This Is How My Life Changed When I Quit Alcohol And Coffee

Most of us break our New Year Resolutions by the second week of January. Some take up the Dry January challenge and are barely able to skip all alcohol for 31 days. Tobias Van Schneider, a designer from New York, has managed to quit alcohol and coffee for 27 months - with some amazing results to show. He felt less stressed, enjoyed better sleep, and saved about $1,000 a month.

Tobias writes about his experience, "If there is one thing I noticed quite early, then it's the lack of social interaction my new diet brought with it." As a sober person, you don't really enjoy gossips that go on over drinks. This mean he had more time and could catch more sleep. Tobias also noticed that quitting alcohol improved the quality of his sleep too.

Quitting coffee helped Tobias to cut down on his stress and anxiety and improve his digestion.

Nutrition Secrets claims that coffee might have some health benefits but it is not meant for everyone. If you are addicted to your morning cup of caffeine and laugh it off, a John Hopkins study found that just one coffee a day can produce caffeine addiction. They face withdrawal symptoms when try to quit it.

It means that 12 to 20 hours after you drank your last cup of coffee, you may experience headaches, fatigue, inability to concentrate, irritability, anxiety and even depression. Some people may also feel constipation or flu-like symptoms.

These symptoms may last up to a week.

Drinking water or lemon water can help relieve some of these withdrawal symptoms. Once you quit coffee, your hormones start becoming more balanced, you start sleeping like a baby and wake up more refreshed, and you may avert anxiety disorders and panic attacks.

Cutting down on the coffee can also help you slim down, have pearly white teeth, and have better control on our emotions.

Eaththis reports that cutting down on your alcohol intake can help you lose weight (by cutting down on all the empty calories that go in your body), kills the tendency to overeat, improves your metabolism, gives you better skin and better sleep, and decreases your risk of getting diseases like diabetes and heart attacks.

It is normal in New York to take 1-2 drinks a day. Add to it 2-3 cocktails every other day and a few wine bottles to enjoy at home, Tobias easily spent $1,000 on his drinks every month without even realizing it. He did notice the difference once he quit though. The increase in cash-flow was a side-effect Tobias not been counting on.