hungry
angry
lonely
tired
The halt method! For those that don’t know of it, before you pick up a drink, ask yourself if you’re any of those four things. If you are you address those first. They could be contributing to your desire consume alcohol (or other drugs for that matter) I first heard of this in one of my many attempts at recovery.
Broke
8 years alcohol free as of tomorrow
Good job! I’m at 10… months…
Keep it rolling buddy, wont be long befoe you look back at 10 years sober
Congratulations!!
It’s caloric, IIRC low effort to break down and numbs feeling. No wonder the lizard brain will be dancing and singing if it has been lacking fuel for a bit
I don’t crave it, but lite beer definitely helps to dull hunger. Less calories than eating solid food.
In drosophila, a.k.a. fruit flies. They have a whole different relationship to alcohol, since their lives revolves around rotting fruit where yeast thrives. Drosophila eats yeast.
