Day Seven!
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Day Seven!
Well I made it an entire week without drinking and I feel fantastic! Yesterday was the toughest day for me thus far. I thought about taking a drink from sunup to sundown, but I fought the urge and made it through completely sober. I feel so good now when I wake up in the morning that I can't even describe it! No guilt, no shame, better self-esteem, clear-headed, more energy - the list goes on. I think I am slowly finding an inner peace. Thank you for helping me through the tough times SR! I am very grateful to have a place like this to turn to for support and I plan to stay sober, a day at a time!! 
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Great job! As time goes by you'll get stronger in many ways. Sometimes recovery, in it's early stages, feels like nothing more than survival. I hope you find it in you each day to keep coming here and keep focused on getting better.
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Thanks everyone! I was having an easy time this morning, but now it's that time of the day when I usually start drinking and I'm having a really tough time. The little voice in my head keeps saying over and over, "go ahead, reward yourself, you haven't had a drink in seven days." Hopefully this difficult time will pass. I've got a pot of coffee brewing and I'm reading posts here. Maybe I'll have a cup of coffee and then go for a walk, or go to the store or something. I'm going a little nuts here this evening 
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First of all, congrats on 7 days-- that's huge! I was a lot like you as far as my first week of sobriety I would wake up feeling fabulous and then as the day went on I would obsess about drinking more and more, especially around 5 when I used to start drinking. One way of thinking that helped me was to think about how when I was drinking I would wake up feeling like crap from the night before, declare no more alcohol, go back and forth all day deciding if I would drink or not, and then would start drinking anyway around 5. That was a cycle, so in my first week of sobriety I traded it for another cycle-- woke up feeling great, got through the VERY hard late afternoon/early evening period, went to bed sober, and then woke up the next morning feeling even better than the day before. I decided that either way I was going to go through a hard cycle...might as well be one that made me feel great! I wish you all the best-- you're doing great!
I wish you all the best-- you're doing great!
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@ saphira - yes! A cycle of sobriety is much better than a cycle of drunkenness! I have to look at it that way!
@ sugarbear - I think I'll pillage through my closet and see if I can find my old erector set!
@ sugarbear - I think I'll pillage through my closet and see if I can find my old erector set!
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I'm on 7 too. Had those thoughts too. Idk why we have thoughts like that at all when we know it won't help. We know it. I'm enjoying the high of sobriety and want to feel good and healthy. Alcohol hasn't made me feel good in a very long time and never helped my health. I have to remind myself that sometimes. Keep it up and so will I.
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