Class of July 2014
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Gulf Coast, USA
Posts: 2,229
Good Morning everyone. Hoping to join the July class. I Joined the April class and after making it 31 days without a drink i choose to have one on my wedding anniversary. What a mistake! Didn't take long to get back to my terrible habit of drinking all day long! I keep fooling myself in thinking somehow i can moderate.
I don't even like drinking anymore. The fun drunk in me left years ago but i kept on drinking and drinking and drinking! Not sure why outside of i am so weak when it comes to quitting this! I've quit smoking, chewing tobacco, other harder drugs, but quitting this is sooooo hard.
21 years of heavy daily drinking is stopping now.
I'm on day 4 and feeling strong today. Didn't even want to post again until i had a few days under my belt...
Thanks for listening!
Hope everyone stays strong and congratulations to all of the milestones reached today... day 1 or day 100!
I don't even like drinking anymore. The fun drunk in me left years ago but i kept on drinking and drinking and drinking! Not sure why outside of i am so weak when it comes to quitting this! I've quit smoking, chewing tobacco, other harder drugs, but quitting this is sooooo hard.
21 years of heavy daily drinking is stopping now.
I'm on day 4 and feeling strong today. Didn't even want to post again until i had a few days under my belt...
Thanks for listening!
Hope everyone stays strong and congratulations to all of the milestones reached today... day 1 or day 100!
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 39
Originally Posted by not2late 
I will not drink today. Day 3. Trigger time is leaving work and not stopping to pick up some vodka on the way home. I will try to post here first.
but driving on past feels like an accomplishment. and once I get home and get some club soda and chocolate in hand I can cruise to bedtime feeling good and proud of beating the av another day. the urge surfing technique has been helping a lot at night.
the weekend though ... yikes, that's a hill I've haven't climbed yet. charting out a plan now for the coming one, which will include this great place.
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Canada
Posts: 18
Day 3. Woke up feeling great after a nice sleep. Started feeling a bit cranky after I got going. Not craving at all but I need to keep aware of my emotions and understand how to deal with them and how not too ! Have a great day everybody.
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 11,351
Keep strong everyone , use each other , your fellow Julyers who are going through similar symptoms to you .
You all deserve a happy alcohol free , nausea free , hangover free life .
Night all , take care xxx
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You all deserve a happy alcohol free , nausea free , hangover free life .
Night all , take care xxx
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,327
Day 2 going well.... then got given a mini bottle of wine......so far so good its sealed. Plan was to play taxi to family and aviod off licence. Was going to leave purse at home but need it to get cash out for childrens activities...........
be strong, be strong!
be strong, be strong!
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 943
Originally Posted by petals
Day 2 going well.... then got given a mini bottle of wine......so far so good its sealed. Plan was to play taxi to family and aviod off licence. Was going to leave purse at home but need it to get cash out for childrens activities...........
be strong, be strong!
be strong, be strong!
Pour it down the sink, quickly just get rid of it ASAP!! X
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: UK
Posts: 28
Life is making this tough right now. I was so tempted to buy beer today but resisted. Last week my brother was diagnosed with cancer, and then today I found out my entire department might be losing their jobs as we've been merged with a bigger organisation. I could cry. If I lose my job we will struggle to make ends meet.
If there was ever a time I wished and pleaded myself to believe in God or a higher power it's now. Being an atheist is just so difficult. Those who can share their troubles and will their God to give them strength to get through it are very lucky. All I have is the determination to not let this nightmarish period to get to me. Oh and the fact there's a good chance in a month or so I'll need to be healthy to be a bone marrow donor for my sibling. It's not just about me anymore, another person's life is literally on the line.
Day 9 and still sober. Almost a month with just one slip up on 1st July.
If there was ever a time I wished and pleaded myself to believe in God or a higher power it's now. Being an atheist is just so difficult. Those who can share their troubles and will their God to give them strength to get through it are very lucky. All I have is the determination to not let this nightmarish period to get to me. Oh and the fact there's a good chance in a month or so I'll need to be healthy to be a bone marrow donor for my sibling. It's not just about me anymore, another person's life is literally on the line.
Day 9 and still sober. Almost a month with just one slip up on 1st July.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 211,445
Welcome TXAlchy Gippy and HopingForZen - and congratulations to all celebrating milestones today 
Illuminate - when it came right down to it for me I had to be prepared to put in the effort.
Drinking is easy - not drinking is much harder - but it brings dividends.
When you want to drink do you have any kind of recovery strategy or plan?
ANew I'm sorry for the sadness and stress in your life too - but drinking will only make you less capable of dealing with all this, not more.
You are absolutely on the right road - stay with us
Petals - dump it. You;re a non drinker. It's no good to you
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Illuminate - when it came right down to it for me I had to be prepared to put in the effort.
Drinking is easy - not drinking is much harder - but it brings dividends.
When you want to drink do you have any kind of recovery strategy or plan?
ANew I'm sorry for the sadness and stress in your life too - but drinking will only make you less capable of dealing with all this, not more.
You are absolutely on the right road - stay with us
Petals - dump it. You;re a non drinker. It's no good to you
D
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