The little things that will make your life so much easier:

If you can, before you buy your pill sorter, lay out each group of pills so you can eyeball how big a pill-box you'll need (the primrose oil isn't small). I found buying the 7-day one that allowed you to pop out each day very helpful. I was able to take care of the whole week on Sunday, while I wasn't racing around getting ready for work (fuzzy-headed as usual), and then each morning just had to pop out that day and stick it in my bag.

Make sure you pour the All in One on the juice, not the other way around (I prefer V8, but orange is okay too) or the powder clumps on the bottom.

Before you start the hypnosis tape/cd, make sure to turn off the ringer on ALL of your phones. Night one I didn't think of it, and night 2 I forgot that just because I unplugged the wireless base, didn't mean I had turned off the ringer (grrr).

On a night where the hypnosis instruction is only sleep to sleep or subliminal, but you feel shaky in your resolve, go ahead and do track 2 (1 is pretty long if you don't have the time). On day 5, when my craving was really bad, and 25 Topa seemed like a placebo, and I knew my husband would be having wine w/ dinner, I did track 1 once, but could tell half an hour later that I would crack, so I went back and did it again, and came up from the track w/ firm resolve and great spirit.

Clearly all of us have decided (despite the fact that we "fess up" to each other here and use each other in a great & supportive way) that AA is not the program for us. That being said, find a real, someone in your life, who loves you, and whom you trust, to whom you can pat yourself on the back, and who will be proud of you - whether it's for one day, making it through a party, a job deadline, whatever. Why? Because, at least for me, the time I need to do that the most is the time when I'm feeling it starting to slip, and I know that once I affirm to someone I love & respect that I am being successful, it will help me keep my resolve (until the Topa kicks in)

Speaking of which....I don't think the Topa really has much impact @ 25. Would one of you veterans please comment. I'm on day 2 of 50, and still not noticing much effect. I'd be lost w/out the hypno cds.

Finally, what they say about the water is true (and I'm a big water drinker anyway). Drink tons of water, or green tea all day long - you'll probably be really thirsty.

GOOD LUCK!!!!

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