Hello Booze Busters!!
Awe July - thank you so much for your "fly by" message for me!! You have no idea how much you have inspired me. I think of your example often especially when walking the rutty parts of this ol' path. Keep leading the way my friend - I will be following.
kriger, you are just a treasure here. I love your upbeat posts. You have really jumped in with a great attitude and high energy and I'M PROUD OF YOU for your 15 AF Days!! You are half way to 30, and well on your way to whatever goals you have for yourself down the road. Well, I did "something" today...not so sure about "special" LOL!!! I canned 12 quarts of tomatos. I will say this - I didn't can any last year and ran out of the previous stock mid winter. I was not too happy about that!! So if I don't sound like it was "special" today.......believe me, it will be "special" in the winter time when I am making Clean The Refrigerator Soup and other delightful dishes using my home canned 'maters.
Resolute, I'm glad you are here. I believe you DO want to stop the madness otherwise you wouldn't be here. A couple observations and maybe some food for thought. To you, what does "Trying" mean? (I'm not trying to be a smart ass!!) Is there anything you are changing up in your routine to get a differnt outcome with respect to AL? What parts of the My Way Out program are you using? What strategies do you have in place, especially when you are away from home, to NOT drink?
If you need any help as you work through your battle plan, please come here and ask. There are successful Booze Busters who can at least give you ideas about what worked for them. Personally, I take the supplements as recommended in the MWO program. I don't do the hypnosis CD's as religiously as I once did, but for the first 30 days and even beyond that, I used those CD's almost daily. I also follow the recommended diet plan avoiding sugar and things that turn to sugar right away in our systems - bread, potatoes, etc. EXERCISE is something I did NOT do regularly in my previous failed attempts at sobriety. It's a 6 day a week thing for me now, and it is really making a difference.
I hope you will really sit down with a pen and notepad and work on some goals and strategies. Another exercise I found useful way back in the very beginning - and I'm updating it this week - is writing lists of the following:
Benefits of Drinking
Problems with Drinking
Benefits of NOT Drinking
Problems with NOT Drinking.
Be honest. The only benefits / problems that matter in this exercise are the ones that YOU perceive. Nobody else's opinion about it matters. So yes...there ARE things that will probably go in each of the four categories if you are honest. This is an exercise worth re-visiting from time to time because you will think of additional things, and as you achieve sobriety your ideas about some things will change.
I'm not sure if any of this stuff will be helpful for you, but I hope somewhere in here is at least the seed of an idea to help you get a PLAN in place - not just a "hope" as WIP would say!!! (read some of WIP's posts - they are awesome. Also read some of Caysea's posts about making a total lifestyle change. Read what the long term abbers like AAthlete and July and all the others have to say. Go find the 100 day (200, 300, 400) posts by XTexan. These people all speak the truth about getting sober.
OK - off soapbox!! I wish all of you the very best!! Have a great rest of the day!!
DG
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