straight edge bros, does the fantasizing about life before you quit stop? i know a year is not a huge amount of time but i already have a life i struggled to build piece by piece and anytime i get too stressed i cant help but think how much easier life was when i didn't give a shit about anything but when my next drink was. how can i move on from the little voice that says "if it gets too bad you could always ruin your life again"?
>>33654438nope, might as well learn some moderation and have a drink
>>33654453not possible for me, the risk of destroying everything ive accomplished is too great, just want to know what to expect
>>33654438You NEVER lose the urge. But it does become easier to resist it.
>>33654681thats what i suspected, thanks for the reply
>>33655939>>33654681It becomes easier to resist because the urge becomes softer and softer over time until it goes from a unshakeable thought to a small whisper that you can easily ignore. I was a daily drinker for years, but quit and now I've drank maybe 6 days this entire year so far, and I've never gotten drunk.What saved me was getting into fitness. Once you start seeing positive changes in your body, it hooks you. Then you get into optimizing your fitness, which involves eating healthy and getting enough sleep. When I started getting enough sleep, I felt way better, and that's when I realized how much even a bit of alcohol screwed up my sleep.Now I have very little interest in drinking because I know it'll screw up my sleep and leave me a bit foggy the next day. That itself killed the urge, and now I have to actually force myself to drink socially with friends lol.also picrel is basically my transformation, I shed a lot of weight since I wasn't guzzling empty carbs down anymore, which made me a lot better looking and increased my confidence
