Checking in daily to maintain focus #11

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Then give it away to a nice neighbour or so. I would get rid of it, why tempting yourself?

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Woo hoo! Congratulations on 200 days @050Nl! You’re killing it. Give Nala kisses for me. :kissing_heart:

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@Joy, @SoberWalker, @Mno, @anon60334405, @crystalclear & @Beardy_McTallman
Thank you so much!! It makes me so happy to have all of you cheering me on. No one IRL acknowledges my accomplishments and that’s ok because they don’t get how hard this is, but you guys get it :100:

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@Pjd5 Hi, sounds like u are taking steps towards sobriety. Good luck with getting even closer.

@zzz Why do u have beer? I agree getting rid of temptation is best. Do u have anyone else around who would drink it for u?

Day 119
My 3 month celebration arrived in time for my 4th.

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Thank you :pray:

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My sober app says 13 days, I reset it a day late but I’m just gonna go with it. 13 days!

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Here’s my bike Menno, it’s the nicest one I’ve ever had! It was a gift last year.

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3 days 4hrs. I thought it will be a tough Friday as normally at this time of the Friday evening I would have drunk about 8-10 x 500ml 6% lager and would carry on but thankfully nothing like this happened. Did not have much cravings as kept myself busy with DIY stuff. The cravings I had i have killed with Mango Sorbet. I know this will change soon and cravings will be huge and won’t stop so easy. Going sleep now and hoping for an easy day tomorrow.

Good night great people and stay strong.

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just read your posts, where you at mate, if you can get through today I swear on my grannies grave I’ll have a day one tommorow. No pressure. Oh BTW you might have to help me but a promise is a promise :joy:

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Winding down day 5. Lots of urges today. The drive home is my witching hour. Really wanted to stop but stayed strong. Small goals and I WILL reach 1 week!

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Checking in at 21.24 days!! Trying to keep my head up!!.. its hard when I am constantly around negative people so I just rotate around from side yard to front yard to back yard to other side yard… Cant catch me!! :joy: Seriously I am either crazy or they seriously want to bring me down. Probably just crazy… :joy::joy:

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Day 18. Felt myself starting to mentally relapse yesterday after a work meeting. Couldn’t sleep over it and found somebody to listen in the 24 hour aa room. Pheew :sweat:. Did some more exercise today and ordered a bench for weights. I’ve been taking it all out with exercise lately and my body is so sore​:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. It hurts just to sit down :toilet: haha. My home is turning into a house of gains lol.

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Thats wonderful!! I just started doing Insanity Max 30 this week! Cant believe how great of a work out it is!! 30 min a day and then sit on my butt guilt free the rest of the day!

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Thats awesome. No pain no gain. Some days I miss the pain alcohol gave me but now I get plenty :rofl:.

The other day i posted that article on drinking and abuse during the shutdown. I AM SO BLOWN AWAY at how many people are turning to alcohol during the lockdown and how work it letting it go as a relief to the isolation. Virtual online happy hour… really?:nauseated_face: I would be on the floor shaking covered in piss. No thank you. :sunglasses:

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Thank you Misokatsu

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It’s frustrating… I get invited to professional online happy hours almost daily. Or Zoom networking 1:1s for a glass of wine. It’s brutally hard to stay sober right now. Sigh.

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That’s what I like to hear man, same here. I love it, on the off days you’re to sore to lift try a small walk, or jog or bike ride if you feel you need to stay busy. You need rest days from the weights for sure. So when I need my days off of weights those are my other go toos lol

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My friends are all still drinking and we talk daily in our ongoing thread. Tomorrow will be 2 weeks since I gave vodka the boot. It doesn’t bother me that they are drinking, or even talking to them in messages, but yesterday they decided to set up Friday Pau hana (Hawaiian for happy hour) on zoom every friday at 4:30. I just don’t have any desire to listen and watch them all get shitfaced! Lol. I begged off, said I was too early in sobriety.
The thing is, I think that my talk of being sober is annoying them. Or making them uncomfortable maybe? It makes me wonder what will happen once our shelter in place is over.

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I only had 3 friends, don’t even think they were friends just drinking buddies bc I haven’t heard or talked to them in idk how long. Wanna see who you’re true friends are, get sober lol. It’s ok tho, now that I’m sober I see they were boring as shit anyway, I got shit to do besides sit around drinking. I’m making a life again, and you will too. Keep it up

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