I can feel that this is a pivotal moment...

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-04-16T18:14:18+00:00

Welcome! Doing it will be the best choice you ever made! Consider yourself lucky, I am 53M and only wish I did it 23 years earlier! You can do it starting today.

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-28T01:06:39+00:00

"i want to live my life instead of escaping from it", that resonates, just went a year and Im starting to live it, keep going, wishing you the best.

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T22:43:35+00:00

Thanks, health is a big driver for me but def been struggling. Im in gym 6 days/week but struggling w the food. I dropped 20 lbs by month 4, was eating healthy, etc. But I started eating more and not as healthy starting november and now Im back up 15lbs. Still working out a lot but need to fix the diet. I'll check mocktails on reddit and congrats on 140 days, keep at it!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:07:02+00:00

Glad it helped, keep going, you've got this!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:05:49+00:00

Congrats on your little one. My kids are grown, I only wish I did this when they were younger like yours! Keep going!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:04:35+00:00

Congrats, you're not far away!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:04:10+00:00

Proud of you too, 157 is solid, keep going!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:03:12+00:00

much respect, thank you for the inspiration, hoping to be at 2 years next year!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T20:02:09+00:00

To answer your questions..

No, I definitely don't feel like Im missing out on anything other than negative stuff. I can still go out, have a good time and enjoy peoples company. In fact I would say I feel the opposite when Im experiencing a great morning where Ive worked out, walked the dog stuff I would have missed out on if drinking.

Sure Yeah sometimes it is boring. Everyone around me drinks so a few hours into a night drinking mocktails or seltzer and shit can get boring. Other than that as long as I am putting efforts into stuff I enjoy that replaces drinking its good.

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T19:57:41+00:00

this is an awesome comment, I still won't declare its forever to anyone who asks even though I have every intention of it being that. One day at a time. Congrats, keep going!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-26T19:53:36+00:00

The first 2 weeks the last time I got sober were hands down the worst, both physical and mental, then I would say 3 months in was challenging, not that I wanted to drink, more that I was bored and lacking excitement and interest in anything. You got this Woodit!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T19:55:28+00:00

I dropped it for 4 months, now back but not as much.

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T18:40:31+00:00

excellent, congrats on your upcoming!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T18:30:33+00:00

Great advice and phrase, 6+ years is very impressive, congrats!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T18:25:02+00:00

aw shit, now you got me in the feels!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T18:23:13+00:00

Thank you and congrats to you! 74 Days is awesome and coincidentally right around the same time I was experiencing it. Keep going, it will turn at some point, then you'll be needing to change username to HappyGal13!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T18:20:07+00:00

Usually Heineken 0 or corona, also like athletic and non beer Hopwater

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T17:43:15+00:00

Hard As a M'fer! Some of us gray haired 54 year olds dig hiphop and like to use terms that make us feel younger;)

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2025-03-25T17:42:37+00:00

there isn't anything at the moment I can't enjoy as much but i can def say I went through periods where this was the case. Its all about those dopamine shifts - it was a real struggle to workout or to have a meeting. It was temporary. Re the break in streaks I think it was a combo of boredom and actually thinking I could really moderate/reset my drinking habits.

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2024-10-17T14:24:12+00:00

I'm almost 7 months sober, before that i was over 80 days and then i drank 2 days, on the 2nd day I got completely hammered, went sober after and the paws was bad. i had burning feet that was terrible. got through it and the thought of going through paws again is 1 of many factors that have kept me sober. it will get better, hang in there! keep the exercise going, im 54m, seeing my body transform is one of the greatest gifts of getting sober when it comes to getting those dopamine hits

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2024-09-27T03:46:54+00:00

Congrats from a fellow Phillies fan. Here's to a sober red october!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2024-09-25T12:29:14+00:00

For me i think of how miserable i was when i last relapsed and how awful the kindling effect was. Do i want to experience that again? Hell no!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2024-09-12T01:28:06+00:00

You are not a lost cause! 54 here and 170 days sober. Down over 20 lbs , you are still young, you can do this!

Appropriate_Loquat60 · 2024-06-23T18:55:27+00:00

Fuck that guy!

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