Welcome to the Almost 30 Podcast. I'm Lindsay and I'm Krista and we're your hosts, guides and friends on this path.

Almost 30 is not about your age, it's about the feeling. All of us are almost something, seeking community and resources to support the rumblings of transformation within us.

Our conversations are deep dives, shepherded by our insatiable curiosity and desire for connection and during inspiration and a sense of levity that we can all benefit from.

We're looking to find the magic in the human experience. Vukalab baby, your evolution is waiting.

Hello, hello, hello, I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to Almost 30. Everybody, how are we feeling? How are we today? It's Lindsay and Krista. We're so happy to have you. This is a show where hopefully you will learn a lot, laugh a lot and just feel really good.

And explore all aspects of our existence, our consciousness, explore different topics like the one we're going to share about today, which is about being sober curious about some things that are going to support you in your sober curious journey.

It's going to be a good one and I love talking about this because I've been out call free for a while now. It's something that I let go of when I was 26, living in Chicago.

I was a little ahead of the curve, not going to lie, but it's really changed my life. So I love to be in conversation with you about things that are supportive of me, no pressure, do whatever feels good, but it's something that's changed my life and I know for you to your sober curious journey has been really powerful.

Yeah, it's definitely something that took me a little bit. I was definitely not 26, but it was through my experience of binge drinking and really just like

numbing out and escaping through alcohol and partying and just that whole scene, whether in New York or LA, that I was really brought to my knees metaphorically.

My body started to reject the lifestyle and what does that mean? My body rejected the lifestyle. I guess that's true.

The late nights, the eating, yeah, totally all of my habits were pretty piss poor. I was working out a lot, but like that coupled with not hydrating enough, drinking alcohol, basically poisoning my body and then the food that you eat when you're drinking alcohol is not the healthy stuff.

You know what's crazy about me is I'm I mean, I've been a binger my life. I've binged. I never drunk eight really how wild. That's so interesting.

It's so interesting because I would binge sober. You know, in college. Yeah, so many, even my friends in college would dip their cell phones in like chip bowls as like a salsa and like you know, just would do crazy stuff with eating.

And I'm so thankful that that wasn't me because I was very destructive in other ways. And I would have thought that would be my path. But it was almost honestly deep so deeply embedded in me that it was almost like because I was drinking.

I already felt like crap enough about myself. Yeah, that eating more would have made me go over the edge of like self hate in a way that I don't even know if I could even recover from.

Yeah, I just remember like at the beginning of the night knowing that we're already three shots in and we're probably going to do about six before we go out, but already thinking about what I'm going to order.

Oh, totally. And not in a way that was like, but it was just like I would wait to have that type of food when I was drunk because for some reason to me it like canceled it out or something. Yeah, the last time I ate meat.

I've eaten fish sense but eating meat I was on my boyfriend's bed at the time ordered three chili cheese conies.

What's a pony? It's a hot dog. It's a hot dog covered in chili and cheese and I ate it on the bed. And I literally was like this is we're done.

It was the most disgusting thing I've ever had in my whole life. And I was just so drunk and so disgusting and actually I think I woke up from it and had chili cheese all over the bed.

And I was like this looks like baby shit everywhere because of the colors. I'm like it was so gross. I was like we're done here. Yeah.

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