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Good evening... 21 days for me

jenybobenny
jenybobenny
Just posting a little update... Hard to believe I've made it to 21 days!! I've had some cravings.. Usually when it comes time to cope and deal and accept my home life... But yay, i m feeling good.. Mornings are awesome... Well, kinda hah.. coming from a non morning gal :) no weight loss yet which surprises me... Anyways, just stopping by to lurk for a while and check in with all y'all peeps.. Happy Monday!
cloverset14
cloverset14
Go Jeny! Go Jeny! Go Jeny! You go girl!

For me, if there was ever a day to justify popping a drink at the end of the day, this was it. My three siblings and I are cleaning out of childhood home -- nearly 60 years of crap. My parents never threw away anything and it doesn't help when Dad is sitting there asking what we're hauling out to the dumpster. (Mom is deceased.)

But I didn't!
thomas-gee
thomas-gee
Fee-fi-fo fenny, awesome!, My older siblings stress me. Family, it seems, have remotes. They can push my buttons from afar, or near. I just don't give in to my own intolerance of them any more. (which, for one in particular, comes as a great challenge) Some say a day at a time, some say an urge at a time. If I don't take the first, then I won't end up blotto and miserable when I come to. WAHOO!
Sosa86
Sosa86
Well done now keep it up! Weight loss will come but more important you will gain so much that could never make its way into your life when you were drinking. Doesn't it feel good to say, "I don't drink"? It's so empowering!!!
No one needs to be drinking. It's poison.
1is2many
1is2many
Go jBB. Keep going, it gets better each day.
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