List of positives with your sobriety
11.30.14
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: California
Posts: 401
List of positives with your sobriety
Ok, I'll start and post mine first:
- No more raging blood pressure
- No more racing heart and less palps/skipped beats
- No more intense jitters, jumpiness, anxiety and panic attacks during the day
- No more popping xanax during the day like tic tacs
- Putting on my eye makeup without the hand tremors
- Weigh loss, facial bloat gone
- No more daily "intestinal issues"
- Secret stash removal from my car and other hiding places
- No need to carry a little bottle in my purse "just in case...."
- No more daily calorie manipulation to keep myself from gaining weight from the alcohol
- Normal sleep
- Now able to manage anxious feelings without flipping my cookies - see 3rd item
- No more raging blood pressure
- No more racing heart and less palps/skipped beats
- No more intense jitters, jumpiness, anxiety and panic attacks during the day
- No more popping xanax during the day like tic tacs
- Putting on my eye makeup without the hand tremors
- Weigh loss, facial bloat gone
- No more daily "intestinal issues"
- Secret stash removal from my car and other hiding places
- No need to carry a little bottle in my purse "just in case...."
- No more daily calorie manipulation to keep myself from gaining weight from the alcohol
- Normal sleep
- Now able to manage anxious feelings without flipping my cookies - see 3rd item
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 525
My anxiousness is reduced a lot
Reduced my coffee
No more trying to struggle with just having a couple
I'm all-in on my recovery, and can use the tools that help me deal
with the emotions that i was trying to handle using alcohol
I don't feel envy when people are partying, it doesn't look fun anymore
Reduced my coffee
No more trying to struggle with just having a couple
I'm all-in on my recovery, and can use the tools that help me deal
with the emotions that i was trying to handle using alcohol
I don't feel envy when people are partying, it doesn't look fun anymore
Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: The Sooner State
Posts: 1,725
no more checking my phone as soon as i wake up
no more dehydration
no more making up excuses monday morning because Im to sick to work
no more sneaking alcohol into event just so i can "make it through"
no more dehydration
no more making up excuses monday morning because Im to sick to work
no more sneaking alcohol into event just so i can "make it through"
Member
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Down South
Posts: 709
Great list. I share a lot it. The mental/emotional stuff is the biggest for me, but the vain part of me loves that my face is getting thinner and I don't look 6 months pregnant. 
Remembering what I said when I talked to a friend or family member.
No dread and fear about getting a dui or cirrhosis.
Having the energy to walk barefoot on the beach both yesterday and today for close to an hour.
Remembering what I said when I talked to a friend or family member.
No dread and fear about getting a dui or cirrhosis.
Having the energy to walk barefoot on the beach both yesterday and today for close to an hour.
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