Originally Posted by
Robbie64 
Congratulations on 100 days Cornishman. I had a 6 month (180+ day) run of sobriety earlier this year and blew it because I started to reminisce about the happier times of my drinking days rather than continuing to work on my sobriety. One of my biggest problem in the end was complacency, along with boredom. I don't think I made enough changes to my life and was essentially doing much the same as I had been doing when I was drinking, except actually drinking. Are there things you would like to do that you wouldn't have done while you were drinking? Something that can make a difference to your life and which has no association with drinking?
Stripping the drinking from my life is hard (as it must be for all of us); my drinking is/was Churchillian and was often all day every day in increasing amounts till I fell asleep. The amounts have increased and increased over time though, and the pleasure has decreased in equal measure. The times when I had to postpone drinking till early evening for one reason or another were increasingly difficult to cope with, while at weekends I would be drunk by midday and need a nap before continuing. So... there aren't many things in life that I didn't do while drinking at one time or another! These days I'm running a lot, 4-5 miles every day.