SSIL, great post! I agree with all that 100%. I am only on day 4 so very new to this, but I did realize during my drinking that...what did I do when I drank, besides drink? Almost nothing!! Sit in my room, stand around a bar, play mindless video games. Nothing that really took much attention or thought.
I'm hoping that I can get far enough along so that I can start breaking out of doing nothing and start developing more real hobbies and interests!