Finishing up day 6. Didn’t drink. Had a nice walk at the nearby nature park. I’m out of shape and overweight but managed 2 miles. Had a good afternoon watching sports with a friend. Anxiety and cravings started up early evening. Headache is back too. I have an appt with my doctor tomorrow. Nervous about admitting my problems. But hopefully she can help. Going to bed early again.
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Proud of you @KarenKW i see you fighting for sobriety. Keep fighting! It is soooo worth it. I hope you can get some answers from your doc
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Of course bro!! 
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@KrispyMac I’m very sorry for your loss; stay strong and remember we’re always here for you. 
@C_8 Congratulations on 3 years, and @AEGFletcher for 60 days!
@Englishd Great photo, you all look so happy!
Day 15
Well, I started Saturday morning thinking, “It’s okay to just rest on weekends”. And I’m ending Sunday with “Why the F**k did I do nothing all weekend???”
Sitting here is the last hour or two before I have to get to bed. Nothing to report, really. I’m going to take a shower, have some tea and get back to the routine tomorrow. Made the mistake of taking a 1-hr nap earlier, so I might be awake until 3am. Sober all weekend though, which is a good thing because I felt on Friday that I would have a hard time this weekend. Hope everybody is having a nice evening! 
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Evening Check In
Day 252
Today was okay overall. Work was good but getting home i had some frustration. Had to pick my battles today with hubby. Certain things are really not worth arguing over. Irritability may be caused by not having taken my med last night. I usually am more irritable and more easily stressed and fruatrated. Cant wait to make an appt with my Dr tmrw to see about getting prescribed my old med again. Will make the appt as soon as they open. Other than that, monday is my day to get back on track with my eating. Always is lol Fri, Sat, and Sun were hard. Wish i didnt feel like i had to reset my eating every monday. I usually do well for most of the week. Weekends are hard for some reason. Need to set up a plan of action for those days. Ither than that im okay. Im feeling like i need aome self care. So will shower before bed. Hope everyone has a good night!
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I’m with you! 
I can’t do anything until Friday tho! 
Gonna have my tea and get some sleep. G’nite! 
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Day 7 AF. Morning checkin. Went for a walk. 6.5 km. I need to do better. ODAAT.
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Ur doing alot my friend 
give urself a break and be gentle with urself. Congratulations on 1 week!!!
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Checking in on day 59. Went out and hit the ice for my first hockey game in over 5 years. F*ck me is my timing and skating out of sync. Drugs and alcohol sure mess with your motor skills. But I’m sure I can get back what I lost in no time.
Big day tomorrow. Been looking forward to getting a 60 day chip or key chain. Don’t think I’ve come close to 60 days straight for almost 30 years.
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Alright Day 7. A week for the first time in so long I genuinely can’t remember when that last happened. It feels good but now there is this small sense of anticipation. A worry that the urges are just right around the corner and that I’ve been too busy to notice them. Tomorrow will be the first real test I think, I’ll find out
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Congratulations on a week! Be proud!
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Good morning TS family. I hope you are all ok today.
I was supposed to be off all week but have just recieved the call to go in to work if I want. I dont really want to but the money will come in handy. It will certainly keep me busy until late afternoon and it will be good to see my customers.
Ive got a S.M.A.R.T meeting tonight what Im really looking forward to as I want to tell them all about how I coped with the christening yesterday.
I was in the church for 1hr 15mns. While im in the church im not drinking. Then because the reception was a mile away and it was raining I offered to drive all day. Which worked really well as it kept me busy. There was no chance of a tea or coffee so I drank blackcurrant and lemonade, funny how you can drink 10, 12 , 14 pints of beer but struggle with 2 blackcurrant and lemonade. I got home around 8 and was straight to bed.
So im feeling proud of myself today as yesterday was a test thrown at me at last minute.
Hope you all have as good a day as you all can.
@Mno Thank you for yesterday friend. 
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Night 2, can’t sleep of course so i’m doing some cleaning. at least a little bit here and there.
it helps a little bit with the anxiety
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I’m just going to check in. Day 16 for me.
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Good morning 
Checking in on 885 days have a good day everyone 
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Day #62
Good morning, everybody, and here’s to a fantastic, fresh & new week for us all 
Whatever your plans, I hope you enjoy the week ahead, and it is both a productive & inspiring one for you.
Not too much to touch on today, other than I am proud of myself for being able to make it this far. August 23rd of this year, I walked out of my local pub; I was one of the “regulars” (which is never a good thing when you can walk into a premises, and you don’t even need to tell the barmaid what you’d like to order - they just start pouring your drink!! 
). I was both a functioning alcoholic, and I was a binge drinker, but I left the pub that afternoon, I came home, and I vowed to give up alcohol. I admitted to myself that I couldn’t control my drinking habits; they controlled me. I made a pact to give up my addiction. Thus, August 24th was my first “full” day of sobriety, or my sobriety birthday as some would recognise it as.
Two full months later, October 24th, I am still clean & I am living my life. Albeit, some days are difficult & I’m often faced with triggers, but I’m still here & still fighting. I haven’t been able to get to my local branch of AA for over a month due to work commitments, but I’ll be able to go these next two weeks which I’m looking forward to. I’m also looking into some online meets which will help to alleviate some of the strain when I can’t get to my local branch in person.
Other than that, I’m doing my best to get from one day to the next. Tonight is my third consecutive late shift at work, but I have my “weekend” of Tuesday & Wednesday off, so I’m looking forward to recharging the batteries, so to speak 
Have a great day everybody - ODAAT.
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Day 1
I slipped couple of times again… Two steps forward and three steps back.
Feeling ready to continue my sobriety journey.
My last drink was different this time. I just sipped pure vodka to unmask that real and nasty poisonous taste in my mind and then spitted it out. I pack all the lessons I learned and know it’s time to move only forward. There is really nothing left here to explore. All that’s left is pain and missery. I choose light instead of darkness.
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I am SO Happy for you!! You have found a good healthy passion now that I know is and will continue to do so much for you and fill in so many of those gaps and holes. I admire you so much. I have often felt bad because I rarely reply to your posts although they have many times of course elicited deep sincere feeling for the many so very hard lows, and also, joy for your successes.
I’m one of those who would love to reply to everyone on this thread and instead reply to almost none.
( Everyone else out there, I have read your posts and you have my sympathy, condolences, thoughts, congrats, wows and good wishes depending on your circumstances)
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That’s what doctors are for Karen. To help us with our problems. They’re trained for that and get paid for that too. Hope she can be of significance to you. Hope you slept well, or at least as well as possible. Two miles is a great start. Success today.
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Day-4…hey all I’ve been tryna get back on track once again. This time I’m goin through the motions that I seem to not be able to get through. I haven’t been past day 4 in a long time from daily meth use so should be a interesting day. I have work in a few hours been sleeping and eating all day. I’m back in meetings N.A. & A.A., talking to my sponsor daily, and will be getting into the literature more today. Soon I will be getting back into working step 1 once again. Anyways I can’t sleep so I thought I stop by say hello and let y’all know where I’m at right now. It’s hard, but the other way of life is a lot harder in the end. I’m just gonna pray and lay in bed for now. Love y’all
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