just taking the piss, no doubt its only funny to me.
Noā¦ Your starting Day 3 because of
YOU!!!
I thank you for the acclimades.But you did this my Friend! How are you feeling? I pray your keeping busy! Thinking about meetings/ groups yet? I am Sooooo Proud of You! Keep It Up! Rememberā¦ Im Here 
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Good!! Run around the Block 9300 times! That oughta do it!!! Lol
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Ya doing good have started the big book and working from That, back running to so mind is kept going relizd Iāve been here before so taking it day by day thanks again
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Starting. Day 4 back from run feeling better
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Good going! I sometimes think to myself I need to get out of my head and look at the big picture, we have one chance at this thing called life and itās not a given weāll have more than just today!
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Hi Donna ya doing good day 5 halfway through keeping busy and how u doing
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Yay!
Iām good here; sad a little last night but going out biking soon, thank God for that.
On page 20 and 21 the big book describes, moderate drinkers, hard drinkers, alcoholics. A hard drinker can stop on his own given sufficient reason. Ie: career, spouse, doctor, judge. A real alcoholic does not have this luxury and could die from this disease. I donāt believe itās healthy to assume weather or not your a hard drinker. Only you can decide weather or not your alcoholic. If you are page 24 tells us ( alcoholics ) we are defenseless against the first drink. There is a solution however. This is in response to @Usmc. Thatās great if that works for you brother. My brothers and sisters who are real alcoholics CAN NOT quit given sufficient reason. 3 part illness:
Allergy of the body, phenomenon of craving
Obsession of the mind
Spiritual Malady
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Hereās a quick snap shot of why Iām an alcoholic:
I am definitely an alcoholic. No one else can tell me I am, this is something only I can determine. Hereās how I know:
I have an physical allergy. When I put any amount of alcohol in my body the phenomenon of craving begins. I never seem to have enough. With every drink I want more to drink. I canāt seem to stop no matter how much I drink. If I start a night and say Iām just going to have 3 drinks. It rarely happens. I usually drink until I black out, or am in the back of a cop car, or both.
If this was my only problem. The solution would be simple. Donāt drink! If I donāt drink I wonāt experience this allergy and I can go on with life.
People who have food allergies just donāt eat that food and they never suffer the reactions that go along with the allergy.
Unfortunately for me my allergy is coupled with an obsession of the mind.
Obsession: My mind tells me that I can drink this time and Iāll be able to handle it like every normal drinker. The suffering and humiliation of even a week or a month ago is not sufficient to defend me against that first drink. My own mind convinces me that I am making a logical choice and that for the right reasons, around the right people, the right environment, or any variation of that I can successfully drink and it will somehow be different this time. Iāll be the life of the party. Iāll enjoy myself. Itāll be grand.
The second I do. I ignite the allergy and Iām back in the cycle. I no longer have choice or control and my disease now chooses when Iām done. Not me. Itās like having a monkey on my back. I donāt choose when the monkey gets off. The monkey chooses.
For this reason I am defenseless against the first drink. This is how I came to understand the powerlessness of my disease. Alone I am powerless. Ive tried every form of self deception to prove myself an exception to the rule: therefore non alcoholic. That is how I managed my life. My management was horrible and I was ready to resign as manager of my life. First I needed something greater than myself to step into that management position. I chose a higher power of my understanding. I believed this was a better choice than what I had been trying.
Unfortunately this alone was not enough. Iām a real alcoholic. You take the booze away from me and my life gets worse not better. The only solution I ever had to cope with life was the booze. After removing it and figuring out what my disease was. I knew knowledge alone wasnāt gonna cut it. There had to be more or I was in trouble.
Maybe Iām just rambling but I did eventually find a solution. If your with me so far and would like to here more leave a comment. If enough people relate maybe Iāll tell some more of my experience tomorrowā¦
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Very informative and an grateful u took the time to right that and help me improve, my hardest thing right now is Iām coming up to a weekend and thatās where I normally fall off the wagon a s go all in until. Monday, so any help u are giving I will listen
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Youāre doing it though; I was the same for awhile trying to get through my 2 days off. Itās a habit; more of a mindset that you (we) need to change. Fight it! You need to be clear headed especially now.
Think of the weekend as going into battle, you have to prepare yourself!
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hey Lance Iām sorry I havenāt had a chance to check in. How you doing? Hope things are going well? Iām really proud of you I hope you made it through the weekend buddy!
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So far so good but today us Friday morning and thus us when it gets extremely hard for me just going to need to knuckle dien and try and get through it now
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You gotta do this! Think about the consequences! This Circle has to Stop? Doesnāt it?
I have Nothing but Faith and Hope for you Lance!
Fight the Fight 
Kick the Crave!!!
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Youāre so positive!! I like it!!
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Try not asking yourself to quit forever. Sometimes in early recovery I would just try to remind myself that Iām not looking at forever. Just a day. Was I willing to quit today? It made it easier for me to fathom.
Just a suggestion.
It got my sober head on a pillow many nights in early recovery.
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Thank you Sass! Weāve been through to much Negative Shit! Weāve got Nowhere to go, But Up!!! And Im gonna cheer for Anyone who Truly wants it!!! 
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You got that right!!!