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    #61
    Ready for a way out

    I could have wrote what you said.............

    Margaret345;845670 wrote: Hi there,
    I'm new! Day 1 AF for me. I drank 6 glasses of wine last night and am feeling the hangover (burning stomach and nauseous) still and it's nearly 8pm. There's nothing like a hangover though to help swear off alcohol! I've been drinking since I was 15 and I'm 34 now. The longest time I have been AF is the 9 months when I was pregnant. I have had a lot of fun while drunk, but always wake up with that feeling of regret and disappointment that is so much larger then any amount of fun had. I think I have always known I have had a problem with alcohol. I just liked it so much more then my friends did. Even at an early age I would base my nights out around drinking. However, it's been the past two years where I have really been craving a drink earlier and earlier in the day, also craving a drink (plus more to follow) everyday. I need to say good bye to alcohol. It's a scary idea, but one I must follow through with to live a healthy and happy life. Wish me luck!
    =================================
    I started drinking wine at 16 and quit 6 months and 4 days ago at the age of 51. I would start with 1-2, then I became a bartender and drank all kinds of drinks. Perfect job for an alcoholic, but I never knew I was going to be a wino, up until a few years ago when it started becoming not fun, I ended up drinking out of necessity. I couldn't take it anymore, the shakes would not go away and I couldn't leave the house until I had 1-2 glasses of wine. When I drank wine up until that time I was drinking between 50-60 ounces a day, because I could and besides I rarely had a hangover so it was that much better. I was also self employed, another perfect thing for a wino. Today I am alcohol free by the grace of God. Thank you for letting me share a speck of my life.

    Myra in NH :new:

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      #62
      Ready for a way out

      Welcome Margaret and Myra! Your stories are your own but not unlike all of ours - so many awesome words of wisdom and reason - read all the different stories and ways members have broken out of this madness of cyclical Alcohol drinking. They help me so much and know they will you.
      Say good bye to alcohol - scary but living the rest of your life on the stuff is scarier!
      Let's not be a statistic. here's to an AF Tuesday.....give us strength.

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        #63
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        13 days AF! I feel great but I can't say it isn't hard each and every day. The days I am really busy are the best with avoiding the cravings, but I think it has also helped that it has been pretty cool here the past two weeks. I drink more in the summer with the long, sunny afternoons. (I think I try to recapture a carefree life when I drink and those summer days remind me of childhood, or something like that...)

        Anyway, taking it day by day, and feeling so much better physically. I can't get over it really. It's a nice feeling. I am hoping to make it to 30 days, but I don't need any rules to rebel against. Never a good thing for me.
        ?A year from now you will wish you had started today.? Karen Lamb

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          #64
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          Yay! Day 14 AF. I'm having the mental conversation with myself about moderation. Should I, shouldn't I? Tempting, but I'm too scared right now that I will fall back into my old ways. I have to remind myself how stagnating drinking is. I really can't grow, mature and change for the better when I am continuously drinking.
          ?A year from now you will wish you had started today.? Karen Lamb

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            #65
            Ready for a way out

            Hi Margaret

            Just read your post and in my experience moderating doesn't work. Once you get AL into your system its takes along time to get it out and while its there, you will always crave that first drink.
            I managed to stay off it for 60+ days and then decided to try and moderate, however within a few short weeks I was back to drinking at the same level. Honestly, moderating is a trap.

            I'm going for permanent AF life now.

            I understand better the cycle of drinking and sobering up and drinking again. I don't want that life, its crap, double crap. It robs you of your energy, your ability to cope with stress, your creativity, and lots more. I'm not going to let it ruin my life anymore and if you can, please don't start drinking, not even one glass.

            AL is poison, pure and simple. You deserve better...
            Best wishes
            H
            Allen Carr’s book changed everything for me. The easyway to control alcohol. Highly recommended

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              #66
              Ready for a way out

              Moderation certainly hasnt worked for me. Each time I "quit" and think i can go back to just a couple of drinks, I end up in the same hell as always.
              It has to be NO alcohol at all.
              At least i know this NOW.......
              YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY

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                #67
                Ready for a way out

                I'm back. I made it through 6 weeks AF back in September-October. I think I started drinking again Halloween weekend. I made it through the holidays moderating pretty well (so I thought, in my mind). However, since New years, I have been drinking daily, usually a bottle of wine, and am again tired of my mess. I am tired of waking hungover and craving alcohol by lunch time. I also feel as though I have pushed my luck have a couple of glasses of wine and then driving, conviced that I would never blow a .08. So here I am back at Day 1 AF.
                ?A year from now you will wish you had started today.? Karen Lamb

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                  #68
                  Ready for a way out

                  Another false start. Day 1 AF again for me. Pray for me! I need strength to not pick up the wine bottle.

                  I'm horribly hung over today. I have a splitting headache. I look like a dried apple and my stomach is queasy. I have regret and I am tried of feeling this way.

                  I read Amazon.com: Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife (9781616490867): Brenda Wilhelmson: Books
                  this book recently. It was good. A lot resonated with me and is motivating me to change for good.
                  ?A year from now you will wish you had started today.? Karen Lamb

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                    #69
                    Ready for a way out

                    Margaret - you and me both! I feel horrible and wish that I could do the things that leave me feeling great! Today is day 1 again for me, and I feel sick enough, I am hoping to stick to it this time. I have no idea why I keep doing this to myself - it is not beacuse of how I end up feeling, that is for sure!
                    good luck to you, and to me as well!!
                    “The only courage you will ever need is the courage to live the life you want"

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                      #70
                      Ready for a way out

                      HI Margaret,
                      Welcome back. If you did it once, you can definitely do it again!

                      Ive learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. -Martha Washington

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                        #71
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                        Margaret - welcome back!

                        I know you and Scottish Lass probably feel horrible right now - been there done that. Margaret - I just read through your post from beginning to end. Could have been me for sure. I started here 2 years ago and this past January was my 3rd attempt to stop drinking and change this vicious self-destructing life style. The most previously I could accumulate was maybe 12 days AF. Something clicked for me in January and I just decided that I had had enough. ENOUGH of feeling like crap, guilty, hating myself, etc. etc.

                        Margaret - if you made it 6 weeks AF before, you can definitely do it again. We are all here for both you and S.L. and all the others who have tried, failed, come back and tried again. Please don't give up - life without AL is basically life without living in a fog. Hope to see you guys around the threads!
                        Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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                          #72
                          Ready for a way out

                          Day 2. I'm back.
                          ?A year from now you will wish you had started today.? Karen Lamb

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                            #73
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                            Hi Margaret,

                            I'm brand new here and this is my Day 2 as well. I've read through some of your posts and I can absolutely relate. My longest sober period was during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Let's do this together!

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                              #74
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                              Day 3 for me... Let's push each other - we can do this!

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                                #75
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                                Hey Margaret & eg...I'm back on Day 2 too...aiming to find my Day 10 mojo....keep each other going? Hope you are ok x
                                ...peace and quiet....and a cup of tea.....heaven:h

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