Day 1
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Boston MA
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The good news is your back! Your Sober today and you posted.
Great job being true to yourself. Does the caffeine make you anxious?
I love my diet coke and coffee in the morning. I would love to be healthier and
stick to water and caffeine free tea. I like sleepy time at night.
Great job coming right back and congrats on staying sober today.
Great job being true to yourself. Does the caffeine make you anxious?
I love my diet coke and coffee in the morning. I would love to be healthier and
stick to water and caffeine free tea. I like sleepy time at night.
Great job coming right back and congrats on staying sober today.
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Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 2,426
That's ok FreedomCA. You are in one piece and back here among those who understand completely. Let's get another 20 full days sober for you and that will get you to Jan 1 and a new year and a new road 20 days in. Great way to start 2020.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
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Sorry you drank FreedomCA.
Maybe you need a list of things to do before you drink - an action plan...posting and reading here, posting to others in trouble, hitting a meeting, calling someone, urge surfing....
Giving up caffeine is a good lifestyle change but I'm not sure what impact that alone will have on you not relapsing?
I think you'd be better off focusing on finding support and using it
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Maybe you need a list of things to do before you drink - an action plan...posting and reading here, posting to others in trouble, hitting a meeting, calling someone, urge surfing....
Giving up caffeine is a good lifestyle change but I'm not sure what impact that alone will have on you not relapsing?
I think you'd be better off focusing on finding support and using it
D
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: CA
Posts: 967
I was excited one hour before getting 16 days because I was high and intoxicated on caffeine. It then makes me anxious and I drink. I was drinking 2 energy drinks each day. I know that if I want to stay sober I need to stop getting a daily high on caffeine.
i just blended a fruit smoothie with protein powder and feel better.
And please know that I do take this as a life and death issue when I drink. I’m just not freaking out because that would not be good either. I really do think this time it’s the caffeine. I got rid of the pseudoephedrine and now I have to ditch the caffeine too.
Im so tired and just want to go to bed and wake up to Day 2.
i just blended a fruit smoothie with protein powder and feel better.
And please know that I do take this as a life and death issue when I drink. I’m just not freaking out because that would not be good either. I really do think this time it’s the caffeine. I got rid of the pseudoephedrine and now I have to ditch the caffeine too.
Im so tired and just want to go to bed and wake up to Day 2.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: CA
Posts: 967
Just got out of a meeting and now having ribs at Applebee’s with water. So far so good with my new caffeine free sobriety. I guess now the only drug I am on is sugar, but I think I would die if I gave that one up.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 1,132
Applebee's sounds good! Listen to what Dee has said. There is some solid advice there. It seems as though you are making a connection between caffeine and relapsing. If so, you need to take another look at why you relapsed so you can learn from it.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: CA
Posts: 967
Don’t feel I need to give up sugar because it doesn’t seem to trigger cravings like caffeine does. Also, I’m not too sure sugar is a drug that has mind altering effects like the other drugs.
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