Hi everyone, just installed the app and starting with day 1 of sobriety! I never saw myself as having an addiction, only drinking moderate amounts on the weekends. But having tried (and failed) several times to cut down on my beer consumption, I realize it’s just that.
Woke up today feeling a bit hung over and fed up with myself, and started looking for a way to quit drinking with support. Found this app and decided I want to go for it!
So here’s to day 1 and staying sober 
Welcome, great decision! Alcohol takes more than it gives, better without!
day 282! today was a little bit better. worst part is realizing I have to start paying on my student loans very soon.
Was she in the salad section?
You are doing everything right, the only thing I advise you is to talk to your wife and explain that it is unnecessary to remind you about alcohol … even mentioning it can be a trigger.
Really need to start doing something at weekends, kind of hard stuck out in the countryside 
Monday-Friday have work so that keeps me busy.
Not even sure what I’m going to do today, probably ps4, check in here a few times and eat but I know it’s better than the alternative 
Keep checking in 
- Coffee. Home chores day. Got to get back in my doing stuff mood. Right now. Can’t just sit back and let the world pass me by. Did that for way too long. So here I go. Have a good day all. Sober and clean. Love from Amsterdam. Pic is from those little gravel tracks through the woods I love but today they’ll be crowded with oldies on e-bikes so good I rode 'm yesterday.
@Lisa07 Your full year is here!!! Huge congrats lady. Thanks for sharing your road with us. You worked hard for it and I hope you’ll celebrate this weekend.
@Tommo You’re doing excellent Tom. You’re working your sobriety. Keep doing it.
@Petes40 It’s important to have other stuff to do Peter. We need to replace the old with new. Sobriety is about much more than being sober. As you know I know. Have a good sober weekend.
So stinking proud of you and happy for you. You have worked so hard to get here. Celebrate yourself today! I hope you can take some time just for you and enjoy your day. 
Hello all. Hellacious night last night. Despite the cool temps and an exhausting day, could not get to sleep due to the news. Ended up finally drifting off at 3 AM. But I didn’t drink. Hope you got some rest @Dazercat!
Welcome. You’re in a good place here. Lots of support. Read a lot and check in as much as you need to!
Day 22! I’m healthy, sober and alive. God is good ALL the time! I hope you all have a great sober Saturday!!
@Tommo 14 days IS huge man. Take it all. Please continu to share, on here or to someone. it DOES help a lot to put words onto feelings. Take care.
@anon60334405 how’s that week-end starting off?
@CATMANCAM when those thoughts appears I remember this: “It’s not because I think about something that it’s going to happen.” The main reason why you’re convinced that it’s going to happen it’s because we have been reacting to this thought of drinking for so long that now it became a conditioned response to drink. So the thought of drinking = gonna drink, because it was simple as that at some point. No matter the time of the day. But now it’s different. Maybe you don’t want to be a Pavlov Dog anymore. Maybe you want to decide to which thought you answer. We have so much ideas and thoughts in a day, imagine if you choose the one that makes you a greater human being? or just a sober one (which is the same as being a greater human being for me lol). So yeah, I feel you and can relate totally. So this week for me my answer to those thoughts of drinking were this: “thinking about it do not equal it’s going to happen” (so removing the fear a little bit); then “does continuing to think about this helps me? - No” (so my brain instantly try to find something to think about, and I quickly find myself trying to work on a project in my head, or just go watch a movie and shut it down, lol). Take care.
@siand I am an avid reader and thinker of change and transition. Almost made my thesis on it lol, but realized it was more my personal interest than academic one at the time. Anyways, very interesting read for me this morning as I am still working hard to get my sobriety going. This one particularly:
“Even when the transition is completely voluntary, it can be the source of intense suffering, because it involves adapting to new surroundings and changing your self-conception.”
Right yesterday night I’ve been talking about this to my girlfriend. Feeling that it’s been about 6 months I feel that I am changing and that I want to, but I kind of can’t accept it because it goes against some huge parts of my identity. For me right now it’s mostly academic and career wise, and even my conception of working and the goals of work in our life. It has drastically change in the past half year. And it’s hard to accept, because I’ve been in university for so long now, that it feels like it’s wrong to make a change now, that it might be because I don’t accept the choices I made and that I have to keep going and hustle. But that’s not working. Because the past 6 months I’ve been developing some bad drinking habits to ignore those changes I feel inside of me. Another part of the text is this one:
“Man was made for conflict, not for rest,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. “In action is his power; not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.”
Damn right. If I think of this in the theme of sobriety, it’s not the goal of sobriety itself that I want and have to focus on, but it’s mostly the life and possibility that comes with it: it’s the actions I take TODAY facing conflict and moving forward while changing my perspective about adversity. Anyways, I needed this this morning. Thank you for sharing.
Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your decision to live sober. Check in often and read a lot. Glad you’re here!
Day 708. Started the day with a meeting on emotional sobriety. Soon off for a hike with a recovery friend. Today, I’m choosing to believe that everything is going to be alright, avoiding news and the internet and “doom scrolling”. Love ya 
Amazing! So proud of you 
Day 99 clean and sober today. Spoke at the AA speaker meeting last night and shared my story. Super tough but got so much love and support during and afterwards it was amazing. Have a beautiful day today everyone love you guys! 
Thank you, you are such an important part of my journey. I have to remember to reach out more. I always think I’m bothering people. 