Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

[Prairie Fairy]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Ok Crocus -

I'm going to toss in a Country Song for this group...because it does make me think of the camaraderie we have here...

Link to song here (LIVE on Letterman): http://youtu.be/QJqgxynZyH0[/video]]Rascal Flatts - I Won't Let Go (Live On Letterman) - YouTube
Lyrics:
It’s like a storm
That cuts a path
It’s breaks your will
It feels like that

You think your lost
But your not lost on your own
Your not alone
I will stand by you
I will help you through
When you’ve done all you can do
If you can’t cope
I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight
And I wont let go

It hurts my heart
To see you cry
I know it’s dark
This part of life
Oh it finds us all
And we’re too small
To stop the rain
Oh but when it rains

I will stand by you
I will help you through
When you’ve done all you can do
And you can’t cope
I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight

And I wont let you fall
Don’t be afraid to fall
I’m right here to catch you
I wont let you down
It wont get you down
Your gonna make it
Yea I know you can make it

Cause I will stand by you
I will help you through
When you’ve done all you can do
And you can’t cope
And I will dry your eyes
I will fight your fight
I will hold you tight
And I wont let go
Oh I’m gonna hold you
And I wont let go
Wont let you go
No I wont

[crocus]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Hi you guys.

PF- I LOVE Rascal Flats, and saw them when they played the Boston Pops. Thanks so much for that link. . I'm so glad you survived your sucky day without a drink. So sorry you had to go through that. Chin up! And turn up that volume to lift your soul!

BeerP - Welcome. Good for YOU! Day 13! I'm only on 8. My best plan for cravings is to realize that they are little voices chattering inmy brain...just one, just one. To you and Bellegirl.... I've been helped by telling myself to "Step away from the monkey chatter" and then immediately TALK OUT LOUd to myself about something beautiful that I can see. Usually I look at the sky.

Available- Thank you for the boost. Hubby drinks more than he should, but usually stays pretty moderate. I am done with day 8 and like you haven't felt this good, happy or energetic in years! Anemic? Yup. I sure am. I'm just grateful my liver isn't shot too.

Super Sparrow - You are funny! "Go ME!" You made me laugh out loud. Thank you so much. I love to laugh. Glad you are here. We will cheer you up, right guys?

Patrice -Ditto with the no food. If I eat something my desire for A drastically diminishes.
If I drink first (which I LOVE to do) I almost always will skip the food, or eat very very little.
Gee. Could there be a lesson here?

Going to bed. Love you all! ONWARD!:l

[crocus]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Day 10

Hi everyone. How are you doing? I am hanging in there, and can't believe it's day 10. I hope I didn't kill this thread with my loud music! This day marks the first leg of my thirty day journey. Going to exercise after work, and plan to make something GOOD for an EARLY dinner so I will not have any time for wine beforehand. Feeling pretty good today. How ARE you guys?

[Ellaq]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Day 17 here and I have survived my binge cycle for the first time since we had visitors early this year......always amazes me how I can not drink when I have visitors in the house, even when they stay for over a month........but as soon as they are out the door the drink comes back.

When I get through this weekend I will be well on the way to my 30 days...

Congrats to everyone.....it is enpowering when we put down these numbers....keeps us strong.

Hubby got himself some booze tonight......he got something that I specifically hate and he didn't offer me anything. He was supportive with the booze, useless with scoffing a block of chocolate in front of me though knowing I am on a diet. Not to mention the Maccas yesterday.

[kpartyof1]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Hi PF! I am on day 10, and I am in. Totally new to the forum. Sending a prayer for you...and, already do NOT miss those days you described. How is it going??

[Prairie Fairy]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Oh sorry - I am normally in the Nest and the what do we hope to achieve threads with the heads up are arse club - which you are more than welcome to join. :-)

Day 14 started and doing GREAT today!

[kestrel]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

day3

:new

The first time since I can remember three days in a row AL free. Scary and each day is a negotiation. But there's too much to lose to go back.Thanks to all
for sharing your days.

[BelleGirl]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

PF you are killing me with your sig line. But maybe that will explain the big popping sound I heard in my house last night!:H

[kestrel]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

day 4 feeling shaky about this

Would have fallen in my tracks if not reading your posts. Can't say alot because there's no privacy for me. I have to have a talk about that. If you can't let your hair down here, it's not happening anywhere.

So easy for my brain to forget: "I'm doing it differently now". It wants to plan routes to go pick something up at the usual stops, looks forward to the next time I'm alone and can have some wine and let go, forgetting the reasons I'm stopping, forgetting the pain I caused some one who relies on me and got let down. I'm praying for you and I'm praying for me .

Kestrel (an endangered bird)

[available]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Welcome K, i think we all here have let someone down and all feel ashamed of what AL did to us but the main thing is going forward and living without AL. It gets easier as the days go by but the AL devil is never far away from any of us which is why we are on here as we want to give up or mod but i think the majority of us know that moderation is not going to happen. Keep on this site K and keep reading, we are all here for you

[kestrel]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Day 5

Thanks so much for your words Available.

Did anyone else feel worse physically the first week? I know it's peak allergy season here on the east coast. (The trees are gorgeous but it's like looking at them from inside a Diver Dan helmut - if anyone remembers that long ago show). But there's more headache, brain fog and now to add to my fabulousness, cracks at the corners of my mouth. Maybe it's just a body in shock with the absence of the devil it knows. How's anyone else feeling?

[Willow23]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Hi all, usually in the nest. Day 5.

Kestrel, I feel a bit achy and headachy today, I put it down to just my body detoxing. Hope you're ok. You could try the B vitamins the others have mentioned.

[chelsea]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Hi PF what a fantastic thread, would love to come along for the ride. I'm on day 27 and feeling okish for a Friday night! x

[Prairie Fairy]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Welcome to the ride. I am off today - US version of a bank holiday (but only some employers- weird). Anyway - I am being a vegetable until excercise class later by hanging with the cat, reading a book and I may do one course of Hypnos- those things are GENIUS. I swear - this quit would not be sticking without this site, the hypnos, and the glutamine/GABA/amino's. I might have made half this long but I would not have made Day 16. Oh - who am I kidding. I'd have made Day 3. I can do a Day 3 - drink like fish binge - Day 3 - drink like fish - etc - like a CHAMP! But Day 16? Nope. Not happening without the support here, the hynpnos, and the supplements. Period.

So welcome to the party! The more the merrier! :-)

[timpin]

Looking for: People early in their 1st 30 Days AF

Kestrel

If it's any help to you, I felt crap for the first three days. Trembling a little and body aching. Couldn't sleep that well. However after six full days, all that is behind me and I feel good. I sleep well now. Keep it up, I intend to and hopefully life will get even better.