This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi friends, it's Annie Grace and I am answering questions. I'm the author of this naked mind.

First of all, apologies for not being online answering questions for the last few days.

I had a bit of a sick kid at home so I was not on Facebook.

But I'm back and I have a little bit of a backlog of questions.

First of all, that's very exciting for me because I love having questions. I definitely will keep answering as long as people keep asking.

If you are in queue, I apologize that I haven't gotten to them sooner. Usually I like to answer in just a day or two.

But it's been a bit longer right now.

So anyway, the question today comes from anonymous and she wants to know or he wants to know.

The question is, it's been almost a month for me which is great and I couldn't have done it without your help.

So thank you so much. My question is when will this spare tire go away on my belly? I figured without all those empty calories, it would be pretty much gone by now.

Did it take a while to notice any changes?

Thanks. And yeah, I experienced some pretty rapid weight loss. I'd say in the first 45 to 60 days, I lost about 12 pounds.

And then I'd say that I started doing things like I like an indulgence and I didn't want something that was addictive.

But I definitely like if we're going out to dinner with a bunch of friends or something and I wasn't going to be drinking, you know, I wanted something that really tasted good.

And so it took me a while. Like now I just drink like a soda with cranberry or even just water or iced tea.

But at first I was drinking like tonic and lime and that has still a lot of calories. So I didn't notice things quite as fast.

And so I actually kind of put on a little weight after the first two months.

And then the other thing I would do is I would also indulge myself with dessert. So I'd have a dessert kind of after dinner and whatnot.

And I still do that. And let's be honest, I'm just going to do that because I feel like, you know, good for me.

Like I've done some really big positive changes in my life. And you know, if I want to indulge with sugar on occasion, then, you know, definitely I think that's something that I'm going to do.

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