and drunk me thinks he’s a technical genius, so he tried to fix it.

Sober me found my Xbox in pieces the next morning, and spent $60 to get it repaired. Oh, and there was never even a disk stuck in it.”

5. Fighting

“Started stupid dramatic fights with my husband. I would get upset over a little bit of nothing and bitch at him for no real reason. I don’t think I ever said anything too devastating, but I know I made him feel terrible lots of times. Thing is, he’s just the best guy. He never picks fights and has to be pushed really hard before he gets upset. He didn’t deserve any of that, and I still regret it. Two-and-a-half years sober.”

6. Why not?

“I’m a man. On a drunken shopping spree with my mate, I bought a women’s bras and panties and then rushed home so I could try them on. I passed out pretty soon afterwards. The next day when my girlfriend came to visit, she found me passed out undressed and surrounded by lingerie. I had a pretty tough time explaining I wasn’t cheating on her. I still have no clue why I bought them.”

7. Free drinks!

“I had recently graduated from a Christian university where you are required to abstain from consuming alcohol (you need to sign an agreement and everything). I had not yet moved off campus and couldn’t really afford to yet.

A work function gave us our first 8 drinks free, I took full advantage of this opportunity… and then a little bit more. Some barhopping, 8 cocktails, 3 jack and cokes, and some drunk wandering later, a homeless man approached me offering to sell me a Target gift card.

I bought it for $20 then stumbled drunk to Target and got myself kicked out.

I honestly have no idea how, but I made it back to the dorms somehow. I made it to the shared bathroom, stripped, exploded from both ends and passed out in my own mess. Eventually, security found me and took me in to file a report.

The following weeks were some of the scariest in my life. I had no money and had the looming threat of being kicked out of my apartment. Nothing happened of it though. So I guess the worst thing that happened was losing $20 to a gift card that didn’t work.

Also if you are reading this and had to clean up that bathroom, I am so sorry. Please forgive me.

Drunk me doesn’t make good decisions.”

8. Brandy and iced tea

“I drunk-texted my ex-girlfriend after getting extremely piss-drunk off brandy and iced tea. It led to us getting back together and a very bad, abusive relationship that followed.”

9. Hide and seek

“Drunk Me hides my things all. the. time. I wake up in the morning, head throbbing. Can’t find my keys or my wallet or my purse or my shoes.

Where’s my keys? Oh look, it totally makes sense that they’re in the freezer inside of the bag of frozen fruit. My wallet is in that bag of DVDs that I haven’t looked at since I moved into my apartment. One shoe is on the kitchen counter, the other one is tucked under a blanket by the front door. WHY do I even have a blanket by the front door?! WHO KNOWS.”

10. Heavy drunkening

“I woke up one morning after a heavy drunkening, went into the kitchen and saw my front door key, on it’s own, bent in half in the middle of the kitchen floor. It’s usually attached to a keyring with about 6 other keys.

I tried to think back to what the hell I did, vaguely remember being that pissed up I couldn’t get the key in the lock, when I did I finally bent it in half but managed to get the door open. Walked into the living room and decided it was the keys fault, so in a rage somehow ripped the keyring apart with my bare hands and launched the keys all over the room.

Took my about 3 days to find them all, there were keys behind the television, under the sofa, in plant pots etc.”

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A Beer from the Middle Ages Is Becoming Popular Again

Before 1516, gruit beer was all the rage. What is gruit ale, you ask? Well, it’s beer that is made with an herb mixture as opposed to the hop-heavy beers that are so familiar today.

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Back in the Middle Ages, many drinkers preferred their beer to be made with a variety of herbs such as ginger, lavender, and mugwort. The herbs played the same role as hops, giving the beer flavor and helping to keep out harmful bacteria.

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But in 1516, everything changed. The conservative Puritan movement was in full force and Germany passed a law that declared beer could only be made from hops, water, and barley. Why get rid of the herbs? Because many of them were considered aphrodisiacs at the time, and the Puritans had a big problem with that.

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And so, for the past 500 years, hops have dominated beer production. But gruit ale has been making a comeback lately. Scratch Brewing Company in Illinois released a beer made of dandelion, carrot tops, clover, and ginger. And a brewery in Estonia makes a special beer using herbs, caraway, and juniper berries. By the looks of it, these gruit ales are making a serious comeback. Let’s see if the bearded, tattooed hipsters in your town start making the switch from IPAs over to these herb-based beers any time soon.

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h/t: Mental Floss

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