IT’S Friday night and Toni Jones is downing pints of Prosecco. And this happens every week - at least it was until January 1, 2024, when Toni decided enough was enough. 15 Toni Jones was a big binge drinker until she made some huge changes in her life Credit: Toni Jones 15 The 47-year-old has been sober for more than a year and doesn't ever see herself drinking again Credit: Toni Jones She then challenged herself to stay sober for 365 days - and she’s never felt better.
“I wanted to free myself from alcohol,” the 47-year-old, from Norfolk, says. “And it’s the best thing I have ever done.” Toni, founder of The Shelf Help Club , discovered the booze buzz as a teenager and was instantly hooked.
She spent years partying hard, regularly waking up having forgotten last night’s antics. “I was drunk or hungover for at least 20 years,” she says. “I was born to a disinterested and alcoholic dad, who was estranged by the time I was in my late 20s.
“He’d escaped to Thailand to drink himself to death by my early 30s. “I started binge drinking in high school as a way to self-medicate through messy family stuff - plus I came of age in the ladette era. “I developed a very toxic relationship with alcohol.
Anti-ageing transformations of people who quit alcohol “But I was unable to give up binge drinking for a long time - even when I started to understand how much it was hurting me mentally and physically. “Sometimes it was fun. But usually I would push it past.
