One Week Down - What I've learned.....
Working-cl*** pseudo tough
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Manitoba, Canada
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One Week Down - What I've learned.....
So, today officially marks day 7 of quitting drinking. A couple of things I've learned:
Pros:
- I don't seem to need anxiety or reflux medication when I don't drink
- I'm still pretty funny when I'm sober. In fact, I'm even a bit funnier
- My wife likes me sober
- I don't seem to need money on me, and am about $40 richer
- Feeling no guilt about drinking seems to remove a main trigger that made me drink (see sig) - feeling guilt about drinking
- I am already recognising situations that trigger drinking
- I have the willpower to make it through normal drinking situations if I am determined to get through them
- There have been no half or full hangovers, no shaky hands, no nausea
Cons:
- A am SO TIRED all the time. Likely gone hypoglycemic
- The cravings are still there, sometimes worse than others. Wow, are some very acute
- My sleep patterns are disrupted right now, and I seem to be sleeping lighter. This too, I assume, shall pass.
Seems to me the pro list is doing well compared to the con list. In fact, I think this is the longest I have gone without a drink in 24 years. Wow.
Most importantly, the improvement in self-esteem from not drinking seems to kill the self-loathing that drives so much of my drinking. I can honestly say I haven't felt this good about myself in a long time.
Let's have a drink to celebrate! Just make mine a Pepsi.
Edit: just read my post from last week when I first signed up, and wow. One week ago, quitting drinking, or killing myself drinking seemed like a saw-off decision. I can't even fathom why I would have thought that at the time. Life can be good once we get out from under the crippling addiction this substance can put us under. It is almost impossible to imagine how 1 week without booze can improve someone's mental health so much in such a short period of time.
Pros:
- I don't seem to need anxiety or reflux medication when I don't drink
- I'm still pretty funny when I'm sober. In fact, I'm even a bit funnier
- My wife likes me sober
- I don't seem to need money on me, and am about $40 richer
- Feeling no guilt about drinking seems to remove a main trigger that made me drink (see sig) - feeling guilt about drinking
- I am already recognising situations that trigger drinking
- I have the willpower to make it through normal drinking situations if I am determined to get through them
- There have been no half or full hangovers, no shaky hands, no nausea
Cons:
- A am SO TIRED all the time. Likely gone hypoglycemic
- The cravings are still there, sometimes worse than others. Wow, are some very acute
- My sleep patterns are disrupted right now, and I seem to be sleeping lighter. This too, I assume, shall pass.
Seems to me the pro list is doing well compared to the con list. In fact, I think this is the longest I have gone without a drink in 24 years. Wow.
Most importantly, the improvement in self-esteem from not drinking seems to kill the self-loathing that drives so much of my drinking. I can honestly say I haven't felt this good about myself in a long time.
Let's have a drink to celebrate! Just make mine a Pepsi.
Edit: just read my post from last week when I first signed up, and wow. One week ago, quitting drinking, or killing myself drinking seemed like a saw-off decision. I can't even fathom why I would have thought that at the time. Life can be good once we get out from under the crippling addiction this substance can put us under. It is almost impossible to imagine how 1 week without booze can improve someone's mental health so much in such a short period of time.
Marchia in Aeternum
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 11,094
Good week!
Hypoclycemic: you aren't eating enough and/or eating right. Alcohol provided a lot of sugar calories.
Cravings: ICCC - Ice Cream Cures Cravings
Sleep: Yes, sleep will improve with time.
Hypoclycemic: you aren't eating enough and/or eating right. Alcohol provided a lot of sugar calories.
Cravings: ICCC - Ice Cream Cures Cravings
Sleep: Yes, sleep will improve with time.
Working-cl*** pseudo tough
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 485
Oh, and I also have a few more pros:
- Not needing to plan my evenings and weekends around drinking
- Not needing to invest time and effort into finding ways to sneak drinks
Amazing how much effort both of the above take.
- Not needing to plan my evenings and weekends around drinking
- Not needing to invest time and effort into finding ways to sneak drinks
Amazing how much effort both of the above take.
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 47
Start doing excercise, go to the gym or start running, it will help your carvings and you will feel tired at the end of the day so it will help your sleeping patterns.
I'm also amazed of how people like me a lot more when Im sober.
I'm also amazed of how people like me a lot more when Im sober.
Working-cl*** pseudo tough
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Join Date: Jul 2014
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Funny, isn't it Phil.
How'd you make out over the weekend? Barricade yourself at home with "Bridget Jones' Diary". LOL. I know you wanted to avoid some social situations that got you drinking.
How'd you make out over the weekend? Barricade yourself at home with "Bridget Jones' Diary". LOL. I know you wanted to avoid some social situations that got you drinking.
Love the Little Prince quote too 
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