AF Daily - Monday January 5
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.
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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