Day one, becomes day none...maybe?
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Hi PNM,
You just made me realize that this time through I didn't plan to quit at all. My life was just one disaster after another. Drinking wasn't fun anymore, it was an escape. When I woke up on May 27th and stood in the kitchen I thought to myself "What the hell am I doing?". I reflected on how drinking was so NOT worth it anymore. Who I was and what my life had become. Never mind what everyone else thought of me, I didn't like me. Then I made the decision and never looked back.
The longer you crave and give in and say I'll do this tomorrow the longer you'll put off giving yourself the life you deserve. I can't tell you what you're missing. That's the hardest part, I wish I could.
You have to want this more than you want to drink. You CAN do this.
You just made me realize that this time through I didn't plan to quit at all. My life was just one disaster after another. Drinking wasn't fun anymore, it was an escape. When I woke up on May 27th and stood in the kitchen I thought to myself "What the hell am I doing?". I reflected on how drinking was so NOT worth it anymore. Who I was and what my life had become. Never mind what everyone else thought of me, I didn't like me. Then I made the decision and never looked back.
The longer you crave and give in and say I'll do this tomorrow the longer you'll put off giving yourself the life you deserve. I can't tell you what you're missing. That's the hardest part, I wish I could.
You have to want this more than you want to drink. You CAN do this.
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Yea lady! It's impossible to tell someone what they're missing in sobriety! Luckily I spent all of 2012 sober and it was the best year of my life so I know what I'm missing out on. CAN NOT WAIT TO BE BACK THERE!
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Originally Posted by PinotNOmore 
Yea lady! It's impossible to tell someone what they're missing in sobriety! Luckily I spent all of 2012 sober and it was the best year of my life so I know what I'm missing out on.
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Originally Posted by PinotNOmore
Luckily I spent all of 2012 sober and it was the best year of my life so I know what I'm missing out on.
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Try to make it all very simple. Break it down to not drinking for one day, hour, 10 minutes at a time. Don't think about not drinking forever, that is a very daunting thought. I could never stay stopped because of the 'forever' thought. Instead just think 'I would not drink today or even I will not drink for the next hour'. Then the time would pass and you can refocus and think again I will not drink for the next [xx] amount of time. Repeat again. Time will gradually accumulate by itself. All you need to focus on is now.
Try to make it all very simple. Break it down to not drinking for one day, hour, 10 minutes at a time. Don't think about not drinking forever, that is a very daunting thought. I could never stay stopped because of the 'forever' thought. Instead just think 'I would not drink today or even I will not drink for the next hour'. Then the time would pass and you can refocus and think again I will not drink for the next [xx] amount of time. Repeat again. Time will gradually accumulate by itself. All you need to focus on is now.
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