Recovery is the new Black (The Sober Thread)

[mattybfat]

14 days without a drink. I started reading This Naked Mind this week. Thanks to @Cassinonorth This book is very helpful and makes you think.

You got this, one day at a time.

 

[Ryan.P]

Didn't plan it out or anything but it's been about a year since my last drink . Mainly fueled by some nagging joint discomfort and my desire to hit big sends as much as possible. Let's see how long this dry wave goes .

 

[jordanrhodes]

I am sure this has been posted previously - but always a good listen.

 

[Cassinonorth]

How's it going? Let's hear it.

 

[moose35]

5,575 days without a drink.

 

[Dave Taylor]

Day 15

 

[jShort]

Day 15

Nice work. Keep going. Sleep getting any better?

 

[Over the Bars]

5,575 days without a drink.

Got me beat by 688 lol took me a while to remember the year to try to figure it out how many days its been. not something i think about anymore

 

[Tommysalami357]

I mostly abstain because alcohol destroys my recovery after rides and workouts. My sleep is bad, even with one drink. So I avoid it most of the time. I really dig HopLark stuff. Athletic and Guinness NA too. Can barely tell the diff with Guinness NA and Mango Cart NA.

 

[Dave Taylor]

Nice work. Keep going. Sleep getting any better?

Yes. Anxiety way less too.

 

[jShort]

Yes. Anxiety way less too.

great news. Same experience here.

I can have a single beer nowadays. and it wont impact my sleep. But I mean like once every 2 weeks... anything more than that and my sleep goes to shit.

Anyway, it's nice to have A beer on special occasions or celebrating something special. I'm able to stop at one, and I know a lot of people don't have that luxury so I consider myself lucky / disciplined / afraid of the consequences.

 

[Dave Taylor]

great news. Same experience here.

I can have a single beer nowadays. and it wont impact my sleep. But I mean like once every 2 weeks... anything more than that and my sleep goes to shit.

Anyway, it's nice to have A beer on special occasions or celebrating something special. I'm able to stop at one, and I know a lot of people don't have that luxury so I consider myself lucky / disciplined / afraid of the consequences.

Yea. No beer for me. I always limited how much I would drink but how often was another story.

 

[Soundguy]

Keep it going guys. I could use the motivation. Alcohol is a very life or death situation for me and this time of year gets pretty dark.

 

[Ejd]

Day 15

Good job man! 👏

 

[Strugglebus]

5 days without for me. Sleep quality has improved and I’m getting out of bed on the first alarm instead of smashing the snooze button for a half hour. Anxiety has also been non existent which is a nice change.

 

[olegbabich]

18 years clean and sober this last Christmas.

See even the most stubborn and stupid people can do it.

 

[mattybfat]

Only step you need to do perfect is step one
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.”

 

[RideOnTime]

Six days in- sleep has been great and resting heart rate down. Last two years this has only been a “dry january” thing for me but would like to make it a bigger shift than that.

 

[bigW]

5317 days and counting ( well at least once a year I hit up a date calculator to count for me )

Zero interest in booze for quite some time. Do have to actively work a program to focus on letting go all the jillions of things outside of my control or that anxiety will ooze right back in.

No shortage of life-shit going on after age 50 to test one’s chill…

 

[JDurk]

Caved last night with a pour of bourbon. Didn't sleep much the night before as I've made a pretty significant career decision and notified my employer.

focus on letting go all the jillions of things outside of my control or that anxiety will ooze right back in.

No shortage of life-shit going on after age 50 to test one’s chill…

Feeling this big time. Need to get my head right and going dry this month has been a big help.