“I genuinely feel like a young girl again and that comes across in everything I do.”
Have you ever wondered if it’s too late to change? That’s exactly how Marjorie felt. She’d been drinking since the 1970s. She tried Dry January and made rules about not drinking during the week… but nothing ever lasted for long. With arthritis in her knees, Marjorie knew that losing weight would make life easier – but the calories from alcohol were making it harder to shed the pounds. Thanks to The Sober School, Marjorie has been alcohol-free since January 2024 and says she now feels like a young girl again.
“Drinking had become so habitual. At 6 o’clock, when the sun had gone over the yardarm, that was the signal. I’d crack open a gin and tonic, then move on to wine – and we’d demolish a bottle every night, sometimes more. There was no downtime, no break.”
“I’d done several Dry Januarys, but I was white-knuckling it. I’d just wait for the end of the month so I could pick up where I left off. Nothing changed, nothing shifted.”
“Ballet is my passion. I’ve got arthritic knees and every pound you lose takes pressure off the joints. Being lighter meant I could keep doing something I love – or should love, if I’m not soaked in alcohol. I’d lost a couple of stone, but I knew I wasn’t going to get any further because the nightly wine intake provoked the munchies. After quitting, I lost another stone and a half.”
“I genuinely feel like a young girl again and that comes across in everything I do. In my social interactions, my dancing, my whatever… it’s just such a gift.”
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