44 Days Sober Today ....
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44 Days Sober Today ....
So today marks the 44th day. I actually lost count and had to go back to count.
I dont really feel any different. I mean certain things have changed. I wake up not so much in a cloud anymore. I dont loose my temper as fast, but still do occasionally. I joined a gym and excersize now. Not worried about the beer smell on my breath whenever I go somewhere. And I am a little more motivated to do stuff. Anxiety has calmed down a little.
The cravings have slowed down tremendously. I can actually walk into a store and forget that I use to walk right up to the beer fridge and buy beer.
I do get cravings from time to time. And I am not gonna lie, yes I DO miss the drinking of beer. But for the most part, I just deal with things on a sober level. Certain people in my life would drive me nuts, I find that without the alcohol its a heck of a lot easier to ignore them!!
The people at the beer stores I use to purchase from I think are a little dissapointed because i only buy water and juice now! LOL!!! They all comment " No Beer Today!" And I say, nope, no beer.
As far as physical withdrawls, the first day was the worse, woke up soaked in sweat.
Second day, sweat but not so much.
After that, that was it physically.
Mentally!! What Bitch!!! I thought about it everyday, until I forgot about it, if that makes any sense.
Otherwise, Im good.
I dont really feel any different. I mean certain things have changed. I wake up not so much in a cloud anymore. I dont loose my temper as fast, but still do occasionally. I joined a gym and excersize now. Not worried about the beer smell on my breath whenever I go somewhere. And I am a little more motivated to do stuff. Anxiety has calmed down a little.
The cravings have slowed down tremendously. I can actually walk into a store and forget that I use to walk right up to the beer fridge and buy beer.
I do get cravings from time to time. And I am not gonna lie, yes I DO miss the drinking of beer. But for the most part, I just deal with things on a sober level. Certain people in my life would drive me nuts, I find that without the alcohol its a heck of a lot easier to ignore them!!
The people at the beer stores I use to purchase from I think are a little dissapointed because i only buy water and juice now! LOL!!! They all comment " No Beer Today!" And I say, nope, no beer.
As far as physical withdrawls, the first day was the worse, woke up soaked in sweat.
Second day, sweat but not so much.
After that, that was it physically.
Mentally!! What Bitch!!! I thought about it everyday, until I forgot about it, if that makes any sense.
Otherwise, Im good.
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Originally Posted by Hunter101 
So today marks the 44th day. I actually lost count and had to go back to count.
I dont really feel any different. I mean certain things have changed. I wake up not so much in a cloud anymore. I dont loose my temper as fast, but still do occasionally. I joined a gym and excersize now. Not worried about the beer smell on my breath whenever I go somewhere. And I am a little more motivated to do stuff. Anxiety has calmed down a little.
The cravings have slowed down tremendously. I can actually walk into a store and forget that I use to walk right up to the beer fridge and buy beer.
I do get cravings from time to time. And I am not gonna lie, yes I DO miss the drinking of beer. But for the most part, I just deal with things on a sober level. Certain people in my life would drive me nuts, I find that without the alcohol its a heck of a lot easier to ignore them!!
The people at the beer stores I use to purchase from I think are a little dissapointed because i only buy water and juice now! LOL!!! They all comment " No Beer Today!" And I say, nope, no beer.
As far as physical withdrawls, the first day was the worse, woke up soaked in sweat.
Second day, sweat but not so much.
After that, that was it physically.
Mentally!! What Bitch!!! I thought about it everyday, until I forgot about it, if that makes any sense.
Otherwise, Im good.
I dont really feel any different. I mean certain things have changed. I wake up not so much in a cloud anymore. I dont loose my temper as fast, but still do occasionally. I joined a gym and excersize now. Not worried about the beer smell on my breath whenever I go somewhere. And I am a little more motivated to do stuff. Anxiety has calmed down a little.
The cravings have slowed down tremendously. I can actually walk into a store and forget that I use to walk right up to the beer fridge and buy beer.
I do get cravings from time to time. And I am not gonna lie, yes I DO miss the drinking of beer. But for the most part, I just deal with things on a sober level. Certain people in my life would drive me nuts, I find that without the alcohol its a heck of a lot easier to ignore them!!
The people at the beer stores I use to purchase from I think are a little dissapointed because i only buy water and juice now! LOL!!! They all comment " No Beer Today!" And I say, nope, no beer.
As far as physical withdrawls, the first day was the worse, woke up soaked in sweat.
Second day, sweat but not so much.
After that, that was it physically.
Mentally!! What Bitch!!! I thought about it everyday, until I forgot about it, if that makes any sense.
Otherwise, Im good.
Well done on 44 days my friend, keep racking them up..☀️☀️
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Congrats on 44 days!It was always on my mind but it became obvious when I stopped drinking.
I realized I was always thinking of drinking, counting down the hours until I got off work to drink, counting the hours until the liquor store opened, checking the bottle to make sure I had enough for the evening, morning, day, noontime, nighttime, daytime, all the time…Not even counting the moving around bills to make sure I had money for all the times I wanted to drink, which was all the time. The only time I didn’t was at work or asleep and even those times I was thinking about it or recovering from the effects.
What a vicious circle, I am glad I don’t have to live like that anymore.
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Thats exactly how it is!!! You think about it all the time!!
It sucks.
As a matter of fact, I was scared to join a gym with my son, becauseI though I would fall back in and not be able to commit. I dont want to let him down!
Thats exactly how it is!!! You think about it all the time!!
It sucks.
As a matter of fact, I was scared to join a gym with my son, becauseI though I would fall back in and not be able to commit. I dont want to let him down!
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wow- you guys are killing it ! Congratulations to both of you! 46 days is no small feat ! Hunter said he didn`t see too much different, but from reading his post , I see ALOT of small changes that have added up to Big change - that`s just from my point of view !
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