No Drinking Thread (1 Year Challenge)

I went from drinking about a half gallon of liquor a week to zero. I struggled somewhat in 2024 to be completely alcohol free. I maybe drank 2 gallons of liquor the entire year, the amount I'd usually go through in about a month. Not bad. So far in 2025 not a drop.

However, I've made a committment to not be a "quitter," but a "controller." For me this means drinking "ritualistically" and by a planned out schedule. My next scheduled drinking binge is for Thanksgiving eve and day and Christmas eve and day 2025 and will be comprised of $80 bottles of 15 year old single malt scotch so as to avoid any adverse hangover effects. Really looking forward to it.

In the interim, my life is so much better without daily/weekly/monthly alcohol use. I feel 100% more healthy and energized and my finances have dramatically improved as well.

I praise God everyday for taking away my compulsion to drink (and smoke), I know others are not so fortunate and must abstain completely. May God bless everyone here on their road to recovery.
 
Tippy said:
I did not drink alcohol in 2023.

Of all my vices, this is the one where I can most clearly see the negative effects. For me it wasn't the physical so much as the psychological. The craving/obsession with alcohol became honestly the focal point of my life - the only thing I would think about to the exclusion of all else. And of course when in a constant foggy hungover state I was never able to make long term plans or be practical. I still struggle with the latter sober but at least I'm at the starting blocks for such things rather than completely unable.
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I should probably remember this. Especially cos in 2023 I made a lot of positive changes in other areas that were probably linked to this in ways I can't fully fathom.
 
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