One Step at a Time - November 2014

[meggie]

Morning, Krandle, I want you to know that your post sent me on a mission. I found this site in 2007 and was sober for that year using the site and topa. I quit again in 2011 for 7 months. I found the hardest thing was the cravings and lack of sleep. Krandle your post sent me to the newbies site, and many other sites. Thank you so much it has opened my eyes to the strength of this site.
Last night I drank little, I am on seizure medication and don't want to go cold turkey. I drink gin and when I quit before I was drinking wine. I think this will be very hard this time. I drank so much last week that my body needs a break. Sun and others of you, I admire you and ability to quit cold turkey.
I did notice many of your posts on other sites. It is so hard to do this and as I read many don't make it to a year.
Have a wonderful Monday everyone.

[sunshinedaisies]

Meggie - I did not used to be able to just stop - it was using the AB that made me do that and now I do not find it a problem - once I have taken that tablet, there is no drinking - easy as that. And my head seems to accept that too 'cos I don't seem to have cravings which is odd .....this morning when I got up, I thought that maybe I would allow myself to drink today but am not going to - in a minute I am going to take the tab !! I do enjoy my life sober ...... and apart from that feeling after the first drink, drinking really isn't all it is cracked up to be !!

Thanks Pauly and Dottie for the stuff about the cals - maybe I am being dense but I still do not understand it properly, I think I do then my mind gets in a muddle - because he weighs more than me, he uses more calories for everything - so by saying that, that also means that he can eat more - right ? The Cals that the Fit shows is the amount that one has burned ...... and because of my weight/sex I do not burn as many as him when moving ! Unfair !! LOL :happy2:

I am going to check out the logging in of food to the Fit - but eat such different stuff and so much of it that I think it will take ages every day!!

got to go and feed the dogs and get ready for work .....

Hugs to all, Sun XXX

P.S. Where are you MB ?????

[mama bear]

I AM HERE!!!!!!!!!
I think I just needed to disconnect and rest for a few days, plus I didn't nave much to say.......my entire house sounds like a TB ward, we are all coughing and hacking so much.
I just rested and napped and spent time off with hubs.
Kradle, I am sorry you are feeling ignored, I, for one, look for your posts about Matt and the girls.
As far as drinking posts, I have mixed emotions. I post about date night, but sometimes I feel guilty coz some have said it bothers them that I can drink casually......
Anyhoo....it's Monday the grind begins again....boohiss. I really enjoyed my time off and it was nice to re-connect with hubs,.
I love you and I am here......nice to see you G man.....
I'll text Nursie today

[meggie]

Ok, today is day 3 with tapering my drinking. I can not do it with beer,yuck. I have had only a couple of ounces of gin the last two nights. The first night I had sweats and both nights I have been watching the clock. I take melatonine and pm sleep med. Nothing worked. Also 3 days in a row of the gym. I have not been in 8 months and this old body feels it.
Happy Tuesday.

[fluff]

Good morning everyone:
Sorry I haven't been around much but I've been reading everyday. And not drinking... I may be wrong in this but it seems to me that no one here really posts anymore about drinking and the struggle, just more about how their day went...which is fine.

I understand how important it is to stay fundamentally connected like that. Honest I do. But I guess right now I need more accountability and the hard looks at myself in the MWO mirror.- otherwise I can fool myself into all kinds of crappy mind games .

I must admit I read back since my last post and no one mentioned my abscence. I can get very hurt by things like that even though I know in my right head brain how immature that is.
Still I started thinking perhaps it was due to my revealing too much of my personal life and my drinking struggles and not enough of the day to day routines., the minutae of life.
Perhaps I've simply have misunderstood the nature of this particular thread- ie more social than the hard hitting dialogue of the Newbie Nest or The Umpteenth Quit. One.

I need both I guess but right now I need more of the drinking threads to keep me straight through the holidays.

You guys are all the bomb. I'll stay in touch I promise.

Hugs and heart.
:hug: :heartbeat:

Hi Kradle- You can start up a journal for accountability and still stay in touch on this thread-

[sunshinedaisies]

Fluff and Meggie - you need to post on the December thread - we start a new one each month ......