The Sober Squad- Alcohol Free Living
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Congrats on 9 months @nighthawk584! Jen, awesome job on losing 4 pounds! I'm still eating my leftover Christmas candy too, yikes! I just love it too much tho, 6:24 am in Vegas another 24 AF! 💗Hope everyone is doing well and have a fabulous day7
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@whitpauly you are doing so well! Congratulations on remaining AF!6
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Nice to hear that everyone is doing so well. 👍😊👍
I saw a concerning headline in a local article that highlighted a disturbing trend in our neighboring 2 counties: Impaired driving has increased by 81% in 2019. Eeeek!!!
There have been so many good efforts on the part of various agencies trying to fight the scourge of impaired drivers, but sadly as hard as they are fighting for a good cause there are powerful forces at work successfully promoting alcohol & glamorizing a drinking lifestyle.
Yet, each of us can do our small part towards some of the good by keeping up the fight in our own lives & really it isn't only about us individually but about those arounds us especially those who we love 💗
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Drink driving accidents have been on the rise here too-fatal ones😲 very sad cuz not only the victims and their families but the young drivers who CHOSE to get behind the wheel will be in prison for a long time, 6:07 am in Vegas another 24 💖4
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Hi Friends, I'm still here reading your messages. I am stuck in bed with the flu so I don't have anything to add to the conversation. But still reading your posts.
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RubyRed427 wrote: »Hi Friends, I'm still here reading your messages. I am stuck in bed with the flu so I don't have anything to add to the conversation. But still reading your posts.
I'm a sicko too. I'm on the mend & hoping you are too. 💗3 -
New to the 'group'. I abstained from alcohol for three years until Nov of 2018.
I have once again given up booze as of Dec 27, 2019
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RubyRed427 wrote: »Hi Friends, I'm still here reading your messages. I am stuck in bed with the flu so I don't have anything to add to the conversation. But still reading your posts.
Aww feel better! This season has been brutal for colds/flu😔4 -
mscanadianbakin wrote: »New to the 'group'. I abstained from alcohol for three years until Nov of 2018.
I have once again given up booze as of Dec 27, 2019
Welcome and great job 👍4 -
Hey, Everyone!
Popping my head up to say hi and hope everyone is doing well with their goals! Hope you get well soon, @RubyRed427!
A few days ago, I hit 2 years AF
I looked back at my journal entries for that first month...the Less Alcohol thread started by @RubyRed427 was instrumental in getting me started on this journey. I am so thankful for that thread and for access to a safe & encouraging place to post.
The book The Naked Mind was recommended in that thread, and I would like to pass on that recommendation to anyone else that wants to be AF. I read the book within the span of a few days back in Jan 2018 and it was a game changer for me. I had a few rough spots that first month, but the book had changed the way I think about alcohol and I cruised right on past those mental speed bumps and kept going. I had some concerns about enjoying activities without alcohol, especially during the holidays each year, but every single thing I was worried about never materialized.
Life is so much better in every single way, and there is nothing that I lost when I stopped drinking.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Karen
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kcn2bluesky wrote: »Hey, Everyone!
Popping my head up to say hi and hope everyone is doing well with their goals! Hope you get well soon, @RubyRed427!
A few days ago, I hit 2 years AF I looked back at my journal entries for that first month...the Less Alcohol thread started by @RubyRed427 was instrumental in getting me started on this journey. I am so thankful for that thread and for access to a safe & encouraging place to post.
The book The Naked Mind was recommended in that thread, and I would like to pass on that recommendation to anyone else that wants to be AF. I read the book within the span of a few days back in Jan 2018 and it was a game changer for me. I had a few rough spots that first month, but the book had changed the way I think about alcohol and I cruised right on past those mental speed bumps and kept going. I had some concerns about enjoying activities without alcohol, especially during the holidays each year, but every single thing I was worried about never materialized.
Life is so much better in every single way, and there is nothing that I lost when I stopped drinking.
I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Karen
Awesome! The key words in that are "want to be AF" I kidded myself for years thinking I wanted to be AF but in truth I don't want it,want it so I'd do so many crazy things to try to moderate which only made me drink more it seemed, congratulations to you💗 6:42 am in Vegas another 24 of FREEDOM for me!6 -
Thanks @kcn2bluesky for that very inspirational post. I have read many books but I have not read that one. I'm going to order it right now.5
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Hi everyone. I am 11 days sober. Just a start, but I can't believe how good I feel. Definitely going to keep it going. Thanks for all the posts, very motivational! Tim8
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@tim201200 Congratulations on 11 days sober. Welcome to our thread!2
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Awesome! The key words in that are "want to be AF" I kidded myself for years thinking I wanted to be AF but in truth I don't want it,want it so I'd do so many crazy things to try to moderate which only made me drink more it seemed, congratulations to you💗 6:42 am in Vegas another 24 of FREEDOM for me!
Thank you! I thought I wanted to be AF for years, but that just wasn't true. I wasn't ready for whatever reason. I tried moderation, but always escalated back to drinking 1-3 glasses of wine most nights of the week. I found moderation attempts to be riddled with failure & guilt. Committing to AF was the path for me.Thanks @kcn2bluesky for that very inspirational post. I have read many books but I have not read that one. I'm going to order it right now.
Thank you, @JenT304! I hope you enjoy the book. I purchased it electronically from amazon.com but you may be able to find it through your library electronically as well.4 -
This is a great book:
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget-Sarah Hepola.
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7:11 qm in Vegas another 24 💖 have a fabulous AF day all!4
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I recently saw on TV that the increase in deaths that are alcohol related since 1997 has doubled and that the highest incidence of death occurs in women. I think nearly every nite n in our city there is a car accident involving DWI's........scarry , a DWI costs the person about 17 , 000 dollars , and that doesn't include jail time or probation...not worth it...........and its devastating when some one is killed.........Ive lost 2 cousins to being killed in car accidents because the other driver was drunk..............it totally destroyed his pregnant wife and their 2 boys.............not worth it.............6
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Hi All 😊 Great to read all the comments & welcome to all the newbies. I can relate to the failure to moderate generating feelings of guilt. I am mostly an all or nothing kinda person, so I find AF the way to be for me!! Moderation does not work for me.
Perhaps that is why I have difficulty moderating food. We need food to live so it isn't like there is another option. If I could be FF like I am AF I'd be set. I've been working on the food thing consistently since Dec 30 & am beginning to feel less dragged out & sluggish. For me food is basically the same as alcohol as far as self medicating & numbing out. It's just a different substance.
Hoping everyone is continuing their work toward health & happiness 🌹4 -
@lloydrt SO sad about your family members deaths due to someone else's poor choices & the loved ones left to suffer at the hands of another's selfish act.
At one point shortly after I stopped drinking, I had shared that a former drinking buddy got her 2nd DUI & had her grandkids in the car with her. She had just got her license back 3 months before that. That was 17 months ago & she is still drinking & denying & lying about her problem while she has lost friends, family members, her health & yet she chooses to poison herself over what we all hold dear!
There all kinds of excuses...they have a disease, they are sick, they had a rough childhood BUT it is also a CHOICE. 😥 And sadly the people who die at their hands have no choices left.
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