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How long can I stay off the sauce?

*Resisting the urge to have a beer while I cook dinner 1/18

How long can I stay off the sauce? *Resisting the urge to have a beer while I cook dinner 1/18

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[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Try 2 weeks.

[–] • 1 pt

Seems reasonable but I'm not sure when the last I even went a full week.

[–] • 1 pt

Even more reason to go for 2 weeks. Occupy yourself with something else in the meantime, start going to the gym for example.

Two weeks is nothing, just imagine how quickly a year goes by.

[–] • 1 pt

Not a big fan of the gym. I have all that stuff at home anyways.

[–] • 2 pts

Try 2 days to start with.

If you can make the second day, you can make day 3 and day 4.

[–] • 1 pt

Don't get hung up on numbers. As a former booze hound I would play those games and go weeks sometimes months just trying to hang on. Then I'd break down and "have a few drinks" that somehow turned into a two month bender.

Better to just say you're not drinking today. If the whole sobriety thing turns out not to be for you and you really want to have a drink tomorrow, you always can. But just not today. You'll be surprised at how many todays can pass before a tomorrow comes when you're not focused on some end number.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Are you asking us to take bets? Should we start a pool?

EDIT: OK. I read the sub rules and now understand the question. Apologies for the snark.

My advice: Set an achievable goal. Even one as short as 48 hours. Improve upon that each time.

[–] • 3 pts

lol, your first response was fine imo!

Usually I'll drink too much and feel like shit, then after a day or two or three I feel really good and that is when I want to drink again. I'd like to make a week to start.

[–] • 1 pt

The key, for me at least, is not trying to not drink at all, but to have only one or two. I had a glass of wine with dinner on Sunday. I really wanted another but held the line. I find that 'just one more' can devolve into a binge and then feeling like crap the next day.

[–] • 2 pts

Having a drink or two and then forcing myself to eat is the best way I've found to stop myself from binge drinking.

[–] • 1 pt

You'll be back at it tonight or tomorrow night. I used to average going out and getting hammered 4 nights a week in my 20s. When you start passing out or having regular blackouts you'll know you've made it. Puking your guts out at work the next morning is also a milestone.

[–] • 0 pt

Luckily I haven't gotten black out drunk for over a decade.

[–] • 2 pts

I got sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. And often lamented that I wished I had all the money I had spent in bars. Quitting the booze was easy for me, quitting diet cokes later in life was harder.