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    #16
    a whole year sober!!

    Congratulations, Vegan! Thank you for sharing your story with us today. I'm vegan too and I know exactly what you mean. I look forward to feeling the same way about being AF a year from now!

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      #17
      a whole year sober!!

      What an accomplishment! Thanks for posting as you give me hope that this is indeed possible and worth it! Congrats and continued success!
      (AF since 17 May 2014) 2 years 5 months sober

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        #18
        a whole year sober!!

        Vegan,
        Congratulations on your one year anniversary! Great post, too! Yes, I agree, that lying in bed all day from a hangover would be quite boring compared to walking with you dog on a beautiful morning.

        Also, congrats on your weight loss and great health improvements!!

        jvo
        Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.

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          #19
          a whole year sober!!

          vegan;1661946 wrote: Hi all,
          Just wanted to check in and say i have been sober for a whole year today!!!!
          I feel so ecstatic!! Just wanted to shout it from the roof tops!!!! A whole year......wow! I couldn't even go one day at times. This website has saved my life. I'm very much a lurker but i still even now check in every day. I'm quite shy so i don't post often. However reading all the posts has got me thru a whole year. That and total grit and determination. I have lost so much weight about 3 and a half stone ( 49 lbs). I seem to be able to eat loads now aswell and not put any weight back on. In my drinking days i used to balloon like a bloated pig. My BP has come right down. It was DANGEROUSLY high!
          Well i feel amazing. If u are out there struggling. Please believe me when i say it is so worth being sober. It took me about 4 mths to really see the benefits. That isn't bad considering i'd been drinking for 25 yrs! What is 4 mths in your lifetime? I promise u will start to look and feel great. Your body has to detox and repair for a while first.
          It is a gorgeous warm day here in the UK. It is 10.15am and i am going out walking with my dog thru the woods. A year ago on a saturday i wouldn't have gotten of the bed all day. I would lay there. Sweating, head pounding, wretching. Anxiety off the scale. When people ask if i'm bored from not drinking i say "it's far more boring to lay on a bed all day in agony and anxiety. It would be even more boring being hospitalised and it would be very boring to be dead".
          So thanku to u all even if u don't know that u help me. U do!!!!! :thanks:
          Xxx
          I am loving the bit in bold. I've seen so many people say they drink because they are bored. BORED????!!!!!, drinking and constantly being ill, feeling shit is BORING!
          I used the Sinclair Method to beat my alcoholic drinking.

          Drank within safe limits for almost 2 years

          AF date 22/07/13

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            #20
            a whole year sober!!

            Way to go, Vegan! An amazing accomplishment. Your post is inspirational for those of us coming along behind.

            Doesn't a walk in the woods beat hanging around in bed with guilt, shame and remorse?!

            Congratulations, and good work.

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              #21
              a whole year sober!!

              Congratulations on making it to 1 year sober! I am so proud of you. Now onto making it to year 2 while taking it ODAAT.
              I quit drinking on March 8, 2020. Taking it One Day At A Time and no more taking my quit for granted.

              Also doing it for me. I got to stay sober for me.

              Just consecrate on today and do what you can to remain sober for today and worry about staying sober tomorrow, tomorrow.

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                #22
                a whole year sober!!

                Congratulations vegan from another lurker! Isn't it amazing how the body recovers, and the mind settles in to its new way of life. I'm very happy for you.
                AF since 6JUN2012

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                  #23
                  a whole year sober!!

                  Congratulations Vegan!!!! So happy for you.
                  Sam
                  Liberated 5/11/2013

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                    #24
                    a whole year sober!!

                    Vegan - how wonderful to read, and what an incredible achievement - very well done!
                    “The only courage you will ever need is the courage to live the life you want"

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                      #25
                      a whole year sober!!

                      Thanku all so very much :thanks:
                      Hope everyone is doing ok today. If anyone ever wants a chat feel free to PM me anytime. :l xxx

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                        #26
                        a whole year sober!!

                        Vegan,

                        1. Congrats! 1 yr is a HUGE achievement and makes AF a lifestyle now.

                        2. Thank you for being vegan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your vegan choices benefit the world and the animals.

                        I have equal respect for both your AF and vegan choice.

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                          #27
                          a whole year sober!!

                          And i am one animal that has benefitted from your post and 1 year of sobriety Vegan.

                          Great stuff friend. Bravo!

                          'I am part of all that I have met, yet all experience is an arch wherethro', gleams that untravelled world whose margins fade, forever and forever when I move'

                          Zen soul Warrior. Freedom today-

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                            #28
                            a whole year sober!!

                            :goodjob: Well done on reaching a year af and also on being vegan. I just turned vegetarian last January and am thinking of going vegan in the not too distant future. I'm an animal lover and veggie/vegan is the way to go animal welfare. Posts like yours inspire and encourage so much so thank you for posting your progress and success. I too have spent too many days in bed ill from drinking when I could have been up doing something productive or just out for a walk instead of being in all day with a hangover unable to do anything. I wish you well and keep posting. :h
                            If you always do what you have always done, you will get what you always got.:heart:

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                              #29
                              a whole year sober!!

                              Just came across this. I'm late but I'd like to congratulate you on your success. All the best!
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                                #30
                                a whole year sober!!

                                I'm late too - but, GREAT JOB!!!! So very happy for you. :l:l
                                "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.".....Carol Burnett
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                                AF - 7-27-15

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