4 days and almost failed
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4 days and almost failed
My last drink was a shot of whiskey Saturday night. I'm traveling for work this week. Tired, not feeling great and.I walk into a restaurant with every intention of ordering a drink and the staff is so busy talking among themselves ignoring the few customers and I get more and more angry and then I decide its not worth it walkout and go to the subway next door and order a.sub and come back to my hotel.
Before last week I had done 20 days and suffered bad withdrawal. I don't want to go there again and I am still tired and having more headaches than expected.
I was seeing the posts from this site to not have one. Huge victory.
This.my first post.
Billy
Before last week I had done 20 days and suffered bad withdrawal. I don't want to go there again and I am still tired and having more headaches than expected.
I was seeing the posts from this site to not have one. Huge victory.
This.my first post.
Billy
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,997
Welcome Billy!
That sounds like a victory to me too!
In the beginning that really was how it was for me on a daily basis. Not forever but in the first month or so. My mind would say drink and I would say not now. It always passed if I just gave it time and did something...anything but drink. I always just focused on running the whole scenerio through my head and thinking about how I would feel the next day drove it home.
The only difference between who I was and who I wanted to be was what I did. I didn't want to be a drunk with hangovers anymore. The only way not to be that was to not pick up a drink to begin with. If I had one, I knew I have more than one. I knew for a fact I would be hungover and have those awful feelings of letting myself down. That's no way to live.
It got better and better with time. Better as in I learned how to do what was best for me regardless how I felt at the moment. I learned patience.
Great job on walking out! You didn't almost fail. You found out you can do it! Keep looking for the victories. They add up!!
That sounds like a victory to me too!
In the beginning that really was how it was for me on a daily basis. Not forever but in the first month or so. My mind would say drink and I would say not now. It always passed if I just gave it time and did something...anything but drink. I always just focused on running the whole scenerio through my head and thinking about how I would feel the next day drove it home.
The only difference between who I was and who I wanted to be was what I did. I didn't want to be a drunk with hangovers anymore. The only way not to be that was to not pick up a drink to begin with. If I had one, I knew I have more than one. I knew for a fact I would be hungover and have those awful feelings of letting myself down. That's no way to live.
It got better and better with time. Better as in I learned how to do what was best for me regardless how I felt at the moment. I learned patience.
Great job on walking out! You didn't almost fail. You found out you can do it! Keep looking for the victories. They add up!!
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