Just loving the moment. 26 Days and sober feels pretty good 
. Good Morning Ya’all
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Morning everyone! Day 100 for me ! Really please to get to triple figures . Just been to the gym for a great morning workout.
I feel great most of the time and I don’t ever want to go back although the temptation is still there especially with lockdown lifting and pubs opening etc. But I’m keeping strong and keeping working on myself with reading , podcasts and obviously the threads on here . I can’t imagine ever not having to put the work in to stay focused on this ?
Anyway have a great sober /clean day everyone 
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That is so great. Well done!
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Congratulations! That’s great!
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My usual day off - a jog (before the rain. rainy season has started EARLY this year), nice chat with sponsor and an online meeting. Making gratin for dinner, recently feeling like I want to eat Western food. Bought a second hand bracelet off Mercari (do you have it?) and it was nicer than expected, a little late 9 month anniversary treat for me.
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@apes2020, how is it with your sore feet?
Day 973 
I have to look deep to find some motivation for work today… 
But this day shall pass.
Picture from a turtle wich I saw on my walk yesterday. It’s a dumped pet
He will survive but it makes me sad people treat animals like this.
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Thanks, Fleur. I am going to have to call on my reserves of willpower in the short term. I’m feeling really vulnerable to the pull of it at the moment. You know when you know. I’ve employed a lot of strategies today. Drank a lot of water. Eaten really well. Meditated a little. Taken my vitamins. Still feeling shaky though.
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Its better today, thank you for asking. I’ve been icing it alot so that I could be able to get to work today and make it through the day. The icing worked and I didnt have any pain so all good 
That poor turtle !! If that was a dumped pet, it blows my mind how cruel some humans can be. And a turtle can’t just run away, its so slow so it would be scared and stuck somewhere it isnt familiar with 
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Congrate Julie!! Triple digits! 
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You know this is not true. There are countless and endless benefits of being sober. You just need a win , somewhere , somehow. When you get that positive win, your train of thought you shift. Don’t give up hope, you had it all before, you can have it again
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feels really odd after all this time but times are a changing and we can’t hold on to the past… Proud of you as always. 
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- The gyms reopens today after nearly 5 months and I got time booked for early in the pm. Which is great as the weather sucks today (although no snow like with @M-be-free49) so no hiking or cycling and I really want to start working on losing some weight.
And even though I had a bad night where I woke every hour and had twenty different dreams (@Girlinterrupted would love to pick 'm apart) I’m feeling endlessly better compared to waking up after being in a comatose stupor because I was drinking the night before. Never again. I live my life sober and clean and it’s the only way I want to live. Good days and bad ones. Rain and shine. Have as good a day as you all can friends. Clean and sober. Love from Amsterdam. PS. Did a test drive on a new type of (a supposedly) indestructible city bike yesterday. I didn’t fall in love with it. No buy.
@Julied Huge congrats on triple digits lady!
@zepolarne 1500! Congrats Bill!
@Singtone Hard days and good ones. Nothing is made better by drinking Tony. It will pass. BTW, you’re here too. Which helps. Keep going and keep coming back.
@Jennajen Sounds like how I do my work. You’ll get there. I’m sure. Hugs. Success.
@Fury Wish I had more to offer but all I can say is using stuff didn’t make anything better either Chris. At times life outright sucks. And sober we feel it right away too. Using would postpone feeling the feelings maybe. That’s all it does. Thinking of you.
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great something else to feel guilty about it. 
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Checking in. I’m ill again with fever, sore throat and such. I thought that after stopping drinking my immune system would get stronger, but it seems the opposite. I was ill at least 6-8 times in the last year. I also lost my appetite quite long ago and lost weight which I shouldn’t. It sucks, because I have a lot of work to do and I’m constantly exhausted.
Luckily still no craving for booze.
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Checking in at the beginning of day 7 because I feel I need to…then I’ll check in again at the end WHEN I’ve smashed it! Woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning. Seems like the pink cloud is lifting somewhat and my emotions are coming through again. I knew it would happen and I am prepared. I spoke to my wife and my best mate who is also tackling the same thing as me. It really lifted me to hear that he took my advice on journaling and has seen benefits and that I had helped him loads this week. This gave me so much pride and happiness for him.
I was also sulking cuz I had to do a long run for my training. I had a word with myself and went back to the journal…I set it all out and wrote down my gratitude list. Number 1 was that I am healthy and have legs that work. That I can run in the first place! Number 2 was my wife and 3 Was that I am sober today.
Treated myself to an audible membership with the money I was spending on beer (a fraction of it tbh) and going to listen to that on the run.
“I really regret that physical exercise” said no one ever. Feeling better already!
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The Pythonbridge! One of my favorite bridges in Amsterdam.
Good luck tomorrow with your muscle pain! 
I’m in pain too by working out, feels great haha
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I think it can take a while for things to reach an equilibrium. I certainly had a period when I had cold sores/mouth ulcers one after another.
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Congrats on triple digits Julie, keep on trucking ODAAT! 
Blessings and sobriety!
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Thanks Paul, another +600 days till the next change. Onwards and upwards!
Blessings and sobriety!
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Day 12 sober. Trying to learn from last errors. One of them had been not caring about my health and my habits of eating.
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