One year off the sauce today

skep419 said

2-infinity beers a day or however many vodka squirts I could drink from after work until 10:00. The final straw was Vikings/saints playoff game. Rudolph for the win in overtime led to 4 finger whiskeys. Had to take my lunch break at 9:30 the next morning.

haven't watched football since. Also sold my pool table. Sober pool wasn’t much fun.

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You are doing the right things by removing the triggers. Eventually, maybe you will get to where pool or the Vikings are fun sober (I was never a Viking fan and the 1976 Super Bowl was FANTASTIC if you are a Raiders fan) and you can do them again.

FWIW...bodywork SUCKS. HARD.

Also, FWIW one thing I refused to give up was my friends who drank when I quit. All my friends by 2 drink. I also was playing football in a city league and we were sponsored by a local bar. After every game I would go to the bar with my team. And I never drank. I literally refused to allow my inability to control my alcohol consumption to affect my friends and their friendship.

You can only control you. For me, controlling me was by FAR the hardest thing.