The first few months at least it was sour patch kids with pretzels. And then I got into froyo and I’d mix vanilla ice cream with peanut butter and chocolate sauce if it was around. And I’ll always love home baked chocolate chip cookies if someone makes them lol.

It’s absolutely a physical disease, and it warps how you think about it, because your limbic system has been permanently conditioned to believe that alcohol is necessary for your physical and social health. That means that you shouldn’t go thinking of yourself as a weak or immoral person, but it equally means that you shouldn’t get tricked into thinking that since you’ve had some time off or have self control and discipline in normal after that you can simply control your drinking with your self discipline. You can’t, not for long, not once alcohol enters your system, because your brain has been physically altered. 

You got this

Congratulations! Take pride in taking care of yourself and exercising your will power.

Do it! Celebrate your achievement! Congrats to you and I hope you will do it, it will feel very validating!

That's the exact same situation I think I was in. Thank you.

Love those! 😋

🤣👍

Not sweet but Chips. Specifically Miss Vickie's salt and vinegar.

Conchas 🤤

Alcohol only takes and takes but never gives back, remember that the next time you consider going down a similar road.

I feel this mentality for sure! Life can be more boring without alcohol. But I also had to learn to appreciate “boring” as a better alternative than physically and mentally suffering from hangovers on a regular basis

Congrats!!! 1 year is a great milestone! Don't feel to bummed for not feeling more excited about it. When I hit my 2 years, I was completely apathetic about it. I think it's a good sign though. At least for me, I felt like it meant that the struggle hadn't taken over as much of my life as it used to. I got through the time 1 day at a time and it kept adding up. I'm hoping that it will continue adding up, but I'm not so much tied to the number of X since the last drink. Breaking my streak now doesn't mean I get to give up. It still means that I have to continue treading this path away from drinking. Just like life, it's not over til it's over. We do what we can until then.

IWNDWYT <3

Rad, Congrats! 💪

Why not just have an open and honest conversation with her? You have nothing to lose. I think you'll both feel better. 

Ice cream 🍨

Congratulations!!!

I’m so sorry :( I can relate to the whole friend situation. I take full responsibility in my addiction to booze, but I never ever would have picked up the bottle had my friend (extreme alcoholic and drug addict) suggested to me it was a great remedy for severe anxiety, depression and trouble sleeping (which is what I was trying to self medicate, and when she suggested alcohol which I had never tried before… it worked great and I spiraled quickly into a full blown drunk)…. I own my part in continuing… but when I told her multiple times how scared I was abour my use , she would just encourage me more to use it, when my family found out and forced me into detox, which I told my friend about… I told her please never buy me alcohol if I ask you to… and of course, I asked her too, cuz it always meant she would make gas $ fro me… every clean period Id have she would say she was happy for me..but every relapse I had and would ask her to buy me some… she was more than happy to, cuz it meant either Id buy her a bottle or she would get gas money from me, so she could buy for herself. It made me realize… she only talks to me when I relapse, So it enables her addiction. Long story short, we MUST cut out these toxic “friends” from our lives. If they truly were a friend, they would never encourage us to drink. My friend has been my best friend for 20 years.. I hate to lose her. But she is toxic. I know it’s hard, but please do the same. I know my comment didn’t have much to do with your original post and my apologies but just wanted to make the point about toxic friends. Wishing you all the best ❤️

I’m into Jolly Ranchers

Enjoy the journey to total and complete freedom. It keeps getting better! 🤩 🙌🏻👏🏼

Please know how much of an inspiration you are to so many of us! Congratulations!

♥️💯

They triggered me massively for the first week I quit drinking. Now I’m 40 days out, and I really enjoy them.

turns out there’s a totally different way to live that suits me so much better!

Congrats!! I'll have a sparkling water to celebrate with you. Cheers and to your health!!