Am I an Alcoholic?

I wish I could funnel this into my mouth...

Wait, so no alcohol for 30 days? Haha. That's funny, but seriously. Can I maybe drink "pee" beer, AKA any lite beer you can think of? It's lite so it must be healthy... right?

Well no... obviously no one thinks beer is "healthy" per se. But a glass of red wine a day is good for you heart or something like that, right? I don't know whether or not there is science to back that theory up, but what I do know is that I am about to go THIRTY ENTIRE DAYS without any drop of alcohol.

Honestly, I am not sure I've gone 30 days without drinking alcohol since I turned 21. Granted that was only 3 years ago, but still. So the question popped into my head - Am I an alcoholic?

Like every other teenager on the planet (well maybe not) I used to watch the show Intervention on A&E. Am I like those people who drink pints of grain liquor with their cheerios? Obviously not. So not I am obviously not an alcoholic. Obviously. DISCLAIMER: I am sorry if any of the material thus far has offended anyone or their family members whom may be alcoholics themselves. That is not my intent. But so anyways, I started wondering why giving up alcohol for 30 days was going to be so difficult. The conclusion I came to is that it is not going to be the end of the world. Yes, I will miss having a glass of wine after a stressful day. Or cracking open a nice cold Austin Beerworks Blackthunder (you beer knurds know what I am talking about). But am I going to miss it enough to hide some under my bed in a water bottle? No.

It takes some serious inward-looking (I made that verb up) abilities to realize that you may use alcohol as a clutch. And you convince yourself that it's fine because everyone else does it. Well I am starting to think, even at 24, that daily drinking or even 4 times a week may not be the best thing for my health or my sanity. Now after Whole30 I am for sure going to partake in an alcoholic beverage every once and a while. But like my mom said: I am going to make drinking an exception not a rule.

Throughout the 30 days we will be sure to come back to this topic, but those are my thoughts for now. You may now resume drinking whatever alcoholic drink you're consuming, or about to consume, while reading this...