Looking back on one year
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Looking back on one year
I reached One Year Sober over the weekend. Feels good to have made it one year. Feels better to be able to forget about the dates, the counting, and just enjoy living sober, healthier in mind and body.
To those who have been sober much longer than me, I commend you, and thanks to anyone who has set an example for someone else, or been there to support another who is struggling
To those who are just beginning the journey, hang in there, it's worth it. There are difficult days, but they get so much easier and rewarding. Reach out to a friend when you don't feel the strength in you. The power is in you to achieve.
FWIW a couple of things that helped me during this first year:
For a while, I avoided a few things like parties when I felt I might be tempted to drink. My world didn't end because I skipped a party. Now I don't have to avoid people and places, I can enjoy myself sober, even when everyone else is getting hammered.
I found additional ways to get healthy: I exercise more, no not at a gym. I do things that are more fun- swim, go to the park, ride my bike. I always did these things, but now i do it more, and i feel better doing these activities. How amazing it is to not be hungover or bloated all the time.
Another huge change is that I changed my diet drastically- way less fat, no more junk, mostly veggie, some fish. The change in my diet has made a huge difference in how I feel, and this lifestyle change works so well with my sober living. I'm not recommending a diet, whatever works for you. But it works for me. I believe in my heart that changing my eating habits helped to make sobriety much easier to achieve. And vice versa.
In both sobriety and healthy eating, it felt like torture for a few weeks, but it is so much easier when I change my perspective and believe that healthier living and sobriety is a great reward. I'm not depriving myself, I'm actually giving myself a huge gift of well-being.
Anyway thanks for listening. Peace.
To those who have been sober much longer than me, I commend you, and thanks to anyone who has set an example for someone else, or been there to support another who is struggling
To those who are just beginning the journey, hang in there, it's worth it. There are difficult days, but they get so much easier and rewarding. Reach out to a friend when you don't feel the strength in you. The power is in you to achieve.
FWIW a couple of things that helped me during this first year:
For a while, I avoided a few things like parties when I felt I might be tempted to drink. My world didn't end because I skipped a party. Now I don't have to avoid people and places, I can enjoy myself sober, even when everyone else is getting hammered.
I found additional ways to get healthy: I exercise more, no not at a gym. I do things that are more fun- swim, go to the park, ride my bike. I always did these things, but now i do it more, and i feel better doing these activities. How amazing it is to not be hungover or bloated all the time.
Another huge change is that I changed my diet drastically- way less fat, no more junk, mostly veggie, some fish. The change in my diet has made a huge difference in how I feel, and this lifestyle change works so well with my sober living. I'm not recommending a diet, whatever works for you. But it works for me. I believe in my heart that changing my eating habits helped to make sobriety much easier to achieve. And vice versa.
In both sobriety and healthy eating, it felt like torture for a few weeks, but it is so much easier when I change my perspective and believe that healthier living and sobriety is a great reward. I'm not depriving myself, I'm actually giving myself a huge gift of well-being.
Anyway thanks for listening. Peace.
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Right on Todd!!
Once you look back at the year you can truly see how much one has changed and in reality you have become a completely new person.
The one thing I have noticed myself over and over again is how little everyone around me actually drinks and how out of touch with reality I was with all those years of drinking.
Cheers!
Once you look back at the year you can truly see how much one has changed and in reality you have become a completely new person.
The one thing I have noticed myself over and over again is how little everyone around me actually drinks and how out of touch with reality I was with all those years of drinking.
Cheers!
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I found that when i stopped counting the days the pressure lifted and i didnt feel as bad about myself.
there was alot of pain and guilt in it for me, counting the days.
Now i let the days go by and every once and awhile take a count and am so surprise when it is 45 or 72 days.
Holy jumping I made it that far.
there was alot of pain and guilt in it for me, counting the days.
Now i let the days go by and every once and awhile take a count and am so surprise when it is 45 or 72 days.
Holy jumping I made it that far.
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