pascal

Day 10 today. It seems like each day is a new discovery.

I was a lunch-time drinker who daily sneaked away to a bar for alcohol and food. Now that I am sober, I find a trigger for my desire to use alcohol is feeling hungry around lunchtime. I am now consciously trying to eat lunch earlier, but I find myself wanting more sugar. I do not usually eat sweet food, but I figure that my body is trying to compensate for alcohol.

Also, I find that periodically my mind sends me messages such that I actually have a taste of alcohol in my mouth. Anyone have these symptoms, or am I just weird?

julez

Nope, you aren't weird at all. I thought I was weird because I'd wake up feeling hungover, wondering if I drank the night before, when I know I didn't!!
Alcohol plays rotten dirty tricks on the mind.
And I can relate to the sugar thing too. I hate sweets, candy, cake etc, but I SURE ate candy at Halloween this year!! lol
Eat the sugar, drink the soda, it will help you. You can burn off the calories later

Toronto68

Pascal, first of all the sugar thing is classic. I didn't give it that much thought, but I knew over the years that my preference not to eat sweets was somehow tied to alcohol. Once it was over, I allowed myself to let loose a little with the sugar intake, but it's up to you and your doctor how much you have.

I can't really remember whether I had false tastes of alcohol in my mouth post-quitting. I know I did a sanity check a few times and literally looked for signs like recent empties from the night before and even looked at my bank account. I had to keep checking (even into the second month?) because it was seeming too easy to be out of the god-awful routine.

Anna

I think it's very important in early sobriety to eat regularly and to not allow yourself to get too hungry. Listen to your body and you will be fine.

Toronto68

By the way, welcome to the world of better-tasting food again. If I didn't smoke, it would be better, but I noticed a difference after I stopped putting beer in me every day.

On another note, I can also remember having trouble swallowing swigs of beer during the latter years of drinking (sorry to be gross, but I would have to pause while it was in my mouth sometimes, and I think it was because there was a piece of me that still naturally hated it, after all that alcoholism; or it was a message my body was trying to get across and it was taking years to sink in).

LaFemme

Toronto....the last year I drank I hated the taste and forced myself to drink. I would often pause with a mouthfuls of wine and have to make myself swallow...of course I still made myself drink but it did help when I finally quit:-)

Toronto68

Lafemme, yes, I remember us talking about that a couple of months ago.