Checking in daily to maintain focus #55

Good work! @Newsoberhuman666 glad to hear today was better!

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Definitely needed today after the bullshit I went thru yesterday. It was nice to just sit and relax (if u considering screaming at a TV with family relaxing) and eat some good food. Today was the first day my appetite finally started coming back

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I finally chaired my 1st SLAA meeting! It felt really good and natural. I had a lot of support. Iā€™m proud of getting out of my comfort zone. Iā€™m volunteering to do more and to chair for an OA meeting too!

99 days no weed
91 off bottom lines
Almost finished with step 4 in SLAA

I have not been this sober in 20+ years. I feel amazing, like a different person. Iā€™m even getting better with binging and junk food. I still have room to improve, but Iā€™m doing better than a month ago.

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Checking in on day 750. It was a good day, but I do feel some strange unresolved feelings just under the surface. I spent decades avoiding and managing emotions with booze and now I have to figure out how to make this all work without chemicals. Plus I am supposed to be tough and unemotional. Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

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Well, the first 1000 days have past. Had some tough days the first year or two. I went to my first sober wedding this weekend. After party at the bar and everything. It went smooth, no issues. Still sober, feeling good! Wish you all strength and happiness.

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Checking in at the end of day 1,388.
I first signed in on day 1.
What an amazing journey! Iā€™m currently at a little Airbnb in the Hill Country of Texas with my youngest daughter. For her 18th birthday she wanted a trip with me, just the two of us. We arenā€™t anywhere fancy. We arenā€™t spending tons of money. We are relaxing, enjoying time away, sharing moments and I am FULLY PRESENT FOR IT. Sobriety is a gift. Putting alcohol out of my life is one of the best things I have ever done for myself. I have gained so much more than I ever ā€œgave upā€.
In case youā€™re weary, not sure this sober thing is worth it, struggling to get through the next 10 minutes, starting over again please believe me - ITā€™S ALL WORTH FIGHTING FOR! DONā€™T GIVE UP. :blush:

Hereā€™s a deer in the front of the house when we came back from dinner tonight. May you all find peace and serenity today. :heart:

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Congratulations :clap::tada::clap:

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Thank you Flo!

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Day 8 :slight_smile: rubbish sleep last night, my mind has always raced , not necessarily about negative things but its so exhausting!

Day 8 tho :slight_smile: going to chill, eat well and do some reading re: addictions and Iā€™m writing step four. Not got a sponsor tho to read it to!

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Congratulations for the 1000 days and look at that money you saved by it, wow! :facepunch::confetti_ball:
Just curious: why do you have 3 daycounters for beer on your screen instead of one?

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No / I agree that was not an unexpected twist. Unexpected to me was that I reached certain state of mind that I thought I never reach it again. Unexpected was that it was second time for me now. That is good for me now, as I know I can expect that again. I come to conclusion that the first time was more of an Post Traumatic Stress Disorder related / and sure it was / but the state of mind reached this time was probably the same.

As I talked previously, I had benzos addiction for 4 years many years ago, Clonazepam in particular and situation was pretty hard and I was doing EVERYTHING. I mean I did not went to AA and so on / I think I did not even knew what the program is about back then.

Now with alcohol I never seen the situation to be as much problematic and serious. I never really tried that hard to become sober / as I was working my way out from Benzos. I was literally in very bad places and very scarred. With alcohol - I was not at all. What to be scarred of - some hangovers ? Ok I knew there was a certain risk at certain moments.

Problem here / this addiction has different stages and now I see I am somewhere in the middle if not even further. Another problem is I am more of an Binge drinker. So it is almost impossible to see problem in me. But every time I drink, the drinking time increases by every use / and I started to drink insane amounts of alcohol in very short periods of time.

I feel like I am right on the top, and the next step would be very fast and progressive fall. If not that unexpected twist, I would probably be playing with hangovers and minimal risk again and again / as I did many years.

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Day 169.

Yeahā€¦ Iā€™m restless, anxious and I have this inexplicable urge to run, screamā€¦ something. Its hard to describe.

Last night I had the most vivid drinking / drugging dream ever. I dont know who the people in my dream were, but the lines kept coming, the drinks were flowing and when I woke up my post-blackout panicky anxiety was in full swing. It took a minute before I realised where I was and that I wasnā€™t, in fact, waking up from a blackout.

Iā€™m clean. Iā€™m sober. Itā€™s enough.

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Have as good a day as you can friends. Sober and clean. Love.


Having my morning :coffee:, thinking about the upcoming day. I might not do that much. The Tour de France :bike: started which is always a good excuse to spend some time on the couch in front of the TV :tv:. Switch back and forth to the Austrian GP :racing_car: a bit. Cuddle with Luna :cat2:. Might be enough for today. Will see. Itā€™s nice not to have to do anything at times. Lunaā€™s up to and ready for it. X
@Chosen2001 Congrats Chris! 30 days is going places!
@Wasabi79 Quadruple digits Luke! Yay you! Excellent work!
@crystalclear Very glad to see you Cristel. Very glad to see you doing well. Enjoy your time with your daughter in the Hill Country. Say hi to the deer for me.

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Such a precious picture of your
Luna girl :heart::black_cat::heart:

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Big congrats on 750 Drew!

Thatā€™s impossible to do sober, friend. You are you. A living breathing feeling human being. You got feelings and emotions and at times they show. Which is a good thing. It takes time to learn how to actually live with emotions instead of suppressing them. Itā€™s worth it. Keep going friend. The world will be a better place with a Drew in it whoā€™s not always tough and unemotional. :heart: :people_hugging:

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Hey, my catā€™s name is also Luna!

Iā€™m starting day 3, chilling in my little garden with good coffee. Feeling good. Iā€™m thinking about joining the gym again (Iā€™m member since February but last few weeks was zero times), or maybe jogging. I used to be very active, now I have some kilos on plus and would be nice to get rid of them.

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Day 83 checking in got to two AA meetings yesterday which I enjoyed was a good day yesterday hope everyone is well

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Oh my. Iā€™m really sorry for it. Sending a lot of hugs. :slightly_frowning_face::hugs::heart:

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8 days clean from self-harm.
8 months 21 days clean from alcohol.
2 days clean from binge.
2 days clean from purge.
8 days clean from taurine.
3 months 30 days clean from weed.
1 year 5 months clean from benzene.
3 months 16 days clean from hypnotics.
2 weeks being less amout of sugar.

Uhm, did I mentioned here about what as well cause my schizophrenia and that it causes me a lot of delusions, so I often have delusional jelausy? Well, if I didnā€™t, now I did. And I said that right now because I have again delusional jelausy. My boyfriend is with friends somewhere near to Prague and these goddamnit voices tell me, that he will 100% cheat on me and that I need to control him or anything like that. I will not share here as well brutal ones what they say to me. But I will say this: oh my god, this is fucking bullshit what they say to me. :man_facepalming:t2: My boyfriend is very loyal and kind person and I know in my heart he wouldnā€™t cheat on me.
Otherwise, Iā€™m fine I could say. Drinking right now Mullermilch at morning and thinking if I should make breakfast. Iā€™m hungry, not gonna lie. After purge which happened at Friday I yesterday ate only cookies.

I hope everyone are okay. Have a nice Sunday! :hugs::white_heart:

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