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After a Year Off Booze – What’s Next?

365 Days Booze Free I made it through the year! What an incredible sense of achievement! A whole year!?!?? I made the decision to kick alcohol and caffeine from my life for 90 days, the last two drugs I regularly consumed. To see if I could do it, to prove to...

Stop Drinking and Start Appreciating Your Life

Stopping drinking is a time of reflection A strange thing happens when we stop drinking. When the beer goggles are removed it’s often a time of reflection and the chance to weigh up one’s life. This can often lead us to compare our lives to those around us. In truth...

Quit Drinking – A OneYearNoBeer Story

Quit Drinking - A Members Story For a number of years now I’ve wanted to take a step back from drinking. Each time that I aimed to take a month off I got a few weeks in and then thought “Stuff it!” and fell back into the old habit. On the 18th of February 2016 I went...

Stop Drinking – Stop Lying & brighten your world

When you stop drinking, you stop spoofing, which brightens your world As drinking escalates so does the web of lies required to support it. They go hand in glove. Let’s not lie to ourselves - when drinking, we lie, a lot. On the flip side when we stop drinking we...

You've Dropped the Booze – Now What?

You’ve decided to drop the booze for a while, good on you! Now that you have all of this new time and focus on your hands what do you plan on doing with it? Here at One Year No Beer we have a MindFit, BodyFit, FoodFit mentality, put all three together and you’re...

Starting Your Fitness Journey

Starting Your Fitness Journey So you’ve dropped the booze and now you’re wanting to get started on your fitness journey. You’ve planned all of these amazing activities for yourself, but where do you start? At the beginning! Your body isn’t made to go from...

Find a Community to be a Part of – It's Good for You!

When we were kids our interests may have been bike riding, playing Nintendo, and football, all day every day. As we aged things changed, some of us went from carefree high schoolers, to college students with a flare for pub crawls and beer pong. No matter where we...

Quit Booze: Lou's Triumphant 90 Day Story

We love hearing stories about how you quit booze and Lou's share is no different. We hope you enjoy the read and get inspired to live the life you want to live! I joined the OYNB group on the 4th of January 2016. My initial thought was to do 'Dry January' after having...

Is Alcohol A Gateway Drug to Health?

There is plenty of science to suggest alcohol is a gateway drug to other drugs. A few pints pave the way to a few lines, a few smokes or worse. But let’s turn this idea on its head. At OneYearNoBeer we have discovered that ‘giving up’ alcohol is also the gateway to a...

The secret behind Magic Mike XXL star Joe Manganiello’s Incredible Physique

In a film that is dominated by six packs, chiselled bodies and super smooth moves one actor was the envy of his cast members. Steven Soderbergh described Joe Manganiello as Mr CGI because his body was so flawless. In truth Joe had been through a significant journey to...

9 Reasons Why Giving Up Alcohol is Good for Business and Life

Two years ago I set myself a challenge, the ultimate social challenge - one year without alcohol. As a broker in the city of London, most people thought this an impossible task and others considered it terrible for business. Instead of destroying relationships...

Limitless: The Infinite Possibilities of a Life Free from Alcohol

Have you ever seen that movie where the absurdly handsome lad from 'The Hangover' takes a pill, which allows him to access 100% of his brain? He takes the pill, and instantly, his life changes. He becomes more productive, assured, confident, successful, and completely...

Help us break the bravado

Once I stopped drinking, my eyes were opened to a new world. The social pressure to drink alcohol in the city became almost visible. Imagine the scenario: Three guys at lunch and none of them want to drink alcohol. One has a personal training session booked, the other...