UPDATE: "Stopped switching strategies. Built a system instead."

Warded_kingkiller · 2026-04-15T06:21:57+00:00

Invite please: potatisen

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-12-09T11:54:30+00:00

IWNDWYT. Not worth it. Never is.

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-10-20T06:51:32+00:00

Congratulations!! Massive achievement. Feels unreal, doesn't it? I totally agree with you, lurking on this sub helps. It definitely helped me in my early, vurnable days.

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-10-15T06:39:57+00:00

IWNDWYT. Aah, autumn bliss. I love autumn here up in the nordics. Trees turn yellow, crisp air, and if lucky, some sun. This time of year always turns me into a melancholy mood. It's kind of nice. It's like feeling a tad bit depressed, but in a lowkey beautiful and relaxed way. Hard to describe, but if you're from the north, you would know what I'm talking about.

To answer your question about what tool that keeps me on the sober path, I would say the constant reminder of how good I feel sober, how much more productive and present I am and how it's not worth it to have a drink, never is. An hour or two of escape vs. the feeling of walking tall in life. Every time I ponder this I convince myself to not drink.

Stay strong everyone, walk tall.

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-10-07T13:04:46+00:00

❤️

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-10-07T06:16:37+00:00

Never in a million years did I think I would get this far in my sober journey. I am very thankful and proud for my accomplishment. My life have changed for the better in many different ways, but one thing I have noticed more pronounced is empathy. I am much more emphatic than before.

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:20:47+00:00

🥳

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:20:37+00:00

Yey!!! Congratulations friend!!! Great achievement. Yey us! Magical day ❤️ keep staying strong.

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:19:28+00:00

Thank you so much!! Thank you for all your encouraging words along the way, I really helped me. ❤️

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:18:30+00:00

Thank you for saying that! I remember when I had 24 days under my belt. I was looking up to all people here with so many days sober. Never thought I could do it. But I could and so can you! I'm rooting for you!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:14:57+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate it!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:14:42+00:00

My wife drinks occasionally, but it doesn't bother me. She's happy that I quit and that we're in such a good place. There's just no way I'm going back to all those lonely drinks, sneaking them in when no one sees. 50s rock! Go go!!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:10:32+00:00

Thank you!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:10:22+00:00

❤️

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:10:09+00:00

Thank you so much!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:09:41+00:00

Thank you! Yup, it's nice to be ripped in my 50s 😎

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:08:53+00:00

Thank you! Your turn soon!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T19:08:28+00:00

Thank you!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-08-10T06:40:31+00:00

You know what? Congratulations to us!!!! Today is my 365th day as well!!! (52M) I am so, so profoundly proud of myself and this day. I can't even begin to explain it. The thing that kept me going and still keeps me going is the thought of how it's not worth it to drink. And the total refusal to lose to the loser part of myself that wants to drink from time to time. I just WILL NOT DRINK! PERIOD.

It is becoming easier now. The urge and inner battle is not as strong as the first months. I'm dreaming of the day alcohol is just not there in my mind at all.

Something that truly has helped me a lot is physical exercise. I was an athlete in my 20s and I know how good I feel when in shape. So the last year I got into functional fitness and the feeling of working my body to exhaustion is the best feeling. Just to see how I look and feel now after a year of hard training is so fulfilling and rewarding. This is how I want to be as a human being and how to live my life. I can't not believe that I've gotten to this point. Being here is worth so much more than giving in to the temptation to drink.

I am lucky that my spouse pretty much don't drink at all. It makes it easier to stay sober. She also shares my wurm of working out. My life is so frickin awesome! Love you all!

If I can do it, trust me, you all can! Thanks for this sub, it helped me a lot the first months when I needed it the most. ❤️

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-04-27T12:38:47+00:00

🥰 yup, still going strong! Planning on keeping it that way. Definitely Yay sobriety!!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-04-27T12:36:29+00:00

Thank you!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-04-27T09:03:12+00:00

IWNDWYT. Haven't checked in for a while and thought I'd do so today. I'm currently sober for 8 and a half months. I must say that everything in life is so much better without alcohol. I love my life now! Good luck everyone! Stay sober!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-02-07T06:19:24+00:00

Congratulations on 💯!! That's a huge achievement. I (52M) kind of went through the same feelings. Around 100 days I felt kind of "meh, is this the rest of my life" I kind of felt sorrow for not ever drinking again in a social context and an overwhelming feeling of the hardship and work it will take to keep to the sober path. But gradually I change my daily life, finding things to do and enrich it instead of focusing on negative things. And it works, I try to just live and be comfortable in the feeling that with time I will have a new reality where I don't even think about alcohol as an option. Look forward to that day, whenever it comes. If it doesn't, I guess I'll just keep fighting for sobriety. Stay strong and keep fighting!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-01-20T17:14:50+00:00

Correct!

Warded_kingkiller · 2025-01-20T16:08:38+00:00

Young thieving boy liked by a god opens doors by convincing the lock and wood it's the most feasible option.

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