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    #166
    Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

    Free, last straw nice to hear you are both doing well. Glad to hear of the clarification last straw, hear hear...I would love to join a June thread, I find going month by month a really big help, and while the newbie's nest is helpful, I really like the monthly one, so count me in! 5 days and another AF month completed, Yeah!!
    On a mission, and the only option is success. My family and I deserve a better life, an AF life.:h

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      #167
      Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

      I am so very grateful for MWO....just sayin
      I just won't anymore

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        #168
        Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

        I agree jenniech, this is the longest I have ever gone without drinking (besides when I was pregnant) since I started drinking when I was 16, I couldn't have done it without MWO. Hope you are doing well, so many difficult days you've gone through recently. Very proud that you have been able to get through those days, AF, very inspiring. :l
        On a mission, and the only option is success. My family and I deserve a better life, an AF life.:h

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          #169
          Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

          Quick check in to happily report I am AF again today. Will be traveling a lot the next couple of days so may have difficulties getting online. Looking forward to an AF June!

          Congrats to all who made May AF!
          Free at Last
          "What you seek is seeking you." -- Rumi

          Highly recommend this video
          http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

          July 19, 2013 -- the beginning of being Free at Last

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            #170
            Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

            You know at some point I wish at some point the goddamn cravings would lessen or go away.

            Even after 78 days, I wanted to throw in the towel and have a drink tonight, cravings are heightened and I just want to be able to have a couple of glasses of wine, Please just a couple of glasses of wine, where is the harm????
            But I can't because I know, even though I try to convince myself that I won't, I just know that I will drink way more than two glasses, wayyyyyyy more , and then I may drink so much that I'll black out and be so hungover in the morning I can't get out of bed and then my kids will suffer.

            When do the cravings end????? I am seriously questioning if I can actually do this.....
            On a mission, and the only option is success. My family and I deserve a better life, an AF life.:h

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              #171
              Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

              Honestly Halo, I got rocked hard by some cravings at 4 months. Lasted a day or two and then I didn't have any until 10 months in. Not too bad at that time, but I think at the 4 month mark I let my guard down slightly and as soon as that happened it seemed easy for the stupid thoughts to come creeping in. I'm so glad I resisted. Now at 15+ months it's rarely a thought. Maybe once every couple months. And it's just a thought in passing; no real struggle.

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                #172
                Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                Flyaway thanks for the positive feedback, it seems that I need to get more AF days under my belt...I want to be where you are, 15+ months is definitely awesome and it sounds like the cravings subside the longer you remain AF, thanks flyaway..
                On a mission, and the only option is success. My family and I deserve a better life, an AF life.:h

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                  #173
                  Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                  I am also liking this monthly thing AF. Count me in for June.

                  It was my birthday today. My first AF birthday since 1970.

                  -S-

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                    #174
                    Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                    The Last Straw, happy belated birthday and what a way to celebrate. Congrats on your progress!

                    Halo, I read some of No Sugar's posts where up to day 100, she had thoughts about having wine but now she thinks about how good it is to not be drinking. I thought over holiday, what's the problem with two glasses of wine, but then it becomes a daily thought. No, I want to reach the point where I don't think/crave wine -- that's to be free at last for me. Stay with it, you have come so far.
                    Free at Last
                    "What you seek is seeking you." -- Rumi

                    Highly recommend this video
                    http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html

                    July 19, 2013 -- the beginning of being Free at Last

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                      #175
                      Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                      "Don't let your struggle become your identity"

                      I saw this the other day and thought that's what I want. I want to get to a place where the struggle may exist but it's not who I am. Right now it's very much who I am. That's why I don't like labels. I don't want to be a drunk or an alcoholic. I am a person who has a drinking problem.

                      And if I wake up June 1 and no one has started the AF June thread for us, then I will.
                      Well it's all right now. I've learned my lesson well. You see you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself.

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                        #176
                        Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                        I would love to be able to go through a whole day without thinking of a drink. Can't even imagine how that would feel. So it may take months for your mind to be completely free... But that would be amazing! It's a working progress though... I'm looking forward to it. To all of you guys who came so far AF: :goodjob: and CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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                          #177
                          Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                          Happy Birthday, TLS! A sober one is by definition a good one !

                          Halo, hang in there and please be patient. What Free mentioned is TRUE - at some point the brainwashing :H that goes on around here will have worked as long as you truly want it to work and are willing to do the very scary thing of opening yourself up to changing.

                          Many of us here (ironically, considering what drinking does) seem to be on the control-freak side of things. Along with that, at least for me, comes an aversion to changes that I am not directing.

                          But thanks to MWO, I WAS CHANGED! I'm not sure exactly when it happened but at some point in the last few weeks I realized that every morning I think of how grateful I am and throughout the day, I have random thoughts of how X is easier because                           I don't drink, how I can do Y because                           I don't drink, how I don't have to worry about obtaining and hiding the quantity and effects of drinking BECAUSE I DON'T DRINK!!!

                          You'll get there, Halo. Just keep doing what you've been doing so well. :h NS

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                            #178
                            Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                            Hi NS!! Happy birthday Last Straw!!!!
                            I must admit that I am still struggling at 123 days. HOWEVER, my thoughts are "i want a drink....OK, so where will that take me?" and then I think it all the way through. I will think about the times when drinking when I would wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and see emptiness in my eyes. I would think about how I stopped feeling ANYTHING ..... both good and bad. My life was completely empty even though I was surrounded by everything I ever wanted.

                            So, even though the cravings do still hit me, I can easily talk myself to sanity and not pick up. And most important, I just take it a day at a time. Today I will not drink!!!!
                            :teeter:
                            the yellow guy wins!!
                            I just won't anymore

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                              #179
                              Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                              jenniech;1512766 wrote: Hi NS!! Happy birthday Last Straw!!!!
                              I must admit that I am still struggling at 123 days. HOWEVER, my thoughts are "i want a drink....OK, so where will that take me?" and then I think it all the way through. I will think about the times when drinking when I would wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and see emptiness in my eyes. I would think about how I stopped feeling ANYTHING ..... both good and bad. My life was completely empty even though I was surrounded by everything I ever wanted.

                              So, even though the cravings do still hit me, I can easily talk myself to sanity and not pick up. And most important, I just take it a day at a time. Today I will not drink!!!!
                              :teeter:
                              the yellow guy wins!!
                              Hi, Jennie

                              I think you're done with the hard part, too - you're just a bit more resistant to brainwashing (which normally is a good thing :H!).

                              I'm so glad we are sticking together - 2 sets of twinks here !

                              :h NS

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                                #180
                                Who's Working It? -- AF May starts today

                                Thanks flyaway, goofy girl, no sugar, siren, free, last straw and jenniech..without your advice to stay the course and by relating your experience on how to cope with those cravings of I just want a drink @#$%@ , I would have had a drink last night because the cravings were just sooooo strong (combined with sadness, frustration, it is a deadly combination). But I didn't, I refrained because you are all here helping. Thank you so very much... I am committed to getting an AF May and then I will find the determination to get June AF as well...You are all the best!
                                On a mission, and the only option is success. My family and I deserve a better life, an AF life.:h

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