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Feb 1 - Day 5

rwmorey
rwmorey
Good Morning --

I had a great weekend. I didn't feel any urge to drink which is great. I also discovered that I can get 1 liter bottles of ginger ale from the place where I get my seltzer so I bought a case of seltzer and a case of ginger ale.

I started drinking seltzer about 4 years ago as an alternative to the sugary caffeinated drinks I had been consuming during the day. I did this to lose some weight as well as realizing the sugar and caffeine made me feel anxious.

I'm excited that I can now have a good stock of ginger ale to drink at night.

Rich
phranque
phranque
Hello Rich. I'm glad you're keeping up the fight! Besides all mine and others' brilliant suggestions for you, I would add, try to keep things "fresh" in your life. The ginger ale plan is good, but after a month of that, its going to lose its appeal of "new-ness" in your daily routine. Maybe try to come up with 6 one-month routines to follow (one after the other) with the emphasis on changing out one or more "stale" components, for this month's "fresh" ones. For example, taking your wife out to dinner and or movies several times that month. Then, have a 'Spring cleaning' month for clearing out and organizing the garage, basement, etc. The purpose is to always have something new to look forward to in the short-term, and to keep you active in positive ways during non-working hours. You, of course need your rest and "down time", just not TOO much of it.
1is2many
1is2many
Ginger ale was my go to. Ice cream. There is an important thing to realize is that booze is basically ALL sugar. The body wants sugar when you stop. Don't overdo it but the things I found helpful were to
HALT. Avoid hunger anger loniness or tired. Or especially a combo of two or more, danger zone when three or more dead zone. Stay ahead of these four issues. Again I also believe that I drank as a solution and I had to find other solutions. Alcohol was just a symptom. Remove the booze and The problem was still there, I was still there and needed some mental work to actually be happy sober. You can too
1is2
rwmorey
rwmorey
Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep in mind changing things up regularly.

Rich
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