Hello Sunday Morning | Amanda

Anyone online?
13/07/11 • 5 Comments

Hey HSMers, I haven\’t written in a little over a week – I\’m into my third week and, so far, have been doing pretty well. I guess from the posts I\’m reading is that there are a couple of different groups that join HSM – the social drinkers who want to get healthy again and get a better attitude to drinking, and the \’hardened\’ drinkers that are looking for something (hopefully in addition to other support networks) to try and help them on their way to kicking the \’habit\’ that is oh so easy to fall into. I\’m in the latter category. What I haven\’t had the courage to tell you all is that I fall into drinking when life gets hard – it\’s so easy to turn to, to numb the pain. I know it\’s just avoiding issues, but there you go. There have been a few times in [...]

End of week 1
02/07/11 • 6 Comments

Well, here I am at the end of week 1 … survived the DTs/sweats for 5 days, changed my pj\’s 4 times the first night, 3 times the next night, etc etc … and last night no sweats!! Feeling really good – just did a 9k run for the first time in weeks, and felt great at the end of it even though I took the harder route. This no booze thing is ok. And I\’ve lost a kg! It\’s only been a week, but I feel it\’s been a giant leap. Did dinner out last night and while I missed the usual \’buzz\’ after a long and tortuous week, managed to drink lots of soda water and lime. For everyone else out there – even those just doing \’dry July\’ as a starter – I would really encourage you to stay on the 3 months HSM. If my week one [...]