Reasons not to drink
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Reasons not to drink
Early in the year, I composed a list of reasons to stop drinking. I did "Dry January" a UK campaign to encourage people to stop drinking for a month after the excesses of Christmas and New Year. I started drinking again (on 1st Feb of course) and although I thought about the list, I couldn't bring myself to look at it again and face the stupidity and pointlessness of my daily drinking.
Anyway, dug it out again and i haven't had a drink for 11 nights now. There are 60 points on the original list. Here are some of them.
Don't want my son to think drinking every night is normal.
Shame.
All energy and motivation zapped.
Hangovers.
Makes me overweight and I eat ***** when drinking, hence, further fatness.
Money.
No chance of ever achieving what I want/ learning new skills, if I keep this up.
Making a tool of myself/being rude when drunk.
Embarrassment about the weight of the glass recycling bin.
Sex drive shot to hell.
Reduced my working week to spend more time with my son, not make more way for hangovers.
Risk of alcohol related illness.
Disturbed sleep.
Wanna do this for the next 30 years??? Exhausted. Got to stop.
I am getting alot of help from reading SR. Thanks guys.
Anyway, dug it out again and i haven't had a drink for 11 nights now. There are 60 points on the original list. Here are some of them.
Don't want my son to think drinking every night is normal.
Shame.
All energy and motivation zapped.
Hangovers.
Makes me overweight and I eat ***** when drinking, hence, further fatness.
Money.
No chance of ever achieving what I want/ learning new skills, if I keep this up.
Making a tool of myself/being rude when drunk.
Embarrassment about the weight of the glass recycling bin.
Sex drive shot to hell.
Reduced my working week to spend more time with my son, not make more way for hangovers.
Risk of alcohol related illness.
Disturbed sleep.
Wanna do this for the next 30 years??? Exhausted. Got to stop.
I am getting alot of help from reading SR. Thanks guys.
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Congratulations on 11 days!!
And also congratulations on doing the dry month earlier this year. I tried a dry month about six months before I quit and by a week in I'd started "rewarding" myself every few days with shots. Yeesh.
Sounds like you have a lot of strength and good reasons to stay strong.
And also congratulations on doing the dry month earlier this year. I tried a dry month about six months before I quit and by a week in I'd started "rewarding" myself every few days with shots. Yeesh.
Sounds like you have a lot of strength and good reasons to stay strong.
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The following is my list from a year ago... which I have reflected on quite a bit and still sometimes look at it to remind me of the pain I was feeling then. I have a year now this month :0).
1. I'm tired of feeling like crap;
2. I don't want to die young because I was selfish and made stupid choices;
3. Being drunk is the most selfish thing I can do at this point;
4. My boys deserve better and deserve to be taught better;
5. God is disappointed at the choices I have made, I must live HIS way;
6. I don't want my liver to hurt (or fail);
7. Sober is FUN!
8. I was the butt of jokes, not the joker;
9. Does not make me sociable, makes me look like a moron;
10. Does not make my anxiety go away, it makes it a million times worse;
11. Flowers are not prettier drunk, there just appears to be more of them;
12. I do not think clearer drinking, I think meaner and have no logic;
13. Sober I remember what I have said;
14. I cannot sing, but only remember that sober;
15. Music and dancing is better sober, I reamin standing rather than falling; and last because I will go on and on....
16. Hangovers suck and make me neglect all obligations and expectations, I will never do this again.
1. I'm tired of feeling like crap;
2. I don't want to die young because I was selfish and made stupid choices;
3. Being drunk is the most selfish thing I can do at this point;
4. My boys deserve better and deserve to be taught better;
5. God is disappointed at the choices I have made, I must live HIS way;
6. I don't want my liver to hurt (or fail);
7. Sober is FUN!
8. I was the butt of jokes, not the joker;
9. Does not make me sociable, makes me look like a moron;
10. Does not make my anxiety go away, it makes it a million times worse;
11. Flowers are not prettier drunk, there just appears to be more of them;
12. I do not think clearer drinking, I think meaner and have no logic;
13. Sober I remember what I have said;
14. I cannot sing, but only remember that sober;
15. Music and dancing is better sober, I reamin standing rather than falling; and last because I will go on and on....
16. Hangovers suck and make me neglect all obligations and expectations, I will never do this again.
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