http://www.oneyearnobeer.com
Or my alternative group, for those who want to become OYNB pirates, because you find larger groups too impersonal...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1899091816978778/?pnref=story
Never heard of it? Click on the links above.
I joined in 2016 knowing that I should cut my alcohol intake drastically if I wanted a healthy future. I started with the '90 day challenge' last summer, but could I go 90 days without alcohol? I hadn't done that since the age of 12! I could have gone with 30 days, but after listening to others, that didn't prove a lot. After 60 days, I was told that I could now feel like what it was like to be normal, a non-drinker, and it was very good.
I stopped the challenge at 60 days thinking I'd changed my life, but far from it. It's just a big long, greasy pole sliding way back to where you started; into the 'alco-haze'!
Was I an alcoholic? I guess the 60 days without alcohol proved to me that I wasn't, but I did have a bad habit that was going to eventually take me down. The first 2 weeks weren't easy, it was breaking a habit that I'd had all my life, a habit that's constantly reinforced as 'good' by not only advertising, but almost every film you'll ever watch. A bit like smoking, which used to be used to portray sexiness, yet now is seen as repellent by most people.
The co-founders of 'One Year No Beer' (OYNB) are Andy and Ruari. Andy's a lovely guy, very approachable and very much involved day to day in support. Ruari's heart is in it, but he's more of a 'Jack Russel', and will chew yer legs off if you come up with something original before he does. There's a little bit more about them below, and if you decide to go for it, I suggest you pick up this book first as a 'must have'. Without help, you are unlikely to make this journey, so hold out your hand, there's some amazing people out there.
IF I make it through this year without alcohol, will I ever drink again? I just don't know.
I mix daily in Bangkok with people who have never drank alcohol, and they seem to live life with more happiness than I've ever seen in a 'drunk'!
Introducing Andy and Ruari...
The Professional
Footballers Association are supporting former player Andy Ramage and co-founder
Ruari Fairbairns with the One Year No Beer Challenge, which encourages people
to give up alcohol for a year.
One Year No Beer (OYNB) is a 30, 90 or
365 day challenge that has been designed to support the community every day
with daily updates, challenges, strategies and tactics to ensure people succeed
through all the temptations.
In 2015, 2+ million people in the UK
signed up for Dry January. And in 2016 that figure is set to be dwarfed, but
what happens in February? The drinks industry come out of hiding and start the
annual carousel of why alcohol needs to be linked to every single activity us
humans do.
OYNB Co-Founders Ruari Fairbairns and
Andy Ramage have set out to change this and are finding thousands of people
flocking to them who are exhausted with the £800m advertising annual
advertising spend just in the UK (IAS).
Ruari and former player Andy both work
in the city and found that all aspects of their lives were being negatively
affected by alcohol in every facet of their lives. They were not alcoholics but
wanted something more out of life. And as they started talking to friends they
discovered that there were hundreds like them in their own networks who also
wanted to stop.
So finding that everything finished on
31st January they set up One Year, No Beer (ONYB), a 30, 90 & 365 day
challenge to support anyone from all walks of life to give up alcohol and focus
on healthy alternative habits.
What was a sober chat in a pub turned
into a movement and in only 2 weeks they have over 5,000 twitter followers and
have just passed 2,000 subscribers to their 90 day challenge.
“Everyone loves a challenge and
OneYearNoBeer is exactly that. No stigma, no labels. If someone can do 30 days,
they can do 90 and at this point they can easily take on the year. These
challenges will change their relationship with alcohol forever.” Andy Ramage
PFA Director of Corporate Social
Responsibility John Hudson said: “The PFA extend its support to this excellent
challenge which I'm sure will have a positive, healthy and in many cases
long-term impact on those who take part.”
For more information abut the challenge:
To visit our website, click here.
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For more information contact: andy@oneyearnobeer.com
