Quit Alcohol - Support Thread

[GET MO]

I think a little slipup can be a big positive if it motivates you to not let the BS in your mind take you off track again. I had to get pretty pissed off at myself before I could finally quit. In the end I was pissed off at myself for putting myself in the position of being a drunk, injuring myself, acting a fool, and basically ruining and wasting what is left of my only life.

This isn't easy. I am so glad I have weaned myself of the beer. I love beer, but my life is a lot better, and more productive, without it. My health is improving, especially sleep, which may be the key to being healthy and happy. A little monitor ring I wear at night confirms this.

But man, the dope I'm going through now, especially just vaping off the terps and making butter with the ABV. I think the compromise my mind has made with the carbions is trading beer for cookies, which I now munch like snacks.

Man I feel this, because it took me being pissed at myself to make a change in the first place. the last couple days I been gettin a beer since them shots, after hard day of work, and the shit pissin me off again. Then im reminded of the routine “I will quit on a monday” and the fact I brought that up in this thread using that as a means to keep drinking, makes me feel like a dumbass cuz I jus did it again. This last week of drinking a lil bit has non coincidentally been a week off of exercise. Tonight im exercising regardless of the lil ipa i just drank. The lil 9 dollar ipa. The money i was saving. *facepalm
Time to hop back off the wagon... tomorrow...

 

[GET MO]

Funny thing how bout matter how much sobriety one gets when ya relapse....your right back where ya were when ya started getting sober....that devil is always doing push ups dude. Gotta be stronger!

I feel what you saying, but at the same time that month without booze saved a month of booze money. It also was a month of healing for the liver. When u relapse your not where you started, because now you know u can go for that long. Now you know how that time without it felt compared to on the drank. Sometimes it takes a relapse to remind yoself why u quit in the first place.

 

[flylowgethigh]

This is not easy. Not mentally easy, not physically easy, not easy also, because most of your habits involve drinking. For me, it took a commitment, and a bunch of anger. I had a busted rib I think to remind me also. I came here and kept a daily, then weekly log by editing a post. I wanted the world to see it, if I could not follow through.

I am surprised at the potheads that have quit. Good.

 

[Tudo]

20 years this month for Tudo. Big Book Step Study, based on the Hyannis Mass group down in Lake Worth Fl . There's another one in North Palm Beach or at least there used to be.

Saved and changed my life.

Big Book Step Study is not "step meetings". Please do research and if you have to move to be near one in order to get well then do what you have to do .


Good luck and don't forget...surrender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJfsVTa7NW0

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

- I haven't touched booze in months - but then I never really had a problem with it -

- Some days I do feel for an ice-cold beer though - but not enough to motivate me to cross the road and buy some at Sainsbury's -

- My beer drinking days - years ago - were best spent amongst other beer drinkers in a nice sports bar/pub - where we could get loud and silly for a while -

 

[hazyfontazy]

7 weeks today,,
Cravings are off the scale, willpower is stronger.

1 day at a time, every clean day is a massive achievement and makes me feel good.

Losing weight is pretty good too

 

[flylowgethigh]

You are finding out what you are made of inside Mr. Fontazy. Amazing how hard the little bastards can dig into your mind, and almost force you do something you know is bad for you. Drink a bottle of water, eat carbs, do what you have to do to get the bastards off your mind.

Hang tough man! Get "no beer!" tatoo'd on your arm. Hell, across your forehead if that is what it takes. Just point to the tatoo when a bartender asks what you want, and reply "water". All the chicks will see you have plenty of non-drinking cash, and can make a non-drunk raging hard-on, and will take up seats on either side of you. You will need a bigger bed to hold them all, and vitamins!

I lost the oreos weight, mostly, and am stuck at pre-Wuflu + 5 lbs. I believe a cookie/carb habit has satisfied the little bastards that drive cravings, cause I can sit at a bar and look at an ice cold, frosty beer, and not hardly even salivate, much. I'll take cookies over beer any day.

 

[D. B. Doober]

I'm proud of all of you!

Way to go Tudo!
Way to go hazyfontazy!
Way to go flylowgethigh!

 

[hazyfontazy]

You are finding out what you are made of inside Mr. Fontazy. Amazing how hard the little bastards can dig into your mind, and almost force you do something you know is bad for you. Drink a bottle of water, eat carbs, do what you have to do to get the bastards off your mind.

Hang tough man! Get "no beer!" tatoo'd on your arm. Hell, across your forehead if that is what it takes. Just point to the tatoo when a bartender asks what you want, and reply "water". All the chicks will see you have plenty of non-drinking cash, and can make a non-drunk raging hard-on, and will take up seats on either side of you. You will need a bigger bed to hold them all, and vitamins!

I lost the oreos weight, mostly, and am stuck at pre-Wuflu + 5 lbs. I believe a cookie/carb habit has satisfied the little bastards that drive cravings, cause I can sit at a bar and look at an ice cold, frosty beer, and not hardly even salivate, much. I'll take cookies over beer any day.

Cheers mucker,,
I discovered oreos lol

 

[hazyfontazy]

I'm proud of all of you!

Way to go Tudo!
Way to go hazyfontazy!
Way to go flylowgethigh!

Cheers mucker

 

[GET MO]

Im back on, day 1, I didnt fall all the way off, did some light drinkin for the last week but I know ima slip up if it continue, i feel it draggin my soul down. Heres a few things that helped me with my last 5 week hiatus....
1. Some other designer drink for the evening. I like to eat healthy so heres some of the ones I used, but you could prolly use coca cola or something with similar effect, reeds strongest and extra strong ginger ale is good too, has a nice kick, somethin how alcohol kick ya tastebuds...

2. I started takin a multivitamen every day when j wake up. I take this mind force mushroom pill too.

3. I Started making a picture of ice tea, my recipe, 8 teabags of green, 8 chaga tea bags, a chunk of ginger thinly sliced, a lime juiced into the picture, and rine soaked with the tea, and a few spoons of honey. This would give me more energy during the day. I be hella slugish when i stop drinking for the first week or 2.

And 4. I started an exercise routine. I dont have time for a gym or hella weights but I found this book with body weight exercises and some good routine that helped me...

Anyway appreciate this group, so hopefully this helps somebody. I know different things work for different folks.

 

[gladysvjubb]

Once you realize that ALCOHOL is a poison and that you are not the enemy. You will stop drinking.
Alcohol really sucks.

 

[gladysvjubb]

Im back on, day 1, I didnt fall all the way off, did some light drinkin for the last week but I know ima slip up if it continue, i feel it draggin my soul down. Heres a few things that helped me with my last 5 week hiatus....
1. Some other designer drink for the evening. I like to eat healthy so heres some of the ones I used, but you could prolly use coca cola or something with similar effect, reeds strongest and extra strong ginger ale is good too, has a nice kick, somethin how alcohol kick ya tastebuds...

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2. I started takin a multivitamen every day when j wake up. I take this mind force mushroom pill too.

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3. I Started making a picture of ice tea, my recipe, 8 teabags of green, 8 chaga tea bags, a chunk of ginger thinly sliced, a lime juiced into the picture, and rine soaked with the tea, and a few spoons of honey. This would give me more energy during the day. I be hella slugish when i stop drinking for the first week or 2.

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And 4. I started an exercise routine. I dont have time for a gym or hella weights but I found this book with body weight exercises and some good routine that helped me...

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Anyway appreciate this group, so hopefully this helps somebody. I know different things work for different folks.

Back in the day, we use to call the exercise"Isometrics".

 

[hazyfontazy]

2 months,, wahoo

 

[Mr.Miner]

2 months,, wahoo

Hell yes HFT!Congrats! How are you feeling?

 

[flylowgethigh]

Way to go Mr. Fontazy!! Fuck those carbions.

 

[hazyfontazy]

Feeling fantastic

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

- well done mate - keep it up - stay off the poison -

Feeling fantastic

 

[LiudwigXIX]

Alcohol today is a strong evil. I am glad that I was able to get rid of this addiction three years ago

 

[flylowgethigh]

Feeling fantastic

Isn't it nice to regain control over your own life? While I still love the taste of beer, it hasn't done me any favors at all, and probably hurt me in aggregate quite a bit. Relationships, health, money, career.

Hang in there Mr. Fontazy, cause it will be like sunrise as the months go by, how much more clear you are, and how much can get done.