Hi everyone
First check in from me as i've been out all day at work, and just got the kids to bed. I too was someone who really only scaled up my drinking in my 30's - rarely drank in my 20's (when I was a keen distance runner) even though there was a big drinking culture at university. As I posted last night on the abbercisers thread - I think it was the stopping running /being unable to run that really fueled my drink problem (or alterntavely running stalled it) after my first child was born - followed by my 2nd 15 months later, I was unable to run partly due to childcare problems during daylight hrs and partly due to physical problems from emergency childbirth (eventually needed hysterectomy) and I really became "depressed" and just used to drink in the evening - every evening. Running - and exercise in general would give me a high / a boost in a different but healthy way and I didn't need to drink. I'm now back exercising again and that is helping too. I also think I suffer a bit from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and get quite down in the dark winter months so am thinking of getting one of those therapy lamps. When I couldn't exercise in early - mid Dec due to bad cold and conjuncitivits, I found going sober much harder - so I do think exercise really goes hand in hand with recovery.
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