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[MWOLady]

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Hey, Tip! great news re your Habs bikini!!! My Habs - my home town (actually West Island Lachine - many many long years ago. Had many a drinking night in Montreal.

Let's all be positive and say: we are going to be sober starting now. Our livers are going to SING. Our skin is going to GLOW. Our eyes are going to SPARKLE. Our muffin tops are going to DISAPPEAR!!!!

[BelleGirl]

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MWO...I love what you said about being positive. I want my liver to SING!!!

[mauritiusdodo]

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Morning all, once again I am moved to tears at the support I have been given upon returning to this site, I am going to try really hard not to give in and to once and for all kick this demon of a habit, I am so sick of going round in circles and coming back to the same pit of despair and letting myself and everyone around me down, my husband said to me yesterday "don't take this badly but I am thinking you might suffer some side effects of quitting AL this time with the volume you have been drinking lately" WOW that really hit home and made me actually think about the amount I have been getting through, my drinking had escalated into two bottles of wine a day or more and I am so ashamed to say more often than not I wasn't even drunk on that :blush: I feel really sick again today and had really bad sweats in the night and tossed and turned all night but I made my first day sober and I am thankful for that!

Heres to a sober day one and all....

[Prairie Fairy]

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Hi Mauri -

You might have side effects from that. Do you have any Taurine, B vitamin complex and magnesium? Taurine and Magnesium supposedly can reduce the shakes...

[Prairie Fairy]

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Obviously - you may well want to go to a doctor to make sure nothing really bad can happen as you go AF this time - because they may want you to titre down.

Thinking of you!

[mauritiusdodo]

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Hi prairie, I don't want to see my doc, I have been before and he didn't offer any help really unfortunately other than offering me something to stop me drinking if I desperately wanted it (can't remember the name) thank you for the advice though I love your signature by the way :H I think that is me also!!

Well I went out for a walk only for it to start chucking it down the minute I stepped out the door so I got soaked but managed a 20 min brisk uphill down dale one before calling it a day! Finished a henna canvas I have been painting also, prepared a healthy dinner for tonight and did a few other chores so am feeling pleased with myself so far

[madmans]

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Hi mauritiusdodo Good to see you back again .

[mauritiusdodo]

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madmans;1238576 wrote: Hi mauritiusdodo Good to see you back again .

Hi there and thanks it feels good to be back

[spuddleduck]

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dodo, the night sweats are awful. thankfully we know they will soon go after a few days..... and then we will have a choir of happy singing livers

[Turnagain]

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Glad you're Back Mauri....and all the rest of you who are brimming with new hope and determination....spuds...snap...tip...free and beags!

I wish I could wave a magic wand to keep you AF....alas. It takes time for the body and brain to heal and a plan to stay sober and healed.

Make THIS time different!

I love my AF life. I wouldn't give this up to put something down my throat. And the feeling of freedom is better than any buzz I ever got from alcohol.

[DriftyAlison0]

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:h

Turnagain;1239045 wrote: Glad you're Back Mauri....and all the rest of you who are brimming with new hope and determination....spuds...snap...tip...free and beags!

I wish I could wave a magic wand to keep you AF....alas. It takes time for the body and brain to heal and a plan to stay sober and healed.

Make THIS time different!

I love my AF life. I wouldn't give this up to put something down my throat. And the feeling of freedom is better than any buzz I ever got from alcohol.

I agree! I wouldn't give up the AF life neither. Not even to get wasted and not get a hangover, I will not do it. Being AF is a forever lasting thing while drunk only last a few hours, and I don't have the time anymore to deal with that. AF LIFE FTW!

[mauritiusdodo]

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Day three today, had a rubbish nights sleep again but DH got up when DS woke at 5.15 so I at least got to 'lie in' till 6.15 (never thought i would consider that a lie iin!:H)

Today I am going to take DS to a soft play area cos the weather here is just atrocious, it is a nice change not to have to worry about potentially being over the limit from drinking the previous night and not having to consider the smell of al on my breath!

I have been doing amazingly well on my diet plan so far although I am starving LOL have joined My Fitness Plan which allows you to log all your food intake and exercise too its great!

Hope everyone is on track for a super sober day?

[Chillgirl]

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Hi Guys - great to see so many positive attitudes here, that alone is 95% of the battle.

Dodo - my sleep took 6 weeks to sort itself out but now I sleep every single nite like a I never slept before in my adult life, it is sheer bliss! No waking up at 3am have drunk, half hungover with anxiety. Try to tire yourself out with more activity, maybe you should have a go in the soft play area

[mauritiusdodo]

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No chance of me not climbing around like a monkey in there chillgirl cos my son insists i join him too bad I really hate being a kid at 42 :H

I hope it doesn't take me 6 weeks to sleep well i am a zombie these days already although that is partly due to late nights and early mornings I am also sure that the 'passing out in an al fuelled haze' hasn't helped either

[FreeFly]

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Hi Dodo,

My sleep's crap too at the moment - waking every 2 hours it seems. Been power walking every day to try and tire myself out for the evening. I'm tired but not sleeping. Reckon I'll pick up some 5HTP today and give that a go. Can't wait for the sleep that the old timers talk about - lol.