Chrissie Swan reveals her extraordinary sobriety milestone… after quitting alcohol and losing 90kg
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Chrissie Swan has gone more than 600 days without alcohol.
The TV and radio host, 48, took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal she has been sober for a year and eight months, after giving up the booze to ease her anxiety.
Since quitting drinking, she has completely transformed her health, dropping 90kg and picking up healthier habits including daily walks and better eating.
Chrissie Swan (pictured with her friend Deano Thomas) has revealed she’s gone more than 600 days without alcohol
‘Seem to be getting a lot of messages checking on whether I’ve taken up booze again,’ she wrote on Instagram.
‘I haven’t! 643 days since my last tipple! Thanks for asking!’ she added.
Chrissie previously revealed she gave up alcohol because it ‘wasn’t serving her’.
Speaking on The Project in October last year, she said she was relying on alcohol to deal with the stress of Covid lockdowns.
The TV and radio host, 48, took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal she has been sober for a year and eight months, after giving up the booze to ease her anxiety
‘It was a decision I made for myself after giving it a fair nudge in the first lockdown last year,’ she said at the time.
‘I haven’t had a drink in about nine months.
‘I do recommend it. If you’re thinking, “oh, maybe I’m drinking a bit much” or “it’s not helping me any more”, I think that’s the biggest thing I’ve taken from it, is that it didn’t help.
Since quitting drinking, Chrissie has completely transformed her health, dropping 90kg and picking up healthier habits including daily walks and better eating. (Pictured left in 2012 and right in March this year)
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‘With the pressures and anxieties and worries and being responsible for kids and their whole life has changed and you’re their parent, you feel enormous guilt, though it’s all out of your control, you kind of feel like having a few drinks will take the edge off – and a couple of drinks does, but eventually it’s at the stage where it doesn’t help and it certainly wasn’t helping me.’
She said her anxiety was ‘through the roof’ and she couldn’t get a good night’s sleep.
‘I really noticed a huge difference in my day-to-day positivity and ability to deal with the pandemic and the ongoing changes to literally every part of our lives if I’m clear-minded, and for me it’s been fantastic, a fantastic choice,’ she added.
Before giving up booze, Chrissy said her anxiety was ‘through the roof’ and she couldn’t get a good night’s sleep
Chrissie has drastically transformed her physique over the last year, citing a new diet, daily walks and sobriety as the secret behind her slim-down.
She briefly touched on her weight loss in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly in March, saying the ‘enormous’ lifestyle changes she’d made over the last year had improved her life in so many ways.
‘I’m not going to talk about the size of my a**e. I’m not going to tell you what I eat in a day. Because I’ve read those stories and they make me feel bad about myself,’ she said.
However, she did confirm Melbourne’s lengthy Covid lockdown was the catalyst for her health and fitness kick.
It comes after Chrissie (left, in 2015) briefly touched on her weight loss in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly, saying the ‘enormous’ lifestyle changes she’d made over the last year had improved her life in so many ways
‘We couldn’t go out to dinner, we couldn’t go to a friend’s house, they couldn’t come to us, we couldn’t go outside five kilometres. All we could do was walk, and so that’s what I did,’ she said.
Chrissie began walking only short distances, but steadily increased her fitness and now walks for two hours per day.
The media personality, who hosts Would I Lie to You on Channel 10, gave up alcohol more than a year ago as part of a health kick.
She also turned to meditation and daily 10km walks to improve her physical and mental health during Melbourne’s 112-day lockdown.
Chrissie began walking only short distances, but steadily increased her fitness and now walks for two hours per day
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