Today is my day 1. What do people drink when avoiding Alcohol?
Yes great list. And club sodas, and healthy juice smoothies!
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Coffee 
Rock stars/Monsters
Sparkling water
Iced tea
I also drink N/A beer and wine, but I don’t necessarily recommend this as it could possibly be a trigger for people.
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*Lots of water…to rehydrate, get rid of toxins. I add lemon juice, cranberry, or pomegranate as well for additional benefits.
*Coffee
*Hot tea
*homemade fruit smoothies with yogurt
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Usually I drink vegetable juice that’s been spiced or club soda.
But honestly, the last 2 nights I drank a bottle of non-alcoholic wine. I was in a place where I needed to not be this sober person but I couldn’t let myself get drunk. I couldn’t go down that path so I did the safest thing I could think of.i
As @Elisabeth says I don’t recommend it in case it is a trigger but it might be something to think about if you are thinking of reaching for the real stuff.
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My first two weeks I drank seriously gallons of water everyday and sometimes added some lemon onto it. My body craved caffeine to stay awake so I drank coffee and sodas and energy drinks sparingly.
Now I have completely cut out energy drinks and coffee and get my caffeine from tea such as earl grey and English breakfast either cream and honey or raw sugar. Some other stuff I drink includes
LA Croix sparkling waters
Orange juice
Frozen fruit and Greek yogurt smoothies
Chamomile tea
Passion flower tea (good for withdrawal and anxiety)
Caffeine free ginger ale
Milk and almond milk
Sparkling White grape juice
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Good job on cutting caffeine!!! I’m still a slave to it unfortunately. Sweet, delicious, caffeine.
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Hi @Needhelp1128 and welcome!
Nothing with high calories anymore:
Coffee - black no sugar - as it was intended!
(Keurig machine at home with Starbucks pods)
Green tea
Water or club soda with lemon/lime
Diet soda - Diet Coke/Pepsi taste terrible but I like Sprite Zero cranberry, Fresca, diet ginger ale.
V8 reduced salt with ice and lemon
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Wow, amazing! I love La Croix! Coffee is a big one for me too. But it doesn’t help with anxiety.
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Great ideas, everyone!!! Thank you !!!
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@Needhelp1128 that’s why I cut back so much it was sending me into panic attacks because i was drinking like 2 pots of coffee for breakfast lol no joke
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Us little addicts, we’ll over-do anything, won’t we?
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That’s how I was with hot chocolate and coffee mixed for a month long thing I did. Clearly didn’t last. Also, not healthy.
Welcome @Needhelp1128
Some of my favs:
- non alcoholic Bitters + sparkling water
- tea, hot and iced
- fruits and herbs frozen into ice cubes with La Croix
- Seedlip non-alcoholic distillate on the rocks
- matcha green tea with vanilla almond milk
- Kevita brand water Kefir (sparkling probiotic drink)
- Blue Sky sodas made with Stevia, not sugar
- virgin bloody Mary’s
- non-alcoholic beer mixed with lemonade (called a shandy cocktail)
If I’m meeting friends somewhere I always bring a drink with me so if they offer I can say I’m already set.
If I’m meeting friends at a bar I bring a bottle of non-alcoholic bitters and add it to sparkling water with lime.
Good luck! We’re all here to support you on this journey to sobriety!
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I made a habit of trying something new every time I went to the store. My grocery has a little section with specialty drinks. I like to drink whatever it is out of a fancy glass though so it still feels special. I would drink wine every night. So in early sobriety I would pop open a sparkling cider and pour it in a wine glass. That way I was going through the same motions only without the wine. It really helped in the beginning.
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Coffee
Water
Herbal Teas
Bovril
And not necessarily in that order 
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Flavored seltzer water
Green Tea / White Tea
Orange Juice… for the sugar cravings when I needed / lacked sugar from the booze.
Coffee, coffee, coffee… Too much coffee… slowly cutting back…
Water
Almond Milk
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Apple izze! I buy variety pack cases from Amazon and while one is normal before bed, I have had rough nights where I drink five.
I like it because it’s all natural with no sweeteners, which means no guilt 
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Virgin versions of whatever you want
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Right now its water and rootbeer but the other night when i had a rootbeer which btw looks like a beer bottle I had a nightmare about drinking so maybe try to stay away from bottles that remind you of them.
Also
Hot chocolate, coffee, kombucha, water, tea, milk, shirley temple,sprite
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