I'm on day 2 of no alchohol and back at work which is making me want a drink! But I did the Jillian Micheal's Level 1 20 day shred and I want to stay feeling fit more then the glass of beer after work. Good for you for not giving into the urge to have a drink!!

You can do this - keep it up! That fire will come back to you. You made this decision for good reasons right? Reading your posts reminds me of me. Stopping at one isn't in the cards unless I'm out for a quick get-together. But I'm likely to drink more once I'm home. It's when I'm home that stopping at one is a problem. You already know all your own tricks I'm sure...what you tell yourself to make it okay to drink.I say try to embrace a week of depression and robot like activities and not drinking at all if you can swing it. Deep breaths...lemon water in the morning. I joined a website called Lulora and did a a one month green smoothie challenge. I did complete the challenge, and even though my goal wasn't directly to quit drinking and smoking (although that is always always my goal and I have not licked it yet), just the routine of lemon water in the morning and drinking a green smoothie and smelling the cilantro and lemon and ginger helped me reaffirm that I want to make changes and why I want to make changes. Life is much better without guilt hanging over your head. Or anxiety or a hangover. I did quit smoking and drinking for 2.5 months after that green smoothie challenge. It was fantastic and there was an electric buzz flowing through my body. I lost 8 pounds in 2 months, and was told my skin looked glowing and I felt like I smelled good. No smoky drinky smell. Anxiety went way down, pretty much non-existent. Felt strong. Confident. I messed up again. Gained most of the weight back, currently smoking and drinking but feeling ready to go again. Previously in 2013, I quit drinking for 5 months. Most in my life as an adult. Didn't quit smoking, just drinking. Started again that time too. But this is life, and I won't stop trying. Think both times I told myself that I had it cased, went from thinking about drinking daily to not at all and told myself hey, you are doing great! You're not someone who needs to stop all together - you don't even think about it anymore! It's okay to let your hair down for a night! Then right back to square one. Both times. So that's me anyway. But you can do it and so can I. I do recommend the green smoothie thing, and or lemon water. Easy goal to set and keep, which feels good. I'm not sure what my goal is here but I know what it should be. For now I suppose it's no drinking during the week at all and no keeping alcohol at home at all. Since I rarely go out - and when I do it's to a movie or a play or something, drinking out will pretty much be non-existent. Guess this is a way of tricking my mind so I don't have to tell it "you can never drink again ever" because that's a lot to take in. I'm going to do this because I'm just so tired of having that voice in my head tell me that I suck. I like this group because nothing worse than alienating yourself when in reality there are many people who are struggling with similar issues and we are good people who are just trying to get this monkey off our backs. Ok, my goal is to get back the time when I was waking up in the morning guilt-free and proud of myself. And I'm going to buy myself a treat for every week I make it clean, Like something from Chapters or Anthropologie or a new restaurant or something that makes me feel like a lady...tee hee.

So this is Night #1 - Mission accomplished with no alcohol. I got mad with myself this afternoon just thinking of no drinking. I guess my inner teenager was talking and rebelling. Thank goodness things turned around early this evening