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Hi, I'm new to this forum but decided to consider quitting drinking about a week ago. However not been able to do that until today for a few reasons (probably excuses!).
I'm 43 yo now and started drinking socially aged around 17, pretty normal for my peers and local area. I think looking back that this was at a reasonable level until I hit my late 20's and my father passed away. I say reasonable as it certainly wasn'y everyday but when I did drink it could easily be classed as binge drinking. It increased after this time and increased substantially more in 2004 as my mother was physically unwell and eventually passed away. During this time I raised a family and held down a professional, full time job but my drinking certainly had a negative effect on me and my family.
In 2007 I was hospitalised with alcoholic hepatitis and after 3 weeks in hospital, I was effectively fully detoxed, and took onboard gthe advice to not drink alcohol again. I felt fantastic after this and my weight came down from around 200lbs to 140lbs, 36 inch waist to 30 inch with virtually no exercise. i did not touch alcohol again until November 2011 when I went away with some friends and since then the amount has gradually increased to the point where I can quite easily drink 6 pints in a sitting and can do this every day.
Upshot is I'm now starting to feel the negative effects of my drinking. I'm back up to around 190lbs, diet is terrible, have real trouble sleeping, and I have the symptoms of gout and joint problems again. I do find I can last the entire day at work and not consider alcohol but when I leave and have time on my hands I'm struggling to resist the temptation. I did cut down massively around 5 months ago and last edfor 4 weeks but it's creeping back up again :-(
I'm going to keep checking these forums and try my hardest to succeed this time. Hopefully this will help as I don't think that I'd be comfortable at an AA meeting.
Hope it's OK to share my story!
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I'm 43 yo now and started drinking socially aged around 17, pretty normal for my peers and local area. I think looking back that this was at a reasonable level until I hit my late 20's and my father passed away. I say reasonable as it certainly wasn'y everyday but when I did drink it could easily be classed as binge drinking. It increased after this time and increased substantially more in 2004 as my mother was physically unwell and eventually passed away. During this time I raised a family and held down a professional, full time job but my drinking certainly had a negative effect on me and my family.
In 2007 I was hospitalised with alcoholic hepatitis and after 3 weeks in hospital, I was effectively fully detoxed, and took onboard gthe advice to not drink alcohol again. I felt fantastic after this and my weight came down from around 200lbs to 140lbs, 36 inch waist to 30 inch with virtually no exercise. i did not touch alcohol again until November 2011 when I went away with some friends and since then the amount has gradually increased to the point where I can quite easily drink 6 pints in a sitting and can do this every day.
Upshot is I'm now starting to feel the negative effects of my drinking. I'm back up to around 190lbs, diet is terrible, have real trouble sleeping, and I have the symptoms of gout and joint problems again. I do find I can last the entire day at work and not consider alcohol but when I leave and have time on my hands I'm struggling to resist the temptation. I did cut down massively around 5 months ago and last edfor 4 weeks but it's creeping back up again :-(
I'm going to keep checking these forums and try my hardest to succeed this time. Hopefully this will help as I don't think that I'd be comfortable at an AA meeting.
Hope it's OK to share my story!
One love!
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Try to remember how good it felt when you were at 140 lbs. Pretty good incentive. Those gout and joint issues would no doubt get better.
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Today is a great day then, two great decisions welcome to SR
You found a place full of people who know what it is like, check in often, read , post, ask.
If you're not sure if a formal program is for you, there are a lot of people who quit without them, check out the Secular Connections here on SR , lots of material there.
Wish you well and hope to see you around !
Oh and uh no woman, no cry ?
You found a place full of people who know what it is like, check in often, read , post, ask.
If you're not sure if a formal program is for you, there are a lot of people who quit without them, check out the Secular Connections here on SR , lots of material there.
Wish you well and hope to see you around !
Oh and uh no woman, no cry ?
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