That’s a brilliant suggestion, I had no idea you can bookmark individual posts! Thank you!
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Checking in on Day 419
Enjoy your saturday everyone!
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Day 970
Suffering from restless legs recently. Sounds so innocuous, but not being able to sleep is so annoying. Possible causes apparently could be lack of dopamine, anemia or kidney disease, which I am three for three, so that is great. I will see how it goes, and maybe check with a doctor.
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That’s fantastic to hear! And how good are those hangover-free morning wakeups!? I never, EVER get tired of that feeling 
As long as we pledge each morning, to do whatever it takes to put a sober head down on our pillow that night, another hangover free wake up is guaranteed👌 ODAAT!
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Restless legs suck! I get them when I’ve been running 
Magnesium oil rubbed onto my legs gives instant relief and also stops me getting them at night. Might be worth a try…
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Yes!! I love it. I also was a drinker that eats and eats lol they ordered pizza last night and I declined that too.
I do sleep more but I’m sure that will go away.
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Yes, your body has alot of healing and adjusting to do now that alcohol is gone! and recovery can be so mentally and emotionally draining, esp in the beginning. Give yourself all the rest you need, balanced with lots of fresh air… I found that everything felt, looked and even smelt different sober!
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Day 2. Woke up feeling like crap, but not from alcohol! Slept with the window open and all the pollen is giving me a massive headache. Ok irony/universe/higher power, I see what you did there…
Oh, sorry, thanks everyone for the support yesterday!!
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Day 6!! Feels good just cleaning the house today. Feels good to get up and accomplish some things. Going to focus on that all day and Keep myself busy.
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Day 2100 today.
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Day 2 no smoking cigarettesCongrats Lola! Look at my days too 
. I love these sort of correlations. The plan is to ever stay 700 days behind you.
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Drop the 
! Congrats on freedom from alcohol!
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Weekly check in
DAY 419
Since I have the time today, I will do my weekly check in instead of tomorrow.
This week has been pretty good. Tue n wed were brutally hard days for me, just in an overall kind of way (struggling with my health goals, living life on lifes terms, some thoughts of using). But I worked thru it. Overall tho, I’ve been filled with alot of gratitude this week for where I am in my life. That today’s problems are problems that I only dreamed off back in the day. I have to remember that! Yesterday we bought a beautiful new couch which is sort of like a representation of recovery. Just being able to do this felt really good!
Health - I worked out only 2/5 days last week. Son was still on spring break which made it slightly harder to exercise. Next week I should see some improvement. I also have been doing more research to help me reach my goals with regards to my eating.
Recovery - Well… I need to up my recovery related activities bcuz I’ve had I think 2 using dreams this week, some slight cravings to use, and had a massive triggering event yesterday which resulted in a pretty big craving. Most cravings are very mild which is fairly easy for me to just brush them off and go about my day. Yesterday tho… I had to pull out my toolkit and really use the techniques I’ve learned. Went straight away to prayer 1st, then played the tape over n over to the end, told my addict to F Off with the thoughts, used deep breathing and grounding exercises, distraction, and then unfortunately comfort food to get me out of it. I say unfortunately bcuz emotional eating or using food for the wrong reasons is something I’m trying to avoid, but in the grand scheme of things Id rather not use drugs. It was tough. These signs are sort of showing me that I need to up my recovery game. So today I prayed and read my NA daily reflections reading in the morning. And will do deep focus breathing and a quick meditation later.
I am also realizing that recovery is MORE than just not using drugs. Its about how I live my life. Honesty being a big one for me that I have to work on. Im an honest person to others for the most part but honest to myself?.. Idk. Honesty is sneaky bcuz when I minimize the truth or choose to even not mention something to others to manipulate the situation, that is being dishonest. And I think being fully transparent and honest in ALL areas of my life is an aspect of recovery for me. When im not honest, im not living my life in recovery. When I choose to be dishonest, I am feeding my addictive way of life. Honesty has been a huge work in progress for me and a part of me feels ashamed to even admit this to u all bcuz its a defect that i dont like. But it really feels good to be working on this area now. Im not a secretive person but i know im not 100% honest with myself and sometimes with others (depending on who it is).
Anyway, thats about it for my week. Next week will be productive. School starts up for my son again which gives me a bit of time for me again. And I will be busy planning and preparing for my husbands birthday next weekend. So excited to spoil him! Hope everyone has an addiction free day. Hugs TS fam!
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Goed plan 
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We are close is our soberity days! Congrats to you girl I am on day 83! We are almost there to our 3 month mark! This is truly a blessing and truly amazing I tell you
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Day 5 no weed. That stuff it horrible for me and I hate it. No cravings for this at all because I’m literally full of emotional pain and confusion when I pick it up and I’m desperately craving sobriety from this DOC
One day at a time though
No alcohol for 155 day
Niice
I’m a much nicer person sober from this. When I drinking want to party with everyone; yet I’m the only one partying in reality when i drink. I ligit get it taken easy on from others because if I’m drunk I have the mind of a 5 year old but more dizzy and eventually sick and very tired
Today is my 4th day cutting down on on vapes and any sort of nicotine
When I first picked up the vape about 8 years ago I vaped 24mg which is about 1.5 cigs a ml. Then a few months after that i vaped 16mg per ml which is 1 cig per ml. I stayed with the 16mg for years. Then not long but long enough ago I switched to 6mg per ml which ia less then half a cig per ml. Noooow I’m on 3mg. I usually vape 10min after I wake up and I vape until I feel comfortable but when I’m ready during the early day I vape my 3mg for 5min every 1hour and 30min. Hounestly I have a few 2mg nic lossenge bottles that im utilizing. When they are gone they are gone and I plan to use the vape every 1hour and 30min with no lossenges. This is all huge for me and even though my plan of attack on nic might be different then others it works for me. Ive smoked very heavy for 18years. I’ve made huge progress very quick with this
My day is going great
Wayyyy better then yesterday
Take care everyone
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Congratulations on your 83 days! 
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Day 47. I’m in a very dark place, the worst yet since getting sober. After an extremely stressful week woke up and had a huge fight with my partner. Nothing feels right about my life. I hate my toxic job, I’m sick of fighting with my partner, I hate where I live. I’m having to own up to the consequences of making 20 years of alcohol fueled decisions. It’s so bad my therapist agreed maybe I should take some jobs off my resume (because I have so many on there). It’s like I’m erasing part of the hard work I did to get to where I am. Now I have to be sober and feel and experience every single thing of this horrible life and how much of a pathetic loser I am.
I know I’m not going to go to my Saturday meeting even though I should. I can’t function in public right now. I don’t want to be around anyone else. I don’t want anyone looking at me, either pitying me or thinking I’m a jerk for being ungrateful for my life.
I just don’t know how to keep going. I’ve put in so much work the last 47 days to do better, to be better, but my life is so shitty. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to keep having this life anymore.
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