30 Days Anyone?

[mica]

30 Days Anyone?

Hey, Com1, Sleep is definitely a problem, isn't it? Last night I woke up at 1:00, and that was it for me, even with my little chunks of melatonin. I also did the clearing hypno cd, and that usually puts me right out. No luck last night. Oh, well.

Lilbit, I haven't had the dream yet of drinking when I know I shouldn't be. I remember it from previous AL stints... yours is a cute one! I think it is our subconscious congratulating us for making the step.

Keep up the good work, everyone! I am proud of each of us. :h

[startafresh]

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Hello, I am new, hoping to start the thirty days today, have tried before but not succeeded. Hope this will make the difference.
s.a

[ceprise]

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Back in the Battle

Week 7 MWO Program/ 27 Days AF
WOW! I have resurfaced after surgery to correct 5 abdominal hernias. I have been hospitalized and away from potable alcohol. I won't be discharged until bowel functions resume.

I've been catching up with the group and I'm encouraged by your progress. My success has been forced on me by medical circumstances. Yours has been by your efforts, will and support. I listen every night to a Hypnotic CDs and either a subliminal or sleep learning CD. When I am discharged, I will go back to the supplements. I'll hold off on the topa until I see if I'll need it to stay off alcohol. My motivation is to loose the weight I need to stay healthy and hernia free.

I think I'll do at least 45 days AF to make up for the time I spent in the hospital. Then I'll see if I can moderate. I would like to have a glass of wine with my wife, or a bottle of beer on the patio with my father-in-law this summer.

I need to prove I'm not the alcohol pig that was ruining my health and life.

[LilBit]

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Welcome, Starta! You're in a great place.

:welcome:

Ceprise, I'm glad you made it thru the surgeries (wow!) and wishing you a full recovery in every way!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

[mica]

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Welcome Ceprise and Starta!

We are very glad to have you! Ceprise, hope you get well, soon... hospitals are not fun places to be! I am with you on the extended AL and then trying to moderate. As RJ says in her book, we need to think of it like butter... a luxury that doesn't drive our lives. I am worried about modding, really don't want to go back to the old way of drinking. I think that my plan will be to start journaling now about how I will handle it. I need a solid plan.

Day 13 for me. It seems to be getting easier..... even Friday evening went pretty well.

Good luck everyone!

[angieUK]

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Hello everyone xxxx I want to moderate eventually too :target: I want to be able to feel in control of Al not Al be in control of me & I want to enjoy a glass of wine but not use it to get a buz think that may take a bit longer than thirty days

[ceprise]

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Drink Tracking

MWO Program Week 7/ AF Day 29

Dear mica and LilBit and startafresh: Thanks for the encouragement. I've been looking around, and there are drink tracking forums where Modding members record the number of drinks in a week and per day. I'm looking for 5 days AF and 2 days Modding per week.

I get discharged tomorrow, and go back on the supplements the day after. In reading about the supplements, it sounds like the amino acids, L-Glut and kudzu may be enough to cut cravings. I've had the strangest withdrawal from topa and alcohol. Dilaudids and Percocets! I had a hard enough time getting my PCP to script topiramate and my surgeon has had me on narcotics for the past two weeks. LOL!

That's why I need to go AF for at least 45 days to make sure I'm truly in control. My next step is to handle 2 weeks at home in convalescence where alcohol will be available.

I've told my wife and our best friends about My Way Out and my alcohol problem. All are supportive. We will be going together on a 9 day Cruise in August to the Eastern Caribbean. My goal is to be Modding and in control by then.

[mica]

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Hey, Ceprise,
You are doing tremendously well, considering what you have been through. There is a DrinkTracker site in the MWO forum page.... you just have to scroll down reall far to find it. You can check up on me, and lots of us, right there. :H

Tomorrow is the beginning of week3 AF for me, and for Lilbit, who I think is probably still out on her fishing trip!!!! I hope she survived the boredom of being amongst the crazy folks who think of nothing but fishing. I can really empathize.

Good luck, this week, everyone. I am so glad to have this site. You are wonderful!

[LilBit]

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Hi there, 30 dayers! How's everyone? Just returned from on a weekend trip with my BF, which is typically a HUGE trigger for me. We stayed in a romantic historic inn and had a lingering fondue dinner the first night. Normally, I would have already snarfed down a bottle of champagne on the the drive for nerves (i have a phobia about riding on the highway but that's another story), and would have had at least 2-3 glasses of wine with dinner. Then, we went for a walk and the BF wanted "drinks" at a another place. I had a coffee mocha and a lovely sparkling water/pineapple juice. It was nice, walking back to the hotel and looking at the stars without the tendency to topple over.

A funny thing... while I was sipping the coffee mocha, a lady came into the restaurant by herself, sat at the next table, and stared hiccuping loudly. After a series of loud "HUPS," she apologized to us and then said, "We started at 2 pm today." She didn't say what they started but it wasn't hard to guess. Then, she told us that she was from North Dakota -- five times. She was really slurring her words, and she looked terrible. I thought, "My God, that could be me!"

The next day, the BF started fly fishing early and I quite sensibly went to brunch instead. I actually turned down free champagne! It really helped to think of my 'non-drinking buddies' back here on the thread.

I finally arrived at the ponds for the fly fishing and -- ever the strategist -- had purchased a blow-up boat to give me an excuse to flee from the inevitable uncle's discourse on the bass spawning cycle (yawn). "Oops...drifted across the lake...sorry!" I learned three things about blow up boats:

1) It's a good idea to blow the boat up all the way.
2) Weeds and oars are not a good combination.
3) It's better to row with the wind.

Today, I cannot move my arms. I look like RiverDance performer. But I am still sober, very happy, and very thankful to all of you for being here, even when I'm away.
:-)

[startafresh]

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Hello,
Proud to say I have managed FOUR days.

Have also joined the fifteen day thread as felt needed a half way point.
Keep on going everyone.

s.a.
:new::thanks::goodjob:

[LilBit]

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Evergreen, how was your big event last Friday? I'm glad to see that you're here with us.

Startafresh, four days, wow! Days 3-4 were kind of "over the hump" days for me, and then I started feeling really great. Hope you do too!

[startafresh]

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Thanks Lil bit and all I haven't said thank you to so far. I'm on DAY 4

Feeling physically much better today, but wondering about some stuff. I'm upstairs in the house with my smoothies - out of the way of our small kitchen. This seems to stress me out so much so I've made tea for husband and babes and then come away from it upstairs. I realise this doesn't involve eating together but right now, I think it is probably something I need to do to help me until I find better ways mentally of coping with the situation. Is that the sort of thing that other people have been through? Would be interested to know.
best
starta
:new::goodjob::thanks:

[CHARLYGIRL]

30 Days Anyone?

I want to go 30 days AF. I just keep having my one here and there but I do feel better when I have zero in my body.

[mica]

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Hi Everyone!

Hey! Glad to see everyone back. I was busy with my elderly step-dad yesterday, so didn't get on line.

I have found, during this third week, that the cravings have disappeared, and I am not thinking about drinking all the time. Hurray!

Hey, Lilbit, good for you on the fishing trip!

See you all later.

[LilBit]

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Hi Mica, I'm still hanging with you on Day 16, and it's interesting how my habits are changing. I don't have to think "How am i going to get through an evening w/o AL?" every night. Last night, I realized it hadn't even crossed my mind. Yippee! It's very liberating. Also, this may sound trite, but I live next to the recycling room in my condo building. It's typically very quiet, but I used to cringe every Monday morning when I listened to the clinking sound of all the empty bottles from the weekend being dumped. I do not miss that!!!

Here's a shoutout to Sweaty Betty and Evergreen in case you happen to stop by but are too insanely busy to post. You guys are a huge part of the reason I started this in the first place! Thinking of you.