There is so much mixed messaging out there about alcohol – should you not drink more than 14 units a week or is it true that no level of alcohol is safe? When I joined an online community hoping to stop drinking, back in 2015, they offered a questionnaire to help me figure out where I fell on the risk scale for my drinking behavior. The questionnaire was interesting because it showed me how much wine a unit of alcohol was and how many units of alcohol were actually in a bottle of wine.
The recommended allowances for safe levels of drinking are always based on units or servings which have little to do with the huge glasses that I drank wine out of.
At the time it was still widely considered “healthy” to drink in moderation so you could arguably have a healthy relationship with alcohol and drink daily, as long as you understood how to measure units and as long as you stuck to these recommendations.
I was a bottle-and-a-bit nightly drinker, with the increasingly regular, accidental two-bottle black-out binge. I’d heard that it was a good idea to take a couple of days a week alcohol-free if you drank routinely and being a health-conscious middle-aged woman I stuck to that routine of binge and purge …
When I filled out that questionnaire and calculated my units based on the number of bottles I drank per week, I scored in the top percentile and won the Contact Your Doctor prize. So I went back and changed the numbers…. As if someone was going to hold me accountable ???
The only person who could hold me accountable was me —- and joining that online community helped me to do just that.
Are you hoping to stop drinking? There was a time when I thought I would never be able to stop thinking about alcohol. Now I rarely think about it. If you’re still in that place and wondering if it will ever end, please know that it will. It doesn’t happen all at once, and it takes a lot of hard work, but it is possible. Hang in there, keep posting, and remember that we’re all here for you.
WHO ARE WE?
Online Community Support to Stop Drinking – BOOM!
April is Alcohol Awareness Month so I’m going to focus every day on offering our shared keys to Freedom
We can share
The Truth About How Alcohol Damages Your Brain
and warn
But in the end, it’s all about being aware of how great life can be alcohol-free !
Is Sobriety a Drag or is it the Ultimate Freedom?
Alcohol-Free is a Truly Amazing Way to Live
You can do this. Join us this April for Alcohol Awareness Month. We’ll turn it upside down and make it all about awareness of loving living alcohol-free!
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