I’m 9 weeks with out a drink just now, which has been hard work at times.
I really got into drinking strong beers the past 6 months, and my body mass shows it. I drank to get pissed, 10 bottles of 7% plus beers. I could see habits forming, laziness setting in.
Sometimes the craving to drink is as strong as stopping smoking. I was in the city earlier in the week, where I would normally sit at a bar on the corner of a busy tourist area, and watch the madness of Bangkok walk by, while getting pissed. Walking past that bar, and feeling the pull of the whisky and soda was a lot stronger than I anticipated.
Now it is like self-flagellation not drinking, I’ve gone this far, how much further can I go, but that nice bottle of 20 year old Atherton Rum at the shop keeps calling my name.