One of the requirements for completing 75 Hard was not drinking any alcohol during the 75 days. For me this wasn’t really a problem. I maybe have a drink or two on the weekends or special occasions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During January it was really easy as a lot of people celebrate Dry January. It felt a little more challenging after that. But realistically every place serves non-alcoholic drinks, even if it’s just water. Almost every place we went also served some type of non-alcoholic cocktail or beer too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes I enjoyed one of those mock-style drinks, but I really stuck to water a lot since I needed to drink a gallon of it and any other liquid was just extra! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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