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Nice work, Anthony! I envy you that there are SMART meetings in your area. I live in a very rural area where there isn't any choice. But when I need support I take what I can get or come here to SR.
I am inspired by your recovery and fitness journey! I am on the last ever Day 4 of sobriety and find that exercise is critical. It chases away the anxiety and gives a confidence boost. I have about 10-15 pounds to lose. I feel so much better already. Glad to hear someone saying how rewarding sober life is!
I am inspired by your recovery and fitness journey! I am on the last ever Day 4 of sobriety and find that exercise is critical. It chases away the anxiety and gives a confidence boost. I have about 10-15 pounds to lose. I feel so much better already. Glad to hear someone saying how rewarding sober life is!
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Originally Posted by AnthonyV 
Yes, OTT, the fitness and nutrition have been just as important to my recovery as the SMART meetings and support of the group. I joined a yoga studio this week and started the yoga classes and I absolutely love it. I was also invited by the local SMART Recovery group to begin facilitator training. It will be awhile before I actually facilitate any meetings but I see helping others as an important component of my own sobriety. When I was caught up in the middle of my addiction with alcohol, I never could have dreamed how happy and rewarding a sober life could be. I know I'm really just starting out, but so far it's been an amazing journey. Thank you for the kind words.
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Originally Posted by lilac0721
Nice work, Anthony! I envy you that there are SMART meetings in your area. I live in a very rural area where there isn't any choice. But when I need support I take what I can get or come here to SR.
I am inspired by your recovery and fitness journey! I am on the last ever Day 4 of sobriety and find that exercise is critical. It chases away the anxiety and gives a confidence boost. I have about 10-15 pounds to lose. I feel so much better already. Glad to hear someone saying how rewarding sober life is!
I am inspired by your recovery and fitness journey! I am on the last ever Day 4 of sobriety and find that exercise is critical. It chases away the anxiety and gives a confidence boost. I have about 10-15 pounds to lose. I feel so much better already. Glad to hear someone saying how rewarding sober life is!
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I just wanted to drop by and say HI! Today is 9 months since my last drink. My car also broke down today and that is going to set me back $750 bucks and I'm not quite sure where I'm going to get all of the cash, but I'll find a way. Nine months ago something like that would have had me curled up in a corner with a bottle. Today, no bid deal--I've slayed dragons, this little unexpected expense is nothing in comparison.
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good luck, anthony.. keep yer head up.. im lucky enough (i guess) to have 2 SMART meetings a week in my small double one letter dominated city.. theyre listed on the website.. just hope theyre not defunct! i plan on going monday.. and taking a similiar approach to yours, anthony.. hope you the best..
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I started this thread a year ago today. I'm happy to report that I am sober, happy and healthy. Thanks to help from SMART recovery, a healthy diet, meditation, yoga, Campral and a positive attitude I will have a year of sobriety on Christmas Eve. In the past year I have also lost about 98lbs and have become dedicated to fitness. My life is so much better than it was a year ago. Sobriety is not only possible, but it possible to gain a rich, happy and rewarding life in sobriety. Being sober really is about so much more than just not drinking.
Good going Anthony!
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Thanks everyone for the kind regards. I do have to say this past year, although it was filled with hard work to get to where I am it was also one of the best years in probably the past decade that I had. Challenging but rewarding because I found that it's never too late to change. Many of my previously held notions of what addiction is were challenged and many of them torn down. I do not consider my self an alcoholic because I believe that is a self assigned label created by another recovery movement. I do know that alcohol had become a destructive force and a hindrance in my life and needed to be permanately removed and that I had drank so much and so long that my body had become dependent on alcohol and had caused physical damage. I removed the alcohol and now my body is no longer dependent and my body continues to heal. I had substituted alcohol as a temporary means to fill a void of happiness that was lacking in my life. I have developed new goals and interests that now provide a lasting satisfaction of happiness that the alcohol can never provide. And I do consider myself to be in recovery from my destructive behaviors and patterns regarding my alcohol use but I view recovery as a transition period not a lifelong status.
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I just read this thread start to finish.
Anthony - Thank you so much for sharing your story. It is right up there among the most inspirational I have read in my short time here on SR. Bravo to you, sir. I don't know you personally, but I am so proud of you for what you have done. Outstanding.
Anthony - Thank you so much for sharing your story. It is right up there among the most inspirational I have read in my short time here on SR. Bravo to you, sir. I don't know you personally, but I am so proud of you for what you have done. Outstanding.
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Thank you Henry. It's been a long journey. As I've said throughout my posts on this thread it's been a combination of SMART Recovery meetings, meditation, yoga, excercise/nutrition and keeping a positive attitude that it's worth it, and it is. And I didn't quit trying, if I had let my previous failures at sobriety poison my mind with doubt I would not be over a year sober today.
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