I’m going on a vacation on 18th and I have 2 weeks to sober up and lose 8 pounds. I will cut off alcohol. This is tough.
I may have it in my blood, my dad drinks a lot. This past two weeks I’ve been having a bottle of wine every night.
Todays is the first day I didn’t buy. If I don’t try to stop it now, it may turn into alcoholism. Plus it’s interfering with my medication a little bit.
I’m planning on drinking only on weekends, 1- 2 glasses and that should be enough.
Do you have good advice for me and some encouraging words to help me sustain.
I stopped drinking a few months ago. At first, it was just going to be for a few weeks to lose weight. It was soo hard to stop! I had to commit to not buying alcohol at all, because if it was in the house I would have no self control. But once the pounds started dropping, and I felt healthier, I started feeling really good about myself. At the end of every week, I would take the money I saved by not buying alcohol, and get something I really wanted. It was a good reward system for me. It’s a hard habit to break, but the longer you commit to it, the easier it is to keep up with. This is from the perspective of someone who isn’t an alcoholic, but has many alcoholic relatives.
This past two weeks I’ve been having a bottle of wine every night.
Woa. I’m a recovering alcoholic. That’s in the danger zone. I had to get help to quit by going to AA. I couldn’t do it on my own, so can’t give you any advice on how to do it alone.
I had to face the hard fact I was an alcoholic about a year ago. I just substituted soda and a good spiritual system for the stuff. Best of luck, wish you the best.
Xanax keeps me from wanting to drink unless I have insomnia. I was an extremely heavy drinker before Geodon, then Xanax made me cut back to just weekends, then maturity made me just stop.
A bottle a night seems like it’s too much. Alcoholism runs in families. Not being able to control how much you drink or when you drink is one of the signs of alcoholism. I would hate to see a nice, pretty, intelligent girl like you have to deal with alcoholism. It would be a waste of a life.
Alcoholism has wrecked countless lives. I smoked crack for four years as you might know unless you forgot. When I finally got clean, my life opened up miraculously . I went back to college, I got a job, I made a good friend, and so many other good things happened in my life. It took me until I got sober to realize my potential.
I can offer you one piece of advice. When I went on a strict diet some years back, I learned that if I didn’t bring it in the house, then I wouldn’t eat it. If I slipped and brought cookies into the house I would inevitably eat all of them. But if I kept them out of the house then I wouldn’t eat any. So it might help if you don’t have a bottle of wine sitting in your house.
so, three days sans alcol… I just had 1 beer last night. I’m feeling much better, more confident, more focused… less hungry, more positive. Gonna wait a week to make sure alcohol is what affecting me.
