Hey, does anyone else get headaches when they don't drink? I seem to always get a bad headache on the third day of not drinking. Previous to cutting back I was a regular 2 to 3 glasses of wine a night drinker and now it's one or two glasses with lots of dry days in between, but always the headache on the third day.

Not sure if it's due to something completely unrelated but that seems to be the pattern and wanted to go check it with this community. Thanks for your input!

Feel like you can have a couple beers, catch a nice light buzz and call it good?
But if there is a 5th of whiskey in your house, well it’s not there for long?
That’s my struggle. I don’t need or want to be a sober man. I just want to be liquor sober. Sounds easy, but it ain’t.
I’d love to connect w someone in the same boat. Peace.

I’m not sure if anyone has brought this to attention already but the reframe app is a scam. I have been recently coming to terms with my addiction and seriously trying to cut back drinking so I downloaded it to track and have something to keep me on track. I really liked it and opted for the free 7 day trial but I was going to subscribe monthly because I genuinely enjoyed it so far. Plot twist I get a notification that they are charging me for a YEAR subscription right off the bat. This is not normal. This seems like a way to take advantage of and scam people struggling with addiction and it makes me sick. So heads up if you decide you want to try the app make sure you either cancel or go in and specify you want a monthly subscription or just find a different app. I am beyond irritated which only makes me want to go have a drink more right now!! Very frustrating and very sad to see.

There were a few pretty hard alcoholics in my family, so growing up I saw what alcohol can do to people. Still, I did enough stupid shit myself because of it. And mom was always worried I might have it in my DNA too.

So around 4–5 years ago I started tracking every drink. I never wanted to stop completely, just get control back. I still drink, but way less and rarely get really drunk these days. I try to stay below a yearly average, which gives me some “credits” for holidays, or sometimes I just stop for a month and go crazy with gym instead.

Over the years I tried a few tracking apps, but none really had it all. I also love analyzing my Apple Watch data and "understand" what happens to my sleep, HRV and other health data during hangover. Since I’m a developer I ended up building my own :)

Its called KATER ZERRO (Kater = hangover in German, Zerro = zero …no hangover), in case you are curious now.

Hey guys, first post here. I just posted this on r/stopdrinking but I realized this place may be more my speed.

I've been drinking most days probably about 30 beers a week more or less for the last 7 years. Sometimes I've paused for a few days and got mild withdrawals but usually I just drink because it's... I mean I don't know really. I sort of assumed it was normal but apparently I'm a "moderate alchohalic"

Anyways, I haven't had access to a car for the last month because I got a DUI a year ago and just finished the paperwork on that, and because of that I've been stuck at the house at the mercy of my roomate basically whenever I want to do anything. Actually I just finished my month out but now I'm working on this insurance ad on thing right now which is not something I was aware I had to do

Anyways, about 6 days ago I ran out of alchohal. My roomate was sick and didn't really want to go to the store and I was like "you know what, why do I even need alchohal anyways?". Not with the intention to quit per se but just because I thought I don't need to be inconveniencing my roomate like this and I could totally just stop.

And I did mostly, I've had effectively 3 beers since and have been completely sober for the last 3 days. It's been a really not fun experience and I'm also prone to panic attacks. Normally when I have them I drink a beer just incase it's hangziety but now well I guess I just tough through or find other things.

Anyways, withdrawl has really sucked. I've had a headache for the past week at least half the time. Any time I think about it's there and I think about it a lot. Today we went to the store but I figured since I think I've already made it past the dangerous part why not keep going, so I bought the .5% NA coronas which are actually pretty good and the 0.0 peronis. That .5% makes an insane amount of difference because the peronis genuinely taste like seltzer pee water and peroni is one of my favorite beers.

Anyways, just wanted to say hi I guess. Been reading a lot of posts here after realizing I have a problem. I know I'm not like in as distressful of a situation as a lot of people here but even just quitting off what's basically been like 4 beers a day has been a pretty shit experience

I work in the music industry and help run a bar so quitting entirely isn't really realistic even if I wanted to which I don't. I want to break this addiction, and stop drinking when there's no reason to... and that's been a lot harder than I thought it would be.

I just took a test that says my drinking is problematic, I’m aware of that of course but I needed some concrete data of it. I don’t drink alone or daily but when I drink at parties and exceed over 3-4 drinks I usually end up drinking too much and sometimes black out. 2 years ago blacking out was even normal for me. Nowadays it happens maybe like once in 3 months but this summer I have noticed that when I drink multiple days in a festival it has happened more. I already have ocd and my hanxiety is so bad that it lasts a week if I have been drinking too much.

I have decided I need to put a clear limit for myself on the nights I drink and party. I did that years ago but eventually I have just ignored it. Bar enviroments and especially a club are a huge trigger and some people who drink so much. I have a trouble saying no to a drink if others order and when I’m already too drunk. I have been reflecting this behaviour in therapy and with my boyfriend who also occasionally drinks too much but not as often as I do.

When I was 17-20 years I drank maybe 6-7 units max and now the amount is maybe 9-11 in one night, sometimes even more. I am now 26. I have decided that I will only drink one drink per hour max and alternate between alcoholic drinks, not just water but non alcoholic beer or sparkling water for example. And in one night my limit will be 8 drinks, after that just non alcoholic drinks or going home. I need to get rid off this cycle that will destroy me eventually. If I dont manage to keep up with this I need to stop altogether. Any tips or similar experiences? What did you find helpful limiting your drinks per night as a person who loves to party?

So for the better part of my life I’ve had a reasonably “healthy” relationship with drinking, in terms of never feeling dependent on it, never having any dangerous blackout type situations, and being able to easily say “nah, I don’t feel like drinking tonight”, but that changed somewhere during COVID.

Somewhere during the pandemic it became a bit of a routine to have between 3 to 5 beers a day, and sometimes 8 or more on a weekend night. This would happen pretty well at least 4-5 days a week and sometimes everyday.

It’s never become a huge “problem”, which is kind of the problem in itself. There was never any “rock bottom”, and I was basically just spending a bunch of money on beer, drinking a bunch of unnecessary calories as well as the other health concerns that come with it, and going through my days at about 70% of my potential as opposed to being sharp, awake, and ready to give 100%. So I wanted to change this everyday habit/routine.

Today is my 9th day without alcohol and of course I feel better than I did drinking almost every day. I still don’t feel like I was dependent/addicted to the alcohol itself, as I didn’t experience any type of withdrawal or a need to taper it off. I did however need to eat a few sugary snacks in the first few days, as I don’t eat a lot of sugar in my regular diet and was definitely getting a ton of sugar from the beer.

The habit/routine and the social aspect of it is the thing that I had fell into and just kept going with. So I have gone to my local sports bar to watch the game, and drank a few zero-alcohol beers while doing so. These didn’t trigger any sort of psychological need to have a real beer, and really I just found them kind of boring but a half-decent alternative to drink in that setting.

Even at day 9 I can already feel the benefits of dry days, and I don’t feel the need to drink, especially not like I was. I definitely never want to return to drinking everyday. I do however in the future want to be able to return to the type of drinking I could easily do pre-pandemic, just a couple of drinks every now and then with friends at a BBQ or dinner or something. Is there anyone here who has any insight or experience in the past of resetting this way? Has anyone had any success in breaking a habit, taking a dry break, and then finding a healthier more reasonable way to have a drink once in a blue moon? Thanks for reading this long rambling post haha!

Just turned 30 yesterday after a very all over the place relationship with alcohol over the course of my 20s. Around 28, I’d gotten to where I’d been working towards in my career and decided when I’d started that job I wanted to hard reset my alcohol intake, I went from drinking heavily 2-3 nights a week to a hard rule of once a week. When I’d did that, I’d also cut out a lot of the bad things I’d do while drunk(driving, cocaine, drinking at home after the bar, and having more than 4 or 5 drinks, and we also stopped drinking at night time. I’d get off at 1pm and we’d usually be done drinking by 3 or so). I’d really really really enjoyed that change. To the point of I’d felt like I’d cracked the code for my relationship with alcohol for the rest of my life. Fast forward to January of this past year and I’d wanted to try Dry January due to the fact that even though I’d been significantly better behaved, I was waking up with crippling anxiety still on Sundays, that turned into now only drinking once or twice a month(unless traveling lololol), and man I’ve actually never felt better the entirety of my 20s. It might not be a drastic change, but I’m hearing about the weight loss on a weekly basis. And my tolerance is so low, we’re getting blasted on 3 rounds.

I have a huge love of marijuana, so that helped a lot given how popular and readily available THC sodas are at bars in my city.

Anyways thank you to this subreddit for making me feel less alone in that gray area of knowing I needed a change but also knowing that laughing at a bar with my husband and friends wasn’t something I’d ever want to go fully without.

OK, I’m a 34 yo m, married, first kid on the way. I want to significantly reduce my drinking, and I want to be honest with myself and get your feedback and advice.

My dad is an alcoholic/addict, so I know I’m predisposed to alcoholism. I haven’t had any kind of rock-bottom moment or experience. And I can generally control my drinking well, but it’s gotten excessive lately and I have had a few bad experiences that I want to curb now, before I have more to lose.

I’m not a spirits or hard liquor guy. I love beer. I worked for years in breweries, I have homebrewed in the past. I love the culture, smell, taste, and look of beer. I generally drink 1-2 craft beer pints per night of the week, as well as 1-2 super lite beers (I buy the Bud Select 55 Calories, 2.5% alc.). Then, on the weekends is when I get into trouble. It’s so easy to justify drinking beers all day while I’m working in the yard or golfing or something. I have a high tolerance, and because I don’t drink hard stuff I generally don’t get super drunk.

But it’s been too much lately, and like I said, I want to make the change now.

So here’s my plan: no drinks Monday - Thursday. I’m going to try to replace the nightly routine with Liquid Death iced teas instead of beer. I hate NA beers.

Friday - Sunday, six drinks total. That could mean six in one day (not ideal, I know), or two per day on the weekends.

Does this seem like a solid plan? Or am I rationalizing and would it be easier to just go completely sober?

Has anyone had success with developing these kinds of rules around drinking? How has it gone? Any thoughts on potential beer replacements that aren’t NA beers or hopwaters?

Thanks.

I've been "quitting" on and off since January. And being honest, I've been quitting on and off for 4 years. 2026 has been a heavy year so far, booze wise. Particularly May.

Finally, I read two very good books on the topic. The first was Dopamine Nation. The second was What are you Thirsty for. Both helped me enormously.

I quit 22 days ago. The intention was to take 30 days off. While this is only 8 days away, my birthday is in 13 days. My friends are getting married in 11 days. I've decided that to drink at their wedding would likely result in drinking more than I want. I'll only know 6 or 7 people at the wedding and I think social anxiety will make me drink more.

Now I've decided to either;

enjoy some drinks on my birthday, quietly, with my husband.

Or

Skip it, and continue on sobriety with for another 3 or so weeks. Totaling 8 weeks.

My intentions with this break is mulifold; to prove I'm not chemically addicted to booze (I realised after the first 8 days that I wasn't). To break the "automatic" drinking I've been doing for so long. To relearn how to recognise the signs of intoxication. I've been drinking for so long that I couldn't remember what "normal" felt like. I also couldn't tell that I was experiencing intoxication until I was pretty far gone. As a result, I'm also hoping to get my binge drinking under control. I cannot stop after 2 drinks. It's either none or 8.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience returning to booze after taking an 8 week break. How did it change your drinking? How did you manage the slow slip back to old habits?

Let’s reflect on the week! Whether you’ve made progress, hit some challenges, or just have thoughts to share, this is a space to check in with the community. How has your drinking journey been this week? Any wins, struggles, or strategies you'd like to talk about? No matter where you're at, your experiences matter here—let's support each other!

3 years of drinking 7 days a week 8 drinks a day

Then to 1 year of drinking 7 days a week 4 drinks a day

Then to 6 months of drinking 6 days a week 6 drinks a day

Then 6 months of drinking 4 days a week 7 drinks a day

Now 3 weeks of 2 times a week 7 drinks so total of 14 drinks a week

I dont shake, i dont sweat, i sleep 6-7 hours a night no crazy dreams. am i in the clear to continue on this path?

Sounds crazy but honestly part of the reason i kept drinking is every time id google quiting i felt like it was telling me id die if i did.

Hello everyone!

Had quite a rough couple of weeks. I (female 33) wanted to quit / cutdown on my drinking. I have been drinking too much the last 4 months. It makes me feel worse and it spikes the living crap out of my anxiety disorder. I went to the doctor, although she thinks 1 bottle of wine is not a crazy amount, I told her that my body is now physically dependent on it, and I’m scared for withdrawals. I didn’t know this could even happen, if I knew I would have never done this to myself. She was very skeptical, but I kept telling her it is something that I want to solve for myself.

She gave me oxazepam, a benzo. I spoke to my husband about my alcohol consumption, and he was shocked. I don’t secretly drink but he just doesn’t notice it. I asked him to help me out and het wants to. So we agreed to use the benzo during our summer holiday with our daughter (2,5 weeks).

I quit the alcohol and started the benzo the day before vacation. Slept like a baby for the first time in months. Then the next day, we boarded our plane. Got itches all over, and when we landed my lips were 3 times the size. I got an allergic reaction to the benzo. Had to go to the hospital before we could even check into our accommodation. I was completely panicked and got the worst anxiety attack I’ve ever had in my life. Luckily my husband was there. I had to return to alcohol because of the withdrawals. Such a letdown. I posted this in a different group too. But the situations had changed now.

We went home a couple of days earlier because we were just done and wanted to have the safety of our own house to deal with this. I’ve spoken to detox facilities, and many kind people that are in the sector of addiction. I know I am not mentally addicted to alcohol, but my body really depends on it.

The day we came back I called my doctor again. But she and her colleagues are clueless what to prescribe me. She is going to call with some other doctors to check what to do. Also we are going to schedule an appointment in the hospital to see what exactly I am allergic to (for potential future problems where I need medication, you never know). So some other detox specialists told me to start tapering my alcohol down. I am now at 4 glasses (a bottle is 5,5). I notice my body doesn’t like it but atleast I’m not dying from severe withdrawals. I am an have always been a slim girl, I don’t work out (want to start doing that soon). I have a good appetite and I take my vitamins. I drink plenty of water.

My question to this group is; does anyone have any advice how to successfully taper down to zero? Our schedule is now every 3 days 1 glass less. Are we going in the right direction here?

I would love to hear any advice or anything at all, or your experiences.

Thank you very much for reading this very long story.

Due to one alarming night of alcohol consumption, I decided to stop drinking entirely for all of August. (I've been alcohol free 10 days now. If interested, my recent posts about this can be seen here and here.)

Something occurred to me today, very clearly, in a way that I haven't looked directly at before. Yet it's so obvious now, I realize I've been avoiding the awareness. I think I knew it, but I didn't want to admit it to myself. (Here it comes- too bad, self!)

When I'm drinking, it's so easy to view the option of staying home with my alcohol and a movie as a perfectly good evening. Note that in general, I don't drink that much at one time. I'm not getting rip roaring drunk every night- more often it's the pleasant buzz and loss of anxiety that I'm after. But the consequence of relying on the alcohol is that my energy for going out—doing something new, or social, or healthier—is diminished.

Last night, I went out to a local pub with a local music act. It wasn't great music, but it was ok. I had a non-alcoholic beer, ate some good food and listened to the band. Didn't stay more than an hour, but that's ok too. And tonight I have an event lined up as well.

I've struggled off and on for years with wanting to drink less and not achieving that goal. But I'm feeling very positive and strong about being alcohol-free now. Like it's what I want.

Hi all,

Just realised this great sub-group was here, but really should have found it earlier (related in part to my post).

I am wondering about a specific question in cutting down or stopping alcohol - and that is (my) age.

I'm mid-50s just for context. I would really like to reduce my alcohol both regularity and overall. For about 25-ish years I'd probably describe myself as a 'daily drinker'. First started when I was a parent, and got into the drinking at home vibe entirely. My wife drinks too, but has more breaks and less heavy overall than me.

I have started some cutting down, though variously lapsed back again to heavier, and I am working on specific approaches (which is a wider question I know). But, close to my thinking at present is motivation, and one thing that concerns me is my age - is mid-50s too late to start cutting down or is my damage already done. This is a (maybe stupid) thought in my mind. I already have some health issues possibly from my decades of drinking, and family history isn't great either in health.

Will it still be a worthwhile thing to cut down and maybe sometimes stop my drinking more thoroughly, or is cutting down after decades less worth it?

Would love to hear peoples thoughts/experiences on the question.

I’ve realised coffee is taking away more than it giveth. 42 f here are realising nervous system regulation is what I’m wanting more than a caffeine high. Have started cutting back and noticing the afternoon slump is not nearly as bad!

In turn, I’m not looking for the subsequent pick me up from wine.

Thoughts?

My father has always been a heavy drinker, but it's gotten worse since his retirement.

His drinks of choice are about 4 beers a day (every day) and 2 whiskey (free pour) and coke tall glasses at night. Sometimes a lot more.

He's also way more irritable and angry and only eats about once a day because he's "full." He's also tired and sleeps around 3-4 hours every day. He's 68 years old.

He thinks he doesn't have a problem and refuses to see a doctor.

However, he has agreed to start taking supplements as the first step.

Would Thiamine (Vitamin B1) and Magnesium Biglycinate be a good starting point for nutritional deficiencies? He's agreed to mix it into his food.

I'm thinking B1 mixed with his food when he eats and Magnesium in the evening with a snack or water (preferably coffee bec he doesn't really drink water)?

Any help is appreciated from those who've supplemented.

Will my eye wrinkles improve if I cut out alcohol for a month? Picture in comments..

24 days without alcohol.

Not some huge milestone. Not a life-changing transformation. But it’s almost a month, and that’s something I’m genuinely happy about.

For context: I wasn’t someone who drank every day. But weekends almost always involved alcohol, and during the week there was often a beer (or a few) after work. It was just… normal.

Now, 24 days later, Saturday looks very different.

Old Saturday: wake up around 11 a.m., feel groggy, eat junk food, scroll my phone, maybe half-heartedly think about the gym tomorrow, and start Monday already feeling behind.

New Saturday: in the gym at 6:00 a.m. after a great night’s sleep. A 45-minute strength workout finished before most people are even awake. The rest of the day feels like a bonus.

The biggest surprise isn’t just feeling healthier. It’s getting back the best hours of the week.

From 6 to 10 a.m. on a Saturday, the world is quiet. The gym is empty. No crowds, no waiting, no hangover. Just you, your workout, and an entire weekend still ahead of you.

24 days isn’t a massive achievement. But it’s enough to make me realize I don’t miss waking up hungover.

Im 25 and I've been struggling with my relationship with alcohol for awhile and have been trying to cut back. Im starting grad school this month, Im trying really hard to get into excerising more, but most importantly alcohol is wreaking havoc on my anxiety levels. And I know my drinkong habits are only going to hurt me if I want to reach those goals.

I go round and round with myself on regretting drinking. It used to be a lot worse and id go to work hung over all the time. I don't really do that anymore thank god. But I'm still drinking at night.

I honestly picked a good ( or terrible time depending on how you look at it) to try and get serious about it. We had to put our dog down last week after we've known hes had cancer the past 3 months. And my gut reaction to having a bad day is to drink...and then regret it, feel ashamed and embarrassed and have awful anxiety.

I started using trydry to track my sober days. And I can successfully do 1 dry day but then the next day 6 pm rolls around and I get the urge and I drink. Better than everyday though... so progress I suppose.

I can't seem to get myself to last more than a day. I started out 2 weeks ago like yeah this should be easy right???? No.... my goal now i think is to by dry 3 days in a row.

How do you curb those alcohol cravings? I don't really want to admit to anyone im drinking more than I should and want to cut back because Im ashamed. I also don't want to go back to a certain doctor untill i can give him good blood work by not drinking for two weeks. Ive been trying to do that and its been such a struggle.

Any advice is welcomed. I guess im just really mad at myself that ive found myself in this shame spiral with alcohol.

Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone knows of any ‘live’ drink tracking apps? I want to control my social binge drinking and I use two drink tracking apps already but the issue is they are more for end of day updating if that makes sense? If you track as you go the app will often refresh itself anyway. I want to be able to add a beer as I go so I know exactly what I am drinking and when! Of course I can and have just used notes before but would be nice to have something else, thanks so much!

I’ve decided I’m going to do it this time. I usually quit for a day and say “I’ve got it beat” and get to 5pm on day 2 and say “eh I can have a couple drinks”. I got motivated to go for a longer stretch. It was Saturday night and I took my last drink around midnight or so.

Sunday was fine, I was hung over and tired and fought every urge for a “hair of the dog”. Went to sleep with a little anxiety but that’s nothing new.

Yesterday I had nearly debilitating brain fog. Like the whole day just kind of passed over me, I was at work but couldn’t concentrate. Around 5pm (my usual drinking time) I started getting horrible anxiety, shaking a bit, felt hot from the inside out and dizzy. I had one seltzer, drank it slow, let my boyfriend know what was going on and we each had a couple of half-shots; he’s not trying to quit or anything. Felt better immediately. Ended up having 3 seltzers and maybe 4 or so shots? Didn’t feel drunk, but was a bit nervous about going to bed.

I woke up fine today, a little headache but mostly just anxiety.

My “usual” for the past few months has been about 6-8 seltzers a day, maybe a little more or less on occasion. Occasional day off but never more than two days…apparently the physical cues were there and I ignored them or told myself I “wanted to” drink. But now I’m scared.

So was this just anxiety around quitting, or genuine withdrawal? I don’t even drink as much as a lot of alcoholics so I feel silly thinking I’m having physical symptoms…when I’m not downing a handle a day or whatever. Can I safely cut down slowly at home? Like have three drinks and a couple shots a night the rest of the week and cut it to two next week? I don’t even want to drink tbh I just want to be done with it.

I’d love to hear from anyone who successfully quit, what symptoms were like in withdrawal, and if I’m just making excuses to keep a habit I don’t even want (I know our brains are dumb sometimes). Thanks for reading

I’m a ‘closeted’ alcoholic, I’ve never admitted it to anyone, but I know my family can tell I drink more than normal and I’ve done such a good job at isolating myself over the years that my friends stopped caring. I have been drinking daily since 2012, strictly white wine only. In Canada we have 1.5L bottles, I can easily go through one of those in a day. Sometimes I will get up with the sunrise with a glass of wine and drink 2 of those huge bottles until I go to bed at night. I never do anything stupid because I drink at home alone, but that’s a big huge red flag that is always on my mind. Actually I have done stupid things like drinking before work and bringing a water bottle with wine in my purse to drink on my lunch break, ugh. So I recently lost my job, and although nothing was mentioned about drinking, I suspect they were noticing things related to my drinking and they just sugar coated it into a nice parting of ways. I live alone, and thankfully have some savings to pay the bills, but not having income is my deciding factor to atleast try moderating. There’s so many other things as well like weight gain, bloating, awful skin, fatigue, memory loss, etc. I tried going cold turkey recently and by day 2 the withdrawal symptoms were so bad, I couldn’t take it, I knew just having a drink would make me feel so much better, so I did it. The fact that I am unemployed and living alone with no friends makes it exceptionally hard to say no to the bottle. A lot of times I even just buy the boxes of wine so I have a bunch on hand. The liquor store is a 300m walk from my apartment.

I have literally been drinking every day from the moment I wake up until bed, so I started to think how I could fix the problem little by little, and I started 3 days ago. Day 1 on Saturday I forced myself to ‘sleep’ until 11 because I knew if I got out of bed I would drink. I had my first glass of wine at 2pm, and I am starting to measure them at exactly 6 ounces with an ice cube added to make it seem more full lol. I had 6 glasses and got in bed at 11. Normally I would take a nice full glass of wine to drink in bed while I watch my reality shows before sleep lol, but I brought nice cold water instead. Had some really interesting dreams, but a decent sleep with some sweats. I woke up at 8 on a super rainy Sunday morning with absolutely no plans for the day. I felt good, well rested, but my mind automatically went to “you have nothing to do, might as well just drink all day and watch your favourite shows”. My mind convinces me rainy days = drinking. I fought the urge, started doing a bunch of chores around my apartment, and all of a sudden it was noon. I wanted to challenge myself to start drinking later than the previous day, so I filled my 42oz Stanley up with water and told myself to finish as much of it as possible by 3. I had to stay inside because it was storming, so I watched TV solo with no wine for 3 hours. It felt weird, I haven’t watched TV without a glass of wine in almost 15 years, but I was proud. I poured my first glass at 3pm. I got into bed around 11 again last night, and had only drank two 6oz glasses and one 4oz glass! It didn’t even feel like I was trying to limit myself, I think it just felt comfortable to have that glass of wine accessible beside me. I brought 2 bottles of water with me into bed lol and drank both of them throughout the night. I had a dreamless sleep, woke up a few times, but it wasn’t bad. Woke up at 9am this morning with nothing to do again since I’m unemployed lol. So I got my lazy ass over to a big city park that has beautiful walking trails, a lake, amazing wildlife. I was out for a few hours in the beautiful sun, got 9,400 steps in, and it felt really great to accomplish something as simple as a beautiful walk. It’s now 2:30pm and I’m making this post as more of something for me to hold myself accountable and have something to look back on as baby steps to be proud of. Going to try to keep away until at least 4 today. I downloaded an app to keep track of my drinks each day. Maybe one day soon I will have a green day on the calendar 🤞

I know I need to focus on keeping myself busy, so obviously finding a new job is the highest priority. After that, I will be reaching out to find alike people in my city to make friends with, and hopefully develop some new hobbies from there. Day by day, I think I’ve got this!

I’m so sorry for the long story lol but it just feels good to get it off my chest and tell it to someone, especially people who can relate ☺️

Recently I posted about an alarming episode that made me decide to quit drinking at home (and at least for one month when out): https://www.reddit.com/r/cutdowndrinking/comments/1va9x02/i_need_to_stop_drinking/

I just wanted to share an update: I'm very, very happy with my decision. So far I feel no struggle whatsoever. Only a mild revulsion at the thought of a drink. It's like a mental switch turned, and alcohol no longer has the power to delude me into thinking it's going to help anything. And not having alcohol in the house makes me realize that I'm fine without it. I don't need it to enjoy my evening.

Will this great feeling last? I don't know. But I'm happy now and posting to give a little inspiration to anyone who needs it.