15 days down in January. The month is zipping by for me. 323 days total.
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Day 14 here 
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I cheated and started in November.
60 days yesterday.
Basically I was inspired by a motivational speaker I visited.
This guy was called āa Doctorā.
His punchline was that my blood test revealed extremely low white platelets and possible advanced liver fibrosis and that he was urgently referring me to a liver specialist.
Inspirational I thought!
Funnily enough I havenāt wanted a drink since.
Just goes to show that all it takes is the right motivationā¦
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Itās good you donāt want to drink! I hope I forget the āfunā in drinkingā¦ I know I felt like crap the next day but somehow you āforgetā about that.
Iām just trying to think about how I feel now and also, drinking is not āreal funā
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If Iām truly honest with myself the āfunā was an illusion and never actually that great.
Physically and mentally I feel so much better in just 60 days, from previous experience with abstinence (6 months a couple of times), Iām aware this happens the longer I abstain.
Each time I started again it felt like it was for stupid reasons. Usually the old āIām fixed nowā trick.
One of the issues I have is that a lot of alcohol is an artisan gourmet product as well as being a poisonous additive substance - as if cheese was also a dangerous and addictive drug, I now view it as a cooking ingredient rather than a drink and am not triggered by it at all.
You may find as others have said that the further away you get from it the less you want it.
The key for me is not to think Iām fixed again.
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Thatās exactly what I think, the more I go without it the easier itāll get and Iāll stop āromanticizingā my relationship with alcohol.
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Have you read āThis naked mindā from Annie Grace? This book is all about changing your mindset and seeing alcohol for the poison that it actually is. āAlcohol lied to meā from Craig Beck is another highly recommended read!
Hi Keyana, nice to have you on board! 
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Nice to have you all on board. Weāre well over halfway there.
havenāt heard of them, thanks! 
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60 days is awesome. Congratulations!
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Thank you.
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I actually started before New Years Eve. Since I wanted to quit anyway, I thought I might as well start right away. I had no desire to begin the new year with a hangover. I was so tired of the same old cycle.
Thatās why day 31.
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Congrats to you on 31 days. 337 days for me today.
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Yep! Still hanging in there! 
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Iāll keep going 
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Iām with ya 
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Letās keep the sober train moving 
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I pray you all made it through January. Letās make it through February starting today. ODAAT
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One day at a timeā¦ some days are more challenging than others.
What triggers me is anxiety, bad newsā¦ bad memoriesā¦ I just keep telling myself " feelings are temporary, youāll be fine soonā¦ give it an hour"
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