You get used to it. 90% of folk are totally fine with you not drinking after the initial odd piss take comment. The 10% that make a fuss end up coming to you when they are 8 pints deep and tell you they are worried about their drinking and can you help!
I’m 43 now and in June 2022, I stopped drinking and started running again. I was 18 stone and got down to 14.5 stone. I'm currently training for Brighton marathon. I stopped eating Mccy D's, subway, burger king etc in June 2023 (Sales rep on the move so the golden arches were my weakness) Also...