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It's been awhile since I dropped in, I hope everyone is doing well, making progress and finding peace. I just checked ny app and I'm at 942 days, but if I had to list my favorite benefit of quitting is not thinking about drinking all the time. I also now realize that I looked forward to drinking more than the drinking…

2 years today, $2926 saved, 292,626 less calories, which equates to about 40lbs lighter and holding. Thanks to everyone here for helping me realize it just wasn't just me who had to slay this dragon. I have learned that you really can't kill it though, just tame it. Peace and joy to all.

The only day that matters is today. Good for you on speaking to your Dr., no sense trying to white knuckle your way through it if professional help is needed and available...very brave

Happy New Year to all my sobriety brothers & sisters, (especially Whit in Vegas, I pray all is well) I hope everyone has a great 2021! Yes, the scale is up a few pounds today, but it was so worth it! Back to the normal routine today. As a former beer hound, I gotta admit Heineken really knocked it out of the park, but I…

Congrats to everyone for having the courage to put themselves out there, it's been awhile since I've been on the forum and I continue to encouraged by everyone. The AF Beer worked for me for time but after awhile, the extra calories weren't worth it, huh....how many calories in those (6) IPA's sport ? :) Whatever works for…

I miss some things too... like my wife dropping me off at a sports bar to watch football and drink beer while she went shopping or the Friday nights on the back porch talking alcohol fueled smack. Meh. My wife still drinks some, but I really don't care and the longer I don't drink, it's really not even a point of…

Thanks for the Shirley Temple memories! I'm lazy now and stick to Diet Ginger Ale and Seltzer, but I think it may be time for a trip down memory lane soon! Beka, I still very much have the urge to "unwind" but I read somewhere about "surfing" the urge. For me the urge comes after a long day of work or at the end of a…

Boring is the new awesome "CJ". My thoughts and prayers for a quick recovery. It took some time for my son to get his taste and smell back, but it eventually returned. So glad to hear you have a network of kindness around you.

I went through the NA Beer phase for awhile after quitting and I found the Heineken the best of the bunch you can buy just about everywhere. To Jen's point though, just not worth the calories. I've been a MPF Member since 2013 and counting the calories in booze was kind of a revelation. Some days I would log 1500 calories…

Keep plugging away at it Foo, it'll click in. I had decided this last time that if I couldn't do it myself, then I was going to seek professional help. No shame in that game. Truth is though I didn't do it myself. I thank God every morning I wake up for his gift of sobriety. I don't post that much but I've been a MFP user…

I use the Recovery Elevator App, which also tracks calories saved. I hadn't looked at it awhile so I was a bit surprised to see 516 days. Beer and Whiskey....yup, that was it. Sometimes I miss it, but then I remind myself of why I decided to quit altogether. If someone can tell me one good thing about alcohol....just…

I tried moderation, but always came back to full tilt. I also just grew plain tired of the mental gymnastics of it all. My sleep improved at first, but now sucks like it did when I passed out almost every night. I've got no issue falling asleep, just staying asleep. Welcome to LaVeyan...you can do this and you're among…

Hi to all, like Jen, not much to say. Personally doing well, not a drop in over a year, 45 lbs gone and staying gone, working from home, etc. Jen, my granddaughter's 2nd b/day is in a few weeks and it looks like ol' Papa and Grandma are going to miss it, but as someone who checks in on his 91 year old very independent…

Keeping you all in my thoughts during these stressful times. I just passed the one year AF mark and knowing that I wasn't alone in this struggle has helped me immensely. So easy to go off path in times like this, but I remind myself of what a liar alcohol is. One urge at a time is pure gold, thanks JenT!

All good here, wishing everyone the most joyous of holidays. I haven't had a drink in 9 months and part of the reason is you guys bringing me to the realization that it's ok to admit something no longer works in your life. In fact, looking back....made it worse

Could not have said it better! Thanks!

Something that helped me in the first few weeks were Podcasts.... Recovery Elevator, Recovery Happy Hour, This Naked Mind. I listened to them on my way home from work...right before the time I usually swung into the liquor store. Wishing you the very best.

It's been some time since I posted, no particlar reason...just didn't feel that I had a whole lot to add. Glad to see new friends who, for whatever reason, came accross the Sober Squad on a fitness website. Drunk and in shape...who knew? That was me. Of all the things I've done in 59 years trying to live my best life, who…

Hope everyone is doing well! Crazy busy, but that's not a bad thing, right Ruby? You know Jen, Whit, and Foo, I hear a lot of Sober Warriors say that getting their last DUI was the best thing that ever happened to them. I thank God that although I was probably guilty several times, I never had to spend a night in the drunk…

Daily and Happy Scale, I'm more focused on the trend and my caloric intake on it.

Wow, so many posts, so little time. I pop in when I can for encouragement from my fellow sobriety seeking warriors, you really do lift me up. I hope my thoughts and prayers work for everyone in lieu of my words. I too dream about drinking again and when I wake up (at a reasonable time, not 2AM like before I quit) I’m so…

lol, my personal saying has always been "one's too many, and a hundred'd not enough". Funny (well not really) thing is, I used to say it about others. Karma!

AND like @RubyRed427 said we can get "lazy" or just gradually forget how important it is to work at this new way of living. If we get complacent then we will have trouble sticking to our resolve to be AF. I couldn't agree more. I tried "wandering" into sobriety and it just didn't work. I'm not white-knuckling it either,…

I want just thank you guys for getting this post started. I've been reading for awhile but my typing sucks so I haven't added to the discussion. But I feel compelled to tell everyone that you are truly not alone in your struggles, but at least you recognize that alcohol just doesn't work for you anymore. It certainly…

One suggestion I would make is to use Trendweight along with MFP and your Fitbit to evaluate your efforts. I've had a FB for about 3 years, and it has my TDEE pegged at about 200 cals more a day than my actual results. Easy enough to adjust. In the end, there all just tools.

After being in the 220's most of my adult life, I found myself at 251 in 2014 at the age of 54. Using the MPF approach of picking an activity level and eating back exercise calories, I dropped 70lbs. In the last couple years, I've found a new focus on fitness in general and especially the role that resistance training…

I have a Blaze and it does everything I need it to do. FitBit has a pretty good compare product feature on their website: https://www.fitbit.com/store#products

I find the author of this site to be pretty much point on. https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/how-to-lose-fat-without-losing-muscle/

Thanks, that's the conclusion I'm coming to as well. I've had a FB for well over 2 years (after I lost 60lbs) and although there's a lot of good things it does for me, accurately calculating my TDEE doesn't appear to be one of them. My average TDEE is approximately 3000 a day according to FB (57 year old male, 195lbs, desk…

I also find that my tracking is more consistent when I don't drink. Even with just a couple of beers, I have a tendency to mindlessly nibble