Great job coming here and talking it out with others first before going to act on your urges. I’m glad you’ve decided to avoid going out where you may be tempted and have decided to do whatever it takes to hit that pillow sober tonight. I’m proud of you .
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I’ve been sober for 429 days. I totally understand Friday cravings. Long work week, getting to sleep in Saturday etc. Stick with it today. You’ll enjoy Saturday feeling great and feel like you accomplished good things.
Hang in there. The cravings will lessen with time. It’s so worth it.
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Thank you 
I need to be reminded that the reward will be worth it so I appreciate it.
I am safely in bed in my jammies with a box of girl scout cookies. Safe to say Ill make it another day sober
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How are you @StacyAnn? Feeling better? 
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Something I said overvand over in the beginning to myself about cravings…“a craving will not kill me, but 1 more drink will”.
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Bookmark-worthy 
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How it going today SarahBear? How are you feeling today?
I’m actually just waking up. Slept hard. Didn’t drink, but stayed up not really “late” but kinda late, working on RC cars. Super tired though, but gotta get up because I have to work for a few hours.ade it through another night AF.
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That’s good advice!
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Thank you, all of you for helping me get through that rough patch yesterday! Hopefully today’s a better day 
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You did really very well yesterday. You should be proud of yourself. Have agreat sober day friend 
One day at a time
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On day 5 now, just waking up with a headache im hoping coffee will fix. Thanks for checking in! I am determined not to drink today and have one of my favorite meetings at 2.
Im anticipating some stress and potentially a saturday night alone, which is not a great combo. I relapsed on Sunday last week so I know I need to be hyper vigilant and have plans in place. Read the daily reflection already and prayed, maybe try to find a sober activity for myself tonight, even if I go alone.
Thank you so much and @StacyAnn thanks for the thread lets make it through the weekend sober!
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Let’s make it through the weekend! Feel free to message me, or just reach out here. We can do this! It’s race night tonight, super motocross, so it’s a rough night for me cuz we’re usually drinking and watching.
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Thank you 
yeah that would be rough. I made it through a superbowl party sober during my first attempt so it is possible! Ill be rooting for you and yes please message me or reply to the thread and lwt us k ow how its going! We dont really WANT to drink, its just the little addict in our brain that wants us to die. And that first drink could lead to just that.
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Wanted to let you know I got the seltzer water, definitely not my favorite lol but it’ll do.
Some flavors are definitely better than others.
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So made it through the races sober. Discovered that mixing those crappy seltzers with white grape juice tastes like Moscato, and I will take that cuz well I love Moscato, just don’t like the drink or the hangover! Hope everyone is having a good sober Sunday
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I love mixing fizzy water with juice (i hate seltzer water) but ive never tried white grape it sounds amazing! Usually I do apple or cranberry, and Martinellis sparkling apple for special occassions of course 
Great job with keeping your sobriety in the face of temptation 
Can I ask, how difficult was it once you were there? Were the cravings stronger or weaker than you expected? What helped you? Im trying to plan for an event in about 10 days where there will be lots of alcohol. I didnt go with this particular friend today bc I didnt feel strong enough, but would really like to try and go to this next one if I can.
I only felt a craving today once, first thing in the morning, oddly. I woke up, made coffee, and suddenly had the urge to make it Irish coffee. Or maybe a mimosa. Or maybe a…blah blah blah. It passed pretty quickly because I had sober plans in place for the day that I was actually looking forward to. If I hadnt I probably would have posted similarly to the start of this thread, so I think i learned that plans are going to be key to my weekend sobriety.
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So we watch the races at home. This is my third season watching with my BF. We drink, smoke our cigarettes, and make a small night of it, so no people. We don’t really “people”. He’s a daily drinker, and honestly what’s been helping me a bit with not caving, is seeing him get wrecked. On my sober days it’s actually sad to see, and I’m like I don’t wanna be like that. I don’t want him to be like that either, but him not drinking is not my choice.
So I don’t really have advice about a big gathering exactly. I did make it through the Christmas party sober. Not gonna lie, I went to have some of the mulled punch, like sip carry the glass around… I almost spit it out, it was so strong and I was like NOPE I am good, how the hell are people drinking this! I ate good food, socialized, kids did the whole Santa and the Grinch thing, presents, and left early. I kept a glass of water in my hand the whole time instead. No one asked me if I wanted a drink or anything. I also didn’t say anything about being sober.
If you’re going to go, drive yourself, and by yourself, that way you can leave anytime you want to without worrying about anyone else. Have an exciting plan, and maybe have someone on point that you can reach out to while your there for support.
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Thank you for the thoughtful response, im sorry i misunderstood your situation though!
Lets do another sober week! 
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