Well its been one month and 14 days now that I have been AF.
Its been a bit of tough journey, if i do say so myself, because I always drank as soon as i got home from work .. when I was cooking dinner for the wife and kids. Dinner preparation started with a couple of glasses of white wine, and the drinking finished when dinner was eaten. I was able to polish off a bottle a night, every night and sometimes more. Wine was clouding issues and the way I reacted in certain situations, so I decided to quit, I poured 3 litres down the drain on September 10th, the day of my 19th wedding anniversary.
I didnt set any goals, I went day by day, but I knew I couldnt go back to doing what i did.
Then one day at work it clicked ... Why not reward myself with something I really wanted, with the money that I saved from not buying all that wine. Now I have a goal and a reward system !!!
The second week of AF I went out a bought a brand new fishing rod, the 4th week I bought a brand new baitcasting fishing reel. Not only am I feeling better, I am feeling better about myself, and rewarding myself for it.
Doing this rewarding thing helped me during the inital phases of kicking the habit. Once the 4th week went by i noticed that I had lost about 10lbs and was starting too fit back into some of my old clothes. People started to notice, ... another reward.
I'm not saying it was easy, but this method worked for me. I still have some major hurtles to cross, and decisions to make, but the race is started, and it looks like I'm keepin up.
d-mo
Its been a bit of tough journey, if i do say so myself, because I always drank as soon as i got home from work .. when I was cooking dinner for the wife and kids. Dinner preparation started with a couple of glasses of white wine, and the drinking finished when dinner was eaten. I was able to polish off a bottle a night, every night and sometimes more. Wine was clouding issues and the way I reacted in certain situations, so I decided to quit, I poured 3 litres down the drain on September 10th, the day of my 19th wedding anniversary.
I didnt set any goals, I went day by day, but I knew I couldnt go back to doing what i did.
Then one day at work it clicked ... Why not reward myself with something I really wanted, with the money that I saved from not buying all that wine. Now I have a goal and a reward system !!!
The second week of AF I went out a bought a brand new fishing rod, the 4th week I bought a brand new baitcasting fishing reel. Not only am I feeling better, I am feeling better about myself, and rewarding myself for it.
Doing this rewarding thing helped me during the inital phases of kicking the habit. Once the 4th week went by i noticed that I had lost about 10lbs and was starting too fit back into some of my old clothes. People started to notice, ... another reward.
I'm not saying it was easy, but this method worked for me. I still have some major hurtles to cross, and decisions to make, but the race is started, and it looks like I'm keepin up.
d-mo
) AND it is amazing how much $$ you can literally BLOW on alcohol.................maybe I will start doing the same when I get some time under my belt, as I am back on day 1 again (cannot seem to get ANY time built up this time around:durn: 
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