How’s it going? So this weekend I was at the bar with my friends hanging out. My goal was not to drink at all! I had a seltzer and I had a non alcoholic beer. I was asked if everything was ok because I wasn’t drinking. I had a great time and realized that I can still have fun with getting wasted. So you think that the Non alcoholic drink is a bad idea?
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If you hang around a barber shop, you’re eventually going to wind up getting a haircut.
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Depends on your goals, how long you want to be sober, what you want out of sobriety, what truly matters to you. Ect.
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I stay away from NA drinks because a lot of them still have a tiny smidge of alcohol like 0.5% or whatever. And from what I heard from other people, they aren’t even good. I think it’s a risky game to play anyways because I feel like you’ll start to miss the real thing and before you know it, you’re back in the hole.
You’re better off making a protein shake, smoothie, juice, etc. at home.
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over the decades ive seen NA drinks lead back to the real stuff but not everyone has had that experience soft drink does just as well
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I have some from time to time for a drink but never as a replacement for the real thing … when I was trying to find replacement for my red wine I was never able to match the taste and found myself always going back for the real thing.
It all depends on your mindset and whey you are drinking the NA drink. We have plenty of threads here that discuss the topic and you will find people are on both sides of it. In the end you need to protect your sobriety at all costs so if you feel that drinking these will lead you back to alcohol then I would stop immediately otherwise enjoy from time to time 
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like going to a heroin dealers house just to say hello
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yep.
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Congrats on the achievement but one thing I e learned is not to test my sober muscles too often. Willpower is finite, and bars are pretty tough as a test of willpower.
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For your sobriety it is very risky to go to bars and just hang out. Not saying it can’t be done but it’s playing with fire.
And being in a room full of people drinking is not fun to me. It’s loud and annoying.
But I do love mocktails. But not made with the fake alcohol shit, to me it tastes like some weird sugar crap and it was expensive.
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