30 days today!
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30 days today!
Hi everyone! Today is day 30 for me. I will have to say something feels different this time. Maybe it's because I am doing things differently. I'm occupying my normal "drinking" time by going to the gym instead, I come to SR daily and read the threads and participate (especially on weekends when it's harder for me), and when the AV starts telling me I can have "just a glass of wine", I always remember...what good will a glass do??? I will end up drinking the whole bottle, feel like $#@* afterward, and start the old vicious cycle all over again. It's just not worth it.
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Congrats on reaching 30 days. I have 26 days today and I nearly blew it! It is insane how similar my thought pattern was to yours. I thought "I will just have a glass" but then I thought about the hangover. So literally I am driving back from the pharmacy and this was my actual thought process:
-Listening to my cool dance music, oh a glass of wine would make this better at home...hmm
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-I could stop at liquor store a, b, or c
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-Oooh, I could make a nice dinner and get some wine to go with it
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-Yes, that's what I will do! It will be fantastic and I will ONLY have one glass just to compliment the lovely meal
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-In pops into my head: my worried parents, my addiction specialist, my friend who has told me I remind her of her brother before he died
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-Fear/guilt about letting people down, but I've made it 26 days and do I really want to wake up barely able to walk and be sick?
then i said:
-OK. I'm just not going to drink TODAY. I'll just promise myself that... it seemed to work.
Anyway, sort of used your post to vent. But, I wanted to reply just because of how similar our thought processes are.... and it's NOT POSSIBLE for us to shut off after 1 glass.
-Listening to my cool dance music, oh a glass of wine would make this better at home...hmm
>
-I could stop at liquor store a, b, or c
>>
-Oooh, I could make a nice dinner and get some wine to go with it
>>>
-Yes, that's what I will do! It will be fantastic and I will ONLY have one glass just to compliment the lovely meal
>>>>
-In pops into my head: my worried parents, my addiction specialist, my friend who has told me I remind her of her brother before he died
>>>>>
-Fear/guilt about letting people down, but I've made it 26 days and do I really want to wake up barely able to walk and be sick?
then i said:
-OK. I'm just not going to drink TODAY. I'll just promise myself that... it seemed to work.
Anyway, sort of used your post to vent. But, I wanted to reply just because of how similar our thought processes are.... and it's NOT POSSIBLE for us to shut off after 1 glass.
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