6 weeks clean
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 42
6 weeks clean
Wow, what can I say. This is the only time I've been sober for over a month since I was 17.
At 32 years old I now feel fitter than I was at 20. I feel like Super Mario after he's just eaten one of those mushrooms and swells up to twice the size.
I completely forgot how much booze takes it out of you. It doesn't give you that effect by adding to your body, it does it by subtracting. For the past 2 weeks I've been actively thinking of ways to burn off my excess energy. Nailed it down to walking the 1.5 mile journey to the local gym every night, working out for an hour, then walking home. Then at home I read myself to sleep before waking up feeling great at 6am.
It's odd having this much get up and go. I've only just realised I've been operating at about 50 or 60% capacity for the last 10 years. I wasn't even a massive drinker, I would just binge heavy at weekends, but then spend the rest of the week recovering. Now on a Monday morning I feel like I could take on the world and win before Breakfast.
If you struggle to see any moral imperative to knock the booze on the head, just look at the following and tell me what you think -
1. Massively increased physical fitness and feeling good
2. Massively increased mental sharpness and improved memory
3. Stable moods and a general feeling of control and confidence
4. Hugely increased sex drive
5. Ability to look into and plan for the future, and not just your next pint
6. Anxiety almost totally gone. This took about a month, but my ability to tackle problems I was avoiding has just increased ten-fold.
7. Do better for your loved ones, and you can see it in their eyes
8. Performance at work improved so much my boss thinks I've secretly hired a slave labour workforce to do my work for me
Don't get me wrong, all of these things require effort still, but its like I was a marathon runner wondering why I was so slow, and now someone has removed a rucksack full of bricks from off my back that I'd forgot was there.
Just try getting off the booze for you. Do it for all the selfish reasons I've listed above. Do it because it makes you feel good. So much of recovery is dressed up in the language of sin. The selfish reasons for quitting are just as important.
Thanks
At 32 years old I now feel fitter than I was at 20. I feel like Super Mario after he's just eaten one of those mushrooms and swells up to twice the size.
I completely forgot how much booze takes it out of you. It doesn't give you that effect by adding to your body, it does it by subtracting. For the past 2 weeks I've been actively thinking of ways to burn off my excess energy. Nailed it down to walking the 1.5 mile journey to the local gym every night, working out for an hour, then walking home. Then at home I read myself to sleep before waking up feeling great at 6am.
It's odd having this much get up and go. I've only just realised I've been operating at about 50 or 60% capacity for the last 10 years. I wasn't even a massive drinker, I would just binge heavy at weekends, but then spend the rest of the week recovering. Now on a Monday morning I feel like I could take on the world and win before Breakfast.
If you struggle to see any moral imperative to knock the booze on the head, just look at the following and tell me what you think -
1. Massively increased physical fitness and feeling good
2. Massively increased mental sharpness and improved memory
3. Stable moods and a general feeling of control and confidence
4. Hugely increased sex drive
5. Ability to look into and plan for the future, and not just your next pint
6. Anxiety almost totally gone. This took about a month, but my ability to tackle problems I was avoiding has just increased ten-fold.
7. Do better for your loved ones, and you can see it in their eyes
8. Performance at work improved so much my boss thinks I've secretly hired a slave labour workforce to do my work for me
Don't get me wrong, all of these things require effort still, but its like I was a marathon runner wondering why I was so slow, and now someone has removed a rucksack full of bricks from off my back that I'd forgot was there.
Just try getting off the booze for you. Do it for all the selfish reasons I've listed above. Do it because it makes you feel good. So much of recovery is dressed up in the language of sin. The selfish reasons for quitting are just as important.
Thanks
Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: London, UK
Posts: 32
Well done, you're doing brilliantly! I love your "marathon runner" analogy.... being alcohol free really does feel like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders and we truly can fly now and soar....!!! 
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
