re: Dry 2023

hell yeah brother

Apples.

Get a bag of apples and eat one next time you’re hungry. Don’t trade one vice for another.

Kudos to all of you going all in in 2023. I considered the same but I knew it wouldn't work for me, but I knew I had to make some changes. I'm 39 and I had gotten into the habit of a having a drink while I made dinner for the wife (no pics) and kids. Drinking was becoming part of the routine, but rarely got "drunk", even on the weekends. When I thought about it those 1-2 drinks here and there really started to add up.

I decided to take a different route, a budget system. I decided I get 100 drinks in 2023 and I can use them as I wish, but when the 100 are gone, they're gone. I know I'm going to have some drinks at football games, on vacation, or if we go out to a nice dinner but I needed to get away from the casual no reason drink. So every time I have a drink, I log it into my Apple Health app on my phone. So far I've had 13 drinks this year. I've had one drink at home after work so far and I regretted it immediately because it was stupid and there was no reason to do it. My wife and I are going our for a nice dinner tonight, so I'll probably have a bourbon while we eat

I wish I had logged how many drinks I was consuming before, I'd most likely be horrified but so be it. My wife was never a huge drinker, but I noticed she'd have a drink if I did and now that I'm not having as much, neither is she.

Keep going guys, you're doing great!

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been dry since jan 11th and feel great. hasnt been real tough so far, football season will be the challenge

to me there was always nothing better than posting up at your local sports bar with a good buddy for a big game and getting good and drunk and talking shite together. problem was when he was heading home at 10pm to hit the sack i was telling my uber to stop for more beer so i could keep the party going by myself at home until the sun came up.

if there was no game or nobody to hit the bar with well fine i could do it on my own: craft beer drinker here. fell in love with going to the local hipster store and picking up several different 6 packs of 8% abv strong beers, sitting on the couch with a good tv series or sporting event and getting good and drunked up until about 5am. alot of stoners say weed makes everything better, well i always thought everything with a buzz was better, even tv. then id be worthless the next day and get nothing done

for a long time i felt that there was no problem with this. i wasnt out drinking and driving, i wasnt bothering anybody or harming myself so whats wrong with drinking in my own home? i finally had to admit that not being able to go to bed after a few drinks and staying up drinking until the early morning is not normal, and wasnt allowing me to be the best version of myself. saying "aww frick it im off tomorrow with not much to do lets crack another" until the fridge is empty is not normal. so, on january 11th after attending an lsu bball game with a buddy and doing my typical solo drunk fest at home until the morning, i decided its time for all of this to end and for me to be the best version of myself. just made 4 months and hoping to keep this train rolling

Thread on the OT made me check in with y'all baws in here

Day 26 without alcohol.

Back on Naltrexone too 50mg and it helps

One month checking in

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m going to try to take this a day at a time until either LSU is playing in the CWS or football season with some Jambalaya

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But don’t you want to remember those moments?

Keep it going dude. 2-3 drinks during a game is a perfect amount.

I am not trying to be a hypocrite. I sometimes drink to excess, especially during games. But about five years ago, I woke up and didn't remember much of a great game Ole Miss played in. It made me second guess why I got that drunk in the first place, if I was never going to remember the game and all.