Alcohol Problems

[jadef999]

I think this page is idle but I'd love to get it going again....I'm getting back on Atkins and am worried about sugar cravings.....NEVER craved sugar until I quit drinking and have choloate in the house as I type!!! But feel like I'm deprived on low-fat andf I choose to not drink so I decided I want my hot wings/ steak/cheese REAL salad dressing back!!! Love to try to compare...Atkins in relation to alcohol/ cravings/ etc.

[Karen]

YUM! I am with ya on that one! Especially the Wings!

[j4Christ]

just suscribing so I can read this through a bit at a time!!

[cathy07]

I've been ploughing my way through this for a few days. I can relate to so many points raised on here.
I've been orderd by my doctor to pack in the booze. I can't and I'm scared, I can't go to AA, I am not religious at all.
Whats worse is, if it wasn't damaging my health or making me fat, I wouldn't want to.I really enjoy every sip of my wine at night, one bottle some times two... I know, It's bad. I don't know how to get into the right mood to want to stop.
Any ideas???

[fairywings]

hi, just joined and this is my first post, imagine finding my way to this thread! This site is fabulous, have already made several of the recipes, lovely! But to the topic at hand. I'm like so many of you in this thread. I'm a 2 bottle of wine a night girl, way more on the week-ends. And of course it's mostly riesling (sugary). I lost 22 lbs. on Slim4Life (while not drinking of course) and have put all but 7 lbs. back on in about 5 months (drinking again). Sunday night I was such an a$$ to my poor husband (1 bottle riesling, 3/4 bottle merlot, 4 corona's throughout the day, disgusting isn't it?) so last night instead of drinking when I got home from work I changed my routine (I decided routine was part of the problem of my drinking pattern, get home, walk the dog, put on the tv, start drinking, make dinner, eat dinner in front of tv with more wine, clean up kitchen, watch more tv while drinking until bedtime). Boring... so last night, after walking the dog, sat on the balcony with a magazine for about 45 minutes (not drinking anything). Made dinner with a new recipe from my new lc book (no tv) . Ate dinner, did some puzzles in my word puzzle book, drank a glass of chocolate soy milk (no tv). Finally turned on tv, but was ok without the wine. And all this time thinking, thinking, you can do this, you wanna lose your husband, you want to continue to get fatter, you want to continue hating yourself for acting like a jerk? I know it's a process and who knows where I'll turn, but for now I'm going to continue to do a few different things each evening to mix things up and not fall into a rut. Maybe a change of routine might help you cathy07. And if I go straight home from work instead of the liquor store first, then I'm good. It's almost 99% sure I won't leave the house to go buy wine. I'm also checking out a bunch of sites on the internet for help and ideas to curb my drinking. I don't think I can do AA either, it's not an issue of religion (AA supposedly is based on spirituality not religion, that's what I read somewhere anyway), but my head just isn't in that place. Good luck to all of us who are struggling and in need of support. For me, maybe it was more than interest in LC that I found myself here...hmmm...

[cathy07]

Tried that Fairywings, I hope It works for you. I've been worse since I was told to give It up, strangley enough.I am glad to read, I'm not alone on this matter.
I wonder how all the other posters are doing?

[rett]

Hi All
I enjoyed reading all the input and again knowing that I am not alone in the journey of life's ups and downs. I have been in recovery for 23 years and I am so grateful...whatever works for each person is a God send. I replaced my drinking with SUGAR and I am still battling the 100lbs I have put on over the years. I am 60yrs old
and I so want to be healthy....I have heart disease, high blood pressure, high trigl and cholestrol, diabetes and ruematoid arthritis plus I take 20 pills a day. My bones hurt so much that everyday I say I am going to start exercising and here I sit! I have always been 100% or nothing at all type of person, I would just love to be addicted to exercise and healthy living. I weigh 220 now. I have done the atkins before...lost maybe 20lbs but then I stay stuck and then I can't stand the thought of putting another peice of meat in my mouth. Right now I have pretty well lived on soup and cereal...cherios!
I work in ER and this last week I heard the DRs and nurses talking about the lap-band surgery.....that it will be very hard for a person that has hypothroydism, I had a thyroidectomy 3 years ago. I was going to see it my Dr would let me do that....but now I know I just have to follow good orderly directions and do it the right way....I just don't know what to do. I have never been a real big meat eater and right now it about makes me sick to eat any kind of meat. I feel I am at end.....it is either start exercising and just bear the pain or die with alll these health problems. I have never been one to give up! I have a lot to live for but my weight and health get in my way of enjoying life like I want to. My addictions are still running my life they have just changed faces. I am going to the Dr friday....maybe he can direct me in the right direction. I am at a surrending point and that is what it takes for me. Any suggestions are appreciated and I will pray for all of us. Thanks and have a great day. Rett

[rett]

Hi All
I enjoyed reading all the input and again knowing that I am not alone in the journey of life's ups and downs. I have been in recovery for 23 years and I am so grateful...whatever works for each person is a God send. I replaced my drinking with SUGAR and I am still battling the 100lbs I have put on over the years. I am 60yrs old
and I so want to be healthy....I have heart disease, high blood pressure, high trigl and cholestrol, diabetes and ruematoid arthritis plus I take 20 pills a day. My bones hurt so much that everyday I say I am going to start exercising and here I sit! I have always been 100% or nothing at all type of person, I would just love to be addicted to exercise and healthy living. I weigh 220 now. I have done the atkins before...lost maybe 20lbs but then I stay stuck and then I can't stand the thought of putting another peice of meat in my mouth. Right now I have pretty well lived on soup and cereal...cherios!
I work in ER and this last week I heard the DRs and nurses talking about the lap-band surgery.....that it will be very hard for a person that has hypothroydism, I had a thyroidectomy 3 years ago. I was going to see it my Dr would let me do that....but now I know I just have to follow good orderly directions and do it the right way....I just don't know what to do. I have never been a real big meat eater and right now it about makes me sick to eat any kind of meat. I feel I am at end.....it is either start exercising and just bear the pain or die with alll these health problems. I have never been one to give up! I have a lot to live for but my weight and health get in my way of enjoying life like I want to. My addictions are still running my life they have just changed faces. I am going to the Dr friday....maybe he can direct me in the right direction. I am at a surrending point and that is what it takes for me. Any suggestions are appreciated and I will pray for all of us. Thanks and have a great day. Rett

[fairywings]

Hi, I'm not doing so great at this either, much better this week-end but not doing what I intended. I've been reading all the posts on sober recovery (a lot of other helpful links there too!) and MWO (the video clips are a must-see!!) very supportive and helpful. You don't feel so alone and like you're the only one. I ordered the Kudzu Rescue and will start it today. They are 300mg. each capsule so I'll do one mid morning than another right before I leave work. Am excited to see if it works for me as it seems to have worked for a lot of people out there. I'll report in at the end of the week with my progress!

[fairywings]

oh, just to clarify, I only drink when I get home from work, not during the day of course! I am hoping by taking 2 caps a day, spread out, will 'build up', if that's possible.
Don't know, the bottle just says take 1 - 3 caps three time a day with water. I'm going to start with 2 as 300mg seems like a lot, and from what I've read on the other sites, it doesn't seem anyone is taking that much. It's just experimentation at this point and I want to stay keen to any side effects as well (there isn't supposed to be any, but one never knows!)

[lindaokc]

Originally Posted by cathy07

I've been ploughing my way through this for a few days. I can relate to so many points raised on here.
I've been orderd by my doctor to pack in the booze. I can't and I'm scared, I can't go to AA, I am not religious at all.
Whats worse is, if it wasn't damaging my health or making me fat, I wouldn't want to.I really enjoy every sip of my wine at night, one bottle some times two... I know, It's bad. I don't know how to get into the right mood to want to stop.
Any ideas???

Cathy, I don't know why you think you have to be religious to attend AA meetings. You need to go and just check them out. The only requirement is a desire to stop drinking. I didn't even have that when I started. AA is NOT a religious program and you have to find your own way to a "Higher Power", nobody tells you what to believe. I have been in recovery for 13 years now and can tell you that nobody in recovery can do it perfectly. We all just do the best we can do.
I haven't read through the entire thread, just pulled up the last page. My heart goes out to those who are struggling, not just w/ alcohol, but food or other addictions. I also struggle w/ food, cigarettes, not so w/ alcohol now. You are so right, rett, that we only change the faces of addictions.
Rett, you don't have to love meat to do an Atkins way of eating. Fresh, low carb veggies are important, you need very small amounts of protein, depending on how much you weigh, and can make many good choices without eating meat. Eggs, cheeses, fish, shellfish, chicken if you like it. Besides starches, what else do you enjoy eating?

Well, here I jump in at the end of a VERY long thread and act like I have all the answers I don't. There were just a few posts that tugged at my heart and I wanted to respond.
We are all together and a part of each other in this journey.

[DizzyUpTheGirl]

This is very hard for me to talk about.... but I've been yo-yoing from 190's to the 200s for over a year now due to drinking.... Whenever I drink any motivation or strickness I have to LC flies right out the window and I end up going on theses drunken binges eating whatever I can get my hands on.... It's hard because all of my friends and everyone parties at my house on the weekends. So what ends up happening is that I will lose 5 lbs during the week and then put it all back on over the weekend so that I'm back into square one on Monday... I've been thinking alot about this lately and I know that I'm going to need to take a good couple months off of drinking to FINALLY get past the 190s.... It's just been hard because of all the stress of life and just needing to "get away" for a while.... Thanks for listening.. sorry for babbling on, but I think I just needed to get it out

[fairywings]

Well I said I'd come back with my report on Kudzu and here I am. It's hard to say if it's really working, I did feel the effects of my wine faster (after only 1 1/2 glasses) but it didn't stop me from drinking. I did drink less since I felt it faster and was more tired early on. But I still drank all week-end, other than that I did watch how many carbs I was eating since I was drinking them all! Upping the kudzu and praying it really starts to work, and for a healthy dose of willpower to boot!