600 days!
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600 days!
I'm so happy to reach this milestone, 600 days feels like such a BIG number. 600 days ago, I never really believed I'd get here. But here I am. Not only that but 30 weeks nicotine free too.
It's been a bumpy road but I'm doing okay at the moment. I'm sleeping okay, my mental health is fairly stable at the moment. I've just finished work for two weeks and am off on holiday with my husband and son tomorrow for a week.
So much to be thankful for 🙏
It's been a bumpy road but I'm doing okay at the moment. I'm sleeping okay, my mental health is fairly stable at the moment. I've just finished work for two weeks and am off on holiday with my husband and son tomorrow for a week.
So much to be thankful for 🙏
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600 days. First, that is amazing. I remember the first time I noticed you in the forum. I had the idea you were a newcomer, but you must have had some sobriety already under your belt, because that doesn't seem like 600 days ago.
But these benchmarks in sobriety do have the elements of surprise when they are reached. At the beginning, they seem unreachable, and many of us (me included) had a low confidence level about ever seeing it happen. Then we cross that line at some point, and we know we can do it, even expect it. But no matter how much we know it's going to happen, even right up to a week before it happens, there is still that memory of how impossible it seemed at the start. The benchmark is reached, and we look back remembering those days when it seemed like something that required super human ability.
But here we are just regular people that moved what at one time, we thought was a mountain. Way to go, Girl.
But these benchmarks in sobriety do have the elements of surprise when they are reached. At the beginning, they seem unreachable, and many of us (me included) had a low confidence level about ever seeing it happen. Then we cross that line at some point, and we know we can do it, even expect it. But no matter how much we know it's going to happen, even right up to a week before it happens, there is still that memory of how impossible it seemed at the start. The benchmark is reached, and we look back remembering those days when it seemed like something that required super human ability.
But here we are just regular people that moved what at one time, we thought was a mountain. Way to go, Girl.
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Originally Posted by DriGuy 
600 days. First, that is amazing. I remember the first time I noticed you in the forum. I had the idea you were a newcomer, but you must have had some sobriety already under your belt, because that doesn't seem like 600 days ago.
But these benchmarks in sobriety do have the elements of surprise when they are reached. At the beginning, they seem unreachable, and many of us (me included) had a low confidence level about ever seeing it happen. Then we cross that line at some point, and we know we can do it, even expect it. But no matter how much we know it's going to happen, even right up to a week before it happens, there is still that memory of how impossible it seemed at the start. The benchmark is reached, and we look back remembering those days when it seemed like something that required super human ability.
But here we are just regular people that moved what at one time, we thought was a mountain. Way to go, Girl.
But these benchmarks in sobriety do have the elements of surprise when they are reached. At the beginning, they seem unreachable, and many of us (me included) had a low confidence level about ever seeing it happen. Then we cross that line at some point, and we know we can do it, even expect it. But no matter how much we know it's going to happen, even right up to a week before it happens, there is still that memory of how impossible it seemed at the start. The benchmark is reached, and we look back remembering those days when it seemed like something that required super human ability.
But here we are just regular people that moved what at one time, we thought was a mountain. Way to go, Girl.
Yes, I still find myself getting amazed by the big numbers because of how impossible it seemed. My strategy for these 600 days has been about not taking the next drink. I know once I have one, I'm no longer in control of what happens next so all I need to do every day is not have the next drink.
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Originally Posted by AwkwardKitty
I'm so happy to reach this milestone, 600 days feels like such a BIG number. 600 days ago, I never really believed I'd get here. But here I am. Not only that but 30 weeks nicotine free too.
It's been a bumpy road but I'm doing okay at the moment. I'm sleeping okay, my mental health is fairly stable at the moment. I've just finished work for two weeks and am off on holiday with my husband and son tomorrow for a week.
So much to be thankful for 🙏
It's been a bumpy road but I'm doing okay at the moment. I'm sleeping okay, my mental health is fairly stable at the moment. I've just finished work for two weeks and am off on holiday with my husband and son tomorrow for a week.
So much to be thankful for 🙏
Nice going Kitty! That’s awesome! 
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