Since my thread keeps getting love, I’ll post my own.
The first picture was approximately 4 years ago. I liked to think I generally looked pretty put together, but more often than not my hangovers had me lookin like 
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The rest of the pictures are over the course of the last couple months. 3 years into my alcohol and cigarette free life. I am going on adventures, and making time to learn new things. The bottom right picture is of me taking a plant pigment dye class. I would have NEVER done anything like that before. I would have paid the money, and weeks later when the class came about got too drunk to go, either the night before, or any of the mornings of the 3 day class. Or all of the above. That’s most likely.
Life is good, guys. !
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Amazing. Could easily be 2 different people!
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The only difference I see in mine is maybe my skin cleared a little. it’s hard to tell much because my hair is up but i don’t have many pics to go on… any others I literally look way better drunk! …probably because I was going out more and full of makeup. But these 2 pics are about a year apart and in my similar “comfy at home” set up… lol 
idk. People tell me I look better but I don’t see it…
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Left: 2009. Completely wasted. No idea who took the pic or where I was at the time.
Right: 2020. 4 years 19 days sober. Sitting at home with my dog. Enjoying life again.
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Good luck! I am only day 2, i personally haven’t seen a day 7 in over 2 years.
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Congratulations on Day 2 and welcome!!
They are two very different people, really. I am not the same person in any manner. And it’s amazing. I never thought I would be here. 
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This is me at my worst during my addiction. Pain meds and I weighed about 118lbs soaking wet…I might have been smiling but I was dead inside
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This is me now…truly happy. I’ve gone to high schools and spoken to students about my journey, I’ve restored relationships that I once thought were lost. I have truly transformed into the person I’m supposed to be and the best part is…I get to be a real life Transformer because it never stops!!! 
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This is great to hear! Awesome job. You look beautiful
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Thank you so much!!! It’s been a journey but one I’m grateful for because now maybe I can help someone not go down the road that I did. I honestly didn’t think there would be a huge difference but I was rather shocked. Again thank you💞
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Absolutely amazing and beautiful!! What an inspiration you are to the rest of us.
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Somehow it’s after then before. Whatever though. I roll my own cigarettes so for those wondering lol. I don’t use anything mind altering
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Great job! Doesn’t even look like the same guy!
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Thank you! Yea I was a pretty heavy drinker. That picture is me drunk at the happiest place on earth. Disneyland. I actually got kicked out of Disneyland that night
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Eyes glow and skin looks better. Can definitely tell the difference
I just had the realization this morning that this month marks 10 years (!) since I graduated college. I also have not posted a transformation thing in 2 years, so here’s a new one.
May 2010, 21 yrs old
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May 2020, 31 yrs old
That last year of college was the beginning of my worst stage of drinking (which was 2010 and 2011). During that year is when getting blackout drunk 5-7 days a week, drinking alone, going to work/class drunk, etc all became the norm. I don’t recall going to a single party that year, my drinking was done in my room. That continued into my first year in the “real world” (2011). It was the beginning of 2012 that I started to get serious about trying to get my shit together.
I am almost never in touch with people from college anymore. I prefer not to think about those times. So many people reflect on their college years with sweet nostalgia and fondness, I look back on it with embarrassment, disgust, and disbelief that I didn’t die.
I’ve said it before, but I don’t even consider pre-2012 me, to be me. That’s an entirely different person who is now dead.
I am glad that I somehow found the inspiration to pull myself together, to start living a healthy lifestyle, to strive towards being a better person, and to stop sucking down the poison that kept me there. You know how much I was drinking and what a mess I was? That mustache and neck beard were intentional. Let that sink in. The facial hair in my today photo is just from laziness this morning 
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Just WOW!! You look like 2 different people. Awesome transformation. Very inspiring.
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