Day 14
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Day 14
Hi there! KC checking in. Have been spending some time over on the Newcomers Daily Support forum which has been a great help. I had to pop on over here to again say a special thanks to Tommyk for the invaluable advice on focusing on the WHYs and not the LIES. Whys of course being why you want to stop drinking and the Lies being those little cravings, the demons who try to talk you into drinking. Thinking of that has helped me get through some cravings in the past two weeks. Each morning when I wake up feeling refreshed with no hangover I ask myself why I have been allowing myself to feel like that for years now. More than one of you have reminded me that I have been hanging around these forums since 2006. It is a real eye opener to go back and read some of my older posts. It disgusts me actually. So again, thanks to EVERYONE here. I really don't know how I could get through the days without SR. I hope that someday I can help someone else through times like this.
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Congrats KC1, and thank you for your posts. I am only on day 4 but for the last few days I have related to your first few days several times. I am remodeling my house and while drinking I start to work on a project then just give up and drink. But for the last few days I am reminded of how you obsessively cleaned your house and I have beed finishing projects like a handyman on speed (i am no handyman or on speed).
Thanks again and please keep posting for us.
Thanks again and please keep posting for us.
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Hey there - KC checking in again. Glad to hear I am helping others. I have been out of town on business for the past few days. Had a meltdown when I got home because my husband "dirtied" the house --- like crumbs on the kitchen counter, clothes on the floor. I have to remind myself that this is not a bad thing. I have been irritable and cranky with him, but I know it's because I am not drinking. Out of town again tonight - sitting at a friends house right now watching her and another friend drink their second bottle of wine. I am jealous that I can't join them. I have an early morning meeting with a Board Member of the company I work for so I need to be in tip top shape. That said, if I didn't have gthe will power I have, I would join them in the drink. Thank God I have the SR to come to. Going to go eat a big giant vanilla cream donut instead of drinking the very nice bottle of red wine that is staring me in the face. Hell, if I have this kind of will power right now, on Day 14, I can do anything. Hope this helps.
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