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Thank you. I certainly am enjoying it

That's amazing. And it's stories like that, that keep me positive and know someday that will be me also. Only been 22days but already feels like a lifetime

Yes it genuinely is

Thank you,hope all is well with you as well

Thank you missy. If someone had told me this would be me a month ago today I would have laughed while sneaking my many many glasses of wine, I truly feel something saved me and it's that gratitude that keeps pushing me forward. I definitely want to help others and think it could someday be a career change for me. Crazy because for 15 years I have been a bartender .... go figure

Ha! a bartender....well maybe now you can look at social work or a substance dependence counselor!

 

Well done lorilin - you have a different life.  Yes, I too, would have laughed at myself while sneaking my wine (hidden in my wardrobe).  One bottle in the kitchen which lasted all night and hubs thought that was what I was drinking; but my other bottle was hiding upstairs.  I know for a fact I could not drink two bottles now.  It feels great and I am finally getting my colour back in my face.  Hope my insides are happier too.

Thanx to this forum, I have made it this far.......Yaay x

Keep going lorilin - you are doing fantastic.

G.

Curious?

Did you sneak drink while bartending?

I KNOW I would have.

Yup a bartender at many clubs even ran the last one all while being an alcoholic. Lol imagine that. I left that life behind me. There's no way I could go back to that anymore

Yes. I drank my entire shifts. For the entire years I did it. Would drink mixed drinks. Beers wine whatever I could sneak

Thank you.I was the queen at sneaking, or so I thought. Looking back I feel like an idiot the only person I was fooling was myself. My drunken stupid self

good reply...we al know who we are cheating...yes we only cheat ourself. Alchoholic for certain but you are trying!! do NOT give up...Robin

Day 25 today. can't believe I almost made it a month. Feeling stronger than I imagined and truly the thought of drinking makes my stomach upset, probably because detoxing was so horrible for me and something I genuinely didn't imagine or even put thought into happening. Going back??? No thAnks!! I'll keep pushing forward. Turns out I'm incredibly neat, organized, level headed, and a fitness fanatic lol. So much wasted time being a drunk

Hey well done you.  Gold star coming your way.  Know so much what you mean.  After 40 years of daily drinking and it getting way out of control of 20 - 22 units per evening, I have nailed it - the feeling is so  great during the day - I forgot what it was like without alcohol sitting around in your body constantly.  I have been dizzy for years and years and always put down to anxiety so I just thought, well this is my lot in life so get used to it, because I am an overly anxious person.  This is my fourth week of nailing it, and guess what, I have not had one dizzy day, I can't believe it, after all these years.  Long may it continue.  All those still struggling, please don't give up.  We can all do it by flippin hook or by crook; it  just takes a 'lightbulb' moment to not want to die too soon.

Great job lorilin

Lorilin and Gwen are both amazing sincey you have kicked it and are both healing and feeling G R E A T!! nothing like it...IN Dec. 4 yrs celebration for myself and never ever having a drink again..I cannot trust myself with even one! keep going girls!! Robin