Healthyfood

Craving started 30 min ago. Out of nowhere.

I suddenly realized that I want a glass of cold, fresh white wine. Size of a bucket.

I left supermarket quite quickly as I could not listen to those bottle banging against each other in shopping trolleys. Booze in shopping baskets, on shelves, everywhere.

I just can't believe 228 days and I'm still craving that booze.

KaeHot323

My heart skipped a beat and my mouth watered a little when you talked about the clunking sound. There are so many visual and auditory triggers it's crazy!! When I get one I sometimes laugh at it or say out loud to it "Ha Ha Ha...get outta here!" We'll all get through this together!!

Admiral

They'll always be there, that's how it is, we have to be ready any time, any place. I believe that it was a failure to realize this that brought me back to the bottle and pipe so many times before. I felt that I was over it and had finally gotten past all of that rubbish, and then after 80 odd days or so it would come back out of nowhere.

"I'm happy, times are good, I've been away a while and it sure would be nice to come back!"

Rubbish.

Saliena

OMG I get these sometimes.. I will be out eating and notice the guy next to me leaves and leave 1/2 of a perfectly good glass of wine.. SERIOUSLY what the H$LL is wrong with him... Leaving perfectly good wine... all all by itself? Leaving the resturaunt and not drinking it? Seriously people do that?

Then I remember... oh yeah they are the one with a problem... I am I never met a glass of wine that I left anywhere close to empty... unless I was passed out in it!

Dee74

I drank for 20 years - it was pretty usual for me to get those cravings throughout the first year, HF.

I didn't take it as sign of failure tho - just a reminder that my addiction is relentless.

I took comfort instead in the fact I didn't break down, I didn't go mad...

I'd just had a crazy thought...I felt the feeling...knew it had no place in the life I had now...I knew my recovery was good.... & I moved on

Thoughts are thoughts...it's what we do with them that counts

If it worries you, though, you could always look for more support HF?
bolster your defences?

congratulations on 228 days
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Fallow

Scary stuff! At least you got out of there!

228 days must be nice.

hypochondriac

Is that really an 'out of nowhere' craving HF?

I often crave a drink in the supermarket because that's where my daily drinking started... I'd pick it up from the supermarket every day on my way home. It's only natural to get cravings there... and of course the wine in the refrigerated meat aisle doesn't help!

I wouldn't let it alarm you... I'd imagine we'll be battling these conditioned responses for a while. It's just like we temporarily forget what drinking will do to us. Then we remember. And we don't drink

Healthyfood

I guess this craving appeared out of nowhere. Its Friday, so Im not surprised.

Im glad I have you my dear friends!!!

Mizzuno

Good work!