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[kdog]

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Good Morning All, Thank you all for your welcoming. And welcome aboard Further, it takes strength, but you can do it, I don't know if you like herbal tea, but it seems to help me through the evenings.
Samstone I tried non al beer, it tastes like crap and only made me want the real thing, I still have most of the six in the fridge, I might as well throw it away.
Ican, well we know you can it just happens sometimes, so get back up and start again. I too had a lot of a free days in, then bam, but I let it spiral out of control again, so please don't do that, that day one after that was pure agony! Same for you londener! To all of you with many days without
WTG! Birdie, I don't know how you keep up with everyone, but thank you! This may take me sometime to remember everyone's post and whats going on.
Now here is my fear...My 50th birthday is Wed. I am not worried about that, cause I didn't drink on my last birthday, nor Halloween, and plenty of other holidays, but I told hubby I didn't want a surprise party. So he bought us tickets to Vegas....YIKES....I need to form a good solid plan for that one.
OK everyone have a great AF day, enjoy life and take care.
Kdog

[Samstone]

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Thanks Byrdie, it goes without saying, without you and Lav here as the mainstays, a lot of us would not have the never ending support you provide.

[Icanwithoutacan]

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Cd spent a sober week in Vegas Kdog .... You should check his old posts

[allankay]

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There has been a lot of discussion about Sugar consumption in the NN so I spent a day researching the topic and here is what I found. I have also highlighted the most important point

146 reasons I found why Sugar is ruining your life:

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.
3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).
6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.
7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.
8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.
9 Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries.
10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.
11. Sugar causes copper deficiency.
12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
13. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.
17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.
18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.
19. Sugar can cause premature aging.
20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
21. Sugar can cause tooth decay.
22. Sugar contributes to obesity
23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.
25. Sugar can cause arthritis.
26. Sugar can cause asthma.
27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).
28. Sugar can cause gallstones.
29. Sugar can cause heart disease.
30. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis.
32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
33. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.
36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.
38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.
39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E (alpha-Tocopherol in the blood.
40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone.
41. Sugar can increase cholesterol.
42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure.
43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein)
45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.
46. Sugar causes food allergies.
47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.
48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.
51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA
52. Sugar can change the structure of protein.
53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
54. Sugar can cause cataracts.
55. Sugar can cause emphysema.
56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.
57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL).
58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.
59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function.
60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.
61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.
62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide.
63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.
64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney.
65. Sugar can damage the pancreas.
66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention.
67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.
68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.
70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle.
71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.
72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders..
74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.
75. Sugar can cause depression.
76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.
77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout.
79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.
80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.
81 High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.
82. Sugar can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins, albumin, and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness.
85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli.
88. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.
90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer.
92. Sugar feeds cancer.
93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents.
95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.
96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon. This can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.
98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult.
99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.
100. Sugar is an addictive substance.
101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS.
103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.
106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function.
110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
111.. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.
112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.
113. Sugar increases the risk of polio.
114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
116. In Intensive Care Units, limiting sugar saves lives.
117. Sugar may induce cell death.
118. Sugar can increase the amount of food that you eat.
119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior.
120. Sugar can lead to prostrate cancer.
121. Sugar dehydrates newborns.
122. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.
123. Sugar can cause low birth weight babies.
124. Greater consumption of refined sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia
125. Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the blood stream.
126. Sweet food items increase the risk of breast cancer.
127. Sugar is a risk factor in cancer of the small intestine.
128. Sugar may cause laryngeal cancer.
129. Sugar induces salt and water retention.
130. Sugar may contribute to mild memory loss.
131. As sugar increases in the diet of 10 years olds, there is a linear decrease in the intake of many essential nutrients.
132. Sugar can increase the total amount of food consumed.
133. Exposing a newborn to sugar results in a heightened preference for sucrose relative to water at 6 months and 2 years of age.
134. Sugar causes constipation.
135. Sugar causes varicous veins.
136. Sugar can cause brain decay in prediabetic and diabetic women.
137. Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
138. Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.
139. Sugar ingestion by pregnant women increases neural tube defects in embryos.
140. Sugar can be a factor in asthma.
141. The higher the sugar consumption the more chances of getting irritable bowel syndrome.
142. Sugar could affect central reward systems.
143. Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.
144. Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.
145. Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.
146. Sugar can cause liver tumors.

[Dottie Belle]

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20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
I have wondered if all the sugar/candy I ate as a child transferred to alcohol as an adult...same stuff in a different form....
Dottie

[Byrdlady]

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Day-um! All those things due to Sugar? That's rather depressing! Just when you get one monster under control, another one rears its ugly head!

Further, welcome to the best nest in the west!! Or East for that matter! Be sure to check out the Tool Box, link below, for 100's of tips and 7 years' worth of nuggets to help you. Good job of making the decision to make some changes...it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. Sure thought I was doing myself a favor by 'taking the edge off' or 'unwinding'....truth is, I was about to unwind myself into oblivion! Once you get going, you will see that a life without AL really isn't as bad as what we feared! It just takes a leap of faith! You can do it! We're glad you're here!

Byrdie

[kdog]

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Wow allan, I am glad I never was a sugar person..therefor not sure what my excuse is....TY Ican, I will check those out.
Kdog

[broken halo]

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Evening nesters

It's been a busy long weekend for me, I missed you guys. I haven't had a chance to catch up on all the posts. Well done Available, LC and Dottie! :groupluv:

you are showing what MWO is all about, mutual support!

I'm done in tonight, had another session with the trainer from hell earlier. It was tough, but I enjoyed it. Back to work tomorrow, bring it on! I hope everyone is straying strong and sober

[MinStar]

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Evening nesters and welcome all. Busy busy last few days so haven't had a chance to post let alone read back. I hope all are well. I'm going to spend my bedtime reading going back a few posts. Try and catch up.

Had a spa break away this weekend with my friends and managed to keep AL free. Not as hard as I thought but I think my last quit has helped with that. This time I did have thoughts but they didnt las for long. I ensured I are tons and I mean tons. I am looking rather rotund! I had a drink in mind when we were served lunch and dinner and when bottles of wine were open I just asked for a soft drink. No one aid much but they know I have quit before and respected it.

I am still scared I eill think it is so easy and I am doin it again and heck I can have one- so constantly on my guard.

Anyhooooo back to caching up. Has anyone heard from trinity?

Stay close. Night night

[MinStar]

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Congrats lifechange Dottie and available- I was hopin to see your hats in my chatch up!

[Cat Belle]

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A leap of faith. Well compared to the nosedive I have been in, should be easy, huh?

[gambler]

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Good evening everyone. I just wanted to congratulate Dottie..Available and LC again on there exquisite work getting their hats :goodjob: .

So I had a good day working .. ridden hard and put away wet though. Oh its nice to get back in the saddle though. I thought it was going to be a bit rough after working a full day because thats when I like to sit and enjoy a cold beer. But It really never hit me. Sure I thought about it ( I probably was pre-programming myself to watch for the incoming feeling ) .. It was just like a fading memory of the past. I love my AF life and what is now flowing into it. I hope this feeling continues with me as strong as it does at present . I had a fleeting thought today at lunch..."Hmm im doing well..hard working..things looking better by the day.. I wonder If its finally time to quit smoking." I mean I wanted to quit smoking more than I wanted to quit drinking. I Know quitting AL is having a much more impact on my life than quitting sticks so that I am grateful for. Procrastination sux lol ! I guess I just dont want to screw up what I have right now ..

Not much else goings on..I guess taking a shower ( fiberglass dust isnt real good to sleep with ) and making supper then relaxing to a good movie should be the plan..but I feel that I should clean something lol. I just dont have my place just where I want it yet .. oh well.

Off to hit the water and play it by ear.

Hello Further and welcome to the Nest.. I would strongly recommend reading lots and lots of posts..then post at wiil yourself. I must have read a few hundred pages of threads on my first 24 hours after finding MWO..I have over 600 pages read up to date. not ever post mind you..but alot. It helped me intensely ! Something in one of those post Will trigger something in You that will somehow change you forever .. I honestly believe that. Stay close and post away ! Oh and just to let you know I was kinda confused as to were to post and how the forums were to be used at first. You will get used to it quickly because there really is no rules that Im aware of lol. The nest is the forum to be in for your daily routine. Hope this helps.

Byrdlady .. yup I looked it up and apparently he had some big troubles with AL in the end...or did you already know this ? lol

Icanwithoutacan;1562695 wrote: Did not make day 6. I feel depressed and that's not a feeling I like . I can honestly say that every time I do drink now I truly hate it where before I kinda thought it was worth it. At least I know I can abstain and want to more than ever. Sober life is way better - just chose not to fight the good fight last night. I will fight for it today - sorry to y'all and me

Hey Ican .. YOU CAN ! .. and you will. I know it with out a doubt. You truly want it so it will happen. You wont give up your quest for being AF we all know this . Your looking at things positively even when you could look at them in a dark way. Very good IMHO ! Look forward to see that day 7 on your sleeve.

Welp shower time..itchy itchy ..

[Further]

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gambler;1562987 wrote:
Hello Further and welcome to the Nest.. I would strongly recommend reading lots and lots of posts..then post at wiil yourself. I must have read a few hundred pages of threads on my first 24 hours after finding MWO..I have over 600 pages read up to date. not ever post mind you..but alot. It helped me intensely ! Something in one of those post Will trigger something in You that will somehow change you forever .. I honestly believe that. Stay close and post away ! Oh and just to let you know I was kinda confused as to were to post and how the forums were to be used at first. You will get used to it quickly because there really is no rules that Im aware of lol. The nest is the forum to be in for your daily routine. Hope this helps.

Thank you so very much. I have been reading a lot today. I haven't participated in a forum like this in a few years, but maybe I will catch on soon. There seems to be so many kind people here. I am a little nervous. I don't remember going more than 2 days without alcohol in, well, I don't remember! I did get some supplements today. I just want to feel healthy again. I can't believe what I have done to myself. I know it won't happen overnight, but I'm a Leo, so once I actually say "I am doing this", I can't let myself be wrong : ) Hard headed Southerner as well! I was looking for info about how long it takes to detox, and I may have a rough couple of weeks to face it seems. I have 4 wonderful friends ( all 4 legged and furry creatures) to help me. I just need to look at them and smile : ) :new:

[Further]

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Byrdlady;1562793 wrote:
Further, welcome to the best nest in the west!! Or East for that matter! Be sure to check out the Tool Box, link below, for 100's of tips and 7 years' worth of nuggets to help you. Good job of making the decision to make some changes...it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. Sure thought I was doing myself a favor by 'taking the edge off' or 'unwinding'....truth is, I was about to unwind myself into oblivion! Once you get going, you will see that a life without AL really isn't as bad as what we feared! It just takes a leap of faith! You can do it! We're glad you're here!

Byrdie

:thanks: I already see that you are a source of encouragement for many. Thank you for what you are doing for others- I look forward to learning from all of you. I've already checked out the tool box- great stuff there!

[Byrdlady]

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Thank you for the kind words! I think the first 3 days are the hardest...by the time you get to Day 13, you'll be feeling like a new girl!! Just stick close and if you hit a rough patch, get online and read! I'm a hardheaded Southerner, too...and even I DID IT! We're so glad you're here! Byrdie