Amazing! Well done!
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I have heard of that show, but never watched it. I guess the upside to having an addiction to eating dirt is that itās a cheap habit. Cheapā¦ as dirt 
thatās where I get tomatoes thrown at me.
But for real, those people still suffer from the same compulsion that we do. I almost think it would be harder to get help if I had a dirt eating addiction. At least there is some kind of ānormalcyā in being an alcoholic or a drug addict in comparison. I find it interesting that people with these addictions are willing to talk about it on a TV show.
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@Tommo youāre so right about people taking mobility for granted. I think itās that way in general for health. We really donāt know what we have until itās gone. I hope the pain dies down soon and glad to hear your wife patched you up from the knife, and that it wasnāt serious.
@Hailstrom 600 is awesome! Way to go!
@Mephistopheles I love that. Seriously thatās such a beautiful thing. I havenāt heard of anything like that where I live but hearing you talk about it makes me want to look and see.
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- On my second coffee. Iāve got some writing to do and Iām already procrastinating so Iāll log out here for a bit now. Sober and clean, one day at a time, onward and upward and all that. Thanks for all the feedback last night @Dragonflygirl82, @Fargesia_murielae, @CapriciousCapricorn, @RosaCanDo, @M-be-free49, @GVLNative (good to see you Kyle!), It helps. Iām not alone. Love this place. Have a good day. Clean and sober. Love to you all from Amsterdam and Maroon Bells where me and my American friend were hiking a year ago today. We were late so we were practically alone. Magical.
@Hailstrom Beautiful numbers friend. Congrats.
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Checking in, 1 month, 2 days.
I got stuck a little bit. At the beginning this whole sober thing was quite new, despite the struggle it gave me a drive, I got those long, previously unused hours in a day, started new habits. But after a month it became everyday life, itās not a new experience to explore any more.
Also I tend to forget how bad those hangovers were, I start to feel nostalgic about the drinkings in the evenings.
And now, as I face problems, I have to deal with them sober, which is tough, which is new. Iām having more and more conflict with spouse, I have that issue with my parents, lockdown and homeschooling, and still have this stupid feeling about my best friend, although I rarely speak to her, which sucks, because I miss her as a friend as well. Oh, yes, and there are my problems which caused this crisis in the first place, still unsolved. Itās so overwhelming sometimes, and I donāt seem to have anything in place of drinking. Itās hard not to escape.
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Day 9 sober. Hopeful and focused. I feel so grateful to be sober. I had a relapse nightmare and I wake up disgusted
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Thank you for your service, pal! 
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90.1 Days
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60 Days I did it 
Thank you for your inspirational stories for your valuable support.
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sounds very much like my kind of day so the good news for me is your 271 days sober, if it works for you it can work for me so thank you for the inspiration. 
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Hi yaāllā¦ Day 178ā¦ Still clean/soberā¦ But Iām back because, well I missed yāall 
ā¦ But honestly Iāve had a very testing last few days where the over whelming urges are so strong that itās freaking me out because Iām close to my 6 Months and I feel like maybe Iām being tested. I donāt know but full of anxiety for no reason and the last few days my mind is driving nuts with urgesā¦ Iām Still clean though and back here so all well I guessā¦ Havenāt felt this uneasy in 6 monthsā¦ Itās very uncomfortable. 
anyway, hi everyone, I hope everyone is well x
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Quick check in.
Training makes it harder to wake up earlier to do some extra stuff in my morning like I took the habit of doing in the last month. My body needs little more time to repair, at least an hour. I guess thatās why I havenāt been able to sleep much in those last weeks: I wasnāt training. I almost forgot that I always was a sportive. Drinking made me forget a lot of things!
I will have to find balance between training, restorative sleeps, while maintaining my recovery activities that makes me feel good. I donāt want to fall in the same pattern I took every other sober attempt which was to āworking outā my sobriety. I donāt need this. Although I have 2 long distances races coming up next summer so I did want to get ready slowly. Challenges are coming this winter, as the gym are closed here in QuĆ©bec and thereās no way I am running outside in the winterā¦ To be continued.
Hope everyone is having a good day, keep pushing! 
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Day 255. Had a awesome bicep and tricep workout this morning. I do get a lil frustrated with the guy I lift with, heās way more experiencedā¦he says this is light week then loads up the damn bar on me so much that I canāt do it. When that happens other muscles take over and Iām not working the muscles Iām spoce To. But either way it was a good workout.
About to do my good deed for the day, I was cleaning one of the offices and I found a 20 dollar bill by the girls trash can. Iām broke af right now and part of me wants to snag the 20. But Iām not that person anymore, when she comes in Iām gonna give it to herā¦ anyways have a good day everyone
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Good day to you all. #48 and the start of my 8th weekend. Waking up - bing! - at 6:15 on the dot. Forgetting what a hangover feels like - thatās dangerous - or the agony of waking up at 3 am - still do that- only to lie awake tossing and turning until 4:30 desperately chugging water - nope. That part is gone. Yesterday, a colleague whispered, āI donāt know what youāre doing, but you look fantastic.ā Hah! Thatāll keep me on the path. Vanity has its purpose. One day at a time. One day at a time.
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Consider it a deposit in the good karma bank!
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Iām with you, Tomek. You describe exactly what so many of us are going through when getting sober. Iām in the same boat, having to face life sober when for so long Iāve avoided the pain in my life by escaping with alcohol. What I have to keep telling myself is that my alcohol use/abuse resulted in arrested development - and now I have a lot of growing up to do! I didnāt become an alcoholic over just a few months, so its going to take more than a few months to do the maturing needed to catch my behavior up to my biological age. Facing those problems sober is hard, and yes at times overwhelming, but we all need to learn to face them. Donāt be too hard on yourself, it is āprogress not perfectionā. Weāll get there if we work at it!! So hang in there!!!
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Awesome number Chris. Congratulations 
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Checking in on day #123. Itās funny the reminders my brain gives me that it hasnāt fully rewired itself yet. I woke up this morning after having weird dreams and immediately wondered if my wife was angry at me for drinking too much last nightā¦
I havenāt touched a drop in 123 days, of course, but towards the end of my drinking life that was a daily concern of mine. It clearly left a mark mentally to still be sneaking up on me after 4+ months of sobriety. Iām grateful for the reminder of just another reason that sobriety is amazing.
Iām reading The Naked Mind and just got through a part where she cites research saying the brain can take up to a year to heal itself after the damage of binge drinking. I have seen such great changes already and that knowledge makes me excited for what sobriety still has in store.
Hope everyone has a great day
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