View Poll Results: Which Healthy Habit Change helps you most with Sobriety Maintenance?
Regular Sleep
86
27.04%
Eating Better
57
17.92%
Exercise
145
45.60%
Prayer/ Meditation
61
19.18%
Support from others and/ or helping others
116
36.48%
Other
32
10.06%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 318. You may not vote on this poll
Poll: Which healthy habit change helps you the most with sobriety maintenance?
Member
Join Date: May 2013
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 4
When I first got sober, exercise was the most important. It was the only thing that made me feel better. Now with a little more time I feel like I need to meditate and make gratitude lists. Still have to exercise, sleep and eat right. But that's the base. Gratitude is the star on top
I've used all these things with success, but the one thing that was missing before and during my road to picking up that first drink again was my interaction with others in recovery. (Support from others and/or helping others)
Putting that back into my life has made all the difference for me in getting sober again.
Putting that back into my life has made all the difference for me in getting sober again.
for me (((Prayer/ Meditation))) came in first place by far
surprised to see it near the end of the list in the poll
I do enjoy riding my bicycle
but
at the end of the day I thank God for being sober not my bike
to be honest
it's 5:37am here
seeing these poll results has saddened me
Mountainmanbob
surprised to see it near the end of the list in the poll
I do enjoy riding my bicycle
but
at the end of the day I thank God for being sober not my bike
to be honest
it's 5:37am here
seeing these poll results has saddened me
Mountainmanbob
Member
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 29
I'm on the exercise and diet things to help but one of the biggest, and surprisingly sometimes hardest things to do is to turn off the damn TV get up and go outside... Even for just a few minutes. It completely changes my perspective and gets me out of my old ruts.
Exercise and sports have been my sanctuary since I was a small child. They've been an integral part of my sober plan. And SR. Without this board I would not have been successful in breaking the chain of alcoholism during the first months.
And reading. I've enjoyed many fictional books in the last 10 months.
And reading. I've enjoyed many fictional books in the last 10 months.
I agree with the whole list, and I want to throw out something a bit odd, but for some reason it's been really powerful for me: making my bed right when I get up in the morning.
I don't know what it is. I have NEVER made my bed in my life. My parents gave up trying to make me. After I moved out, nope, just jump into a pile of blankets at night and roll out of em in the morning. Even after I got married, we never made our bed until right before we got in at night. Now, after my first night sober, just about six weeks ago, I woke up (or rather got up, I did not sleep at all that night), and for some reason I made my bed. As I did, I thought of that old saying about making your bed and sleeping in it-a symbol of responsibility and accountablility? A symbol of leaving a good, neat trail behind me? Corny supersition? I don't know, but I have to make my bed now every day.
I don't know what it is. I have NEVER made my bed in my life. My parents gave up trying to make me. After I moved out, nope, just jump into a pile of blankets at night and roll out of em in the morning. Even after I got married, we never made our bed until right before we got in at night. Now, after my first night sober, just about six weeks ago, I woke up (or rather got up, I did not sleep at all that night), and for some reason I made my bed. As I did, I thought of that old saying about making your bed and sleeping in it-a symbol of responsibility and accountablility? A symbol of leaving a good, neat trail behind me? Corny supersition? I don't know, but I have to make my bed now every day.
Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Baaaaaahston
Posts: 16
Hands down picking back up a great hobby I couldn't do so well while drunk, playing guitar. Though my playing will definitely not amaze anyone but myself I have improved greatly in the last three years. I was an evening drinker so I needed a hobby to do at night, I get home from work late so my wife and girls are sleeping, it was always a twelve pack, now it's a Fender.
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