Walking and Drinking
I realize "health & wellness" is pretty low on the list of topics people like to read about, so I'll try to keep this short. :)
Two things happened to me about a year ago: I started walking multiple miles for exercise in the early morning, and my desire to drink alcohol vanished.
I'm not sure the latter was the result of the former, but it kind of feels like it.
Not that I "quit" drinking-I didn't. Quitting, to me, implies an affirmative decision to stop doing something, and willpower to keep at it. That's not what happened in my case. The fundamental desire to drink went away, so it's actually been effortless to not do it anymore. No willpower involved at all.
OTOH, my decision to start walking significant distances first thing in the morning was an affirmative one. And so now, weather permitting, I get up every day an hour-and-a-half before sunrise and walk at least 3 miles, and usually closer to 5.
Never imagined this would be me at the end of my seventh decade of life, but it is, and I'm glad!
Two things happened to me about a year ago: I started walking multiple miles for exercise in the early morning, and my desire to drink alcohol vanished.
I'm not sure the latter was the result of the former, but it kind of feels like it.
Not that I "quit" drinking-I didn't. Quitting, to me, implies an affirmative decision to stop doing something, and willpower to keep at it. That's not what happened in my case. The fundamental desire to drink went away, so it's actually been effortless to not do it anymore. No willpower involved at all.
OTOH, my decision to start walking significant distances first thing in the morning was an affirmative one. And so now, weather permitting, I get up every day an hour-and-a-half before sunrise and walk at least 3 miles, and usually closer to 5.
Never imagined this would be me at the end of my seventh decade of life, but it is, and I'm glad!