# @velouniversity on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C0h9oNQOF-Y
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13642254-velouniversity-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-12-07T00:00:21.000+00:00

## Caption

For the past 60 days, I have abstained from alcohol - Let’s see how my body adapted. 🍻 

I will admit this got significantly easier once making it past the first 30 days, and whats cool is the benefits started compounding with each passing week. 

Let’s take a look at my resting heart rate over that 60 day period and you can notice that with each month I fell from an average of 60 to average of 55bpm. 

Furthering this we can take a look at my Heart Rate Variability over this 60 day period and you can see that I rose a whopping average of 10 points over this time period.

As my commitment to this quest became fortified so did my commitment in several other areas of my life.  Another area which I saw major benefit was in my body composition with my body fat dropping just over three percent while my overall FFM went up an incredible 8.6 pounds, and my overall weight barely changing.

Now I am not trying to imply that abstaining from alcohol made me gain 8 pounds of muscle.  But what I am indicating to you is the power of chasing who you want to be can have on your life.  

This one positive decision led to several other positive choices that all began to create this positive feedback loop on one another.  I wanted to challenge myself not to drink because I knew the positive health benefits, which led me to look at my sleeping habits and then at my nighttime and morning routines, and then to altering the frequency and intensity of my workouts;  and before you know it, this one positive life habit had compounded into a new version of myself as it became woven into the fabric of who I am.   

Listen, I dont know if or when I will go back to drinking but I can certainly tell you that I fully understand the ramifications of making a choice against the identity I want to be, As I have felt first hand what happens when you can consistently make choices towards the one you do want to be.

#alcoholfree #noalcohol #nodrinking

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