100 Day Club members/Maintenance Thread

[K9Lover]

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Lav - I hope Stella appreciated how important the award is...I can just see you 'splainin' it to her. LOL

Well...I am attempting to give up the cigs again. I promised my daughter I would never quit trying to quit...so here we go!

[Lavande]

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K9,
I quit smoking hundreds of times BUT the reason I truly succeeded this time was because I joined Quit Smoking All Together: the Web's Largest Quit Smoking Community
I go there every morning & pledge to remain smoke free for the day. Also, I took their advice & decided to use a nicotine replacement product ~ something I had never done before. They were right, it truly made the difference
I chose to use Commit Lozenges, they saved my sorry self!
I went for hypnosis nearly 20 years ago. Yeah, it worked for a few days :H

Good luck little sister. Use some Lavan-itude ~ it helps

[BHOG]

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Way to go , LAV.!
Congrats on 4 years!

[Lavande]

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Thanks BHOG

Exercise, cooking, baking, house cleaning, dog grooming, holiday decorating, etc on my day plan today. Absolutely no smoking or drinking - yay! I don't even remember how I had time to work those nasty habits in anyway :H

[BHOG]

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Lav-
I think we always find time for the people and things we love.
So it stands to reason, if we always found time to drink, we must have loved it a lot. Even more than we loved our families, our homes, our lives....
Almost sorry I thought about that line.

[K9Lover]

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BHOG -
You're right...at one point we DID love alcohol more than anything else! Sad, but true. I honestly don't know how I had time to drink either...well come to think of it, I fit it in by neglecting everything else!

[BHOG]

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K-9
When I finally dried up, I looked around me at the stuff I had let go, or not done, or refused to think about, all so I could sit and drink. I realized I had a LOT to do, and it was almost overwhelming in scope. So I would just tackle it one project/chore/issue at a time. Eventually, it all gets taken care of.
But, I still get frustrated that I let so many years of my life go down the drain. I have gotten to the point that I KNOW I cannot go back and change anything, and it does me no good to beat myself up over the past.
But it took a long time to arrive at that knowledge.

[Lavande]

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Good morning & Happy Easter to one & all
Hope your day is sweet!!!

[Byrdlady]

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Hope everybunny is having a hoppy day!!!! XO, Byrdie

[nurdl]

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Lav! Congratulations on your four year anniversary! You are truly an inspiration to us all. I am so happy for you and to know you.
xoxo

[Lavande]

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Hoppy it was Byrdie especially after the kids OD'd on chocolate :H

Thanks nurdl, I'm so glad yuo are back & doing well

[Kradle123]

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Lavande;1485878 wrote: Hoppy it was Byrdie especially after the kids OD'd on chocolate :H

Thanks nurdl, I'm so glad yuo are back & doing well

Amen to that Lav...the girls Od'd yesterday On birthday cake and Easter egg hunts...Madison threw up 4 times in the middle of the night...:upset:

I was not very 'hoppy' today... :cupajoe:

Congratulations on 4 great years! :h

[Lavande]

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Thanks Kradle ~ sorry about the kiddie puking - ruins the day
I'm just happy that I can play the mean old granny & hide the candy before it goes too far :H

[Byrdlady]

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Happy Monday!
I have stumbled upon something that is really working for me and I wanted to share it....
Work has been very stressful lately and has been 'keeping me up nights'!!! I couldn't fall asleep or stay asleep for all the thinking!!! (kind of like the old days....). But I started counting backwards from 100....and it works! I have had success 4 out of the last 4 nights. I told hubs about it and he tried it....he says with mixed results...he kept dozing off! :H:H:H This very simple technique has helped me so much...if you lose count, just pick it back up somewhere...if your thoughts wander, reel them back to the count. I am amazed. Just thought I'd share that....have a great day (and night!) Byrdie

[Turnagain]

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Byrdie - you are just brilliant! Do you realize that this method is actually a form of mindful meditation? How marvelous that you are figuring out how to de-stress in such a healthy way. I have been working on doing mindful meditation for the past month or so. It sure is making a real difference in my level of mind peace and sense of well-being.

I've been learning about it as well. The research into meditation has just exploded in the last decade. Turns out that meditation triggers the process that can actually alter the chemical and structural nature of our brains. BUT...you don't have to be a neuroscientist to know that meditation just gives our busy, busy minds a well-deserved break from the incessant chatter, chatter, chatter that's always churning around up there. This calming...or quieting state is essential to our overall well being. For starters, it lets the body stop churning out cortisol and other stress-triggered hormones which are not meant to be endured in continuing quantities! Cortisol is good when you need to run from a dinosaur. RIGHT NOW! lol Maybe not so much when you're worried about a bad boss. All the time.

Okay...off to avoid the velociraptors.....