Hi all, glad to be here! I discovered My Way Out a few days ago and RJ's story really struck a chord with me. As I was reading it I couldn't help thinking, "Oh my god, that's ME!" I've been feeling like I need to ease up on my alcohol consumption for awhile now, and have made a few half-hearted attempts that never really lasted very long. As I never considered myself an alcoholic, I had no idea that there were other people out there that felt the same way I did!! :woot:
I decided that I'm ready for another go at getting my drinking under control. I'm 29, and I realized that it's been 4 or 5 years now that I've been a daily drinker. Sometimes it's just one (ok, that's rare), more often 2-4. Every night. My b/f has made a couple of comments about it (we live together and he's the moderate drinker I'd like to be), and even his family has joked that I'm a lush. I'm just tired of feeling consumed by it. Thinking about what I'm going to have next after this drink. It doesn't affect my daily life at all (once in a blue moon I might feel a little crappy if I overdid it), and I like the buzzed feeling. It makes me feel calm and relaxed and opens me up in social settings. But in my gut I know I'm consuming too much, too often. I'm tired of getting nothing done in the evenings after work because the drinks make me too lazy to do anything productive, and tired of the extra pounds it's caused me to gain (not a LOT, but impossible to get rid of!).
I'm ready to do the whole program. I have an appointment with my doctor next Wednesday. I'm going to go armed with literature and hope that he will be sympathetic. I'm pretty comfortable talking to him, so I think this will go ok. I've also had all kinds of issues with food over the past few years - basically the same sort of obsession that I have with alcohol - that the Topomax is supposed to help. It would be great to be able to kill 2 birds with one stone and just feel NORMAL!
It'd be nice to go out to a restaurant and not have to order a drink, or to be satisfied with just one at other times, and not feel like I'm missing out.
That's what I'm hoping to accomplish with MWO. I'm so glad I found the book and this wonderful supportive community! I'll be turning 30 at the beginning of '09, and I made a promise to myself that I would turn things around before then. I see where my current path is leading me, and I don't want to turn into the kind of person I imagine will be at the end of it.
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I decided that I'm ready for another go at getting my drinking under control. I'm 29, and I realized that it's been 4 or 5 years now that I've been a daily drinker. Sometimes it's just one (ok, that's rare), more often 2-4. Every night. My b/f has made a couple of comments about it (we live together and he's the moderate drinker I'd like to be), and even his family has joked that I'm a lush. I'm just tired of feeling consumed by it. Thinking about what I'm going to have next after this drink. It doesn't affect my daily life at all (once in a blue moon I might feel a little crappy if I overdid it), and I like the buzzed feeling. It makes me feel calm and relaxed and opens me up in social settings. But in my gut I know I'm consuming too much, too often. I'm tired of getting nothing done in the evenings after work because the drinks make me too lazy to do anything productive, and tired of the extra pounds it's caused me to gain (not a LOT, but impossible to get rid of!).
I'm ready to do the whole program. I have an appointment with my doctor next Wednesday. I'm going to go armed with literature and hope that he will be sympathetic. I'm pretty comfortable talking to him, so I think this will go ok. I've also had all kinds of issues with food over the past few years - basically the same sort of obsession that I have with alcohol - that the Topomax is supposed to help. It would be great to be able to kill 2 birds with one stone and just feel NORMAL!
It'd be nice to go out to a restaurant and not have to order a drink, or to be satisfied with just one at other times, and not feel like I'm missing out.
That's what I'm hoping to accomplish with MWO. I'm so glad I found the book and this wonderful supportive community! I'll be turning 30 at the beginning of '09, and I made a promise to myself that I would turn things around before then. I see where my current path is leading me, and I don't want to turn into the kind of person I imagine will be at the end of it.
awprint:
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