Thank you. That’s a really amazing I would like to do something like you have as well. You’re a big inspiration
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I know this is directed at @anon60334405, but it’s a very timely reminder for me as well. Thank you, my friend. 
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Don’t really know what to write. I’m scattered and I feel lost. But I’ve gone to a meeting the last couple days and will again today. I’m going to meet up with my sponsor today. I desperately want all the answers and solutions immediately, but I know that’s not realistic.
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It’s not really possible to build muscle AND lose weight, it’s possible to build muscle and stay around the same weight. Protein intake is super important to lose the least amount of muscle while losing weight. I use myfitness pal app to track what i eat and know how many calories i need to maintain/bulk/cut.
These stretches helped my tennis elbow and now im graduated to golfers elbow lol.
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Yeah for sure I agree. I stopped doing my long runs and just started doing a few hit workouts. Athlean x man, ilove him lol I’ve been watching his videos and they have helped, I found my shoulders and triceps are just really to tight I’ve been using a tennis balls to massage them and sofar it seems like its working. Along with maintaining rotator cuff exercises so I don’t get the rounded should and making sure I do my lats and all that.
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Midway thru Day 18. Sooo ready for the weekend, sober style.
Too many overtime hours at my home desk this week, too many zoom meetings, too many un-returned work calls and emails. But a supportive call from my boss just now - telling me it’s okay to bow out of more calls/mtgs this afternoon, so I can just focus on things that need to get done and then take the weekend for myself.
Some family stuff on the go too (relationships with my siblings = triggertriggertrigger) as we deal with changes in Mom’s care. But I didn’t get triggered! so that’s good.
Not sleeping great, not sure why. I wake up lots in the night, not anxious - just with lots of things on my mind. Maybe just a pile of thoughts that need to be thought thru, soberly. Likely just need more balance as I bring things into alignment with sobriety - no wine also makes me aware of when I’ve used work or “busy-ness” to numb out too. Realizing I need to “sober up” in so many ways…
And so, I’m going to make it to the work week finish line today, plan to get a good night’s sleep, and tomorrow - am turning off both phones and heading to the hills with the dog girl for some trail therapy…
…will leave all triggers behind 
M 
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That sounds like a great plan to me. Hope you two get an amazing day tomorrow. 
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More like a checkout once again.
Crappy day as you guys knows, probably living more in the past than in the present right now.
Just got a welcome back to reality check this eve, remember my closest friend, who I grew up with, and got through a lot of shit with. We did drugs together, we started to drink together and we got off drugs together. The friend who refused to talk to me a few weeks ago when I started to get sober for real?
Yep, that friend… He just called and want to see me tomorrow. He is the last person I want to deal with right know,but I couldn’t say no either. So he’s coming for a Fika. Usually those Fikas ends up in a binge drinking but he said he is on his way to sobriety too. So we’ll see. I still feel betrayed by him.
Besides that it’s said to be sunny tomorrow again and I’m looking forward to another day in the sun.
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Goofy question… what’s a Fika? 
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Swedish Fika, it’s a little difficult to explain. But basically it’s a coffee break where you have coffee and a sweet pastry, or a cookie, or a cinnamon bun. Well a sandwich works to it depends on occasion and mood.
You talk with your friends, family or workmates. And avarage work place Fika is usually around 15 mins. A weekend or afternoon Fika on your free time with friends can take hours.
You can have Fika at home, and you usually invite your guests for a Fika, or you can meet up with friends in a coffee shop for having a fika too.
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Oh lovely! Thank you for explaining. It sounds much better than the standard North American “coffee break”! I wish you a beautiful (and free of binge-drinkers!) Fika tomorrow 
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Thank you, I’m trying to teach my American friends how to have a Fika, but they haven’t really got the concept yet 
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Third check in/check out for today.
Something must be wrong with the planets or the energy from the universe here today.
I had my friend call a few hours ago that I previously wrote about.
Just now one of our family members calls, the family member had some gambling troubles in the past and the last few years he’s been getting back from it. He did really good, and now he called desperately, have lost all his savings and all the vacation money on gambling. He wants to come over, and stay a few days next week so the kids at least will have some kind of getaway this summer.
Once again, totally impossible to say No it’s family, but I do wonder why I have to live in a never ending Soap opera. I’m neither got the time or the mood to deal with any of this.
If the phone rings once again today, I’m not answering.
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Checking in day 8, pretty happy to say I’ve been sober for my first week and that today I will not be drinking 
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Still fresh. Feeling good. Having really bad cravings the past couple days and vivid dreams of super cold brewskis but haven’t given in.
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70 days, y’all! 
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I’d love to go here… 
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Checking in on the morning of my day 13.
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